Grotesque Alphabet
via shivabel again: This late 16th century suite of ornamental letters by Giacomo Paolini is known as ‘Grotesque Alphabet in Mythological Landscapes’. Music by Claudio Monteverdi, ‘L’Orfeo — Toccata’. A – ‘Ateone mutato in...
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Two Argentinian Poetas
Videos of Roberto Cignoni’s “Mensaje a la Humanidad Original” (2 versions) and Jorge Santiago Perednik’s “Lisuras:”
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's Plight
Although the stoning to death of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has temporarily been halted, it may happen any time, given the Iranian islamo-fascoid “political” system. In May 2006, Sakineh Ashtiani was convicted of having had...
A Feast for Sore Eyes
While preparing the “roman d’été,” i.e. the August beach novel for NOMADICS, here is a little graphic novel: Max Ernst’s Une semaine de bonté, animated for youtube. Writes shivabel, who put the Ernst up...
Leslie Scalapino: Early Books & All Covers
Via Charles Bernstein’s and Ron Silliman’s blogs, here are a number of Leslie Scalapino links, from visuals of her book covers to pdf’s of her early work. And before those links, here is the...
ABC of Global Warming
Teaching a course in Poetry & Ecology this fall. Friend John Maas forwarded this link here — looks like very basic but useful (because of where it comes from, ideologically) text to start off...
& Yet More Noticings…
— Interesting post by Brian Henry on that somewhat arrogantly named “Best American poetry” blog, concerning matters of translations, and how one often stays hooked on the first translation of a poet one has...
Nicole Peyrafitte Interview & ore, I Mean More…
The online New York mag examiner.com published an interview with Nicole Peyrafitte this past week. The interviewer is Dan Godston and he starts with the following two tidbits: DG: How long have you been...
More Summer Noticings…
— Prehistoric Dildo, as reported by LiveScience where Clara Moskowitz writes: “The carved bone was unearthed at a Mesolithic site in Motala, Sweden, that is rich with ancient artifacts from between 4,000 to 6,000...
Saturday Night Pleasures: Crothers & Bisio
It may have been hotter than hell at The Stone tonight, but after 5 minutes you knew that even if it was a July scorcher in NYC, the real heat was coming from the...
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux