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2008-07-05T11:59:00.000-07:00

Nico Vassilakis (from Text Loses Time(Many Penny Press, (Moscow, ID, 2007) 180 pages (available from lulu.com i suspect)

2008-07-05T11:58:00.000-07:00

Ficus strangulensis (thanks to Lee Thorn)

2008-07-05T11:56:00.000-07:00

Jesse Freeman (cover of unarmed #58) (thanks to michael mann)

2008-07-05T11:54:00.002-07:00

Angela Behrendt, Peter Dowker & Marie-Atina Goldet (thanks to R.F. Cote)

2008-07-05T11:54:00.001-07:00

gustave morin

2008-07-05T11:53:00.000-07:00

Mete Sarabi

2008-07-05T11:51:00.002-07:00

Yoko Ono (thanks to Jurgen O. Olbrich)

2008-07-05T11:51:00.001-07:00

frips

2008-07-05T11:49:00.000-07:00

Mailarta (Dale Roberts)

2008-07-05T11:48:00.001-07:00

Joki X Wilson

2008-04-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

Anna Boschi

(thanks to Pascal Lenoir)

2008-04-19T12:37:00.000-07:00

Andrew Riley Clark

2008-04-19T12:36:00.000-07:00

Jurgen O. Olbrich

LINK
LINK
LINK
LINK

2008-04-12T12:07:00.002-07:00

ATC by Annerose Georgeson

WEBSITE

2008-04-12T12:07:00.001-07:00

Annerose Georgeson (ATCs)

2008-04-12T12:06:00.000-07:00

Jokie X Wilson

I also heard from: jwcurry! he and a crew of others are perfoming "Messagio Galore take V" at the Ottawa International Writers Fesival! here's the link

i also heard from Mark Sonnenfeld: new chapbooks: "Radio Connecticut" (ISBN: 978-0-9798819-4-7) & a broadside split with Robert Pomerhn

i also also heard from: kevin mcpherson-eckhoff: blogspot. kevin sent "Pomes Popeye Papyrus" by Michael Basinski (Slack Buddha, 2004)

& speaking of Basinski, i also heard from the SUNY small press collection, only this time from Brenda Battleson! they want to complete their collection of imp press sweet nothings! yikes! it's a job of work! here's that link

I also heard from

2008-04-05T17:12:00.000-07:00

Michael Basinski again! this time he sends his new book: All My Eggs Are Broken published by BlazeVOX: LINK
130 pages (25 cm x 18 cm) it's a nice varied collection of his recent output: visual poetry, sound poetry, plaintext, experimental work!

also also heard from: Mark Laliberte! he sends
Carousel #22 : a great mix of striking visual art & poetry & prose pieces:
LINK

also, and this one came in over the wire, Tim Gaze! check out avance especially recommended: The Book of Noise

and this from Lori Emerson, et al. : bpnichol

2008-04-05T13:40:00.002-07:00

Mike Dickau, et al.

related links:

viewpoint
zippy

sacartz

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Peter Dowker

141 Foster
Lac-Brome, Quebec,
J0E 1R0
CANADA

2008-04-05T13:39:00.000-07:00

John M. Bennett

LINK

2008-03-30T10:58:00.000-07:00

I also heard from Michael Basinski:

LINK

they're threatening to renew their subscription to my zine (gar) (which means i might actually have to produce a few more issues!

plus i got the latest issue of Lee Thorn's zine (vol. 11, #4) which includes plaintext & rubberstamp work by Joel Lipman, plus "Dueling Poems" by Antler, Dave Church & Thorn himself. I didn't get a chance to scan a sneak peak for ya, but i did zing off a few bootleg copies (I hope Lee won't mind!) which i'd be willing to send to anybody who might be interested: just drop me a "dibs" at: ross_priddle@yahoo.ca and let me know where you're at

where are you at?

2008-03-29T16:32:00.000-07:00

this is the real stuff,
computerized reality, bend
day dots, working from the
real, art takes precedence,
when is news not news, looks
fat but, pink lady whip,
chunk of reality, plenty to
chunk about, manage to get
the address down right,

2008-03-29T13:32:00.000-07:00

rob mclennan sent me a stack of his recent productions:

above/ground press broadsides: #273: "every six seconds..." kevin mcpherson-eckhoff, #275: "from 85" Robert Majzels link, & #277: "sex at thirty-eight" by himself

"map of edmonton (rossdale flats)" a five or eight page chapbook (also by himself)

"boathouse" by Pearl Pirie (20 page chapbook) (Pearl Pirie blogs too.) link

"the curse of canada" by gregory betts (32 page chapbook!) greg has a blog too. LINK

"The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman" by Amanda Earl (28 pages!) Amanda's blog

"strum" by pete smith (24 pages) does pete have a blog?

rob mclennan's blogs:

here
here
here

2008-03-23T09:25:00.000-07:00

I also heard from Dale Speirs. (Opuntia 64.1C)

plus: I went across the street yesterday to return a couple books (Drumbolis' "Millenial Report" & derek's thesis) & to actually buy a book or three! well, chapbooks i guess:

No press is thrilled to announce the publication

of a suite of chapbooks of conceptual writing

by ROB FITTERMAN and NAYLAND BLAKE

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THE SUN ALSO ALSO RISES by ROB FITTERMAN

(36 pp, sewn binding, full-colour covers)

When I was 13, my brother gave me a copy of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. It was my first foray into real Literature and I hated it. Even with little or no way to enter the novel, I dutifully slugged through it (I mean, what is cog-nak anyway?) Years later, I have returned to revisit the relationship. In this version, I have erased my way through Hemingway’s original text, leaving behind only the phrases that begin with the pronoun ‘I.’ — Rob Fitterman

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MY SUN ALSO RISES by ROB FITTERMAN

(36 pp, sewn binding, full-colour covers)

My Sun Also Rises is a parallel companion to the The Sun Also Also Rises which translates my erased version of the Hemingway original into my own experience of moving to downtown Manhattan in 1981. — Rob Fitterman

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ALSO ALSO ALSO RISES THE SUN by NAYLAND BLAKE

(48 pp, sewn binding, full-colour covers)

In November 2007, I was invited to perform in the kgb Bar Reading Series. Having just completed the two Hemingway pieces, I was eager to perform them, but I needed a second voice, a Hemingway. Happily, Nayland Blake agreed to read the Hemingway part, and we alternated chapters. In the process of rehearsing and thinking about this project, Nayland suggested that he might write his own version. His text, Also Also Also Rises The Sun—a beautiful, minimalist version—further opens the possibilities for reading the piece and for dispelling the authority of the “original.” — Rob Fitterman

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Produced in editions of 60 copies, these 3 chapbooks are available only in tandem with each-other (in numbered editions) for $25 (postage included).

For ordering information, please contact derek beaulieu at derek@housepress.ca

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Flanked between Shell Oil and Mobile Oil gas stations, Robert Fitterman was born in 1959 in Creve Coeur, Missouri—a rinky-dink suburb of St. Louis. Several of his books are collaborations with visual artists, including war, the musical with Dirk Rowntree. He lives in NYC with poet Kim Rosenfield and their daughter Coco. He teaches writing and poetry at NYU.

Nayland Blake is an artist, curator, educator, writer and investigator who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery New York, Fred London, Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco. Since 2001 Blake has been the Chair of the International Center of Photography / Bard Masters Program in Advanced Photographic Studies.

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derek also threw in a copy of his own "How to Edit" (Chapter A) the beginning of "an exhaustive record of every incidence of the word "edit" in the over 1100 different English-language texts stored at Project Gutenberg" (yikes!)

derek also let me make off with issue 21 of Carousel LINK (which has work by Billy Mavreas, Jason McLean, Mark Laliberte & plenty more!) & a couple of buttons from the POPNOIR series: LINK (of particular interest (to me anyway) is #17: gustave morin!

2008-03-15T17:08:00.000-07:00

self-portrait in convex mirror (for Ted Warnell)

(this is actually the top part of one of Ted's artworks! (i think i have another image of it here on the blog...)

here: link