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12.01.01
There’s much activity here at the Cultural Society. This update features more Szu Burgess photos; poems by Alicia Cohen, Joel Felix, Philip Jenks, Devin Johnston, & Pam Rehm; prose by Peter O’Leary; & a short interview with David Grubbs. Our second Miniside is now available. It’s a poem by Philip Jenks & is once again […]
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“Language wants to speak…”
Language wants to speak. I can’t pretend innocence that this has nothing to do with me, who am I to talk something else again. Amarillo spills over. I lost my hat. Strictly past tense, I was shaped.
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Distant Warnings (after Catullus)
Trembling veil, my limit — whether I plumb the Marianas Trench as waves of doubt thunder miles above; or brush a stand of birch with sheathes of rain, or net a white noddy adrift on beds of kelp; whether and whither the mind wanders in dreamy disquietude, asleep of a prairie noon as buckboards creak, […]
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An Annotated Antidote to Nü Metal
When my wife & I moved from Chicago to St. Louis in August, 2000, we decided to get cable. Reception in St. Louis is awful & we knew we’d want to be watching TV. Last time I had cable was in 1996, so that my brother & I could watch all the Bulls games. I […]
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A Brief Interview with David Grubbs
David Grubbs has had an astonishingly wide-ranging career: Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Bitch Magnet (fleetingly), the Red Krayola, Gastr del Sol, Palace, Boxhead Ensemble, & a series of solo recordings & collaborations. The common aspect among these performances is contigent on itself, as it is primarily identified by Grubbs’ own commitment & growth as both instrumentalist […]
