The Hiroshima Poetry Hoax
Emily Nussbaum
in Linguafranca: The Review of Academic Life November 1996
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more on that hoax, and more hoaxes, too:
How Hoaxers Expose The True Fraud Of Artistic Arbiters
Dan Schneider
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Kent Johnson interview
Vert Magazine Issue #9
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paralelos;
a brazilian literary blog that seems representative of something I can almost find.
there's a big bright cloud of artists and writers down there...
if I could only speak Portugese...
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rattapallax
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link path from $Xvarenah$
thru Boston Comment #7, Avant, Post-Avant, and Beyond

Some of the genuine old-timey fiddlers put rattlesnake rattles in their violins to keep out insects, spiders and the like. Italian violinists of 400 years ago kept toads in their instruments for similar duty.
LMBoyd Apr.26.04
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Zaharr A. Hayatti
The Smyrna Time Machine
Gilded Serpent North Beach stars and stories
Cleanliness and Godliness
Golden Toad
Sue Draheim
Floating Lotus Magic Opera and Theatre Company
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Bob Thomas
Bear/Bob Thomas logo for the Dead
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35th annual Berkeley Old-Time Fiddler's Convention
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Lark Camp

Manifesto
Margot Schilpp
Verse Daily

Once I Did Kiss Her Wetly on the Mouth

...her soles were black from ink
they laid her, naked, on my naked chest
so she could swell my breasts with milksong,
so I could warm her skin...


Beth Ann Fennelly
Poetry Daily
Apr.25.04

Constructive criticism of Ms. B. Spears
Sarah Wood in the Sunday Herald (Scotland)
and Colin Paterson with a less constructive, actually ungallant and mean, critique, in the same paper
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It's true that celebrities are more artifact than person, and it's true that as a celebrity Spears has benefitted materially from her position as icon and role model for a generation of young women and girls; but she is one of those girls, and she's one of those young women as well. She's inhabiting, and exhibiting, the female soul of the world.
The problems aren't originating in her. And attacking those problems with scorn levelled at someone in her position is weak and ultimately misguided, if the goal is to make a better world from this one, or even just better art.
Trivial noise and images, but I'll bet there's a lot of worried moms out there still, whose daughters couldn't get enough of their idol and her image and noise.
Does she have a responsibility equal to the power of her celebrity?
I think so, but I don't think it's a responsibility to move to the commands of the politically correct and their own dim-witted ideas of what art should be and do.
What she is, like any true avatar, is what we are.
And her responsibility is to that.

Elemental table.

I had "hit upon" an idea.
Lyn Hejinian
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link path thru San Diego Poetry Guild
from graywyvern

Melissa Auf Du Maur
played bass in Hole...and then joined Smashing Pumpkins

How Dread Clampitt Got Its Name

Foam
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Made Possible by Zhang Huan

Most who've never heard the motto of the Salvation Army are surprised to learn that it's "Blood & Fire."
LMBoyd Apr.22.04

Journal Entry 29 July 1949

Anyway, the Russian delegate on the Allied Council let loose another blast this week, and Ted just finished a draft of a radiogram MacArthur will send to the US government, blasting the commies for their deliberate exploitation of what seems to be a staged provocation. If Washington releases the radio, you will probably have seen it by now.
Back to the kiss for a moment (!) I forgot to mention what seems to be behind the thing is that the Japanese give the kiss the fullest possible sexual significance, whereas we have progressively attenuated its meaning. A kiss is virtually equivalent to the sex act, and if a girl gives a kiss, she automatically gives permission for intercourse. In the traditional circles and villages, even if a girl gives a man her hand she grants permission for fucking. This implies a general tension over physical contact, and this is borne out in such things as the insistence on bowing instead of handshaking between all people, and the real reluctance of Japanese to accommodate themselves to the American handshake custom. People just shouldn't have contact with each other, especially across the sexes. This is breaking down in the cities, of course.


Photos > Portfolio 4 > Women of the Night
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Kaso Mura village children, on their way to school early in the morning on a cold rainy day, stopped in front of the ryokan where the research team was staying.
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The cheeks of some of the children also display the rosy chapping resulting from constant exposure to cold outdoors and also in the barely heated houses.
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Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951:
A Personal and Professional Memoir
John W. Bennett
Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
Ohio State University
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link Far Outliers Apr.21.04

An Pierlé
at 3voor12

A letter

This book consists of a lengthy discussion about the facts of sorcery and possession by demons. It is written in the form of a dialogue, carried on by three sorcerers named Tymon, Eusebius, and Mantus. Most of the engravings in the work show people afflicted with various forms of demoniacal possession, but the illustrations also include depictions of a man being tortured with the "crocodile jaws" and a spiked collar, as displayed here.
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Damned Art
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Glasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis
Thomas Annan
Glasgow Cathedral Windows
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Peacock, Lucy The little emigrant, a tale. Interspersed with moral anecdotes and instructive conversations. Designed for the perusal of youth
Published by Women
Women and Books
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Univ. Glasgow Special Collections

The Ruined Arch

georama

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
-Ezra Pound
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The Modern Word

55th Party Convention of the CPSUZöD

The Ghost of Weather

...so that floors expand, the way
years between the stars expand,
taking on the dimensions
he remembers...


Bruce Bond
Verse Daily Apr.18.04