Aerial/Edge

Terminal Humming reviewed by Joe Atkins

2011-03-16T18:26:00.002-08:00

Nuclear Socialism Staff Meeting

Fortunately there is, embedded in a forest,
not a bomb but a peaceful nuclear device. Driving recognition
in a cycle background of soft mining
paths to obviate risk. Embarking partition.

The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading Feb 5th, 5 PM

2011-01-22T10:52:00.003-08:00

The EDGE BOOKS/ABRAHAM LINCOLN/WEST WIND REVIEW AWP Reading

Saturday February 5th, 5 PM
@ THE REEF, 2446 18th Street NW, Washington DC

Marie Buck, Leslie Bumstead, Brandon Downing, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, K. Lorraine Graham, Dan Gutstein, Lacey Hunter, Doug Lang, Emily Liebowitz, K. Silem Mohammad, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Tom Orange, Adam Roberts, Rod Smith, Sandra Simonds, Gary Sullivan, Anna Vitale, & Ryan Walker

2010-06-29T22:02:00.001-08:00

ANSELM BERRIGAN FOR POETEEVEE from A. Lee Abelson on Vimeo.

Publishers Weekly on Plummet by Chris Nealon

2010-01-27T18:58:00.000-08:00

Plummet Chris Nealon. Edge (SPD, dist.), $14 (72p) ISBN 978-1-890311-29-2

Internationally renowned as a scholar of modern poetry and gay and lesbian writing, Nealon is also a formidably intelligent, decidedly challenging poet. This sophomore effort (after The Joyous Age) tends to self-interrogation, self-mockery, and an almost desperate knowingness about every topic under Nealon's blistering sun—politics and political theory, sex, urban life, commerce, language itself. “I am not gay, I am from the future!” one page announces; “Chase after the new, but remember people like it when you repeat yourself,” another poem says. Like Joshua Clover (to whom the book is dedicated), Nealon can sound abrasive, tired beyond argument, worn out by his own sophistication, or else eager to encompass, mock, and surmount various trends: some poems apparently made by “Google-sculpting” (arranging results of Internet searches) may be too au courant to last. Yet Nealon's self-consciousness also provokes compellingly: “Hold fast to your integrity until it becomes Art Song and you have no friends.” The poems present, mull, and sometimes undercut the very presuppositions (that we can ever listen to one another; that we can know what makes us happy or sad) that let other poets write poems at all. Nealon sets himself apart from all convention, sounding comfortable nowhere: that discomfort, that sense of restless, fast inquiry, gives much of his new work its peculiar, dissonant force. (Dec.)

Plummet by Chris Nealon! New from Edge.

2010-01-27T17:38:00.001-08:00

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." The Believer reporter Stephen Burt observed of his previous collection 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.”

EDGE BOOKS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION @ DCAC 12/13, 3 PM

2009-12-12T13:04:00.006-08:00

EDGE BOOKS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

@ District of Columbia Arts Center
3:00PM, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009

featuring readings by Leslie Bumstead, Tina Darragh, Jean Donnelly, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, Heather Fuller, Dan Gutstein, P Inman, Doug Lang, K. Silem Mohammad, Chris Nealon, Mel Nichols, Phyllis Rosenzweig, & Rod Smith

Edge Books, comprising over 40 titles across the spectrum of avant-garde writing in English, has established an international reputation for publishing the finest in innovative writing, including award-winning works by Kevin Davies and Joan Retallack. Many of our titles have been reviewed in such publications as The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly. Come celebrate with us!

For more information on Edge visit http://aerialedge.com/

Admission is $5.00.

District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site at http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm

UPCOMING READINGS:

Monday, December 14th, 7:30 PM
K. Silem Mohammad, Lacey Hunter, Ken Jacobs
@ Bridge Street

Thursday, Dec 17th, 8pm
Sally Keith, Karen Anderson, Casey Smith, & Maureen Andary
Big Bear Cafe, 1st & R NW
www.cherylsgone.com

Saturday, December 19th, 8 PM
A celebration & reading for The Narrow House
publication of the i.e. reader
Dionysus Restaurant & Lounge
8 E. Preston Street
Baltimore

2009-12-06T11:36:00.008-08:00

An Evening with Anselm Berrigan and Norma Cole
San Francisco, City Lights Bookstore
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

Jules Boykoff & Kaia Sand
The Poetry Project, NYC
Monday, December 7, 8:00 pm

K. Silem Mohammad's The Front in the news

Chris Nealon: "John Ashbery's Optional Apocalypse"

Mel Nichols, Elisabeth Workman, & Nada Gordon
conducted by Drew Gardner
Nov 22nd at the Zinc Bar, NYC

New Cathy Eisenhower from Roof Books

2009-10-15T20:17:00.002-08:00

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."

Tim Davis - The New Antiquity

2009-08-30T20:28:00.000-08:00

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

2009-07-05T14:36:00.002-08:00

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!

2009-06-25T07:47:00.001-08:00

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

2008-11-28T13:53:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-15T06:49:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-05T19:54:00.004-08:00

That's Tim Davis, in the orange shirt.

In Memory of My Theories, Alexandria VA, Nov 16

2008-10-31T19:13:00.006-08:00

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

2008-10-31T09:17:00.000-08:00

at PoetryPolitic

Tom Raworth in SF 10/28

2008-10-26T19:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-10-21T18:23:00.001-08:00

2008-10-15T20:16:00.003-08:00

Kareem Estafan reviews Mohammad's Breathalyzer at Sustainable Aircraft.

2008-09-20T11:33:00.001-08:00

Buck Downs
& Heather Fuller

Sept 20, 8 PM

CARRIAGE HOUSE
2225 Hargrove Street
Baltimore, MD.
21218

2008-09-20T11:24:00.000-08:00

Ted's Head @ PoetryPolitic

Berrigan / Marriott SPT 9/19

2008-09-15T07:35:00.000-08:00

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

2008-09-15T05:40:00.000-08:00

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

2008-09-13T07:46:00.002-08:00

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

2008-08-31T21:24:00.003-08:00

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

2008-05-17T10:09:00.000-08:00

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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$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge

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The Hopper

2008-05-12T21:10:00.005-08:00

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

2008-05-12T21:05:00.000-08:00

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

regularly $15
$11.00 direct from Aerial/Edge

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Breathalyzer!

2008-02-21T16:57:00.000-08:00

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!

2007-11-01T10:40:00.000-08:00

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

2007-08-05T08:03:00.000-08:00

Sight by Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino

2007-07-19T13:07:00.000-08:00

After almost two years Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino's book-length collaboration from Edge is available again.

Click here to order Sight via paypal.

Sight
Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino
120 pgs, Cover design by Ree Hall

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

sight and meaning
Hejinian EPC
Scalapino Wikipedia

TOM RAWORTH RECEIVES MAJOR AWARD

2007-06-23T08:30:00.000-08:00

Tom Raworth has been awarded Italy's prestigious Antonio Delfini Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. The ceremony will take place in Modena on 23 June. An illustrated limited edition of Raworth poems has been published to mark the occasion. The only previous Anglophone poet to receive the prize is Robert Creeley.

Raworth's recent Caller and Other Pieces and the classic Ace are available via paypal from Edge Books.

Caller & other pieces by Tom Raworth

2007-05-15T11:33:00.000-08:00

New from Edge Books:

CALLER AND OTHER PIECES
by Tom Raworth

48 pgs, perfectbound, cover by the author

$9.00 ($12.50 retail)

Click here to order Caller and Other Pieces via paypal.

Caller and Other Pieces is Raworth's first collection since the Collected Poems of 2003. Comprised of 14 pieces with the long poem "Caller" at its center, this book evinces a striking formal and tonal variety-- from the classic Raworth rhythmic and roving perceptual matrix, to the comedic one-liner, to the parodic end-rhyme, the visual, and even a bit of nouveau-zaum. Caller and Other Pieces again demonstrates that Tom Raworth's accomplishment is essential to the poetry of our time.

To order by mail: send $9 payable to Aerial/Edge to POBox 25642, Washington, DC 20007.

Many of our titles receive web discounts, order by paypal or check:

Some Notes on my Programming, Anselm Berrigan, $14 (regularly $15)
Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge, Jules Boykoff, $12 (regularly $14)
Cipher/Civilian, Leslie Bumstead, $12 (regularly $14)
American Whatever, Tim Davis, $12 (regularly $14)
Metropolis XXX, Robert Fitterman, $12 (regularly $14)
Dovecote, Heather Fuller, $12 (regularly $14)
The Sense Record and other poems, Jennifer Moxley, $12.50 (regularly $14)
interval, Kaia Sand, $12 (regularly $14)
Haze: Essays Poems Prose, Mark Wallace, $12.50 (regularly $14)

Also new from Edge:

Ladies Love Outlaws, Buck Downs, 24 pages, $5

All prices postpaid.

Thanks for your support!

Silvers/Andrews/Schumacher/Fulkerson performance, Friday 4/27

2007-04-20T22:21:00.000-08:00

Friday, April 27 at 8:30pm

at Diapason, the experimental music installation gallery.

An evening of dance/music/poetry improvisations — in a variety of combinations.

With Sally Silvers’s unique movement styles — pairing (& trioing & quartetting) with trombonist-composer James Fulkerson (a rare visit from Amsterdam), live electronics & piano by Michael Schumacher, and Bruce Andrews (‘live editing’ of ‘language poetry’).

Diapason is at 1026 Sixth Ave between 38th and 39th Sts, second floor (212-719-4393). Subway: B,D,F,V to 42nd St-Bryant Park; 7 to Fifth Ave.

One night only. (And did we mention that it’s free?) Hope you can make it!

Berrigan/Myles @ KGB 4/9/07

2007-04-04T14:50:00.000-08:00

Anselm Berrigan & Eileen Myles

April 9th, 7 PM

KGB BAR
85 East 4th St
NYC

2007-04-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

Anselm Berrigan: 8 poems from "Have a Good One"

Jennifer Moxley interviews Fanny Howe

Lyn Hejinian in Paris

Poets on Painters

2007-04-02T20:14:00.000-08:00

The 125 page, hard-cover, all color Poets on Painters catalog can now be purchased for $15!

Catalog includes an introduction by poet Anselm Berrigan and an essay by curators Katie Geha and Travis Nichols. Also included are original poems by Eric Baus, Laura Solomon, Paul Killebrew, Hoa Nguyen, Sawako Nakayasu, Aimee Kelley, Noah Eli Gordon, Nick Moudry, Kary Wayson, Kristin Prevallet, John Olson, Sueyuen Juliette Lee, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Jeff Clark, Sara Veglahn, Corina Copp, Dorothea Lasky, Juliana Leslie, Monica Fambrough, and Brad Flis.

2007-03-25T17:58:00.001-08:00

WRITING IN TIME: POETS & TECHNOLOGY

Greta Byrum
Robert Fitterman
Caroline Bergvall
Kenneth Goldsmith

Wednesday, March 28 @ 6 PM

The Museum of Modern Art - The Celeste Bartos Theatre
4 West 54th St (between 5th and 6th Avenues) NYC

2007-03-24T18:00:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 7:30 p.m.
MARK WALLACE & K. LORRAINE GRAHAM
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny
Portland, OR

The Ladies Love Outlaws Spring Tour

2007-02-25T10:02:00.000-08:00

BUCK DOWNS

March 7 -- G.W. Univ., WDC
March 26 -- Million Poems Show, NYC
April 20 -- 14kt. Cabaret, Baltimore
April 22 -- Robin's Books, Phila.
April 27 -- Yockadot Poetics Theater Fest., Alexandria
May 6 -- Minas Gallery, Baltimore
June 6 -- Poetry Project, NYC

drop a line to buckdowns@dcemail.com
for times, directions, etc.

EOAGH - Issue 3

2007-02-15T07:34:00.000-08:00

EDITED BY

Jules Boykoff on NPR

2007-01-23T21:38:00.000-08:00

Bob McChesney's Media Matters

This week our guest is Jules Boykoff, author of The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch US American Social Movements.

Mohammad / Wright @ Powell's

2007-01-10T23:38:00.000-08:00

K. Silem Mohammad
& Vincent Craig Wright
Saturday January 27th, 7:30PM
@ Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR

New Buck Downs

2006-11-28T02:02:00.000-08:00

HOT off the press it's Ladies Love Outlaws by Buck Downs.

"A 24 pg machine for terror made from mercy."

$5 to Aerial/Edge, POBox 25642, WDC 20007.

Bernstein/Smith 11/18 4 pm

2006-11-14T20:54:00.000-08:00

i.e. reading series

Saturday, November 18th
4 pm - 6pm

Charles Bernstein & Rod Smith

Clayton & Co. Fine Books
317 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
410-752-6800

Jennifer Moxley reading at the Ear Inn, 1995

2006-11-14T20:24:00.000-08:00

An early Moxley reading amidst the rattling silverware of the Ear Inn. Includes the hits "Helena and the Regional Boys," and "I Am Depressed Without Your Pencil."

Raworth/Brötzmann at Woodland Pattern

2006-11-12T17:18:00.000-08:00

Thursday November 16 and Friday November 17, 10PM
Peter Brötzmann (Germany) and Tom Raworth (UK): Poems and Improvisations and Cheryl Lynn Bruce (Chicago) and Joshua Abrams (Chicago): Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks, performance monologue with music
Elastic Arts Foundation, 2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd floor
$10

Sunday November 19, 7PM
Peter Brötzmann (Germany) and Tom Raworth (UK): Poems and Improvisations and Cheryl Lynn Bruce (Chicago) and Joshua Abrams (Chicago): Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks, performance monologue with music
Co-presentation with Woodland Pattern
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 East Locust, Milwaukee
$8/$7 students and seniors/$6 Woodland Pattern members

THE OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK

2006-11-03T16:29:00.000-08:00

Bruce Andrews on O'Reilly!

Writing Class in Kevin Davies’ Comp.

2006-10-31T19:13:00.000-08:00

Jonathan Fedors on Comp.

Anti-rhetorical rhetoricality thus involves the ideologically slanted reversal of an idiomatic phrase: missing the trees of material words for the forest of meaning. In this world, the profits of deforestation accrue by virtue of a willful forgetting of the role each tree plays in stabilizing atmospheric CO2 levels. A sufficient obscurity of existing social relations justifies post-secondary conscription into the professional-managerial sociolect, in the name of preparing students to become productive members of society.

Winch & Young @ Bridge Street 10/29

2006-10-24T20:42:00.000-08:00

Please join us

Sunday, October 29th @ 7 PM

for a reading by

TERENCE WINCH
&
GEOFFREY YOUNG

Geoffrey Young is the author of Fickle Sonnets, Lights Out, Admiral Fever, Pockets of Wheat, Rocks and Deals, and Subject to Fits. He lives in the Berkshires where he runs The Geoffrey Young Gallery, an art space celebrated in such publications as Artforum and The New York Times. Publisher's Weekly writes of his recent book Lights Out: "Young's great strength, like that of his compadres Michael Gizzi and Clark Coolidge, is his updated use of Kerouac's "spontaneous bop prosody," an intricate and seemingly improvised incantation of word and syllable whipped up to ecstatic length." Young is also publisher of The Figures-- one of the most important literary presses of the last thirty years.

Terence Winch is the author of three books of poetry: The Drift of Things, The Great Indoors, and Irish Musicians/American Friends. His most recent book, That Special Place: New World Irish Stories, is a collection of non-fiction stories drawn from his life as a musician playing traditional Irish music with Celtic Thunder-- a band he started with his brother Jesse in 1977. Celtic Thunder's second album, The Light of Other Days, won the prestigious INDIE award for Best Celtic Album. His writings have appeared in more than 20 anthologies of poetry, prose, and non-fiction, and in journals and newspapers such as The Paris Review, New American Writing, American Poetry Review, Arshile, Shiny, Verse, The Washington Post, The Washingtonian, and The Village Voice.

Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave.
(202) 965-5200

Located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, 5 blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro station (blue & orange lines).

Upcoming Bridge Street Readings:
Nov 5th - Amy King & Ron Padgett
Nov 19th - Charles Bernstein

Leslie Scalapino reports from Cambridge

2006-10-18T20:37:00.000-08:00

Leslie Scalapino report on Cambridge conference at Elizabeth Treadwell's blog Secret Mint.

The Grand Piano

2006-10-18T20:16:00.000-08:00

Publication announcement and subscription offer!

THE GRAND PIANO
An Experiment in Collective Autobiography
San Francisco, 1975-1980

by Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla
Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson,
Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson

THE GRAND PIANO is an on-going experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language Poetry in San Francisco. It takes its name from a coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street, where from 1976-79 the authors took part in a reading and performance series. The writing project was undertaken as an online collaboration, first via an interactive web site and later through a listserv. When completed, THE GRAND PIANO will comprise ten parts, in each of which the ten authors will appear in a difference sequence.

"Like the early avant-gardes, the people who gathered at the Grand Piano developed not only an exacting and liberating poetics, but also a way of living-in-art. Its chronicle here is many things, among them a deeply human and amusing map to building community through literature in this most unlikely of times. --Cole Swenson

Part 1 is scheduled to appear November 2006, with subsequent volumes to be published at three-month intervals. Subscription to the entire series of ten volumes is now available for $90 (individual volumes for $12.95 each) directly from Lyn Hejinian, 2639 Russell Street, Berkeley, CA 94705. For subscription order form:

http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac%5Fpages/ewatten/pdfs/gporder.pdf (color)
http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac%5Fpages/ewatten/pdfs/gporderbw.pdf (black and white)

Designed and published by Barrett Watten, Mode A/This Press (Detroit), 6885 Cathedral Drive, Bloomfield Twp., MI 48301. Distributed (individual orders and trade) by Small Press Distribution, Inc., 1341 Seventh Street, Berkeley, CA 94710-1408. ISBN 978-0-9790198-0-X (part 1), 80 pp., wrappers.

Tool a Magazine

2006-10-13T21:51:00.000-08:00

Poems by Buck Downs and Kaia Sand in the latest Tool.

New York & Chicago

2006-09-06T08:41:00.000-08:00

NYC:

Sunday, September 10th

Alex Young & Anselm Berrigan

@ The Zinc Bar

90 W. Houston (north side, just west of LaGuardia, down a flight of
stairs)

7 pm (will start around 7:30 to avoid conflict with another event)

Chicago:

The Discrete Reading and Performance Series presents

Anne Boyer and K. Silem Mohammad

Elastic
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Floor

8 p.m., Friday, September 8
$5 suggested donation

Kevin Davies reading at KSW in 1991

2006-08-29T22:02:00.000-08:00

"the unconscious is structured like a shriner's convention"

Simon Gouverneur

2006-08-23T20:17:00.000-08:00

Good to see a recent show at Curator's Office of works from the estate of Simon Gouverneur whose paintings adorned the covers of Aerial 4: Douglas Messerli and the first Edge Book, Asbestos, by Wayne Kline.

Although the reviews mention his 1990 suicide they do not mention that he had suffered severe injury-- a fall from a ladder-- and of course, as an artist, was without health or disability insurance. I was introduced to him by Dan Barbiero and we had many terrific, intense conversations. His loss remains a traumatic one for many of us.

Art Forum. More of Simon's paintings at McLean Art.

No one is safe from Davis’s savage iconoclasm.

2006-08-17T13:26:00.000-08:00

ANSELM BERRIGAN INTERVIEW

2006-08-04T00:16:00.000-08:00

from chicagopostmodernpoetry.com:

I like to curse. Fuck and all of its variations are deeply ingrained in my language-mind. I think fuckface is one of the funniest terms of all time.

I had this one job working in a windowless office, and I used to write in it, but the poems often had nothing in them because there was nothing in the room to see. It was a ridiculous job. I was supposed to answer the phone, but the number was unlisted. I was supposed to let people in, but the door was locked and no one knew we were there.

It’s very interesting to me, finally, to note that more and more poets seem to come out of the woodwork every week, while large publishers have essentially given up on poetry. And they should. They do it poorly, they don’t know how to distribute it, and, mainly, poetry is unmarketable. It doesn’t want to be sold. When Jewel sells a gazillion books of poetry it’s her name that is being sold. We are at a point where poetry is almost totally underground, while being more popular than ever in this country.

Alworth on Metropolis XXX on Jacket

2006-07-20T13:11:00.000-08:00

from Jacket 30:

In his lecture, Fitterman made the case that Alice Cooper — once radical, now fully coopted, pop-cultural icon — in his gleeful merger of faux androgyny and hyper-masculine histrionics, actually anticipated some of the most recent and cutting-edge theoretical work on subjectivity: the identity-construtivist view that our subjectivities have always been unitary repositories of an amalgam of subject positions. Thus, a better reading of mass-cultural junk — precisely those phenomena that appear to be coopted, or those “artifacts” that seem to operate unabashedly in service to some marketing scheme — could yield interesting, if not prescient, theoretical claims.

Hibbard on Haze on Jacket

2006-06-27T13:17:00.000-08:00

from Jacket 30:

The first piece in Haze is titled ‘Reasons to Write’. It begins ‘There is of course no reason to write poetry’. And it concludes, ‘I write poetry because I need to make a living’. And so it begins: this modern coyness that Trilling describes, aiming at not identity (I am a poet) but presence (what is entailed in calling oneself a poet), an elusive sincerity of self-effacement and skill. In the text of this brief introductory piece is stated:

We have been sold a world of reasons so endlessly, so thoroughly, so destructively that even poets are called upon to explain what they do, to give their reasons to justify themselves before endless courts of indifference and terror.

The more insistent the reasons the less value they have. These are courts of indifference and terror because, based on lack of faith, deference to appearance, they are corrupt and at bottom materialistic, that is, of slight meaning. The author therefore feels obliged to present his case only according to his own rules.

Leslie Bumstead's Cipher/Civilian Publishers Weekly Review

2006-06-24T13:46:00.000-08:00

from Publishers Weekly:

This disarmingly intimate account—rendered in fragmentary poetic sequences, neat couplets and prose blocks—of Bumstead's travels in northern Guatemala, El Salvador, Chiapas and the Ivory Coast is an expansive and surprising experimental debut, in terms of its far-ranging geography as well as its stylistic diversity. Travelogues, letters ("This morning I ate an entire cantaloupe. Granted, it was a small cantaloupe") and, most strikingly, spare and cryptic lyrics display technical dexterity and a finely tuned ear: "gritty chitty / chitty bang bang in American /movies we want /war, silliness / & war." Writing as an outsider, mother and lover in places where most are afraid to go, Bumstead attests that, "stories /can't be possessed by anyone, not / really." Throughout, the political and personal overlap, each clarifying and obscuring the other: "Governments spinning on a pin. Whole criminal enterprises running countries. History is such a long book.... I am long too like a story about a musical note. When I remember things I plead with them not to forget me." (June)

Leslie Scalapino & Mel Nichols @ Bridge Street Sunday 6/11 7 PM

2006-06-11T08:11:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY JUNE 11th @ 7 PM

LESLIE SCALAPINO
&
MEL NICHOLS

LESLIE SCALAPINO is the author of over 20 books of poetry, fiction, essays, & drama. Recent works include DAHLIA'S IRIS: SECRET AUTOBIOGRAPHY & FICTION, IT'S GO IN QUIET ILLUMINED GRASS LAND, ORCHID JETSAM, and ZITHER & AUTBIOGRAPHY. Her long poem WAY received the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award. She lives in Oakland where she publishes O Books, and teaches in the Bard College summer MFA Program.

MEL NICHOLS lives in Washington, DC and teaches digital poetry at George Mason University. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including PipLit, Forklift Ohio, Anomaly, and Fascicle. She is co-editor of the journal ILLUMINATED MEAT. Her recent chapbook is DAY POEMS (Edge 2005).

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

ph 202 965 5200

Justbuffalo Spoken Arts Radio

2006-05-23T21:22:00.000-08:00

Audio of Rob Fitterman on Metropolis XXX. Also, Lyn Hejinian on poetry and philosophy, and reading from Lola. Other short clips featuring Ashbery, Auster, Sirois, etc.