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"You cannot say you are Christian and kill, burn, destroy your brother," Dieudonne Nzapalainga, the archbishop of Bangui, said on Vatican Radio.
He said members of the anti-balaka militias "cannot believe that they are being coherent with their faith" and defined their attacks as a "struggle for power".
"Imams, pastors and myself, we speak the same language... We ask that those who use, who manipulate young people, be held responsible on a national and an international level," the Catholic cleric said.
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The impoverished Christian-majority country descended into chaos last March after the rebellion overthrew the government, sparking deadly violence that has uprooted a million people out of a population of 4.6 million.
Atrocities, the fear of attacks and a lack of food have displaced a quarter of the country's population, while the United Nations and relief agencies estimate that at least two million people need humanitarian assistance.
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Mr. Biscardi was formerly a longtime resident of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and was born to the late Sarah and Louis Biscardi on April 24, 1933.
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I can't really comment on whether that's a cool case or not… I can't see anything other than smallish pictures of the front. They should get a photo gallery of some sort up.
Posted by Stryfe in South Bend, IN on September 2, 2004 at 11:50 AM (CDT)
Neat - a glorified Altoids box!
Posted by Ape on September 2, 2004 at 12:39 PM (CDT)
honestly can't tell how you access the front controls from the photos…
the site's not very informative (except the Buy Now! part)...
Posted by mvague on September 2, 2004 at 12:56 PM (CDT)
My guess is that it is identical to the 3g model with the exception of not having 4 holes for the 3g buttons on the face.
Posted by tech on September 2, 2004 at 1:09 PM (CDT)
oooo I just ordered mine! I almost passed up on ordering the 4G until this case was ready (probably should have, since my first 2 4G Ipods had the audio defect!) The 3G version of this case was wonderful—I'm sure the 4G is too! Durable, cool-looking, dead easy to get the 'Pod in and out, great belt clip system (that is actually made by the same manufacturer as the case—unlike many other cases) and horizontally mounted, so it is easy to work out, sit, etc., while wearing the case. Can't wait to get the new one!
Posted by random person on September 2, 2004 at 3:39 PM (CDT)
please make a 20 gb case
Posted by snap on September 2, 2004 at 3:57 PM (CDT)
Great Case!!! I ordered 2
The front has a cutout for the Click Wheel so it can be used without opening. I had a 3G with this case and nothing comes close.
Posted by Arakiss on September 2, 2004 at 5:57 PM (CDT)
i own one for the 3rd generation. greatest investment i've made. i will however caution people who by one about the edges in the case that can scratch the iPod if it's not placed inside carefully. that was my only problem with the case. but once inside it's like the iPod put on superman's suit, indestructable. i will say that the scratches are small and nothing a little buffing won't do away with. to snap, the 40G case should work with the 20G iPod, there's just a piece of foam that goes in with the iPod to compensate the thickness. and i totall agree with stryfe…this site needs a gallery for the pictures cause i'm getting sice of looking at small photos.
Posted by brian on September 2, 2004 at 7:49 PM (CDT)
I ordered mine as soon as I received the email announcement from Contour. I have two of the 3G cases and love them.
Shortly after my new order was placed I received an email stating that the black case, which I had ordered, would be ready to ship on the 13th. I could change my order to white and it would ship immediately.
So it appears that we have to wait a bit for the black case. So be it… it's worth the wait! :)
Posted by Rich in Rhode Island, USA on September 2, 2004 at 8:53 PM (CDT)
I had the 3G ones too, and while my latch lasted the 10+ months I had it (when it first came out in Oz), a friend of mine brock the latch after opening and closing it too many times, and when he told me I checked mine and I can see the hairline crack appearing.
It is a great case if you want it to last only a year, nothing more… and I'd recommend black over white as it got drity pretty quickly.
Also it does add bulk but not too much - just so you know.
Posted by voodoo on September 2, 2004 at 11:43 PM (CDT)
Hi , does this contour case itrip friendly? i mean Can i use the itrip with the case on?
Posted by timethinker in philippines on September 3, 2004 at 1:51 AM (CDT)
also choosing between the iskin evo 2 & contour case which is better?has anyone of you tried these 2 cases?how do they compare?i am still contemplating which case to buy your inputs will be highly appreciated .
Posted by timethinker in philippines on September 3, 2004 at 1:57 AM (CDT)
Contour is a high class product in comparison to iSkin.
That also means you pay more with Contour, but not too much.
To me i see iSkin as 'fun' kiddy product. Yeah silicon is great and everything but, come on. GLOW IN THE DARK! YAY!
Posted by To Above on September 3, 2004 at 2:02 AM (CDT)
The white cases get dirty very quickly.
Posted by loGan on September 3, 2004 at 5:50 AM (CDT)
I have a showcase for my 3rd gen iPod. It works fairly well. It does tend to scratch the screen a little despite the pads inside the case. Also the belt clip for the case is just thin plastic. The first clip broke and (I give them credit) they replaced it with no hassel and free of charge. But the replacement clip just broke.
Posted by zb on September 3, 2004 at 6:06 AM (CDT)
Love my Contour Showcase! If I had a 4th gen iPod I'd get another one. Despite what some other posters have mentioned, I haven't had any problem with the case scratching my iPod, nor have I had any problems with the latch. Highly recommend this case!
Posted by AndyH in Berwyn, PA on September 3, 2004 at 6:24 AM (CDT)
where can we order this from if we live in the uk?
Posted by giles on September 3, 2004 at 10:51 AM (CDT)
My 2nd gen iPod and Contour case (the one with the sliding front panel) are still in good condition after nearly two years of heavy use. When I upgrade to the 4th gen 'Pod, I'll definitely buy another Contour.
Posted by Chimpee on September 3, 2004 at 1:12 PM (CDT)
For those who ordered..how much is shipping (in US)????
Posted by poddly on September 3, 2004 at 2:00 PM (CDT)
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Greece-based container ship & drybulk ship owners and operators Euroseas have released its results for the three month period and full year ended December 31, 2013, with the following highlights:
Full year 2013
Aristides Pittas, Chairman and CEO of Euroseas commented:
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Face Painting in the Dark by Ann Cefola, Dos Madres Press, 2014
Full disclosure: Ann Cefola and I graduated from the same MFA class at Sarah Lawrence College. Looking back, I'm usually discouraged to find less and less of us are still working as writers.
W. H. Auden once made a prediction about successful writers: not one who has something burning to say, but one who is in love with with language. I find this to be a true measure of my MFA friends. Those who have continued to write are in love with words and sentences. Also, the successful writer is compelled to keep going, compelled to keep writing whenever they can. They don't make excuses about having no time or inspiration. Their time is sacred to them and they defend it. Ann Cefola has kept going and she has been an inspiration to me. She's kept working on her poems, on poetry newsletters and blogs. She's published two chapbooks and now a first collection. Over the 14 years I've known her, she's kept on keepin on and she's encouraged me to keep on, too.
My reading of her work has evolved over the last 14 years. Her poems are tight and her juxtapositions are advanced. Reading her now I see the art of containment and the order of her constructed phrases. Her poems sometimes feel like incantations in their brevities. The juxtapositions between poems are particularly good in the new collection so that even the older chapbook poems feel new.
I am beginning to see her phrases like very particular paint strokes, cerebral leaps. I have always loved that her poems express a kind of thinking in process.
There are many new, explosive poems in this book...the poem about Picasso's "Demoiselles" being one example, a conversation with the subject of the painting, the women. Full with very smart allusions and juxtapositions, Ann and the divas work through history's responses to the painting. I've recently read about two types of feminism: that which deconstructs and that which reconfigures (or revamps) the situation of being a woman. I feel this poem does both, comparing the Demoiselles to WNBA players and ending with the incredible line, "I am just a girl writing." This poem blew my head off.
I found many exciting transgressive strokes all through the book. There are poems about identity and making ourselves up, poems about New York City, office spaces, a really unique 9/11 poem, a veritable stroke of a "before."
From "Shrapnel"
"A live hand across two world wars
astounded and mourning between lines
your point sharp, your No. 1 pencil so delicate,
so willing to be erased."
From "Express," a poem about taking the train into the city:
"Heavenly bodies, arching above
warm coffee, cinnamon and yeast below.
Stretching doughy muscles and sweet cells,
we like small loaves expand, turn golden, rise."
This time around, I notice Ann's 3-4 word phrases that are very tight and feel like assemblages that build to a mood. Ann also knows and uses the power of punctuation.
From "Forceps"
"Soul braces, Here we go. No cheers:
Cold city street. People rushing to trains,
What will happen to me? – I don't know, sweet pea?"
Ann also captures the spirit in the suburbs. Fro the poem "Price Club"
"I want transubstantiation, to be taking up in cornflakes."
She artfully weaves a phrase through the poem "North by Northwest" and "Anthem" is a lovely meditation on the afterlife of an ant. Time after time, Ann puts herself in wildlife poems.
I highly recommend this first collection by Ann Cefola.
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield, 2001
I found this book at my local library recently and thoroughly enjoyed her poems of noticing and mindfulness, which I realize is not for everyone. If you've ever engaged in any Buddhist practice, you might love these poems, too.
Hirshfield has a particular quietness like watching monks chop wood or chop carrots. They are full of small rituals, meditations on choice. She expresses a kind of spiritual movement and stasis.
In structure and tone, her poems remind me of other lyric poems of the 1990s. At one point her sister asks, "Does a poem enlarge the world, or only your idea of the world?"
My favorite poems here deal with existence and changes. Hirshfield's book contains an ant poem, too: "Like an Ant Carrying Her Bits of Leaf or Sand"
"The ant's work belongs to the ant.
The poem carries love and terror, or it carries nothing."
From "Red Berries"
"The woman of this morning's mirror
was a stranger
to the woman of last night's"
In "The Room" Hirshfield expresses a fear of new love with the act of preparing the house for a new guest to come and then the "shivering hopes" that "follow it in."
From "Apple"
"One takes a bit, then the other.
They do this until it is gone."
This is the work of a spiritual practice. In "Rebus," she talks about the red clay of grief and asks "How can I enter the question the clay (grief) has asked?"
For me, some of the poems in the middle are vague. There are many contemplations of objects: buttons, pillows, carpet, an onion, a rock, clocks, ink. She is exploring thusness.
Dreams and identity are also recurring themes.
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The November 2014 issue of The Atlantic has a good article called "Passive Resistance" written by Steven Pinker about how "the active voice isn't always the best choice.
American Poetry Review Sept/Oct 2014 has an article by Jason Schneiderman on the friendship between Agha Shahid Ali and James Merrill and talks about Merill's ouija board book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover." This poem is not included in his collected works, by the way. In the same issue there's an essay about the grotesque in poetry by Anna Journey. There's also a special suppplement of poems and commenorations on Stephen Berg, one by David Rivard and one by Edward Hirsch.
And finally the issue has a good overview of the most famous confessional poems and how their writers use pronouns and a retrospective of Pete Seeger.
Poets & Writers Sept/Oct 2014 Issue
This issue has interviews with both Edward Hirsch and Louise Glück. Hirsch says:
"I think to have poetry, you need to have all kinds of different poets. We need poets to write playful, funny poems, poets who write light verse; I don't think we should neglect that. But should that be the defining feature of your poetry? Is that how you want your poetry to be remembered? I guess that's up to people in the culture. But it's also true that we live in a very superficial culture. We live in a culture that's driven by entertainment, by celebrities, so there's plenty in the culture to distract us and lighten us up. People who turn to poetry, I don't think y're looking for something gloomy, but I do think they're looking for something deeper than the superficial exxperiences you get in the culture every day."
Also, three poets discuss keeping a journal. There's a great essay on narcissism and entitlement by Steve Almond and an article on the Savvy Self-Publisher and another one on MFA alternatives that talks about classes in urban areas outside of the college system:
The combination of innovative pedagogy, lower costs, and a focus on the craft of writing can make private writing workshops an attractive alternative to traditional MFA programs.
Just as happened with iTunes, Air B&B and Uber, the high cost and low-return (and greed of executives at the top) of bloated organizations will be driving customers to startup alternatives.
You can check your local library for older issues of these magazines.
Posted on 11/16/2014 at 04:39 PM in Craft, Poetic Realities, Publishing, Whole Life of the Poet | Permalink | Comments (0)
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I've been sitting on this book, The World of the Ten Thousand Things by Charles Wright, for about 17 years, moving the book from New York to Pennsylvania to California (3x in California alone) to New Mexico (3x there, too). Finally I buckled down to read it and, like many things you put off for so long, you realize you should have read this years ago. But would you have loved the book's ghostly vagueness 17 years ago. Definitely not. So you then realize you've carried this book around so long waiting for the "Wright time" -- as it were -- to read it.
I'm working on a novel about the ghosts of a dying western town so of course this book's poems about the dead attracted me. Years ago I may have found Wright's poems difficult and distant, too much well-readedness on his sleeve, the type of thing Helen Vendler and Hart Crane would like...and my friend Teresa who loved Hart Crane and Jorie Graham and recommended we go to the poetry reading at the 92nd Street Y in New York City to see Graham and Wright read. This is where I bought the book long before I was ready for it.
Wright gets at that under-layer of nature poems, the almost gothic, elegiac layer of it...without coming across as completely Southern gothic. The books is also full of poems about artists (Cezanne a favorite), incidents of mysterious beauty. His thoughts flow about seemingly unedited. He experiments with variations: variations of self-portrait experiments, variations of journaling (one poem written over a calendar year). There is a lot of religion here: transfiguration, crosses, sin and plenty of nature's surreality and landscapes that undo us, abstractions of the seasons. In this way the book felt like a giant (and I mean giant) haiku.
The poems fly across the page in indents and with parentheticals. There is plenty of high-culture here too: music, painting, wine. He takes lots of car drives, invokes the act of licking a lot.
True, Wright often gets lumped with the language poets and he admits, "Language can do just so much" but there is plenty of aboutness in his poems, plenty of scene, plenty of voice. There's almost a sense of a man in early 50s midlife crisis here.
I've lost touch with Teresa 15 years ago...but I can still hear her reading excerpts of these poems to me.
From "Composition in Grey and Pink"
The souls of the day's dead fly up like birds, big sister,
The sky shutters and casts loose.
And faster than stars the body goes to the earth.
Head hangs like a mist from the trees.
Butterflies pump through the banked fires of later afternoon.
The rose continues its sure rise to the self.
From "A Journal of True Confessions"
The new line will be like the first line,
spacial and self-contained,
Firm to the touch
But intimate, carved, as though whispered into the ear.
Likewise I loved Adobe Odes by Pat Mora. I found out about Mora from a book on Southwestern literature and art. These odes are done in the spirit of Pablo Neruda (she even includes an ode to him) but they are fabulously about New Mexican subjects. My favorite ones were odes to adobe, guacamole, kitchens, chiles, chocolate, names, the cricket, tea, toes, bees, apples, church bells, and cottonwoods. I also liked some of the idea odes: desire, hope, courage.
Some of the odes wander a bit far from their target (ode to Santa Fe) but Mora knows what it takes to make a good ode, scrumptious and tactile language. I'm going to give this book away as a gift for my friends in New Mexico and my friends who love the state, but live elsewhere.
A few weeks ago I also read Mora's book Aunt Carmen's Book of Practical Saints which is similar but about ode-like explorations of Catholic saints.
Good Poems for Hard Times." I got this book used and it was one of my bathtub poetry books. I need variety when I'm reading in the bathtub.
Having has so many hard times in New Mexico, I was expecting to like this anthology more than I did. I just don't think Garrison Keillor (the editor) and I have the same rubric for either hard times or good poems.
However, there were enough good poems in here for me to justify keeping this book on hand:
"There Comes the Strangest Moment" by Kate Light
The Carnation Milk poem
"Happiness" by Michael Van Walleghen
"The Rules of Evidence" by Lee Robinson
"Minnesota Thanksgiving" by John Berryman
"High Plains Farming" by William Notter
"In Bed with a Book" by Mona Van Duyn
and some poems that I feel would be very moving at a funeral:
"Dawn Revisited" by Rita Dove
"Crossing the Bar" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Everyman's Library of Pocket books puts out these little novelty poetry anthologies that I'm always wanting to buy: ghost poems, Irish poems, jazz poems, comic poems, Christmas poems. There's a ton. The only other one I have is Zen Poems which I did not love. Because I'm working on a novel with a murder in it, an anthology of poems about murder seemed necessary to read. And so I bought Killer Verse, poems of murder and mayhem. Loved it! Sections are divided between family murders, murder ballads, Vers Noir, the inner-workings of murders, psycho killers, victims and meditations on murder. You get both old and new here, from anonymous ballads to Robert Browning to Marie Howe.
For years I've loved the segment of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour where Sonny & Cher sang called "Stagger Lee" (famously done by The Grateful Dead) and in this book I came across the poem from which is was based: "Stackalee."
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Galway Kinnell has died. His obituaries:
Last summer, for my family reunion in Bandon, Oregon, I took this poem, "On the Oregon Coast," to read during talent show night. I didn't end up reading it as the poem was too long, the crowd was too restless, and the text was slightly political. (Our reunion banned anything political.) I did however give the poem to my mother before the reuinion was over.
The first book of poetry I ever read was Powers of Congress by Alice Fulton but I didn't get that book so it doesn't count. I'm planning to re-read it since I recently enjoyed Palladium so much. In any case, I consider the first book of poetry I ever read to be the first one I ever fully understood. That book was Galway Kinnel's The Book of Nightmares.
In other news...
BBC America has a new movie about the last days of Dylan Thomas.
Archaeologists are now searching for Federico García Lorca lost grave.
Bordello-style poetry readings at the Poetry Brothel
I 've been reading the collected poems of Carl Sandburg (the book has 800 freaking pages!) looking for New Mexico poems for a project I'm doing. I found this poem in his book Slabs of the Sunburnt West, "Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry." It's a list of metaphors for what poetry is. I like some of them like "Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language" and "Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes."
Others are redundant and some make me scratch my head like "Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes" and "Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts."
I went to see a lecture last month give by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum called "Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line." The talk dealt with his connection to the Alfred Stiglitz circle, how he learned through the making and drawing of maps, about his friendships with Duchamp, Diego Rivera and Andre Breton. The talk defended caricature as abstraction.
Covarrubias did a series for Vanity Fair Magazine called Impossible Interviews. Here's one with Freud and Jean Harlow and another with Sally Rand and Martha Graham.
I just found new versions of Impossible Interviews by David Kamp with ones like Russel Brand and Vladamir Putin and Kim Jong-Un with Anthony Bourdain.
Interesting idea for a series of poems.
Posted on 11/03/2014 at 07:40 PM in Poetry News, Poetry Technology, Whole Life of the Poet | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Last year I went through the Geencine library and marked for my que about 20 art and poetry documentaries. The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993) is pretty basic. No fancy editing or music. It's no Searching for Sugarman. But enjoyed it nonetheless and learned much about Allen Ginsberg, mostly from interview footage of Ginsberg made specifically for the documentary.
Luckily, I saw Allen Ginsberg read twice in New York City before he died in 1997. Both times he performed "Put Down Your Cigarette Rag (Don't Smoke)" which was a very funny poem as I recall it. But I have to tell you, I wouldn't have gone to see Ginsberg read if my friend Julie hadn't arranged it. Julie went to as many concerts, readings and events in New York City as she could and she often counteracted my shut-in-tendencies.
I don't know why I've never been much of a Ginsberg fan. Watching this video I surmised my hurdle must have been his buck teeth and fat lips, a pretty shallow reason indeed. I also think I assumed, as the king of all hippies, he was going to be untouchable and maybe somewhat spaced-out. The movie showed me he was neither out-of-it or full of himself.
The film chronicles his life with his own photos and in his own words with important interviews from his brother and step-mother. We also see footage of appearances at rallies and on TV shows like William Buckley's and later Dick Cavett's.
Watching William Buckley's obvious distaste for Ginsberg, it occurred to me we've traded someone like Buckley for Rush Limbaugh. At least Buckley didn't echew intellectualism. We were better off with Buckley.
Ginsberg talks at length about his mother's mental illness and how it affected him, how this produced his sympathy for "people in trouble." He says he inherited a kind of "poetic paranoia." We also learn about his father, poet and teacher Louis Ginsberg, how close they were and how his father influenced his poetry. We see footage of a poetry reading they did together.
The film also covers interviews with the other Beat writers William Burroughs and Herbert Huncke. Jack Keroac and Neal Cassidy are discussed. Ginsberg talks about what they all contributed to the group, how they would meet at Foster's Cafeteria.
Throughout, Ginsberg seems concerned with the social aspects of being a poet and writer. We can see how this would evolve into social protest. In this film, he's called a cosmic social worker or cosmic public defender.
I kept noticing how Ginsberg would talk and rub his chin and beard with his fingers. I couldn't remember who this reminded me of. Then it came to me: actor Jeff Goldblum does this!
We hear clips of Ginsberg reading "Howl" then and now and there's a long segment and reading of "Kaddish."
There are also interview clips with Abbie Hoffman, Joan Baez (who called Ginsberg colorful but serious), Ken Kessey and Tim Leary. We learn when Ginsberg met Dylan and how he ended up in the movie Don't Look Back.
The disastrous 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago is addressed and Ginsberg describes how it turned to violence. He calls the event a liberal failure and says the blood resulting from the remaining years of the Vietnam War are on the hands of the right and the left (due to how this event resulted in the election of Richard Nixon).
We see Ginsberg doing Buddhist chanting and learn about his involvement with Naropa University and his study with Chögyam Trungpa and how Ginsberg started (with Anne Waldman) the Jack Keroac school of poetry where students study "spontaneous babbling."
Ginsberg also talks about his personal relationship with Peter Orlofsky and the lessons he had to learn about co-dependency. He talks about the death of his parents.
His Stepmother expresses amazement that Ginsberg can write about his life as it happens, as if he's releasing his feelings "along the way." She says his father was very proud of him and that he was a good son.
Posted on 11/03/2014 at 07:08 PM in Poetry Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Last week I finished Archaeology by Linda Simone and I was reminded of some lessons in any kind of small or self-publishing.
It's good to note here that this book was produced under the banner of Flutter Press whose website insists they are not a vanity press but that they use Print-On-Demand technology, in their case, they print through Lulu. This puts them in between a small press and a self-publishing co-op. They choose authors to help through the process of POD and give them a logo to print under. In their mind, they see themselves as a small press
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There were some tell-tale signs of amateur POD with this book.
If your publisher isn't going to stringently proof your book, you need to pay for someone do it. Your reputation is the only one that counts.
All these rules of publishing should be learned even if you work with this kind of small, POD press such as this. Maybe in this case this author didn't want to risk the self-publishing stigma, but the result is a book that looks self-published.
There's a small press in Santa Fe that charges you to publish your work, in the line of about $3,000. Amazingly, they offer no services with that. Their editor told me himself, "Poets hate to be edited." Meanwhile their books are full of typos and grammatical errors. I know a prominent local academic who published with this press and received a bad cover and a book full of layout errors. It's embarrassing and it shouldn't happen.
CreateSpace is free but if you truly need help navigating publication or you don't like Amazon, there are other legitimate options. The Fine Print of Self-Publishing by Mark Levine evaluates all POD publishers, including Lulu.
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Truthfully, I bought "Yesterday I Saw the Sun" by Ally Sheedy expecting it would be the worst in a bunch of celebrity poets. I was again surprised.
This is actually Ally Sheedy's second book. When she was a tween, she published a successful children's book, She Was Nice to Mice. Turns out her mom is a publicist and there's a literary agency in her family, Charlotte Sheedy.
There's also a long list of thank-you's in the front of the book that includes plenty of brat-pack names from her 1980s-era movie peak.
All that insider stuff aside, this was a pretty raw and interesting book. Sure, there are some cliches employed, including the typical "hanging by a thread," once when we were literally talking about a doll's eye, later figuratively.
But what Sheedy did well was to capture the gamut of drama in a young teen girl's life...and not the squeaky-clean kind of teen: all the tears, mysterious love, intense drama of feeling, bulimia, sexuality, loneliness, rehab (that poem even rhymes), imitations, ideals, mother conflict, the murder of a friend, abortion…all the serious teen issues are here.
Talking about friendship with other women in a poem called "A Man's World" was a strong moment and the poem "Amends" was clever.
Her search for magical womanliness reminded me of the discussion on Texas Chicana writers in the book The Desert is No Lady, Chicana writers who have Aztec goddesses at their disposal, a heritage anglo women do not have.
Sheedy also provides snapshots of Hollywood circa the early 1980s, experiences with rock and rollers. Could Paris Hilton have written this at her age. I don't think so.
Sheedy even rewrites herself. This is a teen's obsession with her coming out into complicated worlds of womanhood and love. And through it, I remembered all my 16/17 year old melodramatic self. This are poems in typical teen languages but what you get is literally a rite of passage in action. I don't know why we don't honor this.
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A Mutable Place by Virginia Corrie-Cozart, 2003: I found this book when I was in Oregon for my family reunion, specifically at the town museum in Bandon-by-the-Sea. My mother grew up one town down the coast from Bandon in Port Orford. This book provided exactly what I was looking for, poems about the coastal towns of southern Oregon.
But this book provided many other surprises. Tom Crawford, who I met at the Institute of American Indian Arts two years ago, was listed in her acknowledgements as a mentor. And not only did I get a glimpse of the location which I was looking for, but Corrie-Cozart is my mother's age. So I felt these poems matched my mother's own stories of her pre-teen and teen life: the food, the crafts, the weather, the local birds, the school memories, the pathways childhood takes.
At first I felt some of the poems dissolved into detail lost from any kind of point, but they grew on me. The first sections on childhood seemed like image streams but later sections were more narrative.
Specific poems that reminded me of my mother dealt with piano lessons, leaving the coast for state college, sunlight and cold mornings, the Coquille River, scenes on the beach, young girls on horses, logging trucks, pig tails, blackberries, cribbage, and versions of back-country meandering I imagine my own mother taking. Interestingly Corrie-Cozart leaves the coast of Oregon for one poem where she contemplates southwestern desert landscapes as seen on a jigsaw puzzle she's working on. My mother married and left the coast for the first time to spend 13 years in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
We also find poesm about the big Bandon fire and the Oregon caves. Many of the later poems deal with memory and order. The final section are contemplations on aging, illness and the death of close friends, similar issues my own mother is working through these days.
Another purposes of the blog is to discuss books of poetry in a way that will match readers up with books based on topic areas. For instance, my mother doesn't love poetry. But if ever there was a perfect book of poetry she would likely enjoy as a gift, this is the one.
The Internet has made the world a mess of information. The issue is finding what you need. Poets can find readers if they market their poems by subject.
Mom, if you read this, you know what you're getting for Christmas.
I guess as a bonus, The Poetry Foundation sent me this book recently, The Book of Goodbyes, by Jillian Weise. This book won their James Laughlin Award last year. And I loved it too.
Honestly, I feel like I've been on a run of very good books lately. Even the poetry ones. Is my mind more open? Because I start out very skeptically with them all.
Like the others, I wasn't impressed with the first poems in this book; but then I caught on to some cryptic but sinewy connections floating through them that were quietly compelling. In a minor way, this is a book about Weise's disability. But more so, this is a book about the end of an affair.
Weiss takes a Joni-Mitchell-like "both Sides Now" approach to studying this illicit affair. All the while I was reminded of the One Story Magazine short story I received last month called "Meteorologist Dave Santana" by Diane Cook. Both pieces were snapshots of 'the other woman' or the woman trying to become 'the other woman' and the struggles for actualization or dissolution of an affair.
The book contains alluring and modern titles like "Decent Recipe for Tilapia." In it's survey of bad relationships, the book reminded me also of Lisa D. Chavez and yet it didn't contain quite a likewise white girl's rage against Chavez's Chicana-rage, but the poems are raw in their own way.
I loved the long poem sequence about finches. I found the section titles unoriginal. We could have dispensed with them. This book also threads in some pop-culture lite, taking on things like Skype. This book was like 50 shades of goodbye to an affair with some bonus material, like the ingenious poem about the politics of being a disabled poet via overheard criticism.
This book, the Walt Whitman Award winning book, was part of my membership upgrade. This 2013 winner was Chris Hosea with Put Your Hands In. John Ashbery picked the book so you know it's gonna be languagy. In fact, Ashbery's comments on the back invoke the Armory Show and the avant-garde.
I love Ashbery. I truly do. But the Armory show was in 1913. It's officially 100 years old and we continually invoke it like it can still qualify as avant-garde. News flash: it can't. It's so far from being modern you want to smack something.
That said, I didn't hate this book. It even started with a great quote by Paul Blackburn: "The dirty window gives me back my face." I get that.
For me, language poems and their techniques only work for so long before I want to start seeing a through line. Drifting in the gaps is only a condition I want to be in temporarily before I get bored with reading a list of fragments compiled. But Hosea's poems usually end with a kind of semi-glue like his chaos wants to settle by the end. There are 11 pieces of writing around family, a somewhat form that seems like an attractive practice. The poems about being gay have impressive energy.
This is also not a suburban book. His streets are full of drugs, fucks, motels and the homeless.
I loved the poem "All You Can" (about eating) and loved his "Poetry is the cruelest month" cleverness in "The Great Uncle Dead" and any commentary he had to say about poetry, such as in "New Make:"
… Joe wants
to free poetry from
deliberate space of wail
conveys a need for hugs
one more future among none
I also liked the end of section 5 of "Songs for a Country Drive:"
...otherwise pull
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the last ten books you read
I feel Hosea tells us the whole point of his languagist adventures in the last lines of his book
ending section 6 of the same poem with:
…I've been told if there is a riptide
you let it take you
out and then on
a diagonal you
swim back
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I've been working on turning my manifesto into a small eBook. I realized that writing a manifesto sounded ridiculous. But while working on my topic, a side result was learning about advertising techniques and how you can tell a lot about an audience by what gets advertised to them (and how things get advertised to them).
Over the past few years I've been alarmed by the number of MFA ads in my American Poetry Review, American Poets and Poetry London magazines. Granted, the classified ads provide a nice sample of variety, the main ads are mostly for MFAs. No silly little Bachelor of Arts for us.
Some publishers advertise and you see the random ad from an independent poet, but it appears that MFA are all poets care about.
Now I'm the sort of person these ads appeal to. I have and MFA and when I see these ads, I still want each one. Usually, my desire corresponds to the location of the school. But even outback locations sometimes appeal.
Then I remember I have one, and aside from the friends I made there, it's not doing me much good. I have loads of debt and some school pride whenever people ohh and ahh over my Sarah Lawrence degree. The value is in the social cachet and the occasional swanky alumni events I used to attend in Los Angeles. I hate to say these things because there are some very fine teachers who are MFA professors.
The useless and attractive MFA program isn't the issue here. It's the fact that this is all there is on the advertising pages of poetry journals. It's like we're a one-eyed monster craving only MFA degrees. Do we not read novels or go on vacations? Do we not eat tofu? Try to sell me something else, please! A meditation bell. Here are some ideas:
Top 10 Things You Can Sell To Poets That They Might Possibly Buy:
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Posted on 10/19/2014 at 03:24 PM in Lifestyles of Poets | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Part of the point of this blog is to get to know some of the many, many poets out there past and present. This goal was helped along by The Poetry Foundation when they lured me into another level of membership by promising me this video and an award-winning book once a year.
The DVD they sent promised "intimate film profiles" with "Masters in the Art of Poetry Reading Their Work Discussing Their Craft, Recounting Their Lives." Pretty serious stuff.
My initial frustration was over the fact that no running times were listed on the cover or on the disc. Each of these PBS-style profiles turned out to be about 20 minutes long.
Each profile provided a scan of the poet's books strewn across a table. Each segment included discussions about writing and influences. Each poet read some of their poetry. To my happy surprise, Suzanne Pleshette narrated three of the five segments.
I could see getting addicted to these profiles (if any more were available).
John Ashbery read "Some Trees" (which we studied in that MOOC last year). He talked about The New York School and his interpretation of it, about O'Hara, Skyler, Koch and each of their roles in the group, how being a member involved meeting famous artists. He talked about Larry Rivers and Jane Freilicher (who are recurring characters in the O'Hara biography I'm reading). He read "At North Farm" and talked about life in France and his job as an art critic. In his late 30s his poetry career was not successful and he considered abandoning poetry. Then he thought, why deprive himself of something he liked doing? He read "This Room" and talked about how a poem takes over and how a poem knows when to stop. The poem is smarter than he is. J.D. McClatchy commented that his language is never privileged; that he writes about ordinary things.
At first, Louise Glück reminded me of aging baby boomers as she sat curled up in a chair, thin and wearing black. She reminded me of second wavers who drink water from big wine glasses. She also reads like a poet, full of gravitas. Turns out she hates readings, giving or going to them, saying the poet is intervening with the poem and the reader and that the human voice can't reproduce what's on page. Although I enjoy poetry created to be spoken word, I agreed with this. Some poetry and prose performs better inside heads. Same as some characters are a disappointment when you get to know them in a novel and you visit them later in a movie. We find out that Glück was once anorexic. This was the only documentary to mine old 1970s interview footage and readings. She sayed she can't predict when she will receive "the stimulation" and didn't want to write anything glib, facile phony, or ersatz…she uses a lot of synonyms in her commentary. She said the poem banishes you and the doors don't open anymore. She read "Landscape Part 3," "The Encounter," "Landscape Part 4," "Prism, Part 3," "Mock Orange," and "October, Part 3." She said she enjoys teaching because she's in the presence of the evolving mind versus the static, published unapproachable mind.
Frank Bidart reads her "First Memory" poem, which I loved. Bidart looked like he had a hoarders office of books and DVDs. Robert Pinsky said he likes her use of plain language. I ended up relating to her much more than I anticipated. Maybe it was the anorexia thing. I'm looking forward to reading some of her books I have: October and The Seven Ages.
Anthony Hecht in his old age reminds me of actor F. Murray Abraham. I knew the least about Hecht but I liked his adjectives and long sentences. He said W. H. Auden taught him who would last as a poet with this question: do you have something urgent to express or do you like words and language? (The later is the right answer.)
Hecht wears a lot of bow ties and we are shown pictures of him as a cute young Hecht. In the military, he was at Buchenwald and he writes about it. He says poetry wouldn't support anyone.
He reads "A Hill" which I loved, "An Old Malediction," and "More Light! More Light!"
Kay Ryan – I liked her short pieces. She said she writes without ideas, in a desire to stop doing nothing. She was the only poet of the bunch with an unexceptional, ordinary house. Like some of the other poets, she doesn't write with a computer. She said this is because she wants to save her mistakes. She initially self published. She writes to talk back to herself or other poets.
She read "Theft," The Past," "Home to Roost," and "How Birds Sing" which is installed at the New York Zoo. She loved the idea of kids running over her words. Dana Gioia read "Carrying a Ladder."
M.S. Merwin is someone whose poems I hated in graduate school. I even wrote an obnoxious-smelling review of him for a David Rivard class. But I like him now, which I can only chalk up to coming out on the other side of Zen Buddhism. But at the time, I was annoyed by what I felt were affectations: no punctuation and spiritual, airy, vague language.
In this video he discussed his feelings about punctuation, how it had been overused and he didn't like the long sentences hung together by punctuation. He hates the use of air commas by people. He feels there is an electric current in words. Myself, I'm still fond of punctuation and believe punctuation marks have their own energy. Maybe this is because I watched all those Victor Borge segments on Sesame Street in the early 1970s.
Merwin said he was not made to be academic and still loves Robert Louis Stevens' A Child's Garden of Verses (one of two poetry books stashed on my nightstand as a toddler) and the poem "Where Go the Boats." He said he visited Ezra Pound in the psych ward and Pound told him to write 75 lines a day which Merwin did by doing translations for practice. He said he was in a social group with Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. He read "Yesterday," "The Comet Museum," "Late Spring" (which I loved), "To Lingering Regrets," and I think one called "To the Worlds" about 911. Angelica Huston narrated that one.
Posted on 10/19/2014 at 03:05 PM in Poetry Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Mambo CMS
Mambo is a mature, award winning, feature rich content management system used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. NOTE: Files here are older releases only. Please visit http://mambo-code.org for the latest releases.135 weekly downloads
EduSec College Management System
Open source College Management System for all administrative task.202 weekly downloads
FreeSMS (Free Student Management System)
FreeSMS is a PHP based application to manage an educational facility of teachers and students alike. It is a teacher and student management system providing marketing, registration, course management, attendance and a student evaluation system.138 weekly downloads
LaTeX in Word
latexInWord provides macros for Microsoft Word that allow the use of LaTeX input to create equations images in both inline and display modes. Similar macros for other word processors will hopefully be added in the future.150 weekly downloads
Restaurant Script (PizzaInn_Project)
Restaurant Script is a Pizza Restaurant Ordering System for Everyone!109 weekly downloads
Build custom robots in your browser with IncrediBots! Design your robot by drawing shapes, joints, motors, and more! Then, pilot your machine using your own custom key bindings. NOTE: OPEN SOURCE VERSION CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM "FILES" TAB!105 weekly downloads
NOWASP (Mutillidae)
OWASP Mutillidae II Web Pen-Test Practice Application483 weekly downloads
Portable Webserver
Simple, useful & fast webserver for your portable device!102 weekly downloads
TemaTres: controlled vocabulary server
Manage, Publish and Share Ontologies, Taxonomies, Thesauri, lists75 weekly downloads
Blogging platform built with PHP, designed with maximum customizability, speed and ease of use in mind. Forums and bugs reports can be found at http://www.lifetype.net/83 weekly downloads
A web-based project management tool for workgroups. Encourage groups and individuals to work collaboratively. This tool aims to be functional and elegant without being complicated or graphically intensive.80 weekly downloads
Learning with Texts (LWT)
Learning with Texts (LWT) is a tool for Language Learning, inspired by Stephen Krashen's principles in Second Language Acquisition, Steve Kaufmann's LingQ System and ideas from Khatzumoto (AJATT). Read & listen, save & test words in context!82 weekly downloads
Web Appointment Scheduling System
Web-based appointment scheduler80 weekly downloads
openSIS Community Edition
Open Source Student Information System / School Management Software64 weekly downloads
VuFind is a library resource discovery portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC.74 weekly downloads
Technology Explorer for IBM DB2
The Technology Explorer for IBM DB2 is a light weight, web based console for DB2 that helps you learn about DB2 using demonstrations and tutorials. The TE is designed from the ground up to be easy to use and customize to suit your needs.87 weekly downloads
Course Registration Management System
This is a Course Management System for anybody running courses. Essentially allows for users to register online and also to provide your website with published course schedules and control over registrations, all managed by an administrator console.65 weekly downloads
Wirawan Test
Create, customize and answering the test in computer. Base on PHP and MySQL so you can put this application on intranet or internet web in simply way. Custumable test, Time control, Personalize information, realtime result. Item Test Analysis, Item T71 weekly downloads
KORA is a database driven, online digital repository that allows institutions to ingest, manage, and deliver digital objects and their corresponding metadata.92 weekly downloads
refbase - Web Reference Database
Online bibliographic manager for research groups. Zotero-compatible.45 weekly downloads
testMaker is a software for web-based assessment. It provides the possibility to create and publish tests and questionnaires without requiring any programming experience. For more information, see: http://www.global-assess.rwth-aachen.de/testmaker-wiki48 weekly downloads