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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading A Short History of the Printed Word, by Warren Chappell The Annals of Chile, poems by Paul Muldoon The Granite Pail, selected poems by Lorine Niedecker Movie Wars, by Jonathan Rosenbaum The Space of Half an Hour, poems by Keith Waldrop Suggested Listening Mugic CD, Certainly, Sir Tones for Joan’s Bones LP, Chick […]
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An Interpellation
We clamor for masterpieces to burn, desperate to send up into air the ash of Racine or the Bard to rain down as prose on those still listening. But I needed to talk concerning those works one reads endlessly over the dead, those slowly turned pages, half hope, half hubris, to speak in favor of […]
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Now, Manhattan
1. Each breath at least a half-life, a pause between anthrax scare and modern memory. And each gaze lifted from the sidewalk half-filled with a rising moon sliced and weighted over the city. Uranus in Capricorn, not far from Heaven’s triangle, night’s space respiring indifference and geometry. 2. The day through which all meander is […]
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Chicago
for P.O’L. and E.M.S.1 a poem is crawling across the foot of the screen, and a cursor is erasing the words as soon as they appear 2 crawling stock-tokens, and a man furrows his brow to deform a cliché, twist a platitude into something approaching rectitude, standing by one’s word 3 four hundred channels buzz revelation and midrash, […]
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05.02.02
It saddens me to have to issue a Gaffs & Blunders report, & on Kimberley’s birthday no less. Alas… Les Murray brought it to our attention that a word was omitted from the body of his poem “A Study of the Nude” (Miniside No 4). Thankfully, the error was caught before the Miniside was properly […]
