walserandco.wordpress.com is on the WaY. Come visit our table at the Juniper Festival, April 23 & 24.
Meantime: minutesbooks.wordpress.com / minutesbooks.blogspot.com (at the Factory Hollow Press / Notnostrums table at AWP)
Also: Agnes Fox Press arrives: visit their table at AWP and come hear Phil Cordelli and Kate Greenstreet at the Green Street Cafe on April 28th at 7.
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waiting. Thank you for waiting. W is also for Whalen.
Susan Bernofsky is reading Walser at Schoen Books on April 16th–>
Wier, (X is for) X in Fix –> Y is for Yankelevich | Yearous-Algozin –> Z is for Zeavin Zultanski
When? Ask walserco AT gmail.com.
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Olstein, Lisa | Otting, Jacob
to be handwritten in the Minutes
Octopus Books | Octopus Magazine
Ott, Public Domain (Poets & Potes, 1989) One of the greats. 20th anniversary + Mel Ott centennial = original cover price ($8.50), while supplies last. The first poem:
In darkn
When your eyes / to gain’s distracting / blur the fearful / pull of your mate past ease
strain on the road hope / that place your mind only / accomodates hemorrhage
sweet to the edge or ignorance / potent dulce / grips the wheel, to yourself / reddening
may ask the cause / of your trouble
within the germ / a tear, strange to you and past / your thin / nerve driven.
Olson, Proprioception = Writing 6 (Four Seasons Foundation, 1965) $10
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Not Neither Nadelberg, Amanda
Nor By Press | Not Not Not Nostrums
North, Lineup Poems ([Paula North]: 1972) $75
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By dint of reading, you are a member of the Robert Walser Society of Western (and west of) Massachusetts. Not to be confused with the insurmountable Robert Walser Gesellschaft (a Society, which wonderfully offers reduced dues for students and vagabonds) or the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts, with which it happily shares an old firehouse, the RWSWM is the umbrella under the arm of Walser & Company, a future bookshop; until then, the Minutes of the Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts, a book catalog that is also a book, will serve--under its auspices--in its stead. (See letters, links.) By dint of declaration, a reading of the inaugural Minutes will take its place at Schoen Books (see links above and below) on January 25, 2009 (time TBA, possibly all day, probably 6 p.m.), 80 years after Walser entered Waldau, on Virginia Woolf's 47th birthday. (She too was recuperating, having just returned from Berlin, where she had prefigured Walser's encounter with Lenin.)
