I must admit that I have become a black-binder user at readings as well. I think this may have something to do with choral singing, which I also do. In fact, what I’ve always coveted is one of those choral-singing folders that actually has a strap on the back to hold it to your hand, which allows you to stand…
Author: Timothy Yu
Today I too know the pleasures of being a walking tower of sweat.
Silicon Valley or, An Essay on the “New Brutalism” That hooligan crew’s half- off, strong calves and burning down. She’s a good student of talent, like sunshine states in the thick of rain. The brutal curve of fountain water can’t hide the soft edge.
Kasey, is it okay if I didn’t pay full price for your book? I was reading it (at home, not in the store) and turned it over, and though the cover price said $12 there was a yellow tag on the back that said $10.80. I really didn’t see it before I bought the book, honest.
I look up from packing and find that I am missing Kasey’s reading at this very moment. I do wish I could be there. I will have to be satisfied with spelunking in the far reaches of my closets.
Went into Moe’s for a valedictory visit and struck gold: my own copy of Deer Head Nation. I am only a few pages in but it is already kicking my ass all over the room with its texture of sex and terror and disembodied Republican heads…Kasey, I shall read your book in Omaha and weep.
Wiped out from packing, surrounded by towers of boxes. The last of the books in this room have been packed; remaining forlornly on one shelf are Robert Creeley’s Collected, that darn new Dave Eggers novel which I keep trying to force myself to finish, Borges’s Collected Fictions and Charles North’s New and Selected Poems, which I just picked up a…
Hey, when’s that new Hubert Schma album coming out?
Actually, ever since I found out about the Poetry Espresso list from Cassie I’ve been a big admirer of it. It’s sort of what I imagined the Poetics list might have been like back in the day, before all the grandstanding and core-dumping, though it probably wasn’t. Espresso seems to have a scale that’s compatible with a real community, but…
…and those espressoistes are even quoting me.