Just to break my brain for fun, I’m cramming it with things that don’t intuitively go side by side. What’s that?
Hyssop: a novel by Kevin McIlvoy (Avon Books, 1998) [Such odd scenes, cutting the head off a wooden Madonna, stuffing it with stolen robes of the bishop and gluing the head back on. Or the bishop being banned from marrying a couple and the 3 battering the church doors open against higher church authority.]
A knight in dried plums by David McFadden (McClelland and Stewart, 1975) [almost in stack; still tantalizing en route by mail]
Avatar by Sharon Harris [after] 2 weeks en route [arrived, yah for pataphysics of love!].
I.V. Lounge Nights, edited by Alex Boyd and Myna Wallin (Tightrope books, 2008) [Series gone but the collection lives on. Does Toronto seem a bit downbeat? A dark tone to the peruse.] [Hear the IV Lounge via Taddle Creek Audio]
In Search of Harvey: the 1st annual pooka pub crawl (Sept 08)
Peter F Yacht Club #12: The Anarchy Issue edited by Amanda Earl, (above/ground, 2008) [art, vispo, stories and poems with a table of contents and layout that plays to the theme in a good way]
City Planning in Ancient Times by Arthur Segal (Lerner Publications, 1977) [funny how ancient Greece knew that a functional city was a grid with parks and retail through it and we’ve lost the design knack.]
KitchArt (local arts magazine, no url) [articles on Greg Frankson and Phil Jenkins this issue]
I want to be the Poet of your Kneecaps, edited by John B Lee (Black Moss Press, 1999) [Barry Dempster, Penn Kemp, George Swede, Ronnie R. Brown… and…curious – the library copy has Robert Hilles poem Arriving by Train edited lightly in pencil to change, among other things, train, laptop and words to bus, garden and plants. 10 bucks says some high school English teacher got the revised version turned in for a class assignment.]
50 American Revolutions You’re Not Supposed to Know by Mickey Z (Disinformation, 2005) [quick reference, what was the significance of Betty Friedan, of Stonewall, the forgotten verses of Guthrie “some are grumbling and wonderin if this Land’s still made for you and me]
Hand Luggage by PK Page (Porcupine’s Quill, 2006) [dogs, “domestic as plates” is poetry as storytelling, rather like the chattier Poet of Kneecaps]
Open Letter Journal, Summer 08 issue. [various densities of essays on poetics and practice]
Oblique Strokes: The Wellington Street Poets (Fire Grass Press 2008) [a 7th anthology from the writers group]
Welcome to the Earth by Amanda Earl (BookThug, 2008) [good mail day. can sit in with this one]
and Geraldine R Dodge Poetry Fest has a youtube channel from 2006. [via PoetMom