Raymond Carver

on The New York Times

Charles Bernstein

Editor of a new collection:

**American Poetry after 1975**
Duke University Press
a special issue of boundary 2
(Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2009)
Paperback - $14.00
0-8223-6719-X
[ISBN13 978-0-8223-6719-2]
225 pages

Contents

Charles Bernstein / American Poetry After 1975: Editor’s Note / 1
Jim Rosenberg / Bios / The Logosphere / The Finite-Made Evolver Space /3
Peter Gizzi / Eclogues / 9
Christian Bök / Two Dots Over a Vowel / 11
Lytle Shaw / Docents of Discourse: The Logic of Dispersed Sites / 25
Tracie Morris / Rakim’s Performativity / 49
Jennifer Scappettone / Versus Seamlessness: Architectonics of Pseudocomplicity in
Tan Lin’s Ambient Poetics / 63
Craig Dworkin / Hypermnesia / 77
Jonathan Skinner / Poetry Animal / 97
Herman Rapaport / A Liquid Hand Blossoms / 105
Kenneth Goldsmith / In Barry Bonds I See the Future of Poetry / 121
Joyelle McSweeney / Disabled Texts and the Threat of Hannah Weiner / 123
Brian Reed / Grammar Trouble / 133
Juliana Spahr / The ’90s / 159
Al Filreis / The Stevens Wars / 183
Nada Gordon / Not Ideas about the Bling but the Bling Itself / 203
Marjorie Perloff / “The Rattle of Statistical Traffic”: Citation and Found Text in Susan
Howe’s The Midnight / 205
Elizabeth Willis / Lyric Dissent / 229
Tan Lin / SOFT INDEX (OF repeating PLACES, PEOPLE, AND WORKS) / 235
Benjamin Friedlander / After Petrarch (In the Rigging) / 241
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& in the following issue of boundary 2 [36:4]
Scott Pound, Lucid/Ludic

Duke Univ. Press page for the book: http://tiny.cc/EJFfV


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Congratuations

to Joseph Boyden!

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A book about death

Angela Ferrara, an artist based in São Paulo, Brazil, created this video for the exhibition A Book About Death.


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William Allegrezza and Fragile Replacements

MERITAGE PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

A Special Release Offer For:

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS
Poems by William Allegrezza
ISBN-10: 0-9794119-0-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-0-8
Release date: Summer 2007
Distributors: Small Press Distribution, Amazon.com & www.MeritagePress.com
For more info: MeritagePress@aol.com

Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS, William Allegrezza's long-awaited poetry collection. FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS explores the way we live through language, experiencing births, deaths, and rebirths through it, but the book also examines how our language is filled, controlled, and crafted by our societies. Two long poems surround and provide context for reading shorter lyrics in the middle section.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
William Allegrezza teaches and writes from his base in Chicago. His poems, articles and reviews have been published in several countries including the U.S., Holland, the Czech Republic and Australia, as well as in several online journals. His chapbooks, e-books and books include Lingo, The Vicious Bunny Translations, Covering Over, Temporal Nomads, Ladders in July, Ishmael Among the Bushes, and In The Weaver's Valley. He is the editor of Moria Poetry , a journal dedicated to experimental poetry and poetics, and the editor-in-chief of Cracked Slab Books.

ADVANCE WORDS on FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS:
Allegrezza's poetic canvas-of-choice is the lyric, and his lyrical investigations frequently appear to evolve or grow. . . from an imagination fueled by found language fragments and theory-singed excesses. This particular poet's capacity to create resonant, "deep" images is extraordinary.
--Clayton Couch

There is something about the flow in Allegrezza's poems that I quite like, the way they simply move one step at a time down the page almost intuitively. Really, it's the leaps between lines that impress; almost ghazal-like down the page, jumping from line to line to line in seeming disconnect.
--rob mclennan

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SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER:
Meritage Press is pleased to offer a Release Special through August 31, 2007. For $13.00, you can obtain a copy of FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS—a reduced rate from the book's retail price of $16.00—plus free shipping/handling (an approximate $4.00 value) to U.S. addresses. Just send a $13.00 check made out to "Meritage Press" to:

Eileen Tabios
Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road
St. Helena, CA 94574

For international orders, please contact us through MeritagePress@aol.com

The Monserrat Review

Grace Cavalieri on Dan Murano.

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Jesse Glass and Ahadada Books

An eye-popping new on-line collection from Amy C. Please go to www.ahadadabooks.com and download to your heart's content. While you're there, check out our other e-chap collections, our books, our blog, and the latest Ekleksographia. More fun on the horizon, Jess

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Joel Weishaus

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Here are pages 41-42 of "The Gateless Gate":
http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate/Pgs%2041-42.htm

Mirror site:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Gate/Pgs%2041-42.htm

Paragraph headings:
The Gateless Gate is where the alchemical...
Twice in the past month I've been mistaken...
Pockets emptied, everything shoved...
Is my only proof of identity a few laminated...
Arms and neck examined, the scar...

In Old Japan there were barrier gates...
I walk into the forest hoping to find...
Like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces shoud fit...
What Transforms the chaos of dreams...
Joel was a young Brooklynite who...


Cover:
http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00282/Gate/cover.htm


Thank you, as always, to those of you who have written to me on this project.

-Joel

POETICKS and Bob Grumman

News from Jesse Glass

"Lost in Music, Found Again; comprising 'Sad Fates of the Songsters,' by Peter Riley and 'A Thesis on the Ballad 'by Kelvin Corcoran" can be had for less than a song at www.ahadadabooks.com. While you're there, check out our other goodies. Rolling from Strength to Strength,
Jess

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35th Infantry Division Belgium

The '35th Infantry Division Belgium' is a living history and study group who tries to keep the memory of those who fought in the 35th Infantry Division alive since 2007.

We do this in two different ways:

1. By Living History: We try to reconstruct every part of the US Army (World War 2) and especially the history of the US 35th Infantry Division 'Santa Fe' as good as possible. Everything we do has to be historical correct!
2. By Historical Research: We try to learn as much as possible about the 35th Infantry Division by doing research, by keeping contact with veterans and their family, by visiting the battlefields, by fieldresearch, etc.

By doing these two things, we are convinced that the men who fought in the 35th Infantry Division won't be forgotten and that they will always be remembered by our group in Belgium.

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Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash 2009

celebrated by the Friends and Enemies of Stevens with Jim Finnegan, Marjorie Perloff, John Serio, and many more.
With a recording of Marjorie Perloff's speech.

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Recurrence Is A Voice That Would Otherwise Be Silent by Jeff Harrison

Abyss is amid The Muses, as poetry's recurrences abound without as daylight about a tomb, as darkness about a fire. Is writing prose apart from poetry the abeyance of poetry's recurrences? Abeyance doesn't prevent recurrence. The recurrences within a poem and among an author's poems continue, as do the recurrences of words outside poetry that correspond to words within poetry... correspond and refer, words and sounds and events. Perhaps writing prose apart from poetry is inscribing an obelisk "Abyss Musagetes".

(c) Jeff Harrison


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What Fell Apart, What Came Together

Twenty years ago tomorrow, the Berlin Wall came down. The Op-Ed editors asked nine poets — Eastern European, American, Russian and German — to write new works inspired by that event.

Thanks to Jeff Newberry for the link.

my sink won't work

my sink won't work
my silver is corrupt
my star has smashed
the car sound track
Lulu is tofu
the butter and the fly
Arnaud wants som' more
of no things are left
when I read twenty-two
& remember kangaroo
horizons shrink up
with silent restraint
go golf you girl
the url will curl
your ball hits the frame
the same of your make
Pascal's reed sways
in storms & wakes

in answer to Maria Demon who answers Dirk Vekemans.

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Foucault info

Thanks to Bill Lavender.

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Filippino Lippi

Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard



Allegory of Music, c. 1500

Dennis Barone

The new Poet Laureate of West Hartford.

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Confucious

"When I attained the age of fifteen, I became bent upon study. At thirty, I was a confirmed student. At forty, nought could move me from my course. At fifty, I comprehended the will and decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ears were attuned to them. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires, without overstepping the lines of rectitude."
"If you observe what things people (usually) take in hand, watch their motives, and note particularly what it is that gives them satisfaction, shall they be able to conceal from you what they are? Conceal themselves, indeed!
To the disciple Tsz-lu the Master said, "Shall I give you a lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge."

QUIZLET