January 11, 2009

L is for

Landman, Seth | May he be handwritten in the Minutes

Early Arrival

Every palm-held patient feels little in the hand and much in the badge. I chart tides in books, poems about, of, no guile, no guide, not a single feeling on the ferry. Let’s suppose, we play. We play at practical, cook the books, make repairs. The plan is made. Besides having to see Paris, there are times there is God, grafted and famous in home-colors. The lightning swift, the forms selective. Great rivers of procedural curve. Like a pop song breaking on the grain, these are the long hydraulics of the caterwaul. I’m going to teach you how to listen to the science of the laws of any similar sound, to draw pictures of pasture. To roll the pedal over. Love’s a snowstorm, statewide, a synopsis of ice. Usually I miss it, so official and desked in, speaking a new language in the middle of the night. A sign is the end of hints. Publicity as true concern for the path of the mouth. I wonder at hat and gloves of advanced good. Piles of wild. Anthem after anthem on flower parts so like us though safe on the river. Here is the gift of fibers and adding up. Popular parts of songs orbiting the lawn. Walking by a warm house on a cold night, I hear clinking glasses and smell the light. For the radio deals. Why we love what there is in addendum and dodge like human beings. Adapt, and company comes. All around, souvenirs, face to face, hidden years. Keep reading →

January 10, 2009

K is for

Koestenbaum, Wayne

from Six Reasons for Loving Robert Walser

1.  I love Walser for embracing nobody status, transvaluing the state of dwelling on the bottom.

2.  I love Walser for his quick changes of tone, instantly shifting the scales of self-image (and of objective reality) from grandiose enlargement to abject diminutiveness (like Emily Dickinson’s oscillations of scale).

3.  I love Walser for his delicacy of temperament, his vulnerability (his aura of being always already bruised), mixed with a hardy self-reliance and emotional equipoise, unto hypomania.

4.  I love Walser for being socially maladroit.

Kasper, M.

to be handdrawn in the Minutes

January 9, 2009

J is for

Jackson Mac Low

Johnson, Ronald

First Editions of all the cookbooks + RADI OS

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January 8, 2009

I is for

Invisible Ear

from Hans Jenny's KYMATIK

from Hans Jenny's KYMATIK

January 7, 2009

H is for

Hecht, Julie

BLVR: You’ve mentioned a few other writers whom I’ve never read. Thomas Bernhard and Robert Walser. Would you recommend them?

JH: I recommend those books only to people who have a great sense of the absurd and are interested in literature.

Hamady, Walter. FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME GAEBBOERJABB NUMBER FIVE [GABBERJABB] The Perishable Press Limited, Mt. Horeb, WI, 1981. The 100th publication of Hamady’s en-dearing/during press, and the first Gabberjabb to be selected by the AIGA as “One of 50 Best Books of the Year” (a distinction which Hamady has won 13 times — including twice in one year! — but only twice for his signature series: the other being Hunkering, the Last Gabberjabb Number Eight and IX/XVIths in 2006.) 7″ x 5-1/2″. Approximately 42pp. + foldout + flag + 12pp. book of notes in library pocket., 21 printed, handset in Gill Sans and Bifur printed in many colors, including blind, and transparent inks on some seven colors of paper made by hand at Hamady’s own Shadwell Papermill. “(COLOPH ON) (&on&on ) IN THE BEGINNING QUITE this edition was fourteen thousand seven hundred exactly and as you can imagine, it was quite a shock when flares lit the sky and all those unmarked helicopters landed with a lot of noise waking us all 1/2 up. A confucian of swarming events followed: Keep reading →

January 6, 2009

G is for

Gizzi, Peter | “Upon Waking after Reading Walser”

letterpressed into the Minutes by Nor By Press

January 5, 2009

F is for

Factory Hollow

Freedman, Lewis | The Third Word

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January 4, 2009

E is for

Edward Mullany

No Story 

The women who comprised the sewing group met at Anna’s house that week.  The straight-backed chairs they sat in, taken from the dining room and arranged on the carpet in a circle, allowed the women to talk as they sewed or made ready to sew.  Anna provided a sweet fruit punch she’d mixed herself and that she encouraged the women to refresh themselves with.  Without intending to notice, she noticed which of the women helped themselves to the fruit punch and which of them did not.      

Elias Canetti

Today I denied myself Robert Walser for fear he would become a kind of narcotic.

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January 3, 2009

D is for

Davenport (more soon)

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to be handwritten in the Minutes
Devereux, Georgie | DeWeese, Christopher

January 2, 2009

C is for

Christian, Jack | Christle, Heather

MARCH WITH WOUNDED HOUND

In the circle I made the dog move
made pear trees move
And this was good to me if it was
If a piling-on if a pear tree
If all else well spring to you
A ritual walk then a spring ritual
a circle to anybody
and a tail to you and a dog
Wisteria and twila and an airplane
Then an airplane then a palm frond
a walk shape
My ritual was azaleas bloomed
crocus bloomed
Good Tuesday and all to anybody
Or more than anything something pear
made of dog then of scenery

Jack Christian

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