Sunday, March 30, 2008

I also heard from Michael Basinski:

LINK

they're threatening to renew their subscription to my zine (gar) (which means i might actually have to produce a few more issues!

plus i got the latest issue of Lee Thorn's zine (vol. 11, #4) which includes plaintext & rubberstamp work by Joel Lipman, plus "Dueling Poems" by Antler, Dave Church & Thorn himself. I didn't get a chance to scan a sneak peak for ya, but i did zing off a few bootleg copies (I hope Lee won't mind!) which i'd be willing to send to anybody who might be interested: just drop me a "dibs" at: ross_priddle@yahoo.ca and let me know where you're at

where are you at?

Saturday, March 29, 2008

this is the real stuff,
computerized reality, bend
day dots, working from the
real, art takes precedence,
when is news not news, looks
fat but, pink lady whip,
chunk of reality, plenty to
chunk about, manage to get
the address down right,


rob mclennan sent me a stack of his recent productions:

above/ground press broadsides: #273: "every six seconds..." kevin mcpherson-eckhoff, #275: "from 85" Robert Majzels link, & #277: "sex at thirty-eight" by himself

"map of edmonton (rossdale flats)" a five or eight page chapbook (also by himself)

"boathouse" by Pearl Pirie (20 page chapbook) (Pearl Pirie blogs too.) link

"the curse of canada" by gregory betts (32 page chapbook!) greg has a blog too. LINK

"The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman" by Amanda Earl (28 pages!) Amanda's blog

"strum" by pete smith (24 pages) does pete have a blog?





rob mclennan's blogs:

here
here
here

Sunday, March 23, 2008

I also heard from Dale Speirs. (Opuntia 64.1C)

plus: I went across the street yesterday to return a couple books (Drumbolis' "Millenial Report" & derek's thesis) & to actually buy a book or three! well, chapbooks i guess:

No press is thrilled to announce the publication


of a suite of chapbooks of conceptual writing

by ROB FITTERMAN and NAYLAND BLAKE



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THE SUN ALSO ALSO RISES by ROB FITTERMAN

(36 pp, sewn binding, full-colour covers)

When I was 13, my brother gave me a copy of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. It was my first foray into real Literature and I hated it. Even with little or no way to enter the novel, I dutifully slugged through it (I mean, what is cog-nak anyway?) Years later, I have returned to revisit the relationship. In this version, I have erased my way through Hemingway’s original text, leaving behind only the phrases that begin with the pronoun ‘I.’ — Rob Fitterman



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MY SUN ALSO RISES by ROB FITTERMAN

(36 pp, sewn binding, full-colour covers)

My Sun Also Rises is a parallel companion to the The Sun Also Also Rises which translates my erased version of the Hemingway original into my own experience of moving to downtown Manhattan in 1981. — Rob Fitterman



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ALSO ALSO ALSO RISES THE SUN by NAYLAND BLAKE

(48 pp, sewn binding, full-colour covers)

In November 2007, I was invited to perform in the kgb Bar Reading Series. Having just completed the two Hemingway pieces, I was eager to perform them, but I needed a second voice, a Hemingway. Happily, Nayland Blake agreed to read the Hemingway part, and we alternated chapters. In the process of rehearsing and thinking about this project, Nayland suggested that he might write his own version. His text, Also Also Also Rises The Sun—a beautiful, minimalist version—further opens the possibilities for reading the piece and for dispelling the authority of the “original.” — Rob Fitterman



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Produced in editions of 60 copies, these 3 chapbooks are available only in tandem with each-other (in numbered editions) for $25 (postage included).



For ordering information, please contact derek beaulieu at derek@housepress.ca



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Flanked between Shell Oil and Mobile Oil gas stations, Robert Fitterman was born in 1959 in Creve Coeur, Missouri—a rinky-dink suburb of St. Louis. Several of his books are collaborations with visual artists, including war, the musical with Dirk Rowntree. He lives in NYC with poet Kim Rosenfield and their daughter Coco. He teaches writing and poetry at NYU.



Nayland Blake is an artist, curator, educator, writer and investigator who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery New York, Fred London, Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco. Since 2001 Blake has been the Chair of the International Center of Photography / Bard Masters Program in Advanced Photographic Studies.

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derek also threw in a copy of his own "How to Edit" (Chapter A) the beginning of "an exhaustive record of every incidence of the word "edit" in the over 1100 different English-language texts stored at Project Gutenberg" (yikes!)

derek also let me make off with issue 21 of Carousel LINK (which has work by Billy Mavreas, Jason McLean, Mark Laliberte & plenty more!) & a couple of buttons from the POPNOIR series: LINK (of particular interest (to me anyway) is #17: gustave morin!

Saturday, March 15, 2008



self-portrait in convex mirror (for Ted Warnell)

(this is actually the top part of one of Ted's artworks! (i think i have another image of it here on the blog...)

here: link


Dennis "Boog" Highberger

this is the cover of @RtH*Le #545

@RtH*Le is Boog's long running assembly 'zine. for more info contact him at:

boog@lawrence.ixks.com

Boog was(is?) the mayor of Lawrence, KS! (not a word of a lie!


Pawel Petasz

zulawy

Saturday, March 08, 2008



Jon Cone

thanks to Lee Thorn!


54 Pages!

Sandy Stephenson
113 St Francois St
Rigaud QC
J0P 1P0
CANADA

link


frips!

link


Dale Roberts AKA Dame Mailarta

Mailmania 3


Jean Kusina
810 Clinton St.
Fremont, OH
43420
USA

also sends this call:

catherine s. eberly
center for women
art gallery

Mail art call -- Please Send!

INTIMATE ARTIFACTS
Journals - Altered Books - mail art
artist trading cards - scrapbook pages - photographs

April 3rd * May 2nd

Documentation to all

Opening Reception: Thursday April 3rd 5-7pm
Deadline for Submissions: March 31st, 2008
Send to: Department of Philosophy
Mail Stop #510
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH
43606
USA

Questions: madeline.muntersbjorn@utoledo.edu


Goran Ziyadinovic

GRN