Friday, September 30, 2005
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.
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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.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
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"
From After the Giraffes, this is a recording of "25 November 1999"
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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.
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.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
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)
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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)
Thursday, September 22, 2005
At some point it would be good if you held up your own writing to your own high standards.
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I don't know why I'm even commenting on something like the Fence cover, other than to simply say that I can't believe people buy magazines for what's on the cover and not for what's inside. As one of the "alluring unknowns" in the ill-fated issue of Fence (Volume 6, number 2, Fall/Winter 2003)--the one that seems to be the first that didn't pull its weight in regard to normal sales figures--I feel at least proportionately responsible for the arrival of the breasts on the cover of the new issue, but I can't really say that I'm sorry.
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From Pema Chodron's Comfortable with Uncertainity:
4. The futility of samsara. Samsara is preferring death to life. It comes from always trying to create safety zones. We get stuck here because we cling to a funny little identity that gives us some kind of security, painful though it may be. The fourth reminder is to remember the futility of this strategy.
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I don't know why I'm even commenting on something like the Fence cover, other than to simply say that I can't believe people buy magazines for what's on the cover and not for what's inside. As one of the "alluring unknowns" in the ill-fated issue of Fence (Volume 6, number 2, Fall/Winter 2003)--the one that seems to be the first that didn't pull its weight in regard to normal sales figures--I feel at least proportionately responsible for the arrival of the breasts on the cover of the new issue, but I can't really say that I'm sorry.
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From Pema Chodron's Comfortable with Uncertainity:
4. The futility of samsara. Samsara is preferring death to life. It comes from always trying to create safety zones. We get stuck here because we cling to a funny little identity that gives us some kind of security, painful though it may be. The fourth reminder is to remember the futility of this strategy.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
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":
Monday, September 19, 2005
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":
Saturday, September 17, 2005
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.
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.
Friday, September 16, 2005
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".
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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".
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
First published in jubilat, this is a recording of Trilce LXXI:
First published in Bridge, this is a recordings of Trilce LXVIII:
Monday, September 12, 2005
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:
Sunday, September 11, 2005
First published in BathHouse Magazine, this is a recording of Trilce LV:
First published in BathHouse Magazine, this is a recording of Trilce LI:
Friday, September 09, 2005
This is a recording of Trilce XLVII:
Thursday, September 08, 2005
First published in gam, this is a recording of Trilce XXXIV:
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
First published in Antennae, this is a recording of Trilce XXVI:
First published in Effing Magazine, this is a recording of Trilce XIV:
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
First published in Parakeet, this is a recording of Trilce XIII:
First published in Shampoo, this is a recording of Trilce VI:
Monday, September 05, 2005
First published in Antennae, this is a recording of Trilce III:
This is a recording of Trilce II. The poem first appeared in SleepingFish.
Sunday, September 04, 2005
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.
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.
Friday, September 02, 2005
I read a fair amount of literary criticism in books and on the Web, and usually grow annoyed--my problem--at some point at the sureness of the critic, with his/her hunches masquerading as facts, or their seeming logic articulating an embedded, unquestioned reliability. One very new blog has an ease about itself, about its thinking, which is not falsely authoritative in its stance. It foregrounds, I think, the often pushed-out-of-sight issue of not-knowing. This is refreshing. Here's a link to Brandon Brown's blog.
