One for the eyes,
Clean Sails by Gustave Morin is coming this fall,
Gustave Morin has gathered up dozens of typewriters on their so–called dying legs, modified several of them with the addition of hand–crafted custom typeheads and, by driving these jalopies to the very limits of their capabilities, wrenched from them one last spin around the proverbial block.Clean Sails is the culmination of countless thousands of hours spent typing — five years in the actual writing, after a 20–year private apprenticeship and period of incubation going back to 1990, when Gustave’s formal experiments with concrete poetry began in earnest. Clean Sails is his masterwork, the result of a life–long investigation into the typewriter poem.
One for the ears,
Paul Nelson interviews Barry McKinnon which is broken over several parts about his writing, teaching, memories of running a reading series and about poetics. For example, he quotes Creeley who said ‘I write short poems because my wife keeps walking into the room.’ These are not profound metaphysical arguments but they are real.