Recently Acquired:
-Facts for Visitors, by Srikanth Reddy. Sasha West, the former managing editor of Gulf Coast, recommended it to me. I borrowed it from the University's library, liked it, but never got around to get it.
-Grave of Light: New and Selected Poetry 1971-2005, by Alice Notley, which includes sections of the out-of-print Descent of Alette, which Johannes called one of the major work of the second half of the 20th century.
-Selected Poems, by Charles Olson.
-2048, by Wong Kar-wai.
The preceding images are part of the "Comic Corpse" project I had undertaken a couple of months ago with Lauren Kohne, Johnny Sakkis and Claire Webb. The idea was to have each one of us draw a page, pass it on to the next person and see if a narrative would emerge from this. Johnny gave it its name. I drew the first page, Lauren the second and the project kinda collapsed from there. Lauren and I thought it would be a good idea to expand the project to the four cornered room instead of just the four of us. In a sense, it might be more interesting since there would be more people involved. So if you want to add a page, just join the MySpace group, put a word there, start working and post the image of what you've done in the corresponding thread.
-Facts for Visitors, by Srikanth Reddy. Sasha West, the former managing editor of Gulf Coast, recommended it to me. I borrowed it from the University's library, liked it, but never got around to get it.
-Grave of Light: New and Selected Poetry 1971-2005, by Alice Notley, which includes sections of the out-of-print Descent of Alette, which Johannes called one of the major work of the second half of the 20th century.
-Selected Poems, by Charles Olson.
-2048, by Wong Kar-wai.
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The preceding images are part of the "Comic Corpse" project I had undertaken a couple of months ago with Lauren Kohne, Johnny Sakkis and Claire Webb. The idea was to have each one of us draw a page, pass it on to the next person and see if a narrative would emerge from this. Johnny gave it its name. I drew the first page, Lauren the second and the project kinda collapsed from there. Lauren and I thought it would be a good idea to expand the project to the four cornered room instead of just the four of us. In a sense, it might be more interesting since there would be more people involved. So if you want to add a page, just join the MySpace group, put a word there, start working and post the image of what you've done in the corresponding thread.
Comments
It could be that Notley wanted it to go out of print so that she could put it in the selected. That's what Haryette Mullen did for Recyclopedia (why you have to pay big bucks to get Spermarkt on the Net).
Maybe it was hypocritical of me to say that it was a "major" book when I've been such a jerk about criticizing others for making such statements. Oh well. It's never too late to change.