I missed this interview with Christine Hume.

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It's somewhat telling of universities/colleges that have or do not have social work departments.

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He thinks praise means what it suggests.

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Consumer-friendly moon.

From After the Giraffes, this is a recording of "The Finn":

Preceding the false sun recordings, I wrote pieces for a manuscript titled After the Giraffes.

From After the Giraffes, this is a recording of "25 November 1999"

Reading George Saunders' The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

Rereading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

Read Lohren Green's Poetical Dictionary

About to read Leslie Scalapino's Defoe

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Recommend dvd/video called My Architect

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Audioblogger seems to not be working. I've been trying to add a few more poems.

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I can't think of a book of poetry, of fiction, of anything, really, that could maintain itself when in a sarcastic tone.

Received word today that my manuscript, Trilce, will be published by Calamari Press.



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His gullibility was not related to what others told him but what he told himself.



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PLAY



Person: Yes, you put down the drink. Yes, that's true. But you go around like a drunk, still. You're like a hospital, a childhood hospital, without doctors.

Another: (recalling)


Exit Person
Exit Another

(LIGHTS)

In "Untitled improvisation" Steve Timm squawks, pips, frizzles, plumpts, nadders, galumphs:

Steve Timm reads the ninth and final poem from "The Ballad of Narayama":

Steve Timm reads the fourth poem from "The Ballad of Narayama":

From the false sun recordings, this is a recording of "Slia":

From the false sun recordings, this is a recording of "Dalit":

From the false sun recordings, this is a recording of "Isal":

From the false sun recordings, this is a recording of "Lias":

Received Kirsten Kaschock's Unfathoms. Haunted, lyric undertowing. Fierce and effectively fantastical. Mother, city, distinct disquietude. Sometimes a sense of an ancient voice coming through, which brings in the lovelorn and the desolate cities, which continue to be something else: a quarantine, a moon, guilt, sin, up.

BURIAL


She would open the ground.
There would be a funeral. What
would have to die--that knowing
came later.

First a hole. Dark, guileless.

Ghost frequencies



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PLAY



Person: In your laughter, there is anger.

Another: In your anger, there is laughter.

(Exit Person)

(Exit Another)

--LIGHTS--



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Context must be one of those euphemisms for "agreed-upon delusion".

First published in jubilat, this is a recording of Trilce LXXI:

First published in Bridge, this is a recordings of Trilce LXVIII:

First published in Typo Magazine, this a recording of Trilce LXV:

First published in BlazeVOX, this is a recording of Trilce LXI:

First published in BlazeVOX, this is a recording of Trilce LX:

First published in BathHouse Magazine, this is a recording of Trilce LV:

First published in BathHouse Magazine, this is a recording of Trilce LI:

This is a recording of Trilce XLVII:

First published in gam, this is a recording of Trilce XXXIV:

First published in Antennae, this is a recording of Trilce XXVI:

First published in Effing Magazine, this is a recording of Trilce XIV:

First published in Parakeet, this is a recording of Trilce XIII:

First published in Shampoo, this is a recording of Trilce VI:

First published in Antennae, this is a recording of Trilce III:

This is a recording of Trilce II. The poem first appeared in SleepingFish.

This is a recording of the first poem in my manuscript Trilce. The poem originally appeared in Antennae.

One of the teachings via Pema Chodron tells one to put on a wall a piece of paper that says: Are You Sure?

This is to break one out of the figment of one's ego entrapped mind, and to more easily allow in alternate perspectives.

One is to put it where one can see it very often. I've done this. It does stop me, I have to say. And it also makes me laugh, which is part of the point.

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Bridge will carry a review I did of Aaron Kunin's Folding Ruler Star.

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Reading Terry Eagleton's After Theory and the recent issue of ISR. Hard-to-believe positive story about the Bolivian rebellion--namely, that it worked!

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Watched The Machinist last night. A somewhat well-written psychological thriller, strong on paranoia, but one that actually ties itself up into a typical framing...the unknowingly remorseful killer plagued by demons. The lead actor, Christian Bale, lost 60+ pounds for the role. He looked like a skeleton.

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I spoke with my sister today about memory loss, and we both shared humorous stories about it. She began to talk about how she thought she'd be telling me the same story the next time we saw each other in person, at Thanksgiving or Christmas. I told her that that would be okay, because I probably wouldn't remember the first telling of it anyway.