Distance by Tom Clark hits the blogs

 

http://vazambam.blogspot.com/2012/05/distance.html

  
VAZAMBAM
Saturday, May 12, 2012
 
Distance
—for Tom Clark 


I must tell you how

Under a clear afternoon sky, 
I sat under an umbrella 
Reading a friend’s book 

Of poems that had traveled 
Halfway round the world 
To end up here— 

In the evening, no umbrella, 
No moon in sight, no need to tell you 
How close the stars were that night.



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Book Information:

· Paperback: 80 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-097-2

$16 

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Tom Clark Collection reviewed by Donald Wellman

Sunday, April 29: “Prosodic Intent”

http://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2012/04/sunday-april-29-prosodic-intent.html

Buy the Tom Clark Collection here

http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/collections/tom-clark-collection-294/

Rambo Goes to Idaho by Scott Abels reviewed at Jacket2

 At the great Jacket2, Tinfish Editor Susan Shultz discusses Rambo Goes to Idaho:

https://jacket2.org/commentary/he-good-he-product-world

In her discussion of empire, race, power, and violence, Shultz writes, "By virtue of his subject position, combined with his politics, Abels cannot assume a position of extremity in either direction. His position is an absurd one, but he has thought his way into that absurdity with a courage different from that of his subject. What his work offers back are the very complexities we are heir to, delivered up not as entertainment for the masses, but for those few of us who read poems. In his 2008 review of the last Rambo movie, A.O. Scott noted that, “the movie does have its own kind of blockheaded poetry.” Abels's poetry is not blockheaded in any way, nor is it particularly cinematic. As work that is neither visual nor violent, it offers us a possible space for meditation, a place from which to contemplate the violence of power, and perhaps another--less entertaining, but more productive--way out of it."

Book Information:

· Paperback: 78 pages


· Binding: Perfect-Bound


· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 


· ISBN: 978-1-60964-079-8

$16 

Buy it here

Lots and lots of reviews around the net! Michael Joyce, Stephen Vincent, Bill Yarrow

Michael Joyce

An interview with Leonard Schwartz will be aired this Thursday at 8PM Pacific on KAOS 89.3FM, Olympia, Wsashington, the Evergreen College community station http://kaos.evergreen.edu/.

You can also listen here at Pennsound:

Episode #251, "Paris Views," in which Michael Joyce reads from and discusses his recent book of the same name

Buy Paris Views here:

http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/paris-views-by-michael-joyce-278/

Stephen Vincent

A nicely considered blog review of After Language. Go hear/here:

http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/

Buy After Language here:

http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/after-language-letters-to-jack-spicer-by-stephen-vincent-255/

Bill Yarrow

A great review of Pointed Sentences by Bill Yarrow is now available at This Zine.

http://www.thiszine.org/reviews/pointed-sentences-yarrow

Buy Pointed Sentences here

http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/pointed-sentences-by-bill-yarrow-283/

Geoffrey Gatza interviewed in the Huffington Post on the whole NEA thing :-)

National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX [books] Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press by Anis Shivani    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/blazevox-nea-ban_b_1374042.html      A big controversy in the poetry world these days is the discussion surrounding Buffalo-based small press BlazeVOX [book]'s (now discontinued) model of charging some authors a portion of the costs of publishing their poetry books ($250, as I gather). In the closing months of last year, the revelation of this practice inflamed passions in the generally staid world of independent literary publishing. The controversy just got an enormous boost with the recent decision of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) banning poets from listing books published by BlazeVOX on their grant applications. Questions arise about the viability of poetry publishing in an age of narrow audiences and little financial reward, and about gate-keeping, quality control, editorial integrity and the technologies of dissemination.   Read the whole interview here   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/blazevox-nea-ban_b_1374042.html                Rockets, Geoffrey Gatza   BlazeVOX [books] 76 Inwood Place Buffalo, New York 14209 editor@blazevox.org