Esque

*Hugh Hefner's bookshelf (hardcovers only)

Please check out the exciting new magazine Esque from Amy King & Ana Božičević. I have new work (from my forthcoming Kept Women) in the journal, and I'm in the fabulous company of Dan Hoy, Charles Bernstein, Anne Waldman, Cole Swenson, Ching-In Chen, Ariana Reines, and others.

The beautiful is a carnal attraction which keeps us at a distance and implies a renunciation.

A picture such as one could place in a cell of a criminal sentenced to solitary confinement for life without it being an atrocity.

September 1-10 

The beautiful is something on which we can fix our attention.

The Archanoids

The Archanoids  an album of solo and collaborative sound poetries 2005-2010 $10 + S&H

Insert Press in collaboration with 323 Projects and Pleonasm Music is pleased to present The Archanoids, an album of solo and collaborative sound poetries, 2005-2010.

The Archanoids will exist as the inaugural exhibition of 323 Projects a phone gallery visited by calling (323) 843-4652 or (323) TIE-IN-LA. The show is open all day and all night, every day of the week from September 6-October 11, 2010. Featuring all the recordings from the album, 323 Projects phone gallery will present a new track from the album every other day and offer an invitation to callers to participate in a collective sound poem by leaving a message and following an online score.

Pleonasm Music, the net-label run by Christian Cummings, An independent musical community of uncategorizable avant-weird living room minstrels par excellence, will release a free downloadable selection of tracks from the album.

Insert Press is releasing the full album including a 32 page booklet of scores and written work from the album which can be purchased only through Insert Press for $10 + S&H.

The Archanoids
Composers (in the order they appear): Robert Darry, Mathew Timmons, Hugo Ball, Gertrude Stein, Christian Bök, Kurt Schwitters, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Luigi Russolo, Claude Gauvreau, Janine Armin, Giacomo Balla & F. T. Marinetti Performers (in the order they appear): Robert Darry, Mathew Timmons, Sandy Ding, Harold Abramowitz, js makkos, Gary Barwin, Gregory Betts, Janine Armin, Amaranth Borsuk, Amina Cain, Allison Carter, Kate Durbin, Gabriela Jauregui, Stephanie Taylor, Donato Mancini & Christine Wertheim.

Remixes by last nights of paris. Album mixed by Patrick Navarre.

A statue, a picture at which we can gaze for hours.

The beautiful is that which we can contemplate.

Among other unions of contraries found in beauty there is that of the instantaneous and the eternal.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul.

Beauty: a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it. 

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there.

It is necessary to be dead in order to see things in their nakedness.

It is the innocent victim who can feel hell.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Creation: good broken up into pieces 

and scattered throughout evil.

...forthcoming in September from Legacy Pictures

FASHIONWHORE

I have a collector's edition tract forthcoming from Legacy Pictures. It's called FASHIONWHORE. The tract will be available for a very limited time beginning in September. After that time is up, FASHIONWHORE will never be sold again and I will have no extra copies to sell.


watch the trailer for FASHIONWHORE

As soon as we have a point of eternity in the soul.

Death is the most precious thing which has been given to man.

Love is a sign of our wretchedness.

Illusions about the things of this world do not concern their existence but their value.

Never to think of a thing or being we love but have not actually before our eyes without reflecting that perhaps this thing has been destroyed, or this person is dead.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied.

We do not have to acquire humility. There is humility in us--only we humiliate ourselves before false gods.

God has created a world which is not the best possible. 

It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social.

Forthcoming--Esque

ESQUE -- Ifestos and Oetry by ...

Carolyn Zaikowski                               Charles Bernstein

Matvei Yankelevich                              Tamiko Beyer

Franz Wright                                         Jillian Brall

Anne Waldman                                     Julian Brolaski

John Tranter                                          Ching-In Chen

Cole Swensen                                       Ken Chen

Leigh Stein                                           Bei Dao (trans. Clayton Eshleman)

Heidi Lynn Staples                               Amy De'ath

Tomaz Salamun                                    Lidija Dimkovska

Joan Retallack                                      Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Ariana Reines                                       Kate Durbin

Ron Padgett & Olivier Brossard      Brenda Hillman

Miguel Murphy                                     Molly Gaudry

Sharon Mesmer                                    Roxane Gay

Steven Karl                                          Matt Hart

Saeed Jones                                         Dan Hoy

AND THEN SOME + 

If we go down into ourselves we will find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The sin in me says 'I.'