Posts Tagged ‘Rodney Koeneke’
Attention Span 2010 – John Sakkis
Alastair Johnston | Zephyrus Image A Bibliography | Poltroon | 2003
George Oppen | The Collected Poems Of George Oppen | New Directions | 1976
David Brazil and Sara Larsen, eds. | Try Magazine | 2010
Micah Ballard and Patrick James Dunagan | Easy Eden | Push | 2009
Daniel Clowes | Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron | Fantagraphics | 1998
Gad Hollander | Walserian Waltzes | Avec | 1999
Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian | My Vocabulary Did This To Me The Collected Poetry Of Jack Spicer | Wesleyan | 2008
Sean Cliver | Disposable A History Of Skateboard Art | Warwick | 2005
Jason Morris | Spirits And Anchors | Auguste | 2010
Steve Lavoie and Pat Nolan | Life Of Crime Documents In The Guerrilla War Against Language Poetry | Poltroon | 2010
Rodney Koeneke | Rules For Drinking Forties | Cy Press | 2009
More John Sakkis here. His Attention Span for 2007, 2006, 2005. Back to directory.
Attention Span 2009 – Kit Robinson
Clarice Lispector | The Stream of Life | University of Minnesota | 1989
Benjamin Moser | Why This Life: A Biography of Clarice Lispector | Oxford University| 2009
Carla Harryman | Adorno’s Noise| Essay | 2008
Anne Tardos | I Am You| Salt| 2008
Lyn Hejinian | Saga/Circus | Omnidawn | 2008
Rodney Koeneke | Rules for Drinking Forties | Cy Press | 2009
Michael Gizzi | New Depths of Deadpan| Burning Deck | 2009
Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer | The Cave| Adventures in Poetry | 2009
Andrew Joron | The Sound Mirror | Flood Editions | 2008
Lewis Warsh | Inseparable: Poems, 1995-2005 | Granary Books | 2008
David F. Garcia | Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music | Temple University | 2006
More Kit Robinson here.
Featured Title – Landscapes of Dissent by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand
Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand | Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry and Public Space | Palm | 2008 | Goodreads | LibraryThing | 3 mentions in Attention Span 2008
Field manual for the practice of not sitting on hands, pitched against “the almost imperceptible social octave known as normality.” (Rodney Koeneke)
The smartest demonstration and open invitation I’ve seen of what a poetics off the page and engaged with the world does, can and might look like. (Tom Orange)
Also mentioned by Joel Bettridge.
Featured Title – PPL in a Depot by Gary Sullivan
Gary Sullivan | PPL in a Depot | Roof | 2008 | Goodreads | LibraryThing | 3 mentions in Attention Span 2008
Gary Sullivan demonstrates that free speech is all about hurting people, wanting to hurt people, and other illusions of agency. These plays show us how much it matters by being brutally honest about how little it matters; the formal care and attention that goes into these collages weights even the lightest, most banal statements with foreboding emblematic import. (Stan Apps)
Brecht shutting cell phone to mustachio Mozart with Caucasian circle chalk. “Between the dark and the thyme soufflé … mmmm …” (Rodney Koeneke)
Also mentioned by Michael Kelleher.
Featured Title – The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes by Benjamin Friedlander
Benjamin Friedlander | The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes | Subpress | 2007 | Goodreads | LibraryThing | 3 mentions in Attention Span 2008
Lovely music of what happens, gracefully. (Simon Schuchat)
Transatlantic two-step for treated Bösendorfer. My feet slip over at ends of lines, like when you trip in dreams. Your catching yourself’s the poem. (Rodney Koeneke)
Overviews from two of our most important poets at mid-career, presenting new opportunities to see where they’ve come from and where they’ve now brought us. (Tom Orange, reviewing this title along with Laura Moriarty’s A Semblance)
Featured Title – Annoying Diabetic Bitch by Sharon Mesmer
Sharon Mesmer | Annoying Diabetic Bitch | Combo | 2007 | Goodreads | LibraryThing | 5 mentions in Attention Span 2008
This book is like cherry-flavored anthrax in a Pixie Stix straw. Mesmer breaks all the rules of decorum, craft, and form—she even invents some new rules just to break them. I would like to see her and Jennifer Knox have a poetic slapdown in a big hockey arena somewhere. My guess is that it would end in a tie with the audience dead from hemorrhaging. (K. Silem Mohammad)
It’s impossible to read these poems without wanting to share the lines out loud. Silence is helpless here: even when I’m alone with this book, I break the silence, laughing. Is there anything more poignantly utopian than that? If ideology is the presence of society in our heads, then laughing out loud when we’re alone is the very summoning of that society, an involuntary assertion of communion. (Benjamin Friedlander)
Dear Poetry: Please can you be like this sometimes always? (Rodney Koeneke)
Finally a poet meaner than Lenny Bruce. For all those who have been spiritually exploited by the iconography of the Olsen twins, get this book and be healed. (Stan Apps)
Also mentioned by Rod Smith, and by Tom Devaney in his entry on Mesmer’s The Virgin Formica.
Featured Title – Hannah Weiner’s Open House
Hannah Weiner, ed. Patrick Durgin | Hannah Weiner’s Open House | Kenning | 2006 | Goodreads | LibraryThing | 5 mentions in Attention Span 2008
If only I had known sooner the ways in which she was engaged in art and performance, with her terrific inventiveness in the events of language in both private and public realms! (Sawako Nakayasu)
Not much to add to what oft’s been thought and mostly already been said about this needed book. A phenomenal display of Weiner’s talent and capability. Surely everyone should have read this by now, or else you’re the most unhip gluon. Major kudos to Durgin and the press. (Brad Flis)
Each room has many mansions. More doors, please, soon. (Rodney Koeneke)
Long-awaited. (Jennifer Scappettone)
Also mentioned by Marie Buck.
Attention Span – Dana Ward
Douglas Oliver | Whisper ‘Louise’ | Reality Street | 2005
Kevin Davies | The Golden Age of Paraphernalia | Edge | 2008
Bob Perelman | IFLife | Roof | 2007
Ariana Reines | Coeur De Lion | Mal-O-Mar | 2008
Bill Berkson & Bernadette Mayer | What’s Your Idea of a Good Time | Tuumba | 2006
Catherine Wagner | Hole in the Ground | Slack Buddha Press | 2008
Marcella Durand | Area | Belladonna | 2008
Michael Nicoloff & Alli Warren | Bruised Dick | unknown | 2008
Stacy Szymaszek | from ‘Hyperglossia | Hot Whiskey Press | 2008
Rodney Koeneke | Rules for Drinking Forties | Cy Press | 2009
Young Brandon (Brandon Brown) | You Better Ask Somebody | unknown | 2008
Attention Span 2010 – Nada Gordon
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Stan Apps | Universal Stories with Unknown Particulars | valeveil e-book | 2009
A work of conscience and searching thought: What does poetry do in the world? What does it do for us?
Lynn Berhrendt | petals, emblems | Lunar Chandelier | forthcoming 2010
My blurb: “The affect-drenched poems in Lynn Behrendt’s Petals/Emblems leap off beauty’s edge right on to the electrified grid of being: that difficult ‘barrage/ of having been born/ at all.’ There (here) everything’s objective correlative: love and pain ‘crave form like alms’ and surely find it, sensuous, phonic, and unsettling, ‘heavy’ with ‘gyn grief’ and ‘undaunted desire.’ ‘This ache to tell you something’ shoots the poems through with yearny rhetorical force like the ‘inward arch’ of ‘nostalgic ocean’: palpable, fluid, engulfing.”
Charles Bernstein | All the Whiskey in Heaven | Farrar | 2010
Do I even need to say why?
Brandon Brown | The Orgy | self-published | 2010
I wrote on Ululations that this book “… spreads a metaphorical net onto the orgy of late capitalism in the hyper-information age (‘this crystal mall must be destroyed’); and most compellingly, to me, it seems to refer back on itself to the orgy of writing that makes itself felt in every moment of this galvanized, kind of emo (in the best possible sense: ‘My heart struggles./ It’s big as a chard, but it never learns.’) poem.”
K. Lorraine Graham | Terminal Humming | Edge | 2009
I blurbed this one, too. [All “this shining and this _utter [!].” Terminal Humming is a very exciting book and I love it. Eavesdropping and borrowing from diverse discourses, K. Lorraine Graham has created a complex “essay on scrounging.” It is a wonderfully violent “attempt to unleash inner badness” in poems that are hot and audacious, in a girly way: “Wonder Woman boots twirl twirl.” Terminal Humming is just the right amount of weird. In it, “kinks become beautiful and obvious,” and “language [hums] as angry form.” Read this “downwind chess urine bird bathing extravaganza” of a book!]
Michael Gottlieb | Memoir and Essay | Faux | 2010
A moving, witty, precise and somewhat theatricalized bildungsroman. How he got this way.
Carla Harryman | Adorno’s Noise | Essay | 2008
Like psychedelics for the intellect.
Rodney Koeneke | Etruria | manuscript
Exquisite. Someone please publish this. This is poetry exuding the most poignant possible elegance.
K. Silem Mohammad | Sonnagrams 1-20 | Slack Buddha | 2010
Don’t be surprised if you find yourself ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING upon reading these poems. Seriously. Kasey is my idol.
Mel Nichols | Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon | Edge | 2009
Mindbogglingly delicate and audacious, all at once.
Lanny Quarles | chapbooks
He sent us an envelope of chapbooks which I loved. Gary squirreled them away somewhere so I can’t check titles. Endlessly inventive!
Ariana Reines |The Cow | Fence | 2006
I know I’m late to this one, but wow, The Cow. She packs a punch.
Monica de le Torre | Public Domain | Roof | 2008
It’s conceptual! It’s funny! It’s whip-smart! It’s art!
Dana Ward |Typing Wild Speech | Summer BF Press | 2010
All the outspilling radiance of life and death here, like a pop Proust or a more-beatific-than Kerouac Kerouac.
PLUS: live computer-facilitated performances of Danny Snelson (“Mabuse”) and Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford (“The Ballad of the Death of Spring”) Why limit ourselves to the page? This is a future of poetry.
More Nada Gordon here. Her Attention Span for 2005. Back to directory.
Written by Steve Evans
October 6, 2010 at 10:00 am
Posted in Attention Span 2010, Commented List
Tagged with Ariana Reines, Brandon Brown, Carla Harryman, Charles Bernstein, Dana Ward, K. Lorraine Graham, K. Silem Mohammad, Lanny Quarles, Lynn Berhrendt, Mel Nichols, Michael Gottlieb, Monica del la Torre, Nada Gordon, Rodney Koeneke, Stan Apps