Happy New Year

Words for 2008 in Grand Saline, home of the Salt Palace, made of salt

The Problem with Chistmas

inside: a wax record

Many (serious) things I've been meaning to post on ... and will. Working on Red List poems (which do and don't address the red list), taxonomy poems (mostly Racehorse Inverse sequence-- and thinking about RI as a strange multisurfaced chap resisting and engaging with ideas of classification and coordinates), viral poems (from older manuscript "new shapes for the outside being eaten" and will prob change title -- though I found this essay really interesting)

In the mean time, I didn't know that the boto (amazonian pink river dolphin) could be this pink! fantastic but sadly in danger.

hmm... also thinking about a post on chance and divagation.

and xo to Jake and Bethany in whichitAH!

Miriam Londono

Really interesting work by Miriam Londono (w/ an ~ over the later n). Curious to think about these handwriting pieces vs. the cityscape cutouts.

I would like to do a project involving paper casts of fingers -- about the difficulty of counting in terms of crisis. Found out today that I would have to leave the wet cast of paper around my fingers until it dried. Diagnosis = I will need fake hands, or robotic hands to work for me while my hands are covered in paper.

Looking around at the IAMPA site -- so many good artists. I found "minature obscure" in Cornelia Beate Ahnert's gallery = the only lit journal I've seen come housed in a hamster wheel.

Some notes on the wonderment inducing properties of dos press

Really glad I got to make it to the dos press/ kadar koli launch party at 12th steet on Saturday. 12th Street Books is a great place to start with, but the readings were really, really good, and it was wonderful to see everyone.

Most of all, I can't get over how really stunning these the dos press chaps are. Chris and Julia are ridiculously talented, but I'm still impressed with how well conceived the idea is, and with all of the gorgeous work that brought these books together. My copy is an aspirin kissed pink with a silver crane/map and black poppy. It's spacious for its 4x4 interlocking scale, and unassuming but intricate. Moreover, there are some really good poems in here, from some really interesting authors -- while each poet seems to occupy a distinct territory in language, the book design emphasises a kind of geo-spatial connection between the authors, as if they were each around the corner from each other in other ways. The press flickr site has some nice images of the birth of the chap, but they really can't compare to turning the book over in your hands and reading the poems.

Julia's "Minumentals" are also seriously more amazing to see in all their three-dimensional fabulousness than the pictures convey. It's surprising to look into each box, (I even had a dream about the one with the shaky white feather) but the choice of objects and arrangement feels really suited to the richness and compression in the Niedecker lines. I love love love them. There are still a few left, along with special edition hand sewn chaps available by donor subscription. ....probably post more later about the poems.

Opera omnia

Already slacking at blogging, but writing poems instead. I'm also looking at this -- a digitized site of rare and complete botanical books. The image above is from a medieval book called "Opera omnia, seu, Thesaraus locupletissimus botanico-medio-atonomicus ..."

Really good poems by Rosa Alcala in pdf

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes today! In turn, I am going to try blogging for real for the next 27 days as a way to keep in touch better (or something). To prove the seriousness of my intent, I have posted an obligatory picture of my cat. xoxo

DIAGRAM

One poem up at DIAGRAM 7.1 -- but be warned! Rather than the lovely double-taking head in the upper right corner which helps the reader navigate back to the table of contents, my page just says ToC in red letters. And those letters will never get you back to the ToC. Instead, you will be stuck with my poem for a long, long time.

Poetry CD Wright, Coral Bracho trans. Forrest Gander, John Evans, Jenny Gillespe, Michael McGriff, Emily Louise Smith, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Arianne Zwartjes Fiction Zdravka Evimova, Judy Wilson Nonfiction Barry Hannah, David Keifbar, Marjorie Perloff Audio/Video Percival Everett, Denis Johnson, Wright, Gander, Perloff Book Reviews

Ice is cool

~*~Womb Poetry Vol.1 : Hives & Covens~*~
http://www.wombpoetry.com/
dedicated in memory to kari edwards
* t h r u m *
<http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html>: kari edwards : Eileen Tabios : Barbara Jane Reyes : Elizabeth Treadwell :Ann Bogle : : Alison Cimino :Susan B.A. Somers-Willett : Amy King : KristyBowen : Julie Choffel : : J.B. Rowell : Ebony Golden : Jenna Cardinale :Juliet Cook : Susan Morrison-Kilfoyle : : Holaday Mason : Toti O'Brien :Jessica Schneider : Karen McBurney : Sunnylyn Thibodeaux : : Sarah Mangold :Meagan Evans : Jennifer Bartlett : Marcia Arrieta : Michele Miller : :Priscilla Atkins : Anne Elezebeth Pluto : Marie Buck : Michalle Gould : AnneHeide : : Susan Meyers : Melissa Eleftherion : Susan Settlemyre Williams :J. Elizabeth Clark :
* s p a r k l e * <http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html><http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html>: Danielle Pafunda : Kathryn Miller : Julia Drescher : k. lorraine graham :Karen McBurney : : Michelle Caplan : Marcia Arrieta : Ashley Smith : AnnetteSugden : Christine Bruness :
* c h i m e *
<http://www.wombpoetry.com/hives.html>: a chapbook by Julia Drescher :