Daniel Bradley provides a little context on his reading with Gustave Morin:
Included is gustave morin and i reading from last fall (scroll to the bottom of the page) this actual isn’t the famed torched village anthology portion of the evening . . . that was held in the parking lot where things can burn, but the reading is pretty good, sound is great and there is even audience participation
We sat next to Gustave Morin, Rob Read, and Daniel Bradley at last month’s Small Press Book Fair in Buffalo. We didn’t see them light anything on fire.
Although, if I recall correctly John W MacDonald had some evidence of the guys burning Ottawa down here.
Writes Gustave Morin in MacDonald’s comment stream:
There is for me something beautiful in the ephemeral nature of firecrackers that i will always love.
Well anyway — check out the readings courteosy of House Press:
SPD’s Spring Open House is scheduled for Saturday, April 14th, 2007 from 12pm to 4pm. 20–50% off all books! Readings begin at 2pm. Trade in a poem or story for a Free Book!
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Readers include:
Juliana Spahr teaches at Mills College. Her most recent book is This Connection of Everyone With Lungs. The Transformation is forthcoming from Atelos Press
Will Alexander is a visiting writer at Mills College and is the author of many books of poetry, including the recent Exobiology as Goddess. He has also written numerous plays and essays.
Dodie Bellamy’s Academonia is just out. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry. She is a novelist, essayist, journalist and teacher.
Albert Flynn DeSilver is the author of Letters to Early Street and Walking Tooth & Cloud and is the publisher of The Owl Press. He teaches in San Francisco and Marin.
The Open House also offers open-stack browsing on SPD’s 13,000+ titles, a 20–50% discount on all books (including 20% off the Plants and Landscapes book), and ample free food and drink.
The grand debut takes palce Friday, 27 April, from 7 pm at Lotus Bar & Dim Sum, 35a King Street, Manchester, M2 6 AA, U.K. RSVP and more information: sue.angelhost[at]tiscali.co.uk.
Eye-catching collages and and trilingual homages to Luc. I could say I’m sick of this sort of thing, but Luc does have a flair, as evidenced by the Mona Lisa-like beautiful woman on the cover with her hospital-mask of red star, T.V. (complete with liquid soap commerical), barred window and cartoon siren. Nicely done.
Luc also includes POSTFLUXBOOKLET NR. 67: John Cese and Luc Fierens as well as a collage/postcard. All fun stuff. www.vansebroeck.be for more information.
Just arrived today in its slick, perfect bound incarnation; a double issue with a deep blue and crimson cover. Haven’t begun to really read it yet but I already see work of interest by Maryrose Larkin and Chris McCabe. When I start to delve I’ll let you know the treasures. Click here for subscription and book prices.
Thanks to the folks at Rain Taxi and Lucas Klein for a fine review of Jerome Rothenberg’s powerful collection. We’re pleased to have brought it out. Here’s the link. Enjoy!
We’re pleased to announce the publication of The Impossibility of Dreams–47 pages of very fine poems by our friend David B. Axelrod. Axelrod’s voice is sane, funny, insightful and intelligent. When I read his work I find myself totally centered, totally myself, even if he transports me to China, or any number of dizzying worlds, this poet finally brings me back to who I–as a human being–am, and that ability to strike to the heart is a rare gift indeed, yet David B. Axelrod carries it off effortlessly every time. This is the equivalent, sports fans, of [name your favorite legendary batter] swatting the ball out of the park at least 47 times in a row without even breaking a sweat.
I was surprised to find this handsome 324 page paperback from Shearsman press in my mail box and to see myself quoted on the back! I am indeed honored. David Jaffin’s work needs to be better known in the world of experimental poetry. He shows us that a cultured voice can also be an experimental voice: that it’s not necessary to reject the long traditions of the past in order to be “new.” This is the lesson that the first and second wave of Modernists–Pound and H.D., Mina Loy, Wallace Stevens, David Jones and Basil Bunting, among others–were trying to teach us, but too few contemporary experimentalists seem to have taken to heart. Indeed, why is this “great forgetting”–as poignant in its way as the vast extinctions that wiped out life in the dim recesses of our geologic time–settling down over those who profess to “dialogue” instead of discuss, and “intervene” instead of simply change? So much of what is written now is thin gruel simply because the art of alluding to a shared culture has been waylaid in the name of politics, and see how we’ve suffered for it.
Okay, I’m getting killed at work, so updates have been few and far between this week. However, here’s a selection from all of the folks on Flickr who were at the show. It’s a random selection of 10 photos, so feel free to reload the page to check out new photos. More soon — Dan
The 2007 Buffalo Small Press Book Fair took place on March 31, 2007 from noon to 6pm. The event was held at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum on Porter Avenue in Buffalo, New York. The book fair was a one day event that brought together booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, and regional cultural workers of all kinds in an absolutely amazing venue. Poetry readings, performances, discussions, and related lectures also took place throughout the day.
The fair was a tremendous success—a great crowd rolled in. Karpeles (the venue) was just beautiful.
We were blessed with a cool little corner right kind of wedged in between Gustave Morin, Rob Read and Daniel Bradley on one side and BookThug on the other. It was cool, because our books really just sold themselves — a surprising number of people were familiar with the press (more and more every year). Even more were familiar with our authors — thanks to Jerry Rothenberg and Jim Daniels regularly making their way up to Buffalo and Jesse for returning each and every year to establish a readership in Maryland and New York State!
All of our titles sold — the new titles as well as those in our catalog — as well as the books of our friends at West House and Ikuta Press.
In a day or two, I’ll get up a post about all of the people we met and books I snagged. But just wanted to thank everybody who attended the fair and especially the organizers (thanks Chris and Aaron and Kevin and everyone else involved). Snapped lots of pictures, too!
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SPD’s Spring Open House is scheduled for Saturday, April 14th, 2007 from 12pm to 4pm. 20–50% off all books! Readings begin at 2pm. Trade in a poem or story for a Free Book!
