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The Paranoid Style in American Poetry

  Presenting a complete list of paranoid contemporary American poets 

Saccades

    (work toward a poem)   “…during each saccade, the eyes move as fast as they can…”   This much is true NO2 aluminum bulbs broken cycle spokes glottal stop frost dew bowling bowl lawn fall   And you, you metallic standing there gluing felt scraps & glitter to flute, recorder & zither while   You on the other […]

Poetry at James Cohan: Matias Viegener and Renée Reynolds this Saturday 3 – 5

Zhai Yongming with Andrea Lingenfelter reading at James Cohan tomorrow!

Ming Pian

The book is printed on business cards, enough card-pages to fill a business card album. Is it about the anxieties of 面子? Yes. No. Maybe. Yes.

BOMB IRAN

A poem from a set written not long after we moved to Shanghai and settled down in the French Concession near the old publisher’s row on Shaoxing Lu (once known as the Rue Victor-Emmanuel III). It was published at some point in Sal Mimeo. I tend not to think about old poems much, but the recent surge in American-Iranian […]

A mix without edge or limit”: Peter Culley’s Hammertown

  Reposting this old Poetry Project Newsletter review of Peter Culley’s Hammertown. One of my favorite poets, he’s also a favorite reviewer — his review of Clark Coolidge’s Far Out West, for example, has always really done it for me, packing more references into less space than almost anything else, ever (to say nothing of the ongoing catablogging […]

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

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 […]