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02.12.04
Finally, a real update! The dust has at last settled enough to get some new work up here for you. This round brings photographs from Cary Conover, & poems from Jon Curley, new contributor Dan Featherston, & Peter O’Leary. The Ken Jacobs & Norman Finkelstein pieces will be posted soon. We’ll be running a travelogue […]
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Vienna Postcard 1 — February 6, 2004
Transatlantic travel with a toddler is an active solicitation of agony, like willingly exposing yourself to the flu. You’re always preparing for the worst possible situation to occur in the most strenuous conditions, while at the same time knowing you’ll basically get through it. Last summer, when we made this trip for the first time, […]
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Jon Curley, contributor
Suggested Reading “I AM”: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by Jonathan Bate Gone, poems by Fanny Howe The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word & Life, by Fanny Howe The Midnight, by Susan Howe Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography & Politics, by David Levi-Strauss
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Sea, Then Tree
When abbatoir rhymes with method Or else expects its home to render fate wet, I shall relax any connection to forlorn destinies, Set skull to sail on the unmurderous sea. This is is hard for me, being a revanchist pillar Of my people’s progress. So be it. More compelling is the advent of botched design […]
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When We’ve Transformed It, Within
Hallowing. Hallowing won’t suffice in this covenant Abraham’s negotiations wore out. A yellow-throated vireo in the branches of a crabtree, still stark in early April, warbles, flits. The surging season uplifts him, mateless yet but en route to the nest, northward. Inner heavens beckon him. I mean us. The silent companion you hallow, you court, […]
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Tube Rose
A sleep walker I have often seen. She smelt of tube-rose, and sang… — Erasmus Darwin, Loves of the Plants Tuberose’s bit of blue odor folded in cobalt crepe. Sweet clusters at the tip. Bitter’s troughed tongue slopes throatward. Bitter V convulse, convolute. Sweet, light, bitter, heavy. As hefted. Faster than the speed of language. […]
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01.17.04
Okay, then: your editor & his co-publishing wife are finally settled in their new digs. I apologize for the lapse but am pleased to report that we’ve not only a fine selection of material for the next update (Ken Jacobs, Peter O’Leary, Norman Finkelstein, & more) but a new & improved/streamlined site for you to […]
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08.01.03
In addition to some work from our regular contributors, we’ve got some new blood this round: poems from Patrick Pritchett, Jonathan Witte; & photographs from Paul Biedrzycki, Cary Conover, & Stephen Maine. If I can pull it together, there’ll be a mid-month posting of an interview with avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, too. Knock wood…. In […]