Aerial/Edge

New Cathy Eisenhower from Roof Books

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:17:00 +0000

Anne Boyer on Cathy Eisenhower's would with and, just out from Roof Books.

"So often poets think they are celebrating language for all of its possibilities, but I think, too, poetry can be a kind of war against language for all the ways it fucks us over -- like how it can mean, or not mean, enough."

Plummet by Chris Nealon! New from Edge.

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:38:00 +0000

Plummet
Chris Nealon
ISBN 978-1-890311-29-2
64 pgs, Cover by Liliane Lijn
Design by Justin Sirois
2009

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge
(regularly $15)

"Nothing you read will help you now"; "I am not gay, I am from the future!"; "Classicism: build your buildings so that even conquering hordes will be like, No way." Plummet is a post-catastrophic work written largely before the current all-American, i.e. global, plunge— imagine a kind of clairvoyant O'Hara distracted by Adorno, and Bear Stearns. It's that pit of the stomach feeling—“Will there be sirens? Toxins? I imagine violence miming reconciliation and then back again." In The Believer , Stephen Burt observed of The Joyous Age that "Nealon's bracing and bitter debut both enters and mocks the tradition of kaleidoscopic, difficult poetry as grand social critique, and makes most new work in that mode sound sloppy or bland by contrast.” In other words, as it says in this new collection "Lifted from the cadences you know and then let fall.”

Tim Davis - The New Antiquity

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:28:00 +0000

Graham & Wallace at Le Next, Ivy Writers Series, Paris

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:36:00 +0000

IVY WRITERS PRESENTS

Mark Wallace
& K. Lorraine Graham

Tuesday, the 7th of July 2009
at 7:30pm

AT : Le Next
17 rue Tiquetonne 75002 Paris
M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles
Gratuit! Free!
(+infos sur le blog: http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com)

BIOS/BIBLIOS:

Mark Wallace is the author of a number of books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and criticism. “Temporary Worker Rides A Subway” won the 2002 Gertrude Stein Poetry Award and was published by Green Integer Books. He is the author of a multi-genre work, “Haze”, and a novel, “Dead Carnival”. His critical articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, and along with Steven Marks, he edited “Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s” (University of Alabama Press), a collection of 26 essays by different writers. Most recently he has published a collection of tales, “Walking Dreams”, and a book of poems, “Felonies of Illusion”. He teaches at California State University, San Marcos.

K. Lorraine Graham is a writer and visual artist. Graham is the author of “Terminal Humming” (Edge Books, 2009), as well as the recording “Moving Walkways” (Narrowhouse Recordings, 2006) and numerous chapbooks, including “And so for you there is no heartbreak” (Dusie Kollektiv, 2008), “Diverse Speculations Descending Therefrom” (Dusie Kollektiv, 2007), “See It Everywhere” (Big Game Books, 2006), “Terminal Humming” (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), With Mark Wallace, 1994-2004 (Subpoetics Self-Publish or Perish, 2004), “Dear [Blank] I Believe in Other Worlds” (Phylum Press, 2003) and “It Does Not Go Back” (Subpoetics Self-Publish or Perish, 2002). “Large Waves to Large Obstacles” is forthcoming from Take Home Project. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming in reviews such as Traffic, Area Sneaks, and Foursquare. She currently lives in southern California. You can find her online at terminalhumming.blogspot.com

Terminal Humming by K. Lorraine Graham!

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:47:00 +0000

Terminal Humming
by K. Lorraine Graham

regularly $16.00

$12 direct from Edge Books, postpaid.

96 pages
Cover by the author
ISBN 978-1-890331-31-5

All "this shining and this flutter [!]." Terminal Humming is a very exciting book and I love it. Eavesdropping and borrowing from diverse discourses, K. Lorraine Graham has created a complex "essay on scrounging." It is a wonderfully violent "attempt to unleash inner badness" in poems that are hot and audacious, in a girly way: "Wonder Woman boots twirl twirl." Terminal Humming is just the right amount of weird. In it, "kinks become beautiful and obvious," and "language [hums] as angry form." Read this "downwind chess urine bird bathing extravaganza" of a book! NADA GORDON

Map and start K. Lorraine Graham’s Man-cunt. Honeybucket defoliates broadcast. Too personal? She keeps it normal and lumpy. Scattered disco balls mutilated by grisly pixies. This shining and this clutter. Their cunning bodies, well stocked. She rammed her glistening ovipositor into his abdomen. Imbued doll I am not. Warning! Warning! I clash looking for just a regular body in a supergirl outfit. All soft and twisted and inexpensive and consumable with a nice bike and nice bike gear. Hottie wanting sweet inside sprawl (Female until further notice) mixing information substitutes. Automatic shredder joy rehearsing pitch incineration. Squirming again and again (editing) editing (editing) (editing) something (editing) very (editing). Edit looks stupid. Change the finish. Overcome emotion by funding. Written in a kind of stripper life often scattered communication prosthetics mutilated by beauty. You find them here. ABIGAIL CHILD

Using irony, charm, and unexpected associations, the poems of Terminal Humming challenge any sense of women's situation being normal or transparent. These ambitious and invasive poems make us attentive to the steady drone of put-downs and put-ons that form so much of our discourse. Parcels of ostensibly innocuous information reveal their condescension or malice on Graham's pages, drawing us into the contours of an everyday life that is fine, okay enough—yet threatenednonetheless. And yet the poems have the strength of their whimsy, an outraged whimsy which ever-so-casually threatens back. This is the everyday as counter-attack! STAN APPS

Clearing Without Reversal by Cathy Eisenhower

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:53:00 +0000

NEW FROM EDGE BOOKS

Clearing Without Reversal
Cathy Eisenhower
978-1-890311-27-8
Cover by the author
Design by Justin Sirois
80 pgs

$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge (regularly $15)

We are deceived at every level by our behavior. You are grammar and the city is syntax. This book has the brilliant, vulgar, infinite, intimate, alluring vivacity of the real. If you search these poems for meaning that can be summarized, you will find multiple meanings, all of them capable of confounding any summary by proposing its own opposite, its own doppelganger, its own disguise, its own cohort. Cathy Eisenhower brandishes the whip. The psyche rises as a mist from things that are wet. --Doug Lang

These poems glow in the dark. And are so sharp—("fleet of heart"). And every here word is true—startlingly ordered, uncannily combined, in harsh light—("the time it takes / to wash the fire from your face")—bringing truth back again to beauty—not an easy beauty, but a smart one, hard-won, and permanent. --Cole Swensen

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PARAPHERNALIA by Kevin Davies

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:49:00 +0000

NEW!

The Golden Age of Paraphernalia
Kevin Davies

ISBN 13: 978-1-890311-28-5
142 pgs, Cover by Benjamin Friedlander

Regularly $15
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge

Click this link to have your copy of this fine edition dispatched to a location of your choosing.

Thanks, everyone

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:54:00 +0000

That's Tim Davis, in the orange shirt.

In Memory of My Theories, Alexandria VA, Nov 16

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:13:00 +0000

IN MEMORY OF MY THEORIES

AVANT-GARDE POETRY MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Sunday November 16th, 4-9 PM

Organized by & featuring Rod Smith
The Washington City Paper's Best Poet of DC

Charles Bernstein
Anselm Berrigan
Croniamantal
Nada Gordon
Tom Raworth
Gary Sullivan
Rodrigo Toscano, Mel Nichols, Chris Nealon, Mark McMorris,
Doug Lang, Bonnie Jones, P. Inman, Adam Good, Heather Fuller
Buck Downs, Tina Darragh, Lauren Bender, Michael Ball

The Lyceum
201 S. Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

Hosted by M. Magnus. This event is part of the APAA's Guest Artist series at the Lyceum. Poster designed by Justin Sirois.

The President Probably Talks by Kaia Sand

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:17:00 +0000

at PoetryPolitic

Tom Raworth in SF 10/28

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Cathy Eisenhower & M. Magnus Book Party 10/25, 6 pm

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:23:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:16:00 +0000

Kareem Estafan reviews Mohammad's Breathalyzer at Sustainable Aircraft.

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:33:00 +0000

Buck Downs
& Heather Fuller

Sept 20, 8 PM

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD.
21218

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:24:00 +0000

Ted's Head @ PoetryPolitic

Berrigan / Marriott SPT 9/19

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:35:00 +0000

Anselm Berrigan and D.S. Marriott

Friday, September 19th 7:30 p.m.
Timken Lecture Hall
Refreshments will be served

Small Press Traffic
Literary Arts Center at CCA
1111 -- 8th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.551.9278

Andrews Monkeytown 9/18

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:40:00 +0000

Monkeytown presents
TWOS THREES AND FOURS
An Evening of Mixt Media Messages
L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poet BRUCE ANDREWS, cellist ALEX WATERMAN and DRAW... will orbit one another in shifting constellations for lookers, listeners, and diners, honoring MonkeyTown's unique space. Interspersed with anachronistic shorts by Jim Otis and Ken Jacobs...

Information: 718.384.1369
Email address: monkeytownhq@aol.com
Thursday, September 18
8:30PM
Monkeytown
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
http://www.monkeytownhq.com
Admission: $10, $10 minimum

SEGUE SERIES FALL SCHEDULE

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:46:00 +0000

SEGUE READING SERIES
@ BOWERY POETRY CLUB

Saturdays: 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
308 BOWERY, NYC, just north of Houston
****$6 admission goes to support the readers****

Fall / Winter 2008-2009

The Segue Reading Series is made possible by the support of The Segue Foundation. For more information, please visit bowerypoetry.com, or call (212) 614-0505. Curators: Oct.-Nov., Christina Strong & Alan Davies, Dec.-Jan., Evelyn Reilly & Thom Donovan.

OCTOBER 4 E. TRACY GRINELL & HEATHER FULLER
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir and Music or Forgetting, as well as the limited edition chapbooks Leukadia (forthcoming), Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson, Of the Frame, and Harmonics. She lives in Brooklyn where she teaches writing and edits Litmus Press and Aufgabe, an annual journal of poetry and translations. Heather Fuller's works include perhaps this is a rescue fantasy, Dovecote, and Startle Response. She is one of five poets featured on the narrow house recordings CD Women in the Avant Garde. She lives in Baltimore.

OCTOBER 11 MICHAEL GOTTLIEB & MITCH HIGHFILL
Michael Gottlieb is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently: The Likes Of Us. His essays on Jackson Mac Low and Proust are available at www.chax.com/eoagh.com. His long essay, "Jobs Of The Poets," is available at jacketmagazine.com. Later this year Faux/Other will publish his memoir, excerpts of which are now available at the online magazine mark(s). Mitch Highfill is the author of Moth Light and Rebis. He recently performed parts of Moth Light accompanied by Natalia Paruz, also known as The Saw Lady. Recent work has appeared in OCHO and Critiphoria.

OCTOBER 18 TED PEARSON & DREW GARDNER
Ted Pearson is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including Evidence: 1975-1989, Planetary Gear, Songs Aside: 1992â€“2002, and Encryptions. He also co-edits markszine.com and is a co-author of The Grand Piano. He lives in Redlands, California. Drew Gardner's books are Petroleum Hat and Sugar Pill. He lives in Harlem. He does musical collaborations with poets and conducts the Poetics Orchestra.

OCTOBER 25 PETER CULLEY & CARLA HARRYMAN
Peter Culley lives in South Wellington, British Columbia. His books include The Climax Forest, Hammertown, and The Age of Briggs & Stratton. Carla Harryman's Adorno's Noise will be released from Essay Press this fall. Recent publications include the book length poem Open Box, the novel Gardener of Stars, Baby, and the special edition Toujours l'Ã©pine es sous la rose. Harryman is co-editor of Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker and a co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975â€“1980.

NOVEMBER 1 tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & DARREN WERSHLER
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE is sitting next to you right now. Depending. Darren Wershler lives in Toronto and teaches new media and media history at Wilfrid Laurier University. His most recent books are The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History Of Typewriting, and Apostrophe (with Bill Kennedy).

NOVEMBER 8 KATHLEEN FRAZER & ALLISON COBB
Kathleen Fraser teaches at CCA/SF and annually migrates to Rome where she and NYC painter Hermine Ford recently showed wall texts from their on-going collaboration ii ss at Pratt Architecture Institute. (Pieces from this show currently up at Melville House, Dumbo/Brooklyn). Recent books: 20th Century, hi dde violeth i dde violet, Discrete Categories Forced Into Coupling, and W I T N E S S (artist book with Nancy Tokar Miller.) Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 and is at work on a long piece about the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. She was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and now lives in Brooklyn.

NOVEMBER 15 STEVE MCCAFFREY & KAREN MAC CORMAC
Steve McCaffery is the author of more than 21 volumes of poetry and four books of theory and criticism. His most recent title is Slightly Left of Thinking: Poems, Texts and Postcognitions. He lives in Buffalo where he is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo. Karen Mac Cormack is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. Her most recent publication *Implexures* (the Complete Edition) was published in 2008 by Chax Press/West House Books.

NOVEMBER 22 KIT ROBINSON & BERNADETTE MAYER
Kit Robinson is a co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980. His books include The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems (forthcoming), 9:45, The Crave, and Democracy Boulevard. Kit lives in Berkeley. Bernadette Mayer is the author of Memory, Studying Hunger, A Bernadette Mayer Reader, Midwinter Day, and many other works. Forthcoming in 2008: Poetry State Forest, The Cave with Clark Coolidge, and Ethics Of Sleep.
NOVEMBER 29 NO READINGSâ€”Happy holiday!

DECEMBER 6 LESLIE SCALAPINO & ARNOLD J. KEMP
Leslie Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre fiction, and criticism. Among recent works are Day Ocean State of Starsâ€™ Night and Itâ€™s go in horizontal/Selected Poems 1974-2006. Arnold J. Kemp is a visual artist and writer. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4 Period(ical), River Styx, Nocturnes, and Art Journal. In 2005 and 2007, Small Press Traffic commissioned two of his plays/performances for the San Francisco Poets Theater.

DECEMBER 13 STACY DORIS & DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
Stacy Doris' books include Cheerleader's Guide to the World: Council Book, Knot, Conference, Paramour, and Kildare. She also writes books in French and co-edited collections of new French poetry in translation. With Lisa Robertson, she is currently in the process of making audio recordings of 18th-century perfumes. Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded the 2006 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering. She is also the author of The Morning Hour, selected in 2003 for the Poetry Society of Americaâ€™s National Chapbook Fellowship.

DECEMBER 20 LARRY FAGIN & KYLE SCHLESINGER
Larry Fagin's most recent publication is Dig & Delve, a collaboration with the artist Trevor Winkfield. He is the co-publisher of Adventures in Poetry books and the founder of Danspace, the dance program at St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery. Kyle Schlesingerâ€™s books include The Pink, Hello Helicopter and Schablone Berlin with Caroline Koebel. With Thom Donovan and Michael Cross, he edits ON, a poetics journal that focuses on contemporaries.

DECEMBER 27 & JANUARY 3 NO READINGS-Happy holidays!

Christian Bök and K. Silem Mohammad 9/5 in SF

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:24:00 +0000

The de Young Poetry Series:

Christian Bök and K. Silem Mohammad

September 5th, 7:00 p.m.
Koret Auditorium
de Young Art Museum

Breathalyzer in Publishers Weekly

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:09:00 +0000

Breathalyzer
K. Silem Mohammad. Edge (SPD, dist.), $15 paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-890311-23-0

Mohammad's methods place him (with Katie Degentesh, Gary Sullivan and others) in the recent school of poets called Flarfists, who derive their work from Internet searches and treasure outlandish “bad” or tasteless lines. After three books and countless provocative posts on his popular blog, lime-tree.blogspot.com, Mohammad may no longer count as an enfant terrible, but his poetry retains its destructive force. Sometimes baffling, often offensive, on occasion ingenious, Mohammad highlights cheesy, clunky or trashy locutions in a frontal attack on our notions of poetic craft, culture and taste. His works can morph into perverse self-portraits: “some people think I'm a gluttonous porcine/ furry man-killing goldmine made of sweet gold.” Some titles mock icons of culture as in the parodies of Frank O'Hara with which the volume concludes. Others pile on such celebrities as Celine Dion or try hard to violate taboos (“Mom forced me to drink her shimmering oriole juice”). Sometimes Mohammad attacks both sense and grammar: “subtext beef guilt philanthropy blanket/ titanium seagull prong.” The outlandish vagaries of Mohammad's new work will stoke the fires of those who have found thrills and controversy in Flarf so far. (May)

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The Hopper

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:10:00 +0000

Buck Downs has posted a number of his notebooks, i.e. hoppers, at Lulu-- pick one up.

Buck's description here.

Lulu page here.

Felonies of Illusion

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Felonies of Illusion
Mark Wallace
ISBN 978-1-890311-26-7
138 pgs, Cover by K. Lorraine Graham

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Breathalyzer!

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:57:00 +0000

by K. Silem Mohammad,
80 pgs, cover design by Anne Boyer

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Regularly $15.00 --
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge

Just out from Edge, K. Silem Mohammad's latest, Breathalyzer-- a stylish, stylized, poetic steroid of a book poised to pulverize your boredom and perilize the aesthetic tendencies of the overly under-aestheticized. It's fun, too!

Comp. back in print!

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:40:00 +0000

Kevin Davies' Comp. is back and better than ever. Click to paypal for $11.00. That's $4 off the retail price, and shipping is free!

Why Anselm Is Not A Hippy

noreply@blogger.com (Rod) — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:03:00 +0000