Energy to Melt Glaciers
Via friend John Maas, who saw it on the Grist site, this add from 1962 for the Oil company that would soon merge with Standard to create Exxon:
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Latta & Hafner on Ken Irby
Two items of note concerning Kenneth Irby, whose book The Intent On: Collected Poems 1962-2006 I made my favorite book of the year (& most necessary one!) on this blog some time ago: A...
Earth Day — Green Brain?
Check out this piece in the New York Times (published a year ago, but still a useful reminder on Earth Day 2010): Why Isn’t the Brain Green? By JON GERTNER Two days after Barack...
40 Years Ago: Paul Celan
In late spring 1970, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, estranged wife of the poet Paul Celan, wrote to the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, an early love and life-long friend of the poet’s: “In the night from Monday...
The Unholy Trinity of Capitalist Cyber-World-Wars
The map above is from Gizmodo, which starts its accompanying article (you can read in full here) with this para: It’s hard to grasp the breathtaking scale of the epic war between Microsoft, Google...
Rimbaud Hoax, Poetry & Food, Ur-Baseball Ksar
For today, Sunday, just three little mises au points: 1) Looks like the Rimbaud photos I posted a couple days ago are in fact the work of a crazy Rimbaldian forger who has already...
The scramble for Timbuktu & the Oldest Library South of the Sahara
From this week’s edition of signandsight, the opening paragraphs of an essay/reportage by Charlotte Wiedemann. The full piece is here : Scenes from the race for influence over Africa’s ancient written culture. The evening...
New Picture of Arthur Rimbaud
Culled from today’s edition of the French newspaper La Dépêche du Midi (the full article in French, here), the photo above was discovered by two Parisian booksellers. The photo, dated to the 1880ies, shows...
Reading of "To Keep the Pagan Pact" & other Olson Conference Videos
Email just in from Richard Owens of Damn the Caesars to inform me that he’s put a number of videos up on Youtube from the Worcester Charles Olson conference two weeks ago. Below an...
Franz Kamin (1941-2010)
Franz Kamin was a prolific composer whose musical works explore structural principals derived from topology, prosody, General Systems Theory, and esoteric/meditational processes in unusual combinations of genre and technique: conventional instruments and children’s toys;...
“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