Attention Span 2012 | Corrine Fitzpatrick
Lisa Robertson | Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias | Bookthug | 2012 Evan Kennedy | A Cyclist: Fourteen Stops Toward a San...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Suzanne Stein
Charles Atlas | Hail the New Puritan | Distributed by EAI | 1985-1986 It’s the 80s in post-punk London. This 87-minute “docufantasy” follows the Michael Clark dance company while they’re rehearsing New...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Omar Berrada
Georges Didi-Huberman | Ecorces | Minuit | 2011 A beautiful and moving book, where one discovers that maverick philosopher-art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is also a writer of incomparable acuteness...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Benjamin Friedlander
Matthew Cooperman | Still | Counterpath | 2011 This year I began reading Walter Savage Landor’s Imaginary Conversations. In one of them, Landor has Michelangelo say, “In our days, poetry is a vehicle...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Minal Singh, Kaveh Bassiri, and friends
Jerome Rothenberg | 25 Caprichos a partir de Goya | Calamus Poesia Mark Liedner| Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me | Factory Hollow Joshua Edwards and Van Edwards | Campeche: Poems &...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Alan Felsenthal
Lisa Jarnot | Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography | California | 2012 Nate Klug | Consent | Pressed Wafer | 2012 Chris Marker | Letter from Siberia | film | 1957 Thomas Meyer |...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Amy Evans
The first section is anthologies, letters and art/performance work. The second is single author poetry (collections and pamphlets). § Peter Hughes, ed.| Sea Pie: A Shearsman Anthology of Oystercatcher...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Brian Kim Stefans
1. Alain Badiou | The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings | Verso | 2012 2. Perry Anderson | Considerations on Western Marxism | Verso | 1976 3. Ian Bogost | Alien Phenomenology, or What...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Matvei Yankelevich
Sergio Chejfec, tr. Margaret Carson | My Two Worlds | Open Letter | 2008 I just found out about Chejfec at the ALTA conference this October, and am very pleased. This is a writer’s writer, translated...
View ArticleAttention Span 2012 | Anselm Berrigan
Dana Ward | This Can’t Be Life | Edge | 2011 Sure it can. Anne Boyer | My Common Heart | Spooky Girlfriend | 2011 Totally opened up when I read it back to front, which set me up more acutely for the...
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