Picked up David St. John’s The Face and Marjorie Perloff’s new memoir, The Vienna Paradox, at the Co-op this morning. I’m already halfway through Marjorie’s book and it’s a delight: as much cultural criticism as autobiography, a careful reconstruction of the culture and intellectual life of the Vienna of her childhood, before her family fled the Nazis in 1938. The…
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Woo-hoo! Dodie’s in town in August… MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and poets’ talks Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue Sunday May 23 – April Sheridan and Simon Pettet Upcoming Events May 30 – Dana Ward June 6 – Larry Sawyer and Lina Ramona June 13 – Jen Besemer…
Thick as Nickel for Alli Warren I have taken a vow of chastity, keeping me from doing anything but holding the camera. Waiting-room watercolor. Unsure what to make of the fact of real estate, the taste of charcoal. When I look into your eyes there is a speaking of underpants. My grandmother is unrolling her sleeve. Inside there is a…
Softening Up for Alli Warren The house is held together by an editorial board. When they pull away the drywall we come walking out on all four legs. It’s like being able to see through a fogged-up window or a double fold. I contain vague. Continuing over the right half of the brain, we observe dark cul-de-sacs of meat ready…
Ron Silliman on Foetry, Fence, and external validation, which is, I think, along the same lines as my post on Foetry last month. The jousting that’s been going on in Ron’s comment boxes–a battle, remarkably enough, that has even drawn in the top editors at Fence itself–really only illustrates the futility of carrying on this debate at the level of…
Just Like Us, But Thicker for Alli Warren The photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge has been retouched so that a football crowd rises out of the fog. Each foam hand grips a McDonald’s Adult Happy Meal. The crawl says MEAT PEOPLE. I turn the page and there she is, the old one in the yellow polyester coat, grinning and…
Good one, Reen.
Eileen on the dangers of being an Asian American general. I’ve heard some Asian Americans argue that the Bush Administration has been good for Asian Americans because it has a few Asian American cabinet officials (Norman Mineta, Elaine Chao). Eileen’s post is a good reminder of the cynical calculations behind such appearances: put a few faces of color (Colin Powell,…
The technique of suddenly ending for Alli Warren with an as-yet-unnamed dog like shading with fuck-me boots with a “happy birthday blog” with something soft spattered on the windshield with fog no fog doesn’t look that dirty smog with a broomstick or a chemical light with an approved device with thicker with black assigned a number out of the set…
The Sun-Times asks: Can rockers be poets?