tryin to be offline for awhile doin some PaReNtInG

If you haven't picked up DEATH STYLES by Joyelle McSweeney you should do so. If you don't want to simply take my word for it, listen to this podcast with her and (((David Naimon))) and you will be convinced.
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An extravagant gift, to lock in and discuss poetry, hearing (loss), Death Styles and the Necropastoral with a cosmic voyager (((David Naimon))) —

Needless to say this convo was an eelish silvery transport & a dark dreambox of another kind. Tune in, Dark Stars and Bright Stars!

“I say ‘I’ so you can understand me
but only I know what I am
at this micropoint in the wind that I am also”

nbd, just back in the Rust Belt & being dismantled by the new ⁦Alice Notley⁩

for whatever reason this popped into my head last night, a clip i've always loved—cassavetes driving around LA in 1965 being interviewed by a french guy, 'california girls' comes on the radio, says he wants to make a musical out of crime and punishment, he's snapping to the beat

'Something is missing, and the missing is felt.'

Such a rich reading of Ann Jäderlund's Lonespeech (Albert Bonniers , Nightboat Books ), invoking Celan/Bachmann, Minimalism and the nature of cuts. Forget about 'review,' this is one of the best things I've read about Jäderlund.

Fresh from the unhinged show at the Met Costume Institute, I am all fired up to be giving two readings from Death Styles

— tonight at 192 Books
— and tomorrow at the Poetry Project!

Here’s some style inspo! If you’re around, turn out!

Back in NYC for a minute— just now savoring the elite 20th c. experience of riding in a yellow cab in the summertime with the windows down on the expressway… eat your heart out Marcel Proust …

more Rust Belt death styles inspo: random bike chain in the mud behind our house; our child patrolling with a plastic recorder and moon boots; killer lilacs —

me sitting here in Indiana contemplating which of these classic Midwestern summer looks to pack for my big trip to NYC next week…

Folks, if we're all still on the planet this coming Tuesday, May 14, and you happen to be on the island of Manhattan, won't you join me in conversation with the glamorous Terrence Arjoon at 192books ? Our style, devilish, and our wit, rapier-like, as per always, O my brothers--