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doo rag. knit face mask hat. Bob Dylan's & photographer Laziz
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ultimate: Stephanie Young's First Well Nourished Moon
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Monday, March 07, 2005
Red-bud Moment Not Monument *
There was One Being
Brief Oval
Outline or Lorca & Partially Naked **--
To Wake to a Baby Waylon
Nestling *** & a Multiple
Keaton Being
Coin Fish *** or Vanilla
Charmed Dark Chocolate Scarf-
Bird Singing Moment ****
& Then to be Seen by Me & Eileen *****
the Brief Near-Bare * Thing of Red *
& Thousands More Glancing
Above Concrete Abutments
Bumper-to-Bumper at 80
MPH: (Who Thinks Religious?)
of Every
& Then
We Were There
Driving Again in Road Steam
& Muck
in The Every Stream Again
Convenience Store Steak
or Talking
of Import & Art
Thou Statues
Staring on Road Stripes
or Jostling Pothole Skips
from Austin or Houston
to Arlington,
Mundane Thumps
to Night Lit Core of
Granite or Macadam
Cold or Hot
or a Suddenly Marble Unsure Art
in the Mid-Nowhere
in a Gray Gathering
& Raining
Impressions Light
& Sign & Sound
of Miles
(it was)
Davis Playing
About Turning Around & We
Were Talking Out
Spoken
or Word Making a Living
Poetry
& Driven to Go On
to Dallas & Read & Live
Live & Today & Yesterday
All at Once
& So There!
this Being Appeared Then--
Stature Definitely--
No Statue for Sure:
 redbud!
* refers to a red-bud tree by the side of the road, seen from 80 mph
** These allusions to nudity refer to the red bud tree seen along the highway: naked from winter but for its glorious new blossoms.
*** These refer to the children of Dale and Hoa: at morning, Waylon crawled over to the pillowed mattress I slept on, so to give me a hug, and nestle a little. Keaton had played a game called "coin-fish" with Eric at the after-reading party.
**** I had brought a gift to Keaton of some hand-made scarves, one I crocheted, and one gifted to me a few years ago out of velvet & original dye design, the work of a hand making clothier in Santa Fe, NM.
***** Refers to the wonderful poet Eileen Tabios, who I hosted here, along with fine poet Sandy McIntosh from March 3-7 for my reading series, Poetry_Heat, via the generosity of the Writing Center I direct at University of Texas at Arlington. Additionally, I arranged a reading for Eileen and Sandy in Austin, TX with my generous friends Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen of Skanky Possum as well as Luke Bilberry's 12th Street Books. The poem above results from a moment when, as I was driving the three hour drive in the rain on the flat&boring I-35 with Eileen (racing back from Austin because another reading was planned for Dallas that evening), I was delighted to notice one lone red-bud tree near the road in a field, and pointed it out. It is the kind of moment that is valuable because such is always better when shared, thus I was glad to have seen it when with someone such as Eileen, for whom I have great esteem.
ZaZen, Y'all : )
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Thanks going out also to Steve Vincent for the emailed good wishes on the occasion of Tex's second anniversary.
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7:56 PM
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BurnDenverDownPress Call for subs (for chapbooks)
via one of my favorite reads:
::: wood s lot ::: "the fitful tracing of a portal"
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2:40 PM
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Mellow-Hellows to Ruby Street and Narcissus Works!
A nice note below on the Texfiles Birthday (Mar 3) comments page from Jill Jones, one of my favorite experimentalist poets (Hi Jill!) along with Anny Ballardini (currently featuring some very fine translations by Rebecca Seiferle), and then, on reading over at Jill's blog, Ruby Street, I saw that a new issue of
Foam:e is out, too--lots of admirable poets & fine poems really lookin' good, Y'all!
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1:54 PM
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in the ACK News:
Texas is set to supersize highways
DEPT OF NO MAS  DE BUSHCRAP...
--a poem from Stefan Hynan,
who will be reading this Thursday in Austin, TX :
A Family History
- "Hallo! my name's Bush
- that's short for Bullshit, & I'm a
- paying member of the Order of
- SKULL & BONES.
- As executive of the Union Bank Coop. I
- financed Hitler, but no sweat
- my buddy William A. Harriman
- & his Guaranty Trust Coop
- paid for the build-up of the USSR.
- That's our philosophy: create the thesis
- & the anti-thesis, so we can profit
- from the synthesis we impose, as done by
George, Sr. '91 in Iraq
- to keep the threat alive & let
- others pick up the bill (40 bill-
- ions from
- Japan & Germany) while we
- reek in the profits."
21.IX/2002 (Rohrhof)
o~o/
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1:02 PM
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a new mag, SAUCY!--is lookin' promising--just out from Jessa Crispin, editor/publisher of Bookslut.
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12:58 PM
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eep... correcting an html error i just discovered in this post about the poetry reading on Friday at UTA... i cite Tom Murphy because in my introduction I had read aloud from one of his poems--his chapbooks are some of my favorite reads--hurry and get some!--but for some reason my link to tom's site didn't work out.
So here's some workable html for the link, with apology to all... & a note to also check his link to his other page, TJ Blug ... happy readings, Y'all!
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My Thanks to Artist Philip Trussell
Very special, humble and happy thanks to painter Philip Trussell (whose work will be showing next week in Austin--i'm not certain of the location, but will try to find out and add to this post later today or tomorrow) for the beautiful gift of one of his fine works (a surprise gifted to me at the poetry reading's reception on Saturday evening in Austin, at the home of Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen, Keaton and Waylon).
Philip: this is just a note to say how much I appreciate your kind consideration, and the terrific energy of this painting.
Thanks so much!
best,
c
ps. Hey, Y'all: as soon as I can I'll be taking a photo of this beautiful painting and then to scan it for posting to texfiles. I'm so happy to have it and to be able to share something of it with you. Yeah!
o~o/
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3:53 AM
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On the (poetry) Road, Again: with Eileen Tabios and Sandy & Barbara McIntosh
HEY, AUSTIN TEXAS: POETRY_HEAT LOVES Y'ALL ...
What a super time we all had (Eileen Tabios--you rock!) (readers: *everything* you have heard about Eileen is absolutely true) on our poetry-reading-road-trip, where we met up with Skanky Possum's super-possums (hey: check out the Blog Awards list there!--go Dale) at 12th Street Books (many thanks to Luke Bilberry for graciously making available this wonderful reading space to us).
Eileen and I drove down yesterday afternoon in (shall I say ) *moi* bright red trucky thing, and Sandy McIntosh and his super-wife, Barbara (who kept us all on track in the most gracious and disarming way that I have ever seen anywhere), drove in a rental car: this drive is not a pleasant one, Y'all: flatlands, Tex, all the way, and it was dreary weather, gray-rain-gray, all the way. But who had time to notice weather?--not me--I was way too busily involved in conversations about poetry with Eileen. Everything I've always admired about her as poet, thinker, publisher, and super-blogger, was confirmed and more. Absolutely one of the warmest friends a person could ever find--I say this to acknowledge the friendship and to let Y'all know how much I really appreciate the opportunity this week to get to know Eileen in person and to share ideas. I'm so pleased!
Austin is a special place for me because the poetry and arts people there are such a fine group of supportive folk. We pulled into 12th Street Books, visited for a while in that laid-back way that all good po-folk create for their venues and when we'd all had a congenial chance to visit, began the reading. Students from Susan Briante's poetry course at UT attended as well as students from Hoa Nguyen's Saturday poetry course (where Hoa had put together a packet that included poems from Eileen Tabios' Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole, as well as some work from Stefan Hynen, who will be reading at 12th Street Books this week on Thursday evening).
For our reading, Sandy McIntosh read first, offering a sampling from his new book, The After-Death History of My Mother (Marsh Hawk, 2005). Here's one of Sandy's poems that I really:
Meeting an Old Friend at a Lecture
A small leaf settled on your shoulder,
stuck to the threads of your sweater.
I was about to pick it off, but you bent forward,
suddenly attentive to the speaker,
and your wild gray hair flapped
and rustled about your head as if in a wind.
I thought how much like an old tree you had become,
and I would not remove your only leaf.
(Between Earth and Sky--Marsh Hawk, 2002)
Eileen's read from several of her books, including the latest, I Take Thee, English, for my Beloved (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005). Here is one of my favorites:
Question
I am cognizant
my flight
relies on the ladder
of Babel
I speak
ergo, you love me
Why must speech
be one with flight--
The paradox
of writing
You away from
me away from you
while you witness
all in silence
The congenial crowd stayed for a while talking and sipping wine, then we moved over to the home of Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen for a happy get together, with such fine poetry folk as Susan Briante, Farid Martuk, Phillip Trussell, Sharon Roos, the fabulous Keaton, Eric, Waylon, Zack, and many more good po-folk.
What I most want to say is I think we are all blessed or charmed (and both are fine with me) in this po-stuff.
More soon: the Dallas reading (Shin Yu Pai came out to hear, and is also reading next week!)
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Saturday, March 05, 2005
Report (and clarification on the name I chose for this series) : UTA Poetry_Heat events, Friday, March 4, 2005:
"... He felt the heat of the night--
hit him like a freight train moving
with a simple twist of fate...
one more time for a simple twist of fate... "--Bob Dylan, "Simple Twist of Fate"--Blood on the Tracks
"Texas," for many months of the year, is a climate full of remarkable heat, but that's only one reason that came to mind when I decided to name this reading series Poetry_Heat. Basically, for poetic or poetry reasons, I don't really give a flyin' F about the state apparatus that calls itself Texas. I also don't care about the reasons there is any state by any name, but certainly not the ones that led to this one (excepting where, in the past, so many lost their lives in conflicts over some ideological framework that eventually established this as a state within a state).
Here I'm talkin' Althusser and Jameson (the theorist of third-'worlding', not the sharp whiskey, Y'all). Those few lines of Dylan's, tho interesting in their focus on a single perspective of a "he," i read second naturedly (like i read so many things, out of necessity) from the multiplicitous positioning of denying their obvious gendering of the subject. So, in case anyone was wondering, the result of that interpretive readerly perspective was more the spirit behind the name, "Poetry_Heat". Of course, there is always the question of it's relation to what sounds a natural: "Poetry_[in]_Heat". And yeah: that tends to linger around the metrical-music and set-up or expectancy, doesn't it? Language plays us as much as we think we're playing it, eh?
So tonight's reading: in a word: fantastico!
Today, a cold and cloudy one here was brightened immensely by meeting and talking with Eileen Tabios (but of course!--the chatelaine rules, Y'all!) and Sandy McIntosh and his wife, Barbara (who sweetly yet ever-so-business-wise, kept us all timely--since I had no watch--and then, after the reading, she keep track on/with books-for-sale: many thanks, Barbara!).
Students at the afternoon presentation were full of interesting questions. They'd just this week finished reading Linh Dinh's Blood and Soap, so were reeling from prismatic considerations of poetics and narrative perspective, but also, many just wanted to ask the simpler questions, like, "what's it like to be a writer?" The diaglogue with students went very well.
The poetry reading was wonderful: many students, a few faculty and grad students attended. Sandy read first, and extremely well, from his new book, The After-Death History of My Mother (Marsh Hawk, 2005), including a knock-out poem about Marilyn Monroe that the students at the afternoon presentation had found lots of fun.
Eileen, who had keep us all in good humour during the earlier talk and then at dinner (during the break between events), read... well, I think the apropos term here would be *soared* or sung !) from Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole to begin with, and then much more... soon to be elaborated.
I will also note here that I opened tonight's reading by (not surprisingly) reading. Briefly and from several sources, http://brtom.org/blogger.html
a *finish your phrase* which was a chapbbok I received this week from br.Tom Murphy: Fingers. no ink, from the chap series of _finish your phrase_ (2003). Here are Tom's lines:
how many bad things tackled your truth today?
when they float at you... scream "I am a golden child!"
maybe your family history is a board game...
you be the shoe... let them becames rich and aloof.
Is that cool or what? --Thanks, brTom, for sharing such fine work.
And, hey, Y'all--I will have much more to report tomorrow or Sunday, after our next leg of journey: Austin!
Stay tuned, Y'all!
o~o
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Friday, March 04, 2005
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Poetry_Heat Events Today and Tomorrow:
Chatelaine Eileen Tabios, and Sandy McIntosh !
4:30 today, Dialogue with Students about writing and publishing
@ UTA Writing Center,
4th floor, Central Library
7:30 tonight, Poetry Reading: UTA
Rady Room, 6th floor, Nedderman Hall,
7:00 tomorrow night, Poetry Reading: Austin, TX--
in conjunction with Skanky Possum Press:
@ 12th Street Books--827 W 12th Street, Austin.
[an additional reading has been planned by Eileen and Shin Yu Pai:
Dallas, TX, Sunday, Mar. 6 @ 5:30 pm:
Paperbacks Plus: 6115 La Vista Dr. ]
* photo credit: Eugene Atget
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11:49 AM
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To all these wonderful folks sayin' Hey to texfiles, opening the third year of fun, here: I love Y'all! Many thanks for reading and caring.
Best,
c
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11:01 AM
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Press Play: O-mi-G!
& on the
the artist is Avelino de Araujo--and this is the site: Poesia Visual/Experimental, from the main page. Depending on tastes, some might be more arresting than others (given changeable characteristics), but all are quite amazing (in my humble opinion).
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Thursday, March 03, 2005
from Pablo Neruda (in translation by David D. Walsh) *:
THE SOLDIER'S LOVE
In the midst of war life led you
to be the soldier's love.
With your poor silk dress,
your costume jewelry nails,
you were chosen to walk through the fire.
Come here, vagabond,
come and drink on my breast
red dew.
You didn't want to know where you were going
you were the dancing partner,
you had no Party, no country.
And now walking at my side
you see that life goes with me
and that behind us is death.
Now you can't dance any more
with your silk dress in the ballroom.
You'll wear out your shoes,
but you'll grow on the march.
You have to walk on thorns
leaving little drops of blood.
Kiss me again, beloved.
Clean that gun, comrade.
(100-101)
* Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses. transl. Donald S. Walsh. New York: New Directions, 1972.
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11:45 PM
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Go Optative Mood! : the state of Paris, governments & media...
also: esto iz wei keul de Brasilia:
!CONCRETISMO!
(found via
Jay Thomas' links-list at Bad with Titles)
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7:04 PM
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Yeah! Terrible Twos!
nawwww.... we're
ust plai ol ickedly ba,
Y'all!
Texfiles: still at it
o~o/
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6:56 PM
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 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEXFILES !!
texfiles is 2 years old today, y'all! YaY!!
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Announcement from Halvard Johnson:
Hamilton Stone Review, Issue 5, Winter 2005, Now Online!
Featuring fiction by Sybil Kollar, Sue Mellins, and Lance Olsen,
and poetry by Deborah Poe, Alan Brilliant, Susan Donnelly, Paul
Murphy, Catherine Daly, Tad Richards, Todd Swift, mIEKAL
aND, Roy Frisvold, Rochelle Ratner, Hugh Steinberg, William
Sylvester, Tim Martin, Sybil Kollar, Andrew Lundwall, Bert
Kimmelman, James Cervantes, Skip Fox, Sheila E. Murphy,
and César Vallejo (in translations by Rebecca Seiferle).
Hamilton Stone Review
Submissions to the Hamilton Stone Review
At this time, the Hamilton Stone Review is not open to unsolicited
fiction submissions, but will be taking unsolicited poetry submissions
until May 1, 2005, for Issue #6, which will be out in June 2005.
Poetry submissions should go directly to Halvard Johnson at
halvard@earthlink.net.
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3:12 PM
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Hey, Y'all: Big Poetry Weekend
Eileen Tabios and Sandy McIntosh will be here to talk to students and to read poetry on Friday! Then we're off to Austin together. Looking forward here! : )
Here's a poem from the new books of each:
from Sandy McIntosh * :
My Friend Ignatius
I find myself at a carival shooting gallery
with my friend, Ignatius. We pop our rifles, having fun,
until I realize that this is a dream.
We are not at a carnival. We are asleep in our beds
in different cities, but we have met in dreaming!
I try to convince Ignatius, but he doesn't believe me.
I show him how I can leap in the air
and fly around the carnival tents.
"You can't do this when you're awake," I tell him.
To prove it, I take his hand as we fly through a solid wall.
"Wow," he says. "I think you got something there."
Ignatius leaps into the air and I follow.
We visit strange cities and meet interesting people.
"Now," I tell him. "It's the critical moment.
I'm going to wake myself up, and call you on the telephone.
If you verify that you were here with me in this dream,
we'll have proved Carlos Casteneda correct:
two people can share a dream."
Finally awake,
I reach for the phone and fumble some numbers.
However, in waking life,
I don't have a friend named Ignatius.
--for Amy Wallace
(54)
~
from Eileen Tabios * :
LUDIC + [...]
for Jean Vengua
ridiculous absence
if only it were not
a life of baroque
sears bathingsuit
mermaid, just
that i am no
eyes under water
because of this
nonexistent guitar
plucking the strings
practice practice
less and pretend
of this absence
cheeks. because
pale remains
orchid and use
tisane drained
absence i have
(not yours)
yes my rib
shard needle
with thread
sew a dress
because of this
ridiculous absence
(64)
* the books:
--Sandy McIntosh, The After-Death History of My Mother. Marsh Hawk Press, 2005
--Eileen Tabios, I Take Thee, English, for My Beloved. Marsh Hawk Press, 2005.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~poems copyright of the authors~~~~~~~~ o~o/
chris at
12:54 PM
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scrammin/scramblin w/Modest Mouse
went to the porch
to have a thought... [something about]
[wha? : cheech or chablis] indiscriminate colon: [more wha]
& my ("mah") thoughts
were so loud I couldn't hear em in
my mouth...
realized there wz no
porch...
we'll all float on okay...
or nay:
[lots of bouncy muzik
& i luv
my son
(mom don't worry
it's not too heavy... i'll be alright)
not worryin then if its *my* son!
goin off to Bushbag shit
nosirree
realized there wz no porch
ya kno? but maybe we'll all get
lucky and we'll all
live [leave?] again...
something else about your head
on your mouth
over your soul
which is the size of a grocery store
pea inside a galaxy only a science
fiction (you parental ideological state apparatus fool!) writer
you'll never meet
ever begins to
tell anyone about ever,
everywhere
if ya got one and if ya kno
it. know what i
mean?--it's like that, & more...
well, he ain't even over there yet
an' he's the one to ask, ya kno?
--cm
o~o/
chris at
4:31 AM
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Tuesday, March 01, 2005
hey Wesley! you gotta smile...
chris at
11:52 PM
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from Toni Morrison, on writers, writing * :
Writers are among the most sensitive, the most intellectually anarchic, * most representative, most probing of artists. The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. The languages they use and the social and historical context in which these languages signify are indirect and direct revelations of that power and its limitations.
* Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Random House, 1992.
I especially like that part about being "intellectually anarchic,"--yeah! Ya kno?
: )
chris at
5:34 PM
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chris at
2:43 AM
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