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Beckett's Question: Is philosophy important to you?

Beckett's Question: Have you ever really thought about kissing and what it means to you—not just, I mean, as a pleasurable activity, but in onto-epistemological terms?

Beckett's Question: Do you believe poetry has social value?

Beckett's Question: Might there be said to be many kinds of language environments? How would you describe the language environments you inhabit and move through?

Beckett's Question: What sorts of things irritate you the most?

To Zinesters: Send Your Zines

Via Jamesque Yeary:

I've recently began worklunteering at Portland Oregon's Independent Publishing Resource Center. It's a phenomenal splace where a lot of letters get pressed, letrasets get rubbed onto the page, xeroxes, scans etc. 

It is also home to a phenomenal zine library I am beginning to find my way around. You could call it a specialized open to the public library of mostly spineless books. I have found a couple pubs from Xexoxial Endarchy, and Fantagraphics seems to have been sending us everything they put out for some time now. It's pretty varied.

But it could be more varied. 

I, for one, would like to see more visual poetry. 

If there are interested parties out there, consider sending chapbooks and self publications of any sort to

THE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING RESOURCE CENTER

917 SW Oak Street, #218

Portland, OR 97205

That is if you 

you know

love libraries.

 

We are of course talking about donations here as the IPRC is a non-profit and can't purchase things.

But you would be contributing to a killer, unique space.

 

Thanks for considering this.

yours,

James

 

Beckett's Question: What irritates you the most about my “talk” today?

In a dream...

Visual poetry is the salt of the earth.

Portland's Newest Poetry Press: c_L chapbooks available in 2011

c_L has released it's second chapbook!

Lines on Canvas or What I Know or Have Seen of His Life
by Sam Lohmann

Lohmann's Lines on Canvas are a collection of lines drawn to the end of breath. From the referential object found by Sam in his exploration of the landscape, this time from the vantage of the idea of the painter. Each line is drawn from a singularity in text to its possible extent in the world, as Sam has culled it from one biographer looking at an other. That other being the painter Cézanne, from the eye and mouth of his friend Joachim Gasquet.

From the overbearing sky
He produced atrocious studies
In the attic a canvas of holes

This chapbook is an excerpt from a full-length work that should appear later in the year. Lines on Canvas is available from the publisher for $8 domestic mail.
Send a check or well-concealed cash to

Jamesque Yeary
2947 E. Burnside
Portland, OR 97214

also:
Phoebe Wayne's Lovejoy is still available.
c_L's first publication, Lovejoy's several narrative threads each take a different perspective on the construction, presence and decay of Portland's Lovvejoy columns, a series of "outsider" architecture that have been disappeared from the Portland cityscape since the WPA projects of the 1950s that helped bring them into the world.

Both chapbooks feature letterpress printed covers and hand-sewn binding.
Lovejoy is available for $6 domestic mail.

 

Beckett's Question: What do you think noise is?