And rarely was heard, an encouraging word, still the women don’t go away
Is this still the case? I don’t think so, but I love this cover.
Essay: An Excerpt from Lissa Wolsak
An excerpt from An Heuristic Prolusion. ~ To respond, in making linguistic pavés, to exhilarate transformation, with an art of perceiving movement, within being, within language physiques. And question…can we dispense with our proclivity to sacrificial structures? To subtend the map via fever-chart. To approach separation itself. An enactment of otherness. To exceed speech…language intensifies in...
Kate Durbin from Anna Nicole Show
ANNA NICOLE SHOW CNN: Prosecutors presented this video as evidence that Howard K. Stern conspired to keep Anna Nicole Smith in a drug stupor. Stern’s lawyers say Smith was acting for the cameras. HOWARD: What do you think Anna? Is Riley going to be your new makeup artist? Is Riley going to be your new...
Kate Durbin: from Ravenous Audience
MARILYN: LEFTOVERS The Clothes a black embroidered handbag a pearlescent Bakelite clutch a jewel-encrusted evening bag with a chain strap a Lucite handbag a clear bejeweled handbag with an embellished closure the same bag filled with matching accessories a red patent-leather handbag with a gold closer an arrangement of 13 of Monroe’s bags a wool hat with two ostrich feathers a white wool hat...
Natalie Walschots on Reviewing
LH: What do you think the purpose of a review is? If you also write about books on a blog, why? What does blogging let you do differently? NZW: The purpose of a review, be it a book review or an album review, is to communicate with that text’s potential audience, to place the text...
Two Poems from Helen Guri
SUBJECTS ON WHICH MY LOVE DOLL COULD CONCEIVABLY HAVE OPINIONS Being secret, like a leg brace from childhood. Not having anything, to eat or worry about. A bus transfer sailing through seven seas of air. The resting places of lost raisins. The lobster, boiling. Surgical procedures to revive the senses of those born blind and...
The Allen Ginsberg Project: Mind, Mouth and Page (Gertrude Stein)
AG: Yeah, I think we were talking about that at the end of the last sitting here, when somebody asked me – since Williams, what was done, since Williams, what has been accomplished in poetics? – or, what new thing has been added? – and I was talking about the practice of some poets working...
Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson’s Nilling
BY SINA QUEYRAS When I said in an earlier last post that I go to poetry to think, Lisa Robertson was the first poet that came to mind. Hers is a poetry that embraces doubt; that is content to extend rather than conclude, yet never drifts in the sense that Barthes describes in The Pleasure of the Text. “In...
Adrienne Rich on “Easy Poetry”
Career-minded poets, expending thought and energy on producing a “publishable manuscript,” on marketing their wares and their reputations, as young poets are now urged (and even trained) to do, may have little time left over for thinking about the art itself, ancient and contemporary, and why it matters — the state of the art itself...
If a poem costs nothing to write I don’t want to read it
MR: Oh, sure. By my early thirties, I think I’d stopped believing I was going to succeed as a poet. It’d been years since I’d had a poem accepted anywhere, and I could tell that what I’d written up to that point was no good. It was indifferent, middling work. I knew that I didn’t really...
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