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Book Review / Criticism / Cultural Studies / Essays / Poetry

November 13, 2013

Ammiel Alcalay’s A Little History Reviewed

Here is Kevin Ring’s review in the UK magazine Beat Scene of a book I think of as one of the most important of the year: This really isn’t little history but a very...

Essays / Poetry / Poetry readings / Translation

October 29, 2013

Jerome Rothenberg Reading from ‘Eye of Witness’

Here, the first 10 minutes (then my iPhone claimed fullness) of Jerome Rothenberg’s reading (at Page 22 this past Sunday) from EYE OF WITNESS, his amazing new book just out from Black Widow Press....

Arab Culture / Celebration / Cultural Studies / Essays / Jewish Culture / Mashreq / Middle East / Philosophy / Poetry / Translation

October 25, 2013

Celebrate Ammiel Alcalay’s “After Jews and Arabs”

Book Review / Climate Change / Cultural Studies / Environment / Essays / Poetry

September 25, 2013

James Sherry’s Oops! Environmental Poetics

Back in Brooklyn, where the “rentrée” is much less hectic & thus much more pleasurable than in Paris… thus, first local fall pleasure, the event, two evenings ago, at Poisson Rouge for James Sherry’s...

Essays / Poetry / Translation

September 17, 2013

Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader

Yesterday, Monday (September 16), was the official publication date for Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, co-edited with Heriberto Yépez & published by Black Widow Press (Joe Philips & Susan Wood) in Boston. I...

Algeria / Arab Culture / Essays / Literature / Poetics / Poetry / Translation

March 5, 2013

Tengour’s “Exile is my Trade” Reviewed

Laurie Price’s review on Amazon: Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader, edited & translated by Pierre Joris (Black Widow Press Modern Poetry 2012) (Paperback) To this reader, Exile Is My Trade turned out to...

Cultural Studies / Essays

December 31, 2012

Eric Mottram on Triggernometry (5)

So Nomadics will ring the year out with the final installment of EM’s essay “The Persuasive Lips.” Apologies for leaving the footnotes in a mess, but I simply don’t have the time to reformat these right...

Cultural Studies / Essays

December 28, 2012

Eric Mottram on Triggernometry (3)

III Walter Prescott Webb’s The Great Plains described the development of the cattle kingdoms of the American West and of the cowboy who worked the ranches and ranges. The Homestead Law of 1862, the...

Cultural Studies / Essays

December 27, 2012

Eric Mottram on Triggernometry (2)

Enough readers have suggested I continue posting Eric Mottram’s essay, “Persuasive Lips,” so I will — it will take 5 installments all in all. Here, the second part: II The technological morality of gangster...

Criticism / Cultural Studies / Essays

December 26, 2012

Eric Mottram on Triggernometry

That lethal all-American gun pathology has obviously been on my mind these last weeks. Two expressions from long ago kept coming back: “triggernometry” and “persuasive lips” — eventually they brought me back to Eric...