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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Bei Dao’s work employs what I like to call a visual logic. It is the logic that is similar to the way a collage artist puts together images on a surface. The artist takes the forms as they are presented to him/her (by nature) and pieces them together to get some sort of overall picture that conveys a point, either commentary on a past episode or conveying some emotional content. Those smells making you remember again. Curios, fakes, hawkers’. Econom...

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Thursday, November 03, 2005. ALBERT GARCIA SKUNK TALK. This is how I feel I about Albert Garcia’s Skunk Talk. The poems Garcia crafts are small nodules of prayer fashioned to draw attention to minor miracles and enhance their place in the world. The following scene where the speaker drives by and notices a man and a small girl bear witness to the death spiral of a pigeon is an example of just such a moment. A Scene: Driving Past the Corner Market. What did he say, this man.

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Wednesday, October 19, 2005. GEORGE KALAMARAS EVEN THE JAVA SPARROWS CALL YOUR HAIR. When I first read the title piece "Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair" in Facture 3. Back in 2002 (a magazine which, by the way was seemingly a replacement for Sulfur. It seemed to emulate the Clayton Eshleman writing dictum of "driving 100 MPH with your foot on the brake.". Examples of the kind of imagery I am talking about abound in Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Name. Lice of sorrow, ...

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Sunday, April 10, 2005. Hobbled Discourse on Poetic Forms The Sijo. What good is a traditional poetic form outside of the tradition from which it was derived? The constraints are fun to move around in, but one always asks, why 5,7,5 for the syllable count? Why not 7,11,7 in order to appease the gambling set? After a while, I think we can see: why bother? The game is up. One seemingly can point to an answer that mixes genuine curiosity and the genuine ambition to seem erudite)...

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Friday, February 17, 2006. I wish I would have been able to keep Forrest Gander a little longer when he was here a few weeks ago. If I had, I would have asked him what in God’s name he was thinking by selecting Geraldine Kim’s Povel. As the winner of the 2005 Fence Modern Poets Series. When the main character is about to use a bazooka and a kid comes from nowhere and asks him what movie he’s filming." (36). The book is an example (112 pages of it) of hypergraphia informed by ...

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Saturday, March 18, 2006. STEPHEN BURT PARALLEL PLAY. All hail the critic, Callimachus, who appears at crucial moments in Stephen Burt’s book Parallel Play. Graywolf Press 2006] to provide structure and commentary on the life of the poet-critic. Stephen Burt may perhaps be best known for his criticism on Randall Jarrell, who was himself another poet-critic. Throughout Parallel Play. On the book’s back [read blurb. This is the intellectual conceit (or is it project? Let me ato...

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Thursday, December 01, 2005. Juliana Spahr This Connection of Everyone With Lungs. I must admit that I am confused about Juliana Spahr’s book This Connection of Everyone with Lungs. Is the speaker supposed to be pathetic or sympathetic? I’m sure you know the feeling the slight nausea, the vacant stare, and thickheadedness that arises from crunching innumerable data sets, from surfing endless waves of web pages and taking notes on all of them. I say it is the persons you love.

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Monday, September 26, 2005. QUINTON DUVAL JOE'S RAIN". Quinton Duval's book Joe’s Rain. That isn't too taxing or intimidating and discovers a relaxed feeling arriving unexpectedly. His presence is the kind one saves a special bottle for. The bottle is brought out solely for the two of you when he visits. Indeed, beer, wine and bourbon (but no saké) flow throughout the book, but in "Joe’s Rain," another elixir is proffered. This late rain drives. Into the dry soil. Anything&#4...

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Whim, Fetish and Blogorrhea. Friday, April 21, 2006. BRENDA HILLMAN PIECES OF AIR IN THE EPIC. One of the most endearing things about the wind is that it is impossible to harness it as it blows through you. Unless, of course, you happen to be Uakti. Then the wind blows through you and seduces as it does so. In Brenda Hillman’s Pieces of Air in the Epic. Is the second book in a proposed tetrology honoring the four elements. Cascadia. The Value of Empty Protest. Whatever had been charged with it,. Capitol,...