tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57086582011-04-21T19:34:31.368-04:00My BlogBudge doctors of the stoic furmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comBlogger781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1105503899943746472005-01-11T23:24:00.000-05:002005-01-11T23:24:59.943-05:00I'm done blogging now. Bye.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1096913995515305212004-10-04T14:14:00.000-04:002004-10-04T14:19:55.516-04:00* * *
In our never-ending quest to make chapbook publishing sexy again, Atticus/Finch
is pleased to announce the release of its third volume: Tanya Brolaski’s _The
Daily Usonian_.
People, this one’s HOT! If you purchase only one chapbook this year
by a younger writer, do yourself (and us!) a favor and make it
_The Daily Usonian_. One part Sapphic delirium, three parts Delphic
train wreck, youmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1090647382013890732004-07-24T01:34:00.000-04:002004-07-24T01:39:41.223-04:00* * *
Atticus/Finch is pleased to announce the release of its second chapbook: Elizabeth Willis’ Meteoric Flowers.
Printed in an edition of 200 copies with elegantly letter-pressed covers, Meteoric Flowers is the first new work from Willis since 2003’s Turneresque.
In this new volume, Elizabeth Willis’ lyric maelstroms are at once rooted in a lost pastoral economy, dripping with the lush michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-108203466839107042004-04-15T09:11:00.000-04:002004-04-15T09:14:00.420-04:00Check out this review of "Involuntary Vision" at Rain Taxi Online: http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2004spring/cross.shtmlmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1081819295893918472004-04-12T21:21:00.000-04:002004-04-12T21:24:25.280-04:00Mark Tardi responds to my query (see post: Tues. March 23rd):
You asked about the Hildegaard von Bingen poem at the end, "Eventual Horizon." Structurally, I was aiming at certain approximations of her plain chants, both their disruptiveness and their flatness. And of course there's something disquieting about her chants, a morbid quality. But silence seemed equally important, how it moves, canmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1081818585374448152004-04-12T21:09:00.000-04:002004-04-12T21:12:34.920-04:00See Mark Tursi's review of "Involuntary Vision" at Rain Taxi Online: www.raintaxi.com/online/2004spring/ michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1081740470862658862004-04-11T23:27:00.000-04:002004-04-11T23:30:39.263-04:00*WARNING*
If you've wanted to purchase a copy of Cynthia Sailers' new chapbook "Rose Lungs," but haven't yet got around to making an order, DO SO NOW! I only have a few dozen copies left, and they've been moving quickly! Do yourself a favor and buy one, and then buy one for somebody that is especially nice to you.
Send $5 here:
atticus / finch chapbooks
c/o Michael Cross
SUNY Buffalo
Samuel michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1081651505941332382004-04-10T22:45:00.000-04:002004-04-10T22:47:53.060-04:00Eli Drabman goes home tomorrow. He was supposed to go home tonight, but I "accidentally" forgot to set the alarm, so he got to stay another day! Opps. He gave a kick ass reading at the Cuneiform/ atticus finch book release party of his long poem _the ground running_. Buffalo might be his new home, no?
Speaking of Cuneiform, go see the website for new books: www.cuneiformpress.com. Kyle is a michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1081352435123355912004-04-07T11:40:00.000-04:002004-04-07T11:43:19.013-04:00Go see the generous review of "Involuntary Vision" at Silliman's blog: www.ronsilliman.blogspot.com. And people, regarding his comment abt. me scaring away BFLO professors: HE'S KIDDING! Yes, Ron Silliman has a sense of humor! I've been receiving concerned messages asking why Ron is calling me out!! He's a serious scholar, a smart poet, and a generous member of the poetry community, AND he has a michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1080103854503811312004-03-23T23:50:00.000-05:002004-03-23T23:53:23.593-05:00I've fallen desperately in love with Mark Tardi's new book _Euclid Shudders_. You've probably seen these poems in one of your favorite small mags.--I've been following them for awhile now, and I'm constantly surprised at how fresh each poem feels. Take this:
series 37
before slumber found a stone
the toric frequency
robed light
left at the piano
threadless
factorially stilled
unpronounced michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1078899706667040772004-03-10T01:21:00.000-05:002004-03-10T01:24:02.246-05:00Two new hot-shit chaps on my desk right now, both already worn from use.
Buffalo expatriate Patrick Durgin, editor of Kenning (who, by the way, just finished Lorenzo Thomas' new book), sent on his chapbook "Wise Up." I'm glad to see that Patrick is still printing books, and as always, this chapbook is both elegant and unique. I haven't seen much of Patrick's work, but what I have seen, I LOVE! michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1078815739483830972004-03-09T02:02:00.000-05:002004-03-09T02:04:34.356-05:00Just returned from seeing Peter Brotzmann at Hallwalls with Kyle Schlesinger, Christopher Alexander, and Thom Donovan. WOW! Brotzmann on sax (of course) and clarinet, William Parker on everything (but mostly bass), and Hamid Drake on drums. Drake is my new favorite drummer. Someone got yelled at for trying to walk across the stage. The guy from Eremite record was on hand to talk jazz, and he michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1078815568316515132004-03-09T01:59:00.000-05:002004-03-09T02:01:43.216-05:00I've received so many beautiful books of late, I've been putting off blogging because I have so much to write! (strange that I'm compelled to avoid writing as I've too much content!). I want to spend a day or so on each, but in order to get moving, I'll have to do quickish reviews in spurts (probably over a number of days)
First, Pinball Publishing:
Pinball is a publishing venture out of michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1076447033047545532004-02-10T23:45:00.000-05:002004-02-12T14:05:37.343-05:00ANNOUNCING!
atticus/finch is pleased to announce the release of its inaugural chapbook, Cynthia Sailers’ Rose Lungs.
Rose Lungs is printed in an edition of 100 copies with beautifully letterpressed covers (with the help of Kyle Schlesinger of Cuneiform Press), and here’s the best part: they’re actually affordable! That’s right folks, each is only FIVE DOLLARS!!
This is Sailers’ first michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1076359149582402972004-02-09T15:34:00.000-05:002004-02-09T20:43:05.606-05:00Books I bought at the conference:
Robert Duncan's Copy Notes (Meow)
Dan Featherston's Doors (Paper Brain)
Ben Friedlander's A Knot is not a Tangle (Meow or Paper Brain)
A great paperback copy of Whitehead's Process and Reality (ready to be marked up)
A very old edition of Benjamin's Illuminations
Some Charles Peirce
Books I wanted:
John Wieners' Hotel Wentley Poems at the Bookery in michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1076358744813964962004-02-09T15:23:00.000-05:002004-02-09T15:34:10.763-05:00Oh wow! The fun that was had at the Small Press Culture Workers conference in Ithaca this weekend!
We sledded! We fired firecrackers! I was beaten at chess by a nine year old boy! Badly beaten! I nearly broke my tailbone trying to sled down Jane's driveway! We drank! We talked abt. printing books and selling said books! I sold some books! I read poems at the Lost Dog Cafe! I hung out with the michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1075825754210621162004-02-03T11:28:00.000-05:002004-02-03T11:31:09.060-05:00Haven't blogged in awhile. Sorry. New content coming soon. Lots going on! See you at the Small Press Conference in Ithaca on Saturday!michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1073409491513126402004-01-06T12:18:00.000-05:002004-01-06T12:19:23.686-05:00Related note: Find Duplessis' unnumbered "Draft," "Precis" on Nomados, PO BOX 4031, 349 West Georgia Street, Vancouver BC V6B 3Z4. Nice looking chapbook, and sonnet-summary of every draft written to date!michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1073409033669985462004-01-06T12:10:00.000-05:002004-01-06T12:21:56.903-05:00Just finished Baus' The To Sound while at the gym, and I must reiterate that one ought to own this volume. Here is the title poem:
The To Sound
To look out a window is to want to be on the side of the birds.
You arrange your arms so the distance is clear.
If the entire was wound. Breathed glass. A tooth embedded so far it burst.
A cut of your cloth to negate every saw.
You are the one michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1073408524145579222004-01-06T12:02:00.000-05:002004-01-06T12:03:16.530-05:00Have I mentioned Jane Sprague and her newly established Palm Press?? Jane came through BFLO to read with Kyle Schlesinger, Thom Donovan, and Terrence Churiso (I have no idea how to spell his last name!), and while passing through dropped off Juliana Spahr's new chapbook "things of each possible relation hashing against one another." The book is great (though much too short) and beautifully michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1073267496048394452004-01-04T20:51:00.000-05:002004-02-12T14:04:56.840-05:00Had the pleasure of receiving The To Sound in the mail last week, Eric Baus' new book on Verse Press. Baus is real, real good, and I've been a little less than calm about this volume for awhile. I commend Forest Gander for his impeccable taste in selecting Baus for the 2002 Verse Prize, and as it is now 2004, I commend verse for finally printing this thing! The To Sound compiles two of Baus'michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1072106550029016092003-12-22T10:22:00.000-05:002003-12-22T10:23:27.280-05:00Blog hiatus is officially over! Bring on a restful break! Find Guest review below.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1072106439101997492003-12-22T10:20:00.000-05:002004-01-04T20:57:17.216-05:00Barbara Guest’s Forces of Imagination:
In Rocks on a Platter (Wesleyan University Press), Barbara Guest “attempt(s) to write about the making of a poem and, in so doing, establishes a literary approach other than the essay form.” Rocks is a longish poem that reads as notes for further writing, as if Guest’s marginalia jumped from the page and into the lyric of her poem. The book is as much michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1071065926749343732003-12-10T09:18:00.000-05:002003-12-10T09:19:32.110-05:00If you would like to finish my papers, I could update my blog...michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1070601508018199792003-12-05T00:18:00.000-05:002003-12-05T12:01:01.810-05:00Thanks to Malcolm for his help in formatting le Joyce. Now you don't have to imagine the poem's form!michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1070601298690982362003-12-05T00:14:00.000-05:002003-12-05T12:00:03.700-05:00Received two beautiful packages in the mail the other day. The first, from Canadian publisher Nate Dorward, full of goods! The newest issue of the Gig (#15, featuring Phillip Jenks, C.S. Giscombe, etc.) along with some back-issues, and the new chapbooks by Trevor Joyce.
I mentioned Trevor's work awhile back, and I stand by my gushiness! He is a really interesting poet, and while much of my michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1069792938900100692003-11-25T15:42:00.000-05:002003-11-25T19:37:26.796-05:00Oh man, the snow hit. At least an inch by midnight. And what a nice evening for snow, as I was deep in the confines of Hallwall's listening to the Full Blown Trio. Holy cow! Dave Burrell on piano, William Parker on bass, and Andrew Cyrille on drums. It's not often one can spend a few hours with living legends in such an intimate space. Packed full, surprisingly, and interestingly, very, very michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1069254923525798212003-11-19T10:15:00.000-05:002003-11-19T10:16:40.763-05:00--
Excited abt. the new Lisa Jarnot Black Dog Songs (Flood)
--
Did I mention you can get Involuntary Vision: after Akira Kurosawa's Dreams from me for a HUGE discount??
Send $7 (that's right!! Only $7) and it will be in the mail asap:
Michael Cross
434 Ashland Ave
Buffalo NY 14222
Send other things too (especially books!).
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ON THE HORIZON:
CYNTHIA SAILER'S NEW CHAPBOOK ROSE LUNGS FROM michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1069042857156968192003-11-16T23:20:00.000-05:002003-11-16T23:27:06.996-05:00“For want of the image of a voice”
We have lost many senses.
—Henry Adams
Love is the mind’s desire and the eye’s achievement.
—David Melnick
Trees have been stripped to the root by a seer on her path across circumference of intellection. This is a tragic poem.
—Susan Howe
In the fifth installment of Matthew Barney’s film cycle Cremaster, the Queen of Chain and her lover, an michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1068785471925813972003-11-13T23:51:00.000-05:002003-11-14T12:11:23.623-05:00A note from Taylor Brady regarding Microclimates:
(sorry for the strange right hand margin!)
Dear Michael,
Just wanted to send a quick note of thanks for the kind
words about Microclimates on your blog the other day.
As you might guess, I'm in agreement with you concerning
its having been overlooked -- but should add, lest that
degenerate into special pleading, that the readers who have
michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1068744160229315632003-11-13T12:16:00.000-05:002003-11-13T12:24:18.560-05:00Announcing!!
"Involuntary Vision," poetry working with Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams," is just out from Avenue B press, edited by yours truly. This is the first anthology of New Brutalist writing, featuring work by Ryan Bartlett, Trevor Calvert, Julia Bloch, Tanya Brolaski, James Meetze, Cynthia Sailers, Eli Drabman, Geoffrey Dyer, Stephen Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Willis, and myself.
Juliana Spahr says michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1068569313193209272003-11-11T11:48:00.000-05:002003-11-11T11:48:30.283-05:00Four Consecutive Upcoming Readings (Holy Cow!!):
Tina Darragh and Dan Farrell
Wed., Nov. 12, 4pm; Poetry/Rare Books SUNY Buffalo
Alan Loney
Thurs., Nov. 13, 4pm; Poetry/Rare Books SUNY Buffalo
Simon Cutt and Erica Van Horn
(Discussion & Exhibition of Coracle Books)
Fri., Nov. 14, 12:30-1:30 pm; Poetry/Rare Books SUNY Buffalo
Jane Sprague & the Donolesinger Transmutation (Thom Donovan and Kylemichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1068485321358161212003-11-10T12:28:00.000-05:002003-11-10T12:28:38.840-05:00In my stereo:
Spoon "Kill the Moonlight" (Merge)
Deathcab for Cutie "Transatlantacism" (Baruk)
Laddio Boloko "Strange Warmings of..." (Hungarian)
Six Organs of Admittance "Dark Noontide" (Communion??)
Thuja "Suns" (??)
Songs: Ohia "Ghost Tropic" (Secretely Canadian)
Music I want:
New Howard Hello (Temporary Residance)michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1068421803441642842003-11-09T18:50:00.000-05:002003-11-09T18:50:01.530-05:00I am only now aware of how cold can manifest itself. Cold independent of other elements is one thing, but the wind off the lake...michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1068331676390773902003-11-08T17:47:00.000-05:002003-11-08T17:48:44.556-05:00Seriously Overlooked Books from 2002:
(Being a list of my favorites from last year that were seemingly ignored by peeps doing critical work on cont. poetry / A list of books you ought to start writing about)
* bk of (h)rs by Pattie McCarthy (Apogee Press)
This little number renewed my faith in the prose poem as a generative form. McCarthy's lines are deft and interesting and they sing (often michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1067968939787666372003-11-04T13:02:00.000-05:002003-11-06T09:07:50.653-05:00It's been a serious couple of weeks!! Last night, Songs:Ohia at the Mohawk!! Surprisingly full evening (stayed 8pm-2am). Talked at length with Jonathan Joseph (drummer of Bonfire Madigan, ex-Tarantel) about the city and my love of California. They have three-four weeks left in a van and it's getting cold! Obbyrkill River (Jagjaguwar) was a major surprise and very, very fun to watch. The label on michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1067402198476109372003-10-28T23:36:00.000-05:002003-10-28T23:36:37.503-05:00from click click
vegetal evil
fears no perdition
no eared exit
to be illumined
from my brow
the many cares
of outer scoop
the weather scoop
against the pot-green weathering
those things groomed
to be eaten for solace
to eat the vegetals
the scoop is on the water
it can argue the kind of consolation
my wits daily feelmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1066914353722963512003-10-23T09:05:00.000-04:002003-10-23T09:05:53.833-04:00Elliott Smith is Dead. michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1066061810487476572003-10-13T12:13:00.000-04:002003-10-13T12:16:50.403-04:00old man, reckoning
the large glass panes in which the neighbor's eyelids slide
think of us as steambeds
we frame the laws of animal sleeping
from this door I have spoken at
the age of the horse and its countermeasures of aging
down the street, in the slick of the bath photos
the orioles are wet across the buildings
they have announced the coming of a city
they too near the coming streets
they michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1065582714918076092003-10-07T23:11:00.000-04:002003-10-07T23:11:54.893-04:00near sighted anatomist, two nudes
a potion near either temple
and there two of you not wholly positioned
my outside of the event eyes there
are animals ready to leap into your open abdomen
you want night, you are a culprit of living matter
and why you smack of late evening
to wear things placeable remove your garb
only to be videotaped and regarbed
and with glasses you have no excuse to get so michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1065301333739511562003-10-04T17:02:00.000-04:002003-10-04T17:02:13.866-04:00bluecoat
are lungs beautified by the starlet
umbrellas float by many carcass
we can fuck all night on the shore
if you bring the medication
amidst the undulating bodies
woven among the lanterns
the bluecoat must be ready for the night
don the further element its rain
wets us as we sit close for the bus
uncomfortable in how the bluecoat is on my hand
stops me from
(naked beneath its length)
michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1065197595651660192003-10-03T12:13:00.000-04:002003-10-03T12:13:15.616-04:00Lytle Shaw stopped by Buffalo last Wed. to drop science on the uninitiated. He read from "the Lobe" (Roof) and also from a critical work about the visual art of Jimbo Blanchy (sp?) and the difficulties of searching for natural springs in NYC. I attended a talk in Berkeley featuring Shaw and Juliana Spahr awhile back, and I was pleased to see him again and to be taken to school by his hot-shit "michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1065197015987711722003-10-03T12:03:00.000-04:002003-10-03T12:03:36.093-04:00from click click
the swamp leg
is ideal for the bird's nest
as Hollywood peopled, derivative, yes
vivid interest in the bird's lifelike
in how, say, making friends else
gassing the subway again
we are allowed to take the leg and walk around
the smell must not detain us, we are makers of art
in fact, the leg is from the swamp
the children at the park nest near
the suburbs as the city without legmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1064870243778056332003-09-29T17:11:00.000-04:002003-09-29T17:17:23.750-04:00more from click click
mother witch
against I throw my voice
and jump from the water to attack you
from the water with my hands
or my mouth froze
the shock test guy
thinks we need too
the shock guy on the floor
concealed from the worker
the underage have sex in cars
miasma in the general vicinity of the teal
countertops, the face travels the many
abandoned rooms of the party
only to be made michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1064768637177647072003-09-28T12:40:00.000-04:002003-09-28T13:03:57.263-04:00Hey all! Sorry it's been so long. I've been a bit busy writing a paper for the Zukofsky conference on Halloween (my costume is Reznikoff if his costume was Niedecker!). I'm also trying to finish an introduction for the Lytle Shaw reading on Wed.
So many great things have been going on! Scalapino visited last week and read her paper on Jalal Toufic's "Forthcoming." In her essay "Fiction's michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063606245151360072003-09-15T02:07:00.000-04:002003-09-15T02:10:45.220-04:00from click click
rider before an obstacle
light before the rider left the fern'd post on time
that mouth was gassed in the far seat
a rubber where I work instead
not long for blood in the ears where found
the tincture using legs to the subway
covered my mouth from the gas to the seat
used legs I work not long from the blood
the rider over the log weight
forward on her steadmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063488306205138652003-09-13T17:24:00.000-04:002003-09-13T17:25:06.240-04:00Wesley Willis is Dead
Long Live Wesley Willismichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063385069156305002003-09-12T12:44:00.000-04:002003-09-12T12:44:29.110-04:00Has everyone heard the news about the first annual "Jack Spicer Prize"?
See here: www.tougherdisguises.com
The deadline has been pushed backmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063383961502997402003-09-12T12:26:00.000-04:002003-09-12T12:26:01.520-04:00JOHNNY CASH IS DEAD
LONG LIVE JOHNNY CASHmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063383832496604392003-09-12T12:23:00.000-04:002003-09-12T12:24:14.190-04:00So then the important literary thinking is being done.
Who does it.
I do it.
Oh yes I do it.
Stein, The Geographical History of Americamichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063247056906425852003-09-10T22:17:00.000-04:002003-09-10T22:29:44.363-04:00from click click:
three heads
your outside crippled, apple
you nervous dogs
may not leashward star my writing hand
it is warm enough to mate near the road
for traffic cops mean nothing
it is only a certain comely
I, an attractive shade,
can be attractive for the heavily armed blinking in the traffic
these yellow rods that first I've noticed
three heads(attractive)it is customary now to be michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063127396403378822003-09-09T13:09:00.000-04:002003-09-09T13:12:14.803-04:00On Stein Criticism
Identity:
Bernstein suggests that Stein’s identity is an “acting out rather than as an inner state; externally animated, not innately fixed” (Bernstein 141). That is, Stein’s writing practice holds identity (social, political, sexual) in abeyance by the very nature of its “excited meaning.” Piombino, Bernstein, and (seemingly) Stein make a distinction between self and michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063126987530271242003-09-09T13:03:00.000-04:002003-09-09T13:03:07.546-04:00michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063087830124954422003-09-09T02:10:00.000-04:002003-09-09T02:10:30.283-04:00Oh my WOW! Today I received Kasey and Noah's new books!!! My first thoughts: Noah looks nothing like I imagined (I was picturing something much more book-ish, perhaps with alligator embroidered polo and indie-boy-bang-cut!), in fact, he looks very much like Trevor (weird). And flaps!! The mark of success is a flapped book! I am very excited to read both, as I have heard nothing but lunatic ravingmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063087352454788542003-09-09T02:02:00.000-04:002003-09-09T02:02:32.493-04:00Krzysztof Ziarek is coming to teach at Buffalo in the Spring! See his "The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-garde, and the Event" (This book is part of Northwestern's "Avant-garde and Modernism Studies" series; Christian Bok's amazing "'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science" was released by the same press).michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063086909438712662003-09-09T01:55:00.000-04:002003-09-09T01:55:09.470-04:00If only I had done more lifting...michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063086850922626382003-09-09T01:54:00.000-04:002003-09-09T01:54:40.546-04:00Go see the other Michael Cross:
http://www.menmagazine.com/issues/M0107/M0107_michael_cross.asp
michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1063086598737215032003-09-09T01:49:00.000-04:002003-09-09T01:49:58.766-04:00Yesterday, K. and I found a seagull drowning in the Nigara River. We were walking down a long concrete path that cuts parrallel to the Niagara and perpendicular to the Peace Bridge (into Canada). The seagull was drowning because it had fish hooks lodged in numerous places in its body; it could not remove its head from its wing. We borrowed a pair of wire cutters from a local fisherman and spent michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-106277351888505012003-09-05T10:51:00.000-04:002003-09-05T10:56:30.156-04:00Before moving to Buffalo, I heard MANY, MANY rumors of the demise of the Poetics Program. People are smoking crack. There are SO MANY hot shit poets in Buffalo it makes me want to pee my pants. For example: Thom Donovan, Barbara Cole, Kristen Gallagher, Gregg Biglieri, Myung Mi Kim, Susan Howe (still here! perhaps for a long while...), Gordon Hadfield, Sasha Steensen, Kyle Schlesinger, Nathan michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062772639852067122003-09-05T10:37:00.000-04:002003-09-05T10:37:19.823-04:00Holy Cow! I figured out links!!! I've only got the preliminaries up. Don't be scurd...michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062620352431742412003-09-03T16:19:00.000-04:002003-09-03T16:19:12.440-04:00I will never figure out how to links.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062620337866475872003-09-03T16:18:00.000-04:002003-09-03T16:18:57.936-04:00Until I figure out how to do links, here is my email address: michaelthomascross@hotmail.com. Drop a line. And talk about me on your blog. michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062565530667020992003-09-03T01:05:00.000-04:002003-09-03T01:05:30.663-04:00How many people knew that Casual T is Trevor's hip hop name??! I prefer Causal T...michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062564268964374242003-09-03T00:44:00.000-04:002003-09-09T13:18:29.376-04:00Negativity: a Constellative “Model”
(Or, Reading Report: Barrett Watten, Rust Belt Books, Friday, August 29, 2003)
Negativity: “part of a system that cannot be represented positively” (Watten), actualized by internal semantic shifts within the text.
Frederic Jameson: “That modern thought of experience is somehow ‘fragmentary’ might be an instructive feature of yet another Kulturkritik of michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062194246276675862003-08-29T17:57:00.000-04:002003-08-29T17:57:26.180-04:00Barrett Watten on "Negativity" tonight at Rust Belt. Report soon... michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062194107861768422003-08-29T17:55:00.000-04:002003-08-29T17:55:07.766-04:00the witch with the comb
a disaster each coming light
asspocketed comb
I’m supposed to stop my chores
to better frame my thoughts of you belabored
as so many words lodged against
lips coming, a thought in traffic
how it travels from your greentint pecks
it’s freezing outside and still we wear little to the club
nor do we alter the clouds from where, arch-necked
to see my poem taking shape
michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062174077568070982003-08-29T12:21:00.000-04:002003-08-29T12:21:17.606-04:00A student told me today that one of her pastimes is reading the Constitution...! Wow!michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062166219673018902003-08-29T10:10:00.000-04:002003-08-29T12:19:23.420-04:00The great thing about the New Brutalism is that it doesn't matter if you want to be involved or not! The conspicuously absent aesthetic makes it possible for us to assign members! That is, I have deemed Patrick Durgin "Brutalist" by posting his secret swan all throughout Western New York (well, maybe not ALL throughout). Does that make me Brutal? Yes (it is not an easy job). Does that make him michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062104630969262822003-08-28T17:03:00.000-04:002003-08-28T17:03:51.036-04:00Have I mentioned that Trevor and I have a new website?? I would list it as a link, but I've sort of given up on figuring that out. Go check it out at www.manifestpress.org. There you will find information about our new book "On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids," and our newly instituted reading dates for syllogism. Have I mentioned that syllogism #6 will be coming out this Fall/Winter and that michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062103558736185992003-08-28T16:45:00.000-04:002003-08-28T16:45:58.763-04:00Here's another:
a spirit serves a small breakfast
and with small utensils even, small matters of the soul like
in the sky, crucifix-green birds, v-like birds, or birds even
painted above the grass is but smiling
two different crayon textures where grow the tulips
tree smiling bananas, stump with natural looks, crucifix bird
smiling in y’s and addition signs, it is a great day for the witch
hermichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1062102931737094922003-08-28T16:35:00.000-04:002003-08-28T16:36:50.193-04:00Here is a poem from click click. All of the titles were borrowed from Paul Klee paintings. There will be more.
the cheerful aspect
cephalic, the driver round something for the head
O the world is milky with us and will neither
leave my side. the hollow point
of where we flee the noise, our shying inquiry
the shutters of its eyes have loose
picked at its resolutions alone
and from where I michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1061996165582383232003-08-27T10:56:00.000-04:002003-08-27T22:11:44.230-04:00On my way to work this morning, I heard a song by Rush on the local rock station. I find that much of what I like about the best prog is also what I tend to enjoy in my favorite poetry. The Prog Rulebook is as "outside" rock as most experimental poetry is outside everything. I mean EVERYTHING. Bands like Magma and Yes, that ought to be as big as any of the current "alternative" rock one can hear michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1061829417024581632003-08-25T12:36:00.000-04:002003-08-25T12:36:57.100-04:00I just finished teaching my first comp. class at Buffalo, and I realize that most comp. students are exactly the same. They are scared, most of them look very tough at first, and many do not like my jokes. Even when I talk about Slayer or 50 Cent. My Justin Timberlake joke fell flat on its face.
Guess what??? My favorite drummer OF ALL TIME is coming to Buffalo in February! Rashid Ali, famed michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1061568820957284702003-08-22T12:13:00.000-04:002003-08-22T12:13:41.010-04:00Reading your own blog is sort of like listening to your voice on an answering machine.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1061568759852117622003-08-22T12:12:00.000-04:002003-08-22T12:12:39.920-04:00Just kidding. oh, and please tell me how to spell check.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1061568716349851692003-08-22T12:11:00.000-04:002003-08-22T12:11:56.416-04:00I am starting to realize that blogging is an honesttogod commitment. I left the computer yesterday and began thinking about all the things I want to write about and how much time it might take. I started feeling anxious, and then decided that I probably shouldn't blog. So this will be my last post. Goodbye bloggers, forever.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1061486393647806292003-08-21T13:19:00.000-04:002003-08-22T12:09:07.186-04:00Before I say important things, can anyone tell me how to add links and how to change the color scheme?? oh and how to link my email address?? arrgh.michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708658.post-1061485838909886572003-08-21T13:10:00.000-04:002003-08-22T12:09:12.500-04:00Guess what? This is my blog. I waited to see if blogging was going out of style (like rap did) before I joined up. Now that I live in Buffalo, it is important to stay connected. Here I will say many interesting things. I will blog dilligently, and you will not stop me. Even now you can not stop my typing. I will post daily. Perhaps multiple posts a day. I will talk about poetics mostly. and michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17873636924754086342noreply@blogger.com