January 2012
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YOU HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER AND BEYOND... →
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an interview featuring MERCURY, fears of being... →
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haiti
it is beginning
the midnight
the twelve of this year
our midnight
our twelfth day
in the kingdom of this world
i’ll let the words foam like an air
beaten by wings on the invisible
helmet i wear
on top of my fucking hair
the life hat i wear
over my dead hair
i’ll be silent
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FROM THE DESK OF THE FATHER OF THE BAUDELAIRE...
“Scathing and meek, furious and thoughtful, reckless and careful, brave and frightened, Coeur de Lion is something you’ve never seen before that you already know by heart.” —Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket
what an exquisite gentleman.
incidentally “a series of unfortunate events” is a phrase that appeared with absolutely zero irony in hundreds of desperate...
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Listen
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GOOD MORNING!
it is a beautiful day to speak the language of this century but
my caffeine addiction is so extreme that all i can say is
TUESDAYS AT THE POETRY PROJECT
AND
THURSDAYS AT POETS HOUSE
now now now now now now now now now
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PERMANENT WATER @ THE RUMPUS →
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PLEASE INJECT ME →
please read this
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last night at the poetry project
sometimes when i think about poetry its fragility disgusts me and i want to kill it.
sometimes if it is strong poetry i resent its strength and want to kill it too, sometimes even more.
sometimes i am a healthy person and i just love what is good for being good, and i love what is bad because it is also worthy of love, like the hind parts of the lord that become visible to somebody in the book...
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carina finn interviewed me for htmlgiant and although i think i sound like a retarded biatch you should probably read it.
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HAPPY HAITIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
yesterday i saw two conch shells for sale on a table in greenpoint
also on the table were polish science fiction novels, a golden apple, and a broken typewriter
the man selling the things on the table is a polish man, a homelessness outreach worker
he has a passion for japanese culture and a particular passion for western culture as gazed upon and made sense of in japanese thought
he...
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Watchthis is a new year’s eve present
if you are the first person to guess correctly what i am reading i will send you a signed and “personalized” copy of MERCURY
come on you know sometimes goodbyes are weird
more presents tomorrow
love
a
December 2011
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WHAT TO DO ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
IS SQUEEZE YOURSELF AND YOUR BAYBAY INTO THE POETRY PROJECT
WITH
Ace Mcnamara, Alan Licht with Angela Jaeger, Alex Dimitrov, Amy King, Ana Božičević, Anne Tardos, Anne Waldman with Ambrose Bye & Daniel Carter, Anselm Berrigan, Ariana Reines, Arthur’s Landing, Barry Denny, Basil King, Betsy Fagin, Bill Kushner, Billy Lamont, Bob Hershon, Bob Rosenthal, Brenda Coultas, Brendan Lorber, Brett...
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SOME SODDEN DUMP OR LAMENT, or, binge and purge as...
it was christmas and chanukkah. i went to midnight mass and with what did the sermon begin but a story about one little mordechai and the rabbi who clasped him to his heart, out of a tale from martin buber.
ok, so i just dumped some things from the northern part of the MERCURY/HYMNS AND ESSAYS november tour, and some links and media
and i’ll dump a bunch more tomorrow.
nicer than that...
HUMBOLDT
this show was in the cafeteria at humboldt state and it was fucking amazing
“masculine woods, feminine woods” for aaron scaturro
this is moonstone beach. it looks like the cover of a paperback by maybe manuel puig to me.
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Kasey Mohammad likes Coeur de Lion and Mercury a... →
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“Rainer Werner Fassbinder” from the...
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"ARIA" at POETS+WRITERS →
i didn’t know they published this, i didn’t give it to them, but they published it.
here are some other ways to hear the aria of “aria”:
as a cheerful lullabye
in insomniac agony
as though sleepwalking
rather tenderly and not without self-assurance, like a fine book dropping from the hand of the sleeper to the floor by the bed
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here is a picture of some COEUR DE LION in spanish →
translated by cecilia pavon
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some pictures from the rockypoint reading in los... →
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Reading with Rachel Kushner at The Hammer Museum...
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"Ariana Reines casts a powerful spell with her... →
a review of Mercury in The Brooklyn Rail
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"each word feels chipped from a wall of darkness... →
i think this is nice
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LEAVING PORTLAND AND PORTLAND
farty belly
mirrory reading decor @ FIELD WORK
and MERCURY sigil
stuart reading @ field work
handsome
from THE TREATISE OF FIRE
LABOR TEMPLE
when a prominent freemason of portland died, his friends caused four redwoods to be planted at the four corners of his coffin.
first larissa gave me the pink shoelace that engirded her slender waist. then she made a...
November 2011
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"nauseatingly accomplished" →
puaagh. vomit. puaaagh. more vomit. please come tonight.
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COEUR DE LION at SLATE →
there are some mean comments already, what a thrill
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I WOULD LIKE IT
I would like for writng and inquiry to appear here. But I have a feeling that will not be happening this week or next. It will be snapshots and plugs, photographs of food even, like those vain blogs I loathe.
Even the verb “to share” is covered over in a creepy sheen, given what it means to be given what one has not asked for.
Sitting in a ramen place eating a bowl of miso the...
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STUART KRIMKO
Hello, this is Stuart Krimko.
Stuart is the author of Hymns and Essays, just out from Mal-O-Mar, as well as two volumes of devastatingly sweet verse from Sand Paper Press. Stuart is also the translator of a new volume of The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley, and he is my tour buddy too. Up there he’s holding a sandwich.
The sandwich is delicious, and arrived wrapped in waxed brown...
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BE STILL MY HEART
I’m in Portland, OR. This tour begins tonight. Stuart is to my right, reading Ada, or Ardor. I am on my third Americano.
It is a place called coava that people told us to go to. There’s a table with a drillpress over it, three times the size of my sweetheart’s drillpress; between the coffee and the carpenting equipment it’s like the wet dream of a certain...
October 2011
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B + E / AAA = MERCURY
This is the forearm of Bett Williams. Bett and Emily Stern are writers, visionaries, and lovers in Santa Fe, NM, and the first people to mark themselves with MERCURY marks
that I know of, and in fact I think truly the first ones at all, and this is not to say that MERCURY is the origin of these marks, for it is not, but it is the only place that I know of where they are living together in...
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YESTERDAY'S CORNFLOWERS
This post is YES-esque but YES is dead for the sake of other things. I am still getting used to this new THE INTERNET and how I want to and not to emote in it / to it / for this strange black expunging feeling of the stars of the world shining in my eyes when I close them. Here are yesterday’s cornflowers.
This is a photograph of cornflowers and rye from before the time of color...
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COEUR DE LION at THERUMPUS →
“Cœur de Lion, beautiful and thrilling and wrenching, is filled with the best of this bad writing, the embarrassing confessions and grim details and unfortunate emotions of life. It lays all of this out in a love poem, lyric in every sense of the word, and in its bareness it is a total success. Toward the end of the book, attempting to make sense of her attraction to Jake despite...
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HELLO THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WILL TOUCH YOU EVERY DAY sometimes SOMEHOW / A LOT.
LOVE
ARIANA