tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21160222102608586012024-02-19T22:55:59.190-08:00BlazeVOX [blog]BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-7036798875977037862010-12-21T20:35:00.000-08:002010-12-21T20:35:05.199-08:00Small Press Highlights, 2010 Edition | National Book Critics CircleFrom "Critical Mass" The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/Noel-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.blazevox.org/Noel-cov-lg.jpg" width="158" /></a></div>BlazeVOX [books]: Urayoán Noel, Hi-Density Politics: No other poet can make music out of NYC’s white noise and stage a play using the “scenes from an apocalipsync” like the inimitable Noel--a poet who packs more energy into a single page than most can pack into an entire book. So what’s the book about?: “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SLIGHT LIMPS, BABY, THE ETHNIC FOOD THE QUEER RAZA THE SITUATIONALIST THEORY THE MECHANICAL BULLS THE INCA TEMPLES THE LEATHERETTE GLOVES THE STIRRUPPED CUTUPS THE BAD BEATITUDES THE STILLBORN MORNINGS THE PARTIAL MEMORIES THE UNDERWEAR HANGOVERS THE S&M AT THE H&M...”<br />
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At the Fair by Tom Clark. 132 pages. BlazeVOX [books], 2010. $16.00.<br />
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Tom Clark’s latest book of poetry is a welcome assortment of verse and prose featuring diverse styles, impeccable themes, and moving stories, all told in retrospective, West Coast candor. Through the emulation of a small town world made complete with an intrinsically international mythology rooted to mankind’s relationship with the universe, At the Fair is like a “best of” for a poignant culture. The book makes the attempt to go from microcosmic reliance to macrocosmic necessity and succeeds in forging an alliance between the two, achieving a noble goal to unite timeless queries: foster meaning with language, empathize with undeniable Memory, and bolster with compassion toward life and beauty.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u><a href="http://www.pilotbooksseattle.com/blog/book-reviews/greg-bem-reviews-tom-clarks-at-the-fair/">http://www.pilotbooksseattle.com/blog/book-reviews/greg-bem-reviews-tom-clarks-at-the-fair/</a></u></span></span></span>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-41648848913600079022010-12-13T09:12:00.000-08:002010-12-13T09:12:23.481-08:00Another fine review of Multiverse up at Poet's QuarterlyMultiverse by Michael Smith <br />
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Happy December :-)BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-36423196755341952732010-12-09T11:18:00.000-08:002010-12-09T11:19:10.233-08:00Hurray for GALATEA RESURRECTS<style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Edric Mesmer reviews ON SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE by Geoffrey Gatza</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Multiverse by Michael Smith at storySouth <br />
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>From Old Notebooks</i> by</span></span> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Evan Lavender-Smith </span></span> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> at HTMLGiant. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Check it out: <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://htmlgiant.com/feature/writers-respond-an-interview-with-evan-lavender-smith/">http://htmlgiant.com/feature/writers-respond-an-interview-with-evan-lavender-smith</a></u></span></span></span>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-75410580218191566402010-11-10T09:09:00.000-08:002010-11-10T09:09:12.889-08:00Hurray! The Fall issue of BlazeVOX 2kX Fall 2010 is now online!<style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Welcome to the Fall issue of BlazeVOX 2kX. Once again we have a wonderful issue of wild fictions, poetry, and visual poetry. We have 86 authors presenting a varied array of writings from authors around the world, from varied backgrounds and whose ages range from 17 to 82. So hop in and be moved by these works! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Either move or be moved</span></i></span><span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"> is a favorite quote of mine from Ezra Pound. This simple phrase resounds in my mind of all the possibilities that can be open by the act of using ones own potential. In this case writing, but it is applicable to all the arts. I myself say, be relevant. We chose Ezra Pound as our Editor in Chief as he is still quite a relevant figure for today. We cannot forgive his politics but on his Quasquicentennial anniversary, we say hurray! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Garamond;">On October 30<sup>th</sup> Erza Pound turned 125 years old. This is a big day for any writer and since he is our Editor-in-Chief, Ezra’s birthday was something we did not want to miss. We had a nice celebration in Buffalo, NY that trailed on the tails of another literary event going on that day, Big Night. It was a lucky coincidence that I had already been scheduled to cook up a feast for this event, so it was natural that I themed it a birthday party. This is one of the best reading series in Buffalo featuring poetry, poets theater, music, film and of course, food. I have been cooking for these events since the inception of the series last year. It is always a thrill to entertain so many through food and poetry. And it is the perfect way to pack a room for a poetry reading. Although, to be honest, Ezra’s birthday was not mentioned during the event, a simple slip of the mind of the hosts, as there was a lot going on that night. So not everyone knew that this was going on. But I was near the dining table and doing my best to explain that the Ezra Pumpkin was a tribute to our Editor-in-Chief. All one hundred guests had a good time and that is all that matters. So hurray! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Some Odd Afternoon by Sally Ashton <br />
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· ISBN: 9781935402817</div></blockquote><br />
<blockquote> <div align="left"> $16 <span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="7" hspace="7" src="http://www.blazevox.org/flashingDot02.gif" width="8" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Some-Odd-Afternoon-Sally-Ashton/dp/1935402811/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1262811083&sr=8-1">Buy it NOW </a></span></div></blockquote>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-29315869518120051452010-10-14T09:41:00.000-07:002010-10-14T09:41:08.963-07:00John M Bennett on Jared Schickling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/Jared4-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/Jared4-cov-lg.jpg" width="251" /></a></div>John M Bennett on Jared Schickling<br />
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<blockquote> <div align="left" class="body"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Book Information:</strong></span></div><div align="left">· Paperback: 126 pages<br />
· Binding: Perfect-Bound<br />
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· ISBN: 978-1-60964-001-9</div><div align="left"> $16 <span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="7" hspace="7" src="http://www.blazevox.org/flashingDot02.gif" width="8" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zeros-Blooming-Excursion-Jared-Schickling/dp/1609640012/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276195479&sr=1-1">Buy it NOW </a></span></div></blockquote>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-60952643134065550922010-10-09T11:23:00.000-07:002010-10-09T11:23:04.956-07:002 reviews of N7ostradamus by Travis Macdonald<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/Macdonald-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/Macdonald-cov-lg.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Tarpaulin Sky (<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/09/twofer-tuesday-travis-macdonalds.html">http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/09/twofer-tuesday-travis-macdonalds.html</a></u></span>) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> Monkey Puzzle (<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://monkeypuzzlepress.com/blog/review-of-travis-macdonalds-n7ostradamus-by-travis-cebula/">http://monkeypuzzlepress.com/blog/review-of-travis-macdonalds-n7ostradamus-by-travis-cebula/</a></u></span>)</span></span><br />
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· ISBN: 978-1-60964-009-5</div><div align="left" class="body"> $16 <span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="7" hspace="7" src="http://www.blazevox.org/flashingDot02.gif" width="8" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/N7ostradamus-Travis-Macdonald/dp/1609640098/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284674296&sr=1-1">Buy it NOW</a></span></div></blockquote>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-71456141297979045462010-10-09T10:46:00.000-07:002010-10-09T10:46:09.490-07:00Thirty Miles to Rosebud review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/barb-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/barb-cov-lg.jpg" width="208" /></a></div>Thirty Miles to Rosebud was reviewed in the Marquette <br />
Michigan newspaper. <br />
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<a href=""><em>Thirty Miles To Rosebud</em></a> <br />
Barbara Henning<br />
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· Binding: Perfect-Bound<br />
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· ISBN: 9781935402251</div><div align="left"> $18<span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="7" hspace="7" src="http://www.blazevox.org/flashingDot02.gif" width="8" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/THIRTY-MILES-ROSEBUD-Barbara-Henning/dp/1935402250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249062603&sr=8-1">Buy it NOW </a></span></div></blockquote>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-16401689854202632102010-10-08T10:40:00.000-07:002010-10-08T10:40:07.325-07:00Henry Williams reviewed in Harvard Review Online<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/Williams-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/Williams-cov-lg.jpg" width="254" /></a></div>First Books, First Looks: <br />
A Review of Thirteen Debut Books of Poetry<br />
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by William Doreski <br />
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seasons smooth & unperplext<br />
Henry R. Williams<br />
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· Binding: Perfect-Bound<br />
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] <br />
· ISBN: 9781935402725</div><div align="left"> $16 <span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="7" hspace="7" src="http://www.blazevox.org/flashingDot02.gif" width="8" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/seasons-smooth-unperplext-Henry-Williams/dp/1935402722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1264287167&sr=8-1">Buy it NOW </a></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/seasons-smooth-unperplext-Henry-Williams/dp/1935402722/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1264287167&sr=8-1"></a></div></blockquote><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u></u></span></span>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-80251632865450677972010-09-29T12:26:00.000-07:002010-09-29T12:26:28.280-07:00From Old Notebooks was reviewed in TriQuarterly Online!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/els-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/els-cov-lg.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>From Old Notebooks</i> was reviewed in TriQuarterly Online!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://triquarterly.org/reviews/old-notebooks-evan-lavender-smith">http://triquarterly.org/reviews/old-notebooks-evan-lavender-smith</a></u></span></span>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-83455684363622551412010-09-29T12:23:00.000-07:002010-09-29T12:23:54.567-07:00Dale Smith's plug for At the Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/Clark2-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/Clark2-cov-lg.jpg" width="204" /></a></div>Buy this one!<br />
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by Tom Clark - </a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Ground-Tom-Clark/dp/193540296X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1266696197&sr=8-1">Buy it HERE</a></span>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-40944604943777331812010-09-22T13:52:00.000-07:002010-09-22T13:52:39.013-07:00New Release: Unusual Woods by Gene Tanta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/Gene-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/Gene-cov-lg.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><br />
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Unusual Woods by Gene Tanta<br />
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$16 <span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="7" hspace="7" src="http://www.blazevox.org/flashingDot02.gif" width="8" /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unusual-Woods-Gene-Tanta/dp/1609640225/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284675522&sr=1-1">Buy it NOW</a></span><br />
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“Gene Tanta's Unusual Woods is at once shocking, lively, and oddly nurturing, imprinted as it is with the down-home authority of language's deep hands.” </div><div class="body">—Annie Finch</div><br />
<div class="body">“The poems in Unusual Woods are energetic little bulletins from the front.” </div><div class="body">—John L. Koethe</div><br />
<div class="body">History with its betrayals lurks behind Gene Tanta, lends his writing wisdom and gravity, but he’s also playful and wickedly humorous. Infused with a deft surrealism, these subtle yet startling poems are like parables, brief films, elegant dreams, baffling skirmishes or erotic near misses. They demand and reward repeated readings. </div><div class="body">—Linh Dinh</div><br />
<div class="body">Gene Tanta’s Unusual Woods is just that, a journey through the dark forest of the poet’s mind. Tanta’s poems are at once playful and haunting, turning the everyday into the grotesque, the carnivalesque, the beautiful. His is a world in which, “sometimes the squeaky wheel / gets the hammer.” A speaker in one of Tanta’s poems says, “I too want to fully conjugate the human heart.” In Unusual Woods, in Tanta’s unique way, a way simultaneously foreboding and alluring, he already has. </div><div class="body">—Shaindel Beers, author of A Brief History of Time</div><br />
<div class="body">In the 50 demi-sonnets that make up Unusual Woods, as original a debut collection as I've ever read, Gene Tanta asks us to enter history in unusual ways: through the noose of a joke, the music of assassins, the slippery holes in the sidewalk of logic. This remarkable sequence reminds me that there is no music more beautiful and terrifying than an open mouth, breathing, singing, dreaming. How Tanta, a child of Romania and Chicago, became heir to so many rich traditions (Dickinson, Berryman, Simic, Popa, to name only a few) is our pleasure to discover as we chart the terrain of an important new voice in poetry. </div><div class="body">— Maurice Kilwein Guevara</div><br />
<div class="body">Gene Tanta’s “Unusual Woods” should come with a warning label: Handle With Care. Contents Extremely Volatile. Each thirteen-line poem is a powder keg taking on politics, history, and language itself. While in search for the “myth or origins”, Tanta experiments with sounds and striking, original images, in turn creating new worlds that are entirely his own. Tanta writes in the surrealist tradition but he is no follower. This is poetry as it should be—irreverent, visionary, breaking expectations. </div><div class="body">—Andrei Guruianu </div><br />
<div class="body">“Where are we, in Gene Tanta’s Unusual Woods? We’re where Charles Simic would live, if he’d been born a few decades later, under the signs of ellipsis and disjunction. These are woods with at least two borders running through them. The first of them divides the surreal anecdote from the elliptical meditation, and along this border we find deformed aphorisms, slippery allegories, cryptic personifications, and parables bent out of shape and away from meaning. This is a zone filled with almost-expressive artifacts like faceless dolls and faded photos. The second border runs between Tanta’s Romanian past and his American present. Both Eastern Europe and the United States appear in fragments of iconic figures: Stalin, fortune-tellers, gypsies, elders with samovars, spies, and Paul Celan; or Black Hawk Indians, Gulf War veterans, teenagers dancing the funky chicken, and Ernest Hemingway. No one but Tanta lives at these exact poetic co-ordinates. You’d be wrong not to visit.” </div><div class="body">—Robert Archambeau</div><br />
<div class="body">"Gene Tanta's Unusual Woods is deceptively simple and candidly devious. Reading it is like looking in a funhouse mirror for the first time." </div><div class="body">—Mike Topp</div><br />
<div class="body">Gene Tanta sees the world through the “two-way mirror of my (that is Tanta’s) itchy eye.” He is positioned on both sides of the mirror at once. He watches reflections of his self against an ever-changing background of unusually absurd situations. Like dreaming about having a dream of being lost in the woods. </div><div class="body">—Yehuda Yannay</div><br />
<div class="body">“Gene Tanta’s poetry reads like documentation of the lost, just come to light after being hidden in an ammunition box buried at the site of some anonymous atrocity. It feels personal, ravaged and beautiful, hovering on the far bank of some inexplicably authentic nightmare, the first and last thoughts of a band of survivors. Distant light is intensifying but it’s not clear if dawn is on its way, or some further conflagration.</div><div class="body">Unlike some of the leading-edge poetry of recent decades, Gene Tanta’s does not impersonate an explosion. There is no scattering of attention or resources. Instead, we are in a verbal landscape of aftermath and preparation. The work is careful and inclusive, each fragment of dream and vision brought back to the table for inspection and reassembly. We are invited to participate at this stage as if it mattered: as if the orchestration of meanings had to be collective because of ethical imperatives it is now too late to ignore.</div><div class="body">Behind these poems range the ghosts of victims and the ghosts of poetic forms. None is banished. This generosity is a gift to the reader who (tired of the brash, cocky or complacent) may feel that here is a poetry adequate to our times: an art humming with political and aesthetic urgency, and with a resonance that feels at times mythic.” </div><div class="body">—Peter Hughes</div><div class="body"><br />
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Gene Tanta was born in Timisoara, Romania and lived there until 1984, when his family immigrated to the United States. Since then, he has lived in DeKalb, Iowa City, New York, Oaxaca City, Iasi, Milwaukee, and Chicago. He is a poet, visual artist, and translator of contemporary Romanian poetry. His two poetry books are Unusual Woods and Pastoral Emergency. Tanta earned his MFA in Poetry from the Iowa's Writers' Workshop in 2000 and his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2009 with literary specialization in twentieth-century American poetry and the European avant-garde. His journal publications include: EPOCH, Ploughshares, Circumference Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Watchword, Columbia Poetry Review, and The Laurel Review. Currently, he teaches creative writing online for UC Berkeley Extension.</div></blockquote>BlazeVOX [blog]http://www.blogger.com/profile/17321316667166411405noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2116022210260858601.post-49515457907795145702010-09-21T09:46:00.000-07:002010-09-21T09:46:04.576-07:00At the Fair by Tom Clark now available<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blazevox.org/Clark2-cov-lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.blazevox.org/Clark2-cov-lg.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><br />
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<blockquote> <div class="body">I've known and read Tom Clark for almost half-a-century as a master of many genres: a writer of plays, biographies, novels; as an editor and critic — but always foremost, as a poet. <em>At the Fair</em> gives glimpses of this poet peering through the eyes of his reflection in the mirror of time and reporting on the memories of that image. Part autobiography of the author in shards; part philosophy of atmosphere and thought; part natural history of air, land and water; part defense of the local; part the literate writer at work, translating, being distracted by the logic and beauty of language: this book, which I read straight through, is a tribute to a lifelong addiction: a mutable one-handed keep-awake smack in the forest of loss. One's hat is raised as observation passes. </div><div class="body">—Tom Raworth</div><br />
<div class="body">Remembering his first glimmers of vocation as a boy in power-charged mid-century Chicago, Tom Clark has given us some of the most beautiful American Poems that I know. <em>At the Fair</em> is the work of a living master. </div><div class="body">—Aram Saroyan</div><br />
<div class="body">Not nostalgia transports us here, but the sweet pulse of "vanished ephemerae", love of the Voyage, the illumination, and "throbbing rituals" of a life lived always inside poetry. Tom Clark's prodigious archive of memory trembles on the edge of a teetering universe, calls us back toward the imagination of Reverdy, Vallejo, Ungaretti as witness to the power and thrust and ethos of language. "The universe is strange, the universe is dangerous, the universe doesn't answer the phone." Indeed. But Clark does answer here for all us dreamers. </div><div class="body">—Anne Waldman</div><br />
<div class="body">I read <em>At the Fair</em> driving through the vertiginous rock castles of Utah on the way to Moab, and it hit me like a gong in perfect synch with the incredible landscape. Memory, time, and the suffering of puny humans who resonate nonetheless with beauty, are indelible in this work; it is majestic, profound, and smart. For a language-user that's about the utmost. You can read this in a cave and you'll know grandeur. </div><div class="body">—Andrei Codrescu</div><br />
<div class="body">Doors swing open on this shock of light. Here you will experience scripts and mind-telegrams, shapely in nerve and essence, moving always, and moving on. A circus at the settlement's edge: with memory-movies, new songs, and travellers' tales. We are reminded of frontier days when poetry was the better politics, proud inside itself. As Tom Clark's fresh voice echoes, and re-echoes, so beautifully, in the head. Across oceans and continents from Mediterranean California. And back. Mind kites in marine haze. Streaks. Showers.<br />
"A theory of games is not the same thing as games," the poet says. Hitting on the precorporate is no retreat. Let this book happen. Its pleasures are subtle and true. </div><div class="body">—Iain Sinclair</div><br />
<div class="body">What a world. Every sinew in Tom Clark's verse-and-prose combine, taut and eloquent as can be, answers to a bevy of emergent occasion beyond the door, under the bed and in every phantom portfolio, whatsoever the unseen powers have slipped over gadzillion cubicles and the overextended imaginations of this our Earth. The poet's smooth lines and sudden-sprung fancy are the gentle observer's only comfort here. Large as that is, expect no closure as the page flips from "This is where we came in" to "So here we go." Go with Tom, boldly. </div><div class="body">—Bill Berkson</div><br />
<div class="body">"M'illumino / d'immenso," as Ungaretti wrote in Santa Maria La Longa on the 26th of June, 1917; "Morning arrives / Big Time // (Morning arrives / Wide Eyed)," as Tom Clark 'translates' it, in Berkeley, California, on the 12 of June, 2010. What a pleasure it was for me to read it that morning, posted there on his blog (http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/) accompanied by an array of amazing photos — closeup of a "Peach Glow" water-lily just after rain; astronaut's view of an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption, Mt. Cleveland, Alaska; the Hubble Space Telescope's image of the Cone Nebula (seven light years long, 2,500 light years away); one final closeup of Red-eyed Tree Frog standing on a bright green leaf near Playa Jaco, Costa Rica. So now too what a pleasure to read this book, having seen it 'in pieces' each morning with the pictures that are here 'missing.' But if these words are all that remain of such an original work (words plus pictures), are they 'ruins' — Shelley's "shattered visage" around which "the lone and level sands stretch far away"? Yes, in one sense, because the poems are (as Tom says in a comment on the blog) "a mythic history of presence within the irretrievably lost"; but also no, since the words are still here, and in each present moment of reading invite us to imagine those now missing pictures along with the "disquietudes" of the world they look at and think about and feel, the one that "Just before sunrise... seems to wobble slightly on its axis." And so as Tom writes at the end of "Homecoming," "here we go." </div><div class="body">— Stephen Ratcliffe</div><div class="body"><br />
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</span></div><span class="body">Tom Clark was born in Chicago in 1941 and educated at the University of Michigan, Cambridge University and the University of Essex. He worked variously as an editor (<em>The Paris Review</em>), critic (<em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>) and biographer (lives of Damon Runyon, Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn), has written novels (<em>Who is Sylvia?, The Exile of Céline, The Spell</em>) and essays (<em>The</em> <em>Poetry Beat</em>, <em>Problems of Thought: Paradoxical Essays</em>). His many collections of poetry have included <em>Stones, Air, At Malibu, John's Heart, When Things Get Tough on Easy Street, Paradise Resisted, Disordered Ideas, Fractured Karma, Sleepwalker's Fate, Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats, Like Real People, Empire of Skin, Light and Shade, The New World, Something in the Air</em> and<em> Feeling for the Ground.</em> He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and partner of forty-two years, Angelica Heinegg.</span><br />
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Sarah Sarai interviewed by Anne Fiero in podcast!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sherry Robbins' new volume of poems <b><i>or, The Whale </i></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(BlazeVox Books)--her long awaited "re-conception" of Melville's <b><i>Moby-Dick</i></b>--is a career defining work of epic scope and imagination. It's the best book of poems I've read this year. Here's the review:<br />
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Secrets of My Prison House by Geoffrey Gatza<br />
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Geoffrey Gatza’s poems go straight to the point. From one to another the plane is consistent, the tone both literate and congenial; the feeling, one of an assessment of options while moving through choice to definition, a definition-in-progress of how to be, allowing large time outs for horseplay, an inventory of asides that end up occupying large chunks of mind. The book as ethos – you can live with it -- you wish – why not?<br />
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Poetry expects poets to do their duty, writes Geoffrey Gatza in "Tempus Fidget". GG certainly does his duty by us, poetry readers. In so many ways. His vast publishing energy, so much to be grateful for. And in these pages you will find unmistakable evidence of a perhaps even greater benison: many terrific original works. This is one of the brightest new voices in poetry today. <br />
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Secrets of My Prison House is a consistently exciting, nervy collection of mind-moment-heart-truths that will slip inside you and unpredictably grow. A Gatza poem inscribes (as the great cover photo promises) the tears of a clown wandering in the city. Vividly and freely colored by the golden crayon of choices, the poems like a clown's tears may enter your busy day for a while and quickly enough wash away. But not from the whacky inner sanctum of feeling. And only until night falls.<br />
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Inventions. I want to say that Gatza’s poetic inventions get inside my mind and change it, “stopoped” in this uncomfortable era where elegance is mismatched with a kind of directness that zeros in and rockets. Inventions that make one think twice and look again. “Well strike me up a gum tree.”<br />
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I'm conscious of freedom, how it<br />
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leafy morasses, all over smalltown<br />
America, steeples chased.<br />
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or, The Whale by Sherry Robbins<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">“Into this first and oldest cradle / I invite you, reader.” from “The Fossil Whale” by Sherry Robbins. “me in in in / in the boat / of my body” from “The Chase – First Day” by Sherry Robbins. This is her book of poetry. I read her returning to this poetry. Sherry Robbins, ubiquitous saillore at voyage in the allegorical myth of and in her life, explores her journey, the wovenings of woman currents, root drinker and her map of heaven. She is her life of adored poetry and summoning her poetry is here a balance of all the corners. She discovers that water is where Sherry Robbins stands upon or, The Whale.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">—Michael Basinski</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>“We’ll sail/widdershins/and keep the cauldron/hot. Blubber/and apple chowder,/a mother-daughter banquet.”</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> So, in the title poem, Sherry Robbins focuses her rendering of Moby-Dick. Her female Ishmael moves counter to Melville’s as she voyages deeply: “We know almost everything/worth knowing,/for the womb/is our Yale College and our Harvard.” Facing squarely her deepest fears, Robbins probes the inland sea of her body and of her city, builds upon the mother-daughter bond, and forces life’s boundaries out. Although “Where I am/this moment/is the mystery,” she accepts that state and, contemplating Pip’s fate, offers bold advice: “Leap from the boat.” Contrary to Ahab, “That inscrutable thing/is chiefly what I love.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"> At once a tribute to Melville and a vision of woman in our world, this sublime book, or,The Whale, gives birth to Robbins’s grand hooded phantom and—although she remains always, as she begins, “all at sea”—finds a way “in this golden light,/content to be.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">—David Landrey</div><br />
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Cracked Altimeter by Joe Milford <br />
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Joe Milford's Cracked Altimeter is fantastic. Each line is packed with such intense vividness and rhythm. Its overwhelming. Milford's labyrinthine constructions of language tear your head off and make you taste the colors of the imagery, leaving you begging for more. One of the best books of contemporary poetry I've read in a long time.<br />
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— Connor Stratman, author of Invisible Entrances and First Testament<br />
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Here are multitudes. In Joe Milford's hell-bent Cracked Altimeter, All the names of Heaven/become a universal phonetic. I'm grateful for his effusiveness; these hexed poems dispense grace enough to make even the warped and wayward begin to see again, and to believe. And its as if T. Roethke has been invited to participate in the first decade of this century. Marking transcendence is more of a challenge than ever and also endless play and fun for Milford and his readers. No one knows I have this psychic ray gun, he writes. But of course we do. One in the holster, one in his belt, and another, just in case, under his pillow.<br />
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—Steve Langan, author of Meet Me at the Happy Bar<br />
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Theoretical Animals <br />
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Beggars, fortune tellers, barge captains, bloated corpses, and the ominous tolling of church bells hover anachronistically over a bleakly existential world whose once-physically-present signs have been reduced to html code, rss feeds and online ad campaigns. Such is the dark side of our celebrity technotopia explored in the densely lyrical prose comprising Gary J. Shipley's Theoretical Animals, a tour de force of historical and philosophical meditation on a world teetering at the brink of its own disappearance.<br />
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Shipley's writing is important because itís a fearless attempt to advance the art of literature, to force us to breathe something, to drown in something, to bloody our hands. Itís an unforgettable experience.<br />
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