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Category Archives: Poems

Notice Tone

Monday, October 3, 2011

Is off the chest box isgardendirt going construction ballsite cold side of Mercury whereall our ornery hormones rip generator airlight or where pure pneumatic hammers durian strapped to a moped form scramble runaround & Jump horny vac jump

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Translation: Two poems by Hai An

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Shanghai poet Hai An recently asked me to work with him on translations of two of his poems in advance of the 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Translators Association. So I did.   A HIGH-SPEED TRAIN With her last glance she sees The scene collapsing out the window. A dragonfly gone A little girl in […]

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Monkey King Screen Test

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

One in a series of dailies writ­ten at head-speed en route to the office on Shanghai’s 10 Line, usu­ally some­where between the Shang­hai Library and the Hongqiao Lu stops around 8:30 in the morn­ing or so. (Though this one was written in the office.) Some­times I’ll post them here.

The name of the series is TOWERS.

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European Airfields

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

One in a series of dailies written at head-speed en route to the office on Shanghai’s 10 Line, usually somewhere between the Shanghai Library and the Hongqiao Lu stops around 8:30 in the morning or so. Sometimes I’ll post them here. The name of the series is Towers.

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Chapbooks in the Cloud, Part 2: Knowledge Follows (Insurance Editions, 2003)

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Published in 2003 by Kostas Anagnopolous’ Insurance Editions, Knowledge Follows was one of three chapbooks featured in the first set of Insurance Editions; the other two were Carol Samotovicz’s Reticular Popups and Kostas’ own Daydream. Marc Kuykendal letterpressed the covers for the first batch of Insurance Editions, and Diane Shaw of goodesign designed the cover and interior and set […]

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Chapbooks in the Cloud, Part 1: New Years (Braincase Books, 2004)

Saturday, March 26, 2011

New Years, Braincase Press 2004. Cover silkscreen by Eric Labenz. Download: New Years (PDF 8.4 MB) Chapbooks are great. A few are printed (100 in the case of New Years), they’re sold off, and given away and… they’re gone. Perhaps they come back into print later as part of a larger collection, but, generally, they disappear onto bookshelves and […]

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