tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68057632013-05-05T23:40:20.470-07:00Esther Press?Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.comBlogger598125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-14192787060801939932012-08-12T09:46:00.000-07:002012-08-12T10:14:03.546-07:00CARLA BILLITTERI
Introduction to James Wagner March 31, 2011
It is a great pleasure to welcome James Wagner to our New Writing Series.
James Wagner is the author of Geisttraum (Esther Press, 2010), Work Book (Nothing Moments, 2007), Trilce (Calamari Press, 2006), and The False Sun Recordings (3rd bed, 2003).
In his envoi to James Wagner’s poetry, Robert Creeley wrote: “at a time of Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-69509075093999712792012-08-09T18:06:00.001-07:002012-08-09T18:58:28.413-07:00
Eléna Rivera
A recent review of her most recent collection, The Perforated Map
(though it is not her first full-length collection, as the reviewer states)
Eléna's website
I first read Eléna's work in apex of the M
and then published her in Salt Hill.
We finally met in 2006 at a reading in NYC
put on by Tarpaulin Sky.
I hope to write a mini-review of her new work Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-66156619324079733832012-07-13T13:03:00.000-07:002012-07-13T13:52:19.339-07:00FORTHCOMING:
Wagner, James. The Idiocy: plays. Marysville: Esther Press, 2012. Print.
ISBN-10: 0615670326
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-67032-4
$9.00
OED
1814 SCOTT Wav. ix, It was apparently neither
idiocy nor insanity which gave that wild, unsettled, irregular expression to a
face which naturally was rather handsome.
from ἴδιος, idios ("private",
"one's ownJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-75426273575050313292012-07-12T08:00:00.001-07:002012-07-12T08:00:46.040-07:00
Listen to entire albumJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-24518253785946266162012-07-10T17:53:00.000-07:002012-07-10T17:53:20.907-07:00"Society expects its citizens to be active and productive. In society, you are useless if you are not valuable. This expectation translates today into our attitude toward minorities, or toward the elderly, the disabled, and especially young children. The Desert Fathers and Mothers proclaimed a different set of values, where change occurs through silence and not war; where inaction may be the mostJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-57577544337364434922012-07-04T07:26:00.001-07:002012-07-04T08:47:03.104-07:00SO
a banal collaboration
Lot of lawns in the neighborhood getting their first mowing today.
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I like blackberry yogurt.
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We just have decaf.
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Seems like we’ve been using more tape lately.
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I went down to buy groceries at the store.
...
Can’t be good to be breathing that in.
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I hit reset & the screen flickered
…
Don't Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-26458425426073297632012-06-29T15:07:00.002-07:002012-06-29T15:07:29.317-07:00Alana Siegel reading Archipelago
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-24038379402600912102012-06-23T08:02:00.000-07:002012-06-24T07:45:44.248-07:00
A BANAL COLLABORATION
I am writing to seek your help in a collaborative banal
poem. I am interested in accumulating a list of “banal” sentences or phrases,
which do not attempt to be ironic or humorous. I would prefer them to not be
self-aware. Just a remark, perhaps an observation, a reminder, a caution, a
concern, and so on.
I have been intrigued by what becomes marked as “banal,”Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-48030253236956102802012-06-19T07:06:00.000-07:002012-06-19T16:20:35.707-07:00
Paul Maliszewski
RE: kin
Dear James,
It was hot here, too. Not sure of the temp, so I won’t try to go toe-to-toe. Still, I did, you’ll be glad to hear, hoof it to the Library of Congress for László Krasznahorkai. Nice guy. Spoke to him briefly after, about semicolons of all things. Nice people in line, too. One guy knew Krasznahorkai while he was writing Satantango, which the Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-2156042230329120592012-06-16T09:20:00.001-07:002012-06-16T09:20:20.202-07:00
What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier,
returning to the range, admire?
Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature
in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's
projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific
exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface
particles visitingJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-9771611894768411732012-06-10T12:14:00.000-07:002012-06-10T12:14:10.342-07:00"Among the Dyak of Borneo the manang's (shaman's) initiation requires three different ceremonies, corresponding to the degree of Dyak shamanism. The first degree, besudi (a word that, it seems, means "to feel, to touch"), is also the most elementary and is obtained for very little money. The candidate lies on the veranda as if ill, and the other manang make passes over him through the night. It Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-34059541384913658662012-06-07T08:24:00.002-07:002012-06-07T08:24:19.057-07:00In which what is meant to happen, happens
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-78441084371200692462012-05-19T09:06:00.001-07:002012-05-19T09:08:24.754-07:00"Free Angela (Thoughts...and all I've got to say)"--Bayete/Todd Cochran
"Angela"--John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band
"Sweet Black Angel"--The Rolling Stones
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-9308640438153007452012-05-15T16:09:00.000-07:002012-05-15T16:09:43.061-07:00Werner Herzog's full documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. From 2010. Running time 1:26:17
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-34684819599142220252012-05-14T15:01:00.000-07:002012-05-15T16:10:03.953-07:00Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's setting of Longfellow's poem "The Quadroon Girl" [Poems on Slavery, 1842], for baritone and women's chorus, was
premiered in 1905 by the Norwich Music Festival Chorus. The American
premiere took place in 1906 at the Metropolitan African Methodist
Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, and was sung by the Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society, with Harry T. Burleigh (Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-27478926387845401052012-05-12T19:10:00.002-07:002012-05-12T19:10:26.206-07:00"PASSING"
I've spent the past four months researching my grandmother's background. She is the only one we didn't know the ancestry of, as she was adopted out of Washington, D.C., in 1920. She was lily-white in complexion, and we have always assumed from these features that she was most likely Irish and/or English. In aiding my research, my mother agreed to do a DNA test this last month, and theJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-35975069409251295682012-04-30T09:31:00.000-07:002012-04-30T09:31:03.649-07:00Forms, methods, and philosophies come and go. None last very long. It's always been and always will be: content, content, content. Vanessa Place's version of Conceptualism, for example, is not the issue to view--it's the content of her work. From the knotted issues of rape cases to the edited audio files of 9/11 events. This is why she is worth reading.Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-34758410562748666632012-04-16T05:04:00.002-07:002012-04-16T05:04:56.736-07:00Instant Karma
John Lennon
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-69189386521237052842012-04-13T20:03:00.000-07:002012-04-13T20:03:11.388-07:00Reading three poems written in December 2011. "Fugazi"--"Great"--"Jurassic"
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-35367457759642170332012-04-12T18:46:00.000-07:002012-04-12T18:46:36.338-07:00"All in the Family" (60 Minutes). Morley Safer reports on a unique method of caring for the mentally ill practiced successfully in the small town of Geel, Belgium. Rather than being institutionalized, the patients are carefully screened and placed with foster families who care for them.
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-21372507239318413192012-04-12T08:31:00.000-07:002012-04-12T08:31:23.407-07:00"An ill-directed mind does greater harm to the self than a hater does to another hater or an enemy to another enemy."
"He in whom is born a sublime longing for the Ineffable, whose mind is permeated by this longing, whose thoughts are not bewildered by attachment — such a person is called "one bound upstream."
"Even as an elephant on the battlefield endures the arrow shot from the bow, so shallJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-34239609436476580502012-04-07T12:47:00.000-07:002012-04-07T12:47:46.684-07:00Goddess Chinnamasta
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-37224755163448125582012-04-07T08:43:00.002-07:002012-04-07T11:58:50.544-07:00TO BE FREE OF THE TEETER-TOTTER
The poets who most interest me are the ones who have broken with the training-wheeled dualism that governs so much of Western culture. This infection of dualism affects most poetry written. Today, we get snippets of sense, of broken-down narratives, which often creates humor due to the disjunction. The humor, though, is raised primarily on the satire of the Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-19833563593333138922012-04-06T07:15:00.000-07:002012-04-06T07:15:21.018-07:00Victim (1961)
(Part 1 of 10)
Directed by Basil Dearden
Starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805763.post-6231835671201259752012-03-25T09:00:00.003-07:002012-09-22T11:38:37.828-07:00The Müller-Fokker Effect
I Got You Right Where I Wanted
Black
Secret Life
Orphan Trains
Why I Like LA
Who?
RosaJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687noreply@blogger.com0