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Stephanie Young's Picture Palace in SFBGYesterday

Stephanie Young's Picture Palace reviewed by Brandon Bussolini in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Recently AcquiredDecember 30 2008

I have a Goodreads account, but I hardly ever use it. I just don't like the whole star rating thing, or the idea of ranking poetry texts in general. Top ten movie- or song-of-the-year lists and such are OK, or less hierarchical book lists like Steve Evans' Attention Span, but the notion of assigning quantitative values to every book in one's library seems obsessive. I mean, even too obsessive for me. So periodically I still like to use this space to report on the books and chapbooks I buy or am given. Eventually I may still enter them on Goodreads--I do have some of my library up there already, without ratings--but the blog provides a nice record of the general time I came by all the texts in question. I can't think of a real reason I would want such a record, but just in case.

So anyway:

BOOKS

Alan Davies, Rave (Roof Books, 1994).
Kenneth Goldsmith, Sports (Make Now Press, 2008).
Kenneth Goldsmith, Traffic (Make Now Press, 2007).
Lyn Hejinian, Saga/Circus (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008).
Eugene Ostashevsky, The Life and O

Conceptual Writing vs. KeatsDecember 20 2008

CONCEPTUAL WRITING

To Land O’ Lakes® Country Morning® Blend (Sticks)


1.

Compos’d of milk and liquid soybean oil,
Eleven total grams of fat hast thou
Per single serving; in thy sheath of foil
Thou liest in a half-cup stick no cow
Did ever from its udder’s teats extrude,
Encourag’d by some dairy wench’s hand;
But rather in a fact’ry wert thou press’d,
So thou might lend thy savour to that food
Which else would be exceptionally bland;
Or moisten brittle cates as dry as sand,
That no breakfasting diners be distress’d.

2.

Who hath not seen thee offer’d at the store?
Sometimes whoever shops in one may find
Thee near the butter--butter which of yore
Did grace our palates in the selfsame kind,
Till we were taught to fear cholesterol,
And turned to thee in hopes that thou wouldst yield
A fit repast: in texture butter’s twin,
With t

Conceptual Writing vs. HaikuDecember 20 2008

CONCEPTUAL WRITING



HAIKU

SPD End of Capitalism SaleDecember 20 2008

Small Press Distribution's "End of Capitalism Sale"--check it out.