Archive for May, 2008

Check out the new digital version of Blandarabrandarar, Brandarablandarar here, an electronic free-book by me and Jón Örn Loðmfjörð. The poems that have been posted so far are Naglasúpa, Besta orðið mitt and Kardinálinn var svo áhugasamur um Norrænar bókmenntir. More poems coming soon!!! »

In a few days I’ll be flying to Iceland, leaving Helsinki summerlong for the green, green grassy knolls of home, Ísafjörður, Iceland (puzzled face). I’m excited. Then there’s Lithuania in June, for a few days, and a week and a half in Toronto in July. I’ll be finishing a book of visual poems, that’ll... »

I’m sweating pure anabolic steroids, & my balls smell like shit. There’s shit on my path and it smells like the dehydrated apples of Kong on my monkey balls. You look for me in the bathtub but I’m already there, dripping. There’s sun in my face – & youth is 4ever. The sun dresses like a greek philosopher peeing himself. »

I can smell your haddock from here whereas in Rome my centurians lie baking clad in black sunglasses stripping to the seducting sounds of Eurotrash Made (in) the U.S.A if and when you tic-tac-toe, and we feel as though you should be reminding him of someone close by. »

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“And surely it is a scandal, I tell my students, how Americans are afflicted with attention-deficit disorder, just like they say in Time magazine, which after all should know, being one of the major sites of infection for the disease it laments, with it’s “you can never simplify too much” approach to prose and... »

Derek Beaulieu’s Chains is out! A beautiful book of concrete poetry! Hip hip hurrah! More information here. Buy it here. Some work from Chains is on Tregawött here. And check out Derek’s EPC site here. Asked to comment to the New Illiterati about his new book, Beaulieu said: “CHAINS, to me, occupies the space between poetry and graphic... »

I’ve updated the visual section of this site, with new videos from New York and Brussels, as well as making changes to the concrete section - mostly navigational, but also added a few pieces. You can see the visual section here - readings here, and concrete here. Next on the program is adding to... »

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