February 2012
11 posts
the faces of people who obviously hate themselves at least sometimes
possess a beauty that is difficult to capture
often it is a beauty that really best exists in motion
the beauty that pours out of them against their will
and in spite of the loathing they feel for what’s in them
a beauty pours from them in spite of their best efforts
to restrict what they emit for fear of letting...
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I'M ANEMIC ROYALTY
I’m so bored of this life of purity
I’m sick of it, honesty
Honestly sick
I bled harder than I’ve ever bled before
It was sunday
Now it’s friday and it’s a bore
To feel this excess blasting through me like a ridge of fat on the far edge of the day
A sun lip just reddening the gristlelight
I’m bored of loving a pure man but how else will I know my...
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THE LAST BOOK LIZ AXELROD LOVED →
was Coeur de Lion
it’s like the rumpus people drank a kool-aid that compelled them suddenly to read my books. i like it. fence seems to be advertising Mercury there too, which was something I thought they didn’t do.
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I look cute today and I would like to go somewhere and be appreciated for it. Guess I’d like to go thrift shopping or somewhere public or something in a cruising zone but my money is so tight I can’t even afford that, much less the cab I would need home. I suppose most people could resolve that problem on the Internet, a blog or whatever. I need immediacy, human contact, and human feelings. I...
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LISA CRYSTAL CARVER →
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BULL-LEAPING →
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GOD OF ROADS
this happened to the father of my best friend last night.
watching the video you can see who the people are in the place we’re from. the newscaster’s indian, she gives me this vibe of strange ambition but i don’t mind her, her haircolor, the good samaritans are italian and irish, and there’s a fifteen-year-old kid, middle-aged women, everyone, it’s...
January 2012
22 posts
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the last book of poetry leanna moxley loved was... →
at the rumpus
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MERCURY reviewed in THE VOLTA →
i’m grateful to Daniel Moyasenko for the sensitivity & rigor of this essay & the sun is shining thru the window and warming my back & illuminating my split ends
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Jeanette Winterson on Henry Miller:
“The question is not art versus pornography or sexuality versus censorship or any question about achievement. The question is: Why do men revel in the degradation of women?”
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YOU HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER AND BEYOND... →
Watchsunder ganglani
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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
17 posts
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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...