Crg Hill's poetry scorecard

Beckett's Question: Do you think Language Poetry is the Antichrist?

Beckett's Question: How do letters and phonemes figure in your scheme of things?

Beckett's Question: What am I to do?

Beckett's Question: A question for Miekal And: would you write something for me about how you feel about names and naming?

Beckett's Question: What right now would constitute a revolutionary act?

Now out from Cannot Exist (but it very much does): Bridge of the World by Roberto Harrison

The title poem dips and soars and ruminates and confronts and...

Here are the last 14 lines (unlike the others in their ecstatic dance of clauses and conjunctions--the others are reflective/reflexive statements enjambed across the pages--the poem moves from the personal to the universal, here to there):

it there to become and to see there as one is there to see

and to allow one to arrive with it there and to see, and to be one with it

 

there as one is there to be with it. And to see there as one is there to believe

as it is one to believe it there

 

and to see it there as one with the soil and the air and the light and rain

and to be there with one to be there one with it there once again, and to see it there

 

and to believe as there is one there to believe it there again and to see. And to see

there as one is there to believe as it is there again

 

and to see there as one is there to arrive and to be with it

there and to see it there once again and to see it there again

 

and to believe as there is one to it again and to see and to hold

and to see it there and to hold

 

being that nothing holds

dissolving

 

Order it here:

http://cannotexist.blogspot.com/2011/03/roberto-harrisons-bridge-of-world.html

Beckett's Question: Would you have liked to have had a drink with Guy Debord?

Now Available: Nico Vassilakis' staring@poetics

2011, 5" x 8", 56 pgs, Full Color.

ISBN 1-936687-03-8 | EAN-13978-1-936687-03-9

$12

To read about the book or purchase a copy -  http://xexoxial.org/is/staring_at_poetics/by/nico_vassilakis
 
from the book:
 
How do our retinal experiences alter what we think we know about alphabet? From minimal to maximal, the alphabet is explored and expanded on. From the contextual aggregates and combinations of letters to the visual elements that form a single letter. The visual poetry of alphabet insists that writing is the drawing of what and how we think, and within that writing, images accrue, the letters themselves, drawn, or otherwise printed, are illustrating or reproducing our thought.

Nico Vassilakis works with text and visual alphabet. Nico, with Crag Hill, edited the forthcoming The Last Vispo: Visual Poetry Anthology 1998-2008. He has published several books, including West of Dodge (redfoxpress, 2009), Protracted Type (blue lion books, 2008), Text Loses Time(Manypenny press, 2008), Disparate Magnets (BlazeVOX, 2009) and DIPTYCHS (Otolith, 2008). Nico lives in Seattle with the poet Crystal Curry and their kids..

staring poetics:
http://staringpoetics.weebly.com/

 

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First Rush: Crystal Curry's Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium

Received a copy of Crystal Curry's Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium from Slope Editions some months ago. I can't get down to writing much about it.............BECAUSE I can't stop reading the damn book aloud and aloud and aloud...

Winner of Slope Editions 2009's book prize, selected by Dara Weir, Curry's book is a robust, baroque romp. Language as body, words, phrases, lines commingling, sensual--sexual, but not in the pedestrian carnal sense...

Typically, alliteration and assonance in such heavy doses is a cold shower; in this collection, these sterile devices flirt and tease and tickle (my glee was continual, tantric)...

...Look for a more extensive review forthcoming once I can stop myself from reading these poems ALOUD!