Itβs why I stayed away from the convention center hotel nexus!
Itβs why I stayed away from the convention center hotel nexus!
(I will be talkative, witty, and salesy soon enough; tonight I skulk at the hotel bar)
In Baltimore for the thing.
βA new language is what responds to reality where a moral, epistemological jolt has occurred.β
β Ingeborg Bachmann
(from the first Frankfurt lecture)
Taxation season. Be a shame if no one felt they had representationβ¦
Email to my landlord re: my prorated rent
And somewhere in here, drinks?
Absolutely not trying to make the terrible news of the closure of Washington Post's Books coverage about me or anything, but I cannot stress how bad this is for books. The biggest divide between Big 5 and independent/nonprofit press books is not quality--it's the marketing spend.
Thinking about him againβ¦
Seattle friends, Asterism is open 10β5 today for a holiday book sale!
since the British 19C poet Amy Levy is in the news (a trove of letters was recently discovered & made available for research), I will share a link to the volume of her collected poems that we pubβd in the Empyrean Series (no. 30) a couple years ago asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Thought youβd appreciate the placement
Canβt wait for you all to get these in your hands!
βAnd here the earth returned from its year and flew down from the sun above, and the sound sang ever more beautifully and soft: βGo to your earth, you who have not yet died.ββ
ββThe Parson in Jubilee: An Appendixβ (1797), trans. @unpaginated.bsky.social
asterismbooks.com/product/the-burial-of-the-white-wolf-marcia-barbieri
Pre-orders are available for the second installation of the Trilogy of the Body, written by Brazil's freakiest living writer and brought to you by @sublunary.bsky.social.
So very cool. Congratulations!
Cochlear Implant Leppard
Yellow pamphlet, Hydra, Certain Biological and Psychoanalytical Considerations of by Joshua Rothes
Not Immune from Politics What other motto can a collection of heads astride a single body have but one of solidarity? How else would they, this multitudinous maw, treat their collective labor? Should one go hungry because another's jaws snapped shut first? No! Because they, more than we, understand that there may be many gullets, but only one belly! And so I would posit the hydra as communist agitator.
Fully excellent post courtesy of @joshuarothes.bsky.social / NOT IMMUNE FROM POLITICS
It was hot today so I made some chapbooks. Will send you one. Inquire within.
DM me an address!
Remind me your address and one is yours.
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Usual address?
It was hot today so I made some chapbooks. Will send you one. Inquire within.
βArt is utilitarian.
Indeed it is doubtful whether anything like work, war, and money-making is useful to the life of a man.β
βCarnevali, notebooks
Hello a literary prize paid for by submission fees is a raffle thanks.
Now would be a good time to ask yourself if youβre working for the clampdown.
Hard agree
Found this FDR stamp (c. 1968) in my copy of Osvaldo Lamborghiniβs stories, published in Argentina around 2003. Open to interpretations.
Projects Iβll never have time to finish, part whatever. Please enjoy these prototypes for trading cards based on Fernando Pessoaβs many heteronyms and alter egos.