From December to January Sparh raced up the bestseller list, Bok entered it and Kate Greenstreet fell off of Small Press Distribution top 30 list. Tao Lin and Amiri Baraka are close to the top month after month.
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FW: Imprisoned Poet Campaign
[via ren powell] On January 22, 2008, the Burmese poet Saw Wei was arrested for publishing an eight-line poem entitled “February Fourteenth†in the weekly publication Love Journal. The acrostic poem spells out “General Than Shwe is crazy with powerâ€. Saw Wei, a popular poet and performance artist, has headed up the poetry recital group, […]
review 2
For comparison a different review of the same movie, Cloverfield. It is also taking about half the length, taken from the center. This length is shorter for this reason. I think we can see the difference in the point of view expressed, how each of the writers positions himself to the movie. The length of […]
review
Taking a page from Elizabeth S Clarke’s book, in the figurative sense, an excerpt of what I got out of a movie review: Non-punctilious Cloverfield. (What remains is still emotive. Is coherancy, greater or lesser? How much of the content and writer identity successfully carried when “stripped of content”? Even now it still seems like […]
Erratic by Kane
I was all set to buy Li-Young Lee’s latest. I went to the store and found a copy, was toddling about the store carrying it, anticipating playing the CD but then, what’s this, Erratic. Love that word. A thin volume by Donna Kane from Hagios, 2007. Random opening to a page lands in Summer Solstice […]