Ypolita's Poetry Linx

Books Read 2007 

Adam Clay

The Wash

really cool, lyrical and urban in a completely rural way, wait, I think I mean rural in a completely urban way. When I look at the cover while I am drinking coffee and daydreaming in the morning, I have a happy nostalgic feeling.

Barbara Guest

Seeking Air

Her only novel. Very H.D.

Fighting Windmills: Encounters with Don Quixote

Manuel Durán and Fay R. Rogg

Don't read this unless you are in high school.

Anthony Robinson

Brief Weather & I Guess a Sort of Vision

I can't resist a bunch of poems about Joe Massey.

Teeny Tiny

Issue #9

Really is teeny tiny.

Amanda Laughtland

Free

Modern objectivist documentarian.

Karl Parker

Harmstorm

I really don't think the cover is all that.

Lisa Robertson

The Weather

This book has become my bible.

No. 2 in the Observable series, Readings @ The Contemporary, 2004-2005

anthologizes shorter works from each of the poets who read last season: Carl Dennis, Julie Dill, Rodney Jones, Cole Swensen, Stephanie Young, Jocelyn Emerson, Roberto Harrison, Tom Hunley, Stephanie McKenzie, Daniel Nester, Kirby Olson, Stefene Russell, Robyn Schiff, Nick Twemlow, Aaron Belz, and Devin Johnston.

I want longer works.

Sandy Florian

Telescope

Each poem has a different, abstract theme, which is also the title. It helps to understand this, because I didn't get it for half the book.

George Albon

Brief Capital of Disturbances

I dig him. Fragments. Very cool fragments. Necessary moments.

Zachary Schomburg

Abraham Lincoln's Death Scene

Great idea, great writing. kind of bloody.

February

February

Charles Bernstein

A Poetics

Felt dated, I suppose his ideas had been already osmotically absorbed or something, so I felt I didn't really need to read it. Only as a historical document.

Lisa Robertson

Debbie: An Epic

Lisa Robertson is God. Modern pastoral epic.

Damn the Caesars

Vol. 1 Issue 3
POETRY Andrew Schelling.Jerome Rothenberg.Kent Johnson.Richard Stremme.Jonathan Greene.Thurston Moore.Kristin Prevallet.Dale Smith.Joel Bettridge.Duncan McNaughton.TV Smith.John Moritz.Ruth Lepson.Roger Snell.Linh Dinh.Clayton Eshleman.Micah Ballard.Tony Tost
ESSAYS & REVIEWS Mark Kuniya.Emma Featherwaite
IMAGES RJ Oehler.Yasuhiro Esaki

found used. $2. Lots of cool stuff.

Rachel Blau Duplessis

Renga Draft 32

She is hot.

Lisa Robertson

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

This is kinda like the B sides, only for diehard fans. Some pieces are brilliant, some only cool because it is her.

Lyn Hejinian

Writing is an aid to Memory

I can't pay attention to this for very long.

Charles Peguy

the portico of the mystery of the second virtue

Yes mom, I'm carrying around my prayer book. I can't help feeling eccentric reading 19th century French religious poetry.

Ben Lerner

The Lichtenberg Figures

This guy is like that blockbuster movie everyone has been talking about for months, and you finally get around to seeing it, and you're like oh. This is it. Can see the good points, but it is not all that.

Dara Wier

Remnants of Hannah

like she is trying to be abstract and "experimental" but she is just writing stories. Be what you are, man!

Face Time

Cy Gist Press

Joe Hall, Craig Perez, Noah Falck, Phil Crippen, Matina L. Stamatakis, Francois Luong, Brian Lucas, Nicole Mauro, Jessica Smith, G.L. Ford, Mark Lamoureux, Christina Strong, Michael Carr, Sandra Simonds, John Mulrooney, Brenda Iijima, and Christopher Rizzo

Awesome, but wish there was a chapbook for each poet/movie. Want more.

Scott Glassman

Exertions

abstract in a very engaging way. Very aesthetically pleasing.

CRIT

Vol 2

cover art by Kieran McGonnell and interior matter by Jade Sylvan, Jane Zimmerman, Aunia Kahn, Carrie Hunter, and Jenna North

Amazing, absolutely amazing. (I am in it.)

Caroline Bergvall

Fig

She might be too avantgarde for me but I love the Dante incantatory bit. The book doesn't really fit together as a whole, cohesive thing. Conceptually it does, but the works themselves are very different. A bunch of different "occasions" and the poetry/events/ installations that came from them. Not really a "book."

Jean Baudrillard

Cool Memories IV 1995-2000

fragments for sure. Not arguments, but conclusions. Better not to know his opinions about women.

Sarah Anne Cox

Parcel

Cool translations/transcriptions of Ancient Egyptian texts, I think. "my husband has died would you send me another."

Also poems that include diagrams!

Ben Lerner

Angle of Yaw

angle of yawn. Am I the first person to think of that! I am so funny!

Guillermo Parra

Caracas Notebook

Was eating lunch, reading this, when it started to hail. The guys speaking spanish next to me, started pointing at the hail, and, I presume, probably saying "hail" in spanish. I wanted to ask them what the spanish word for hail was, but didn't. Then I wanted to ask them what some of the spanish lines in this book meant, but didn't. They were cute.

March

March is not February.

Jacques Prevert

Paroles

Very simple, like a shining light that you never noticed before, and now you do, and it is so beautiful.

sandy florian

32 pedals & 47 stops

when writing poems as stories really works.

The New American Poetry 1945-1960

Edited by Donald Allen

The link above is the reason I read this. Now I am well read! Haven't read that much Beat poetry since I was 15. It hasn't changed.

Dan Beachy-Quick

Mulberry

lyrical~nature poetry~fragmented~language poetry~fractured~anger

Effing Press

Effing Magazine #6
Winter 2007

edited by Joseph Massey

featuring
Zach Barocas, Christopher Rizzo, Mairéad Byrne, Andrew Mister, Rae Armantrout, Shannon Tharp, Aaron Tieger, Thomas Devaney, Julie Doxsee, Sandra Simonds, Jess Mynes, John Phillips

Oh no! A whole zine of Joe Massey poems by people who are not Joe Massey! was my first thought. But they are not all in that style. God bless Sandra Simonds. I do want to read more of this John Phillips guy, but when I google him all I get are links to some 1800's era poet!

Lisa Robertson

Rousseau's Boat

sex sex sex rocking boat sex

Sandra Simonds

The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea

(or notes on the life and letters)

I can't say I really understand if Mr. Ian is a story I should know or just a general satire of the 19th century travelogue or something. But it is weird and cool and has diagrams!

Noah Levine

Dharma Punx

I've been meditating again. I wanna be punk rock too!

Ronald Johnson

Radi os

The erasure genre. Of Paradise Lost. Brings me back to the Milton class I took back in '96! I could barely pay attention to it back then. I couldn't stop thinking of sex. Maybe it was all the shrubbery. But now, reading this book, I remember certain lines, and it is nostalgic. You can tell certain things, like "Dark Designs" -- totally a Satan scene! but now I find the language really beautiful and moving, and I don't know if it is because of the way this guy spaces things out and that that makes it breathe and move more, or if it is just that I am older and can absorb things easier. But I am feeling all into Milton now. Crazy.

Jean Baudrillard

Simulations

I finished reading this in the mall.

Tina Celona

Songs & Scores

Perhaps the only chapbook I have that is a second edition. Beautiful cover made of a paper that had embedded objects, leaves, twigs. The poetry doesn't seem to quite fit. Mostly kind of ranty, very narrative, anti-lyrical, which is fun and all, but not really "leaves." Not that I want leaves, but you know, they are there, on the cover. Though in the leaves' place is a really nice "pro-lyrical" moon sequence. So maybe you would say it's a multi-genred chapbook.

Carve [Poems]

Issue 8 February 2007

Erica Kaufman (Brooklyn, NY)
Lars Palm (Lund, Sweden)
Ryan Murphy (New York, NY)
Amy Whitney (Ithaca, NY)
Arielle Guy (Brooklyn, NY)
Joseph Massey (Arcata, CA)

I am still waiting on my rejection letter from 14 months ago. I may be waiting forever. But in the meantime...

Beverly Dahlen

A Reading (11-17)

Totally more engaging that 1-7, I need to find 8-10 next.

Sandra SImonds

The Tar Pit Diatoms

If I knew what a diatom was, and a tar pit one at that, I would understand everything. Poems that are diagrams. Color ones! Includes about every different type of font there is, I think.

April

For NPM 2007, I plan on reading nothing but non-fiction prose about non-poetic subjects.

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

starting with the dumbest book ever written, but he has cool hair.

The Present Work

Matvei Yankelevich

with a few poetic interludes maybe...
acrostics that spell nothing, the Beat list poem, this book is filled with lists, so many lists it becomes a sort of list of lists, mixed with a hippie theatre element with characters such as martini, synopsis, transcript, scrap of paper, meanwhile. This book is so retro!

That Tantalus

William Bronk

The library now has "ratings" ha ha, trying to be like amazon? hmmmm, I gave it 5 stars, if it still says 5 stars it is probably all me, unless you went to the site and rated it 5 stars?

The Nines

Christian Peet

Nine poems all about the number nine. One of the few instances where a great idea lives up to itself.

Chicago Review

Spring 2006

Lisa Robertson out the kazoo! And this Eliot Weinberger essay on vortices, gyres, fake yogi gurus, yoga, eliiot and pound, etc, how can you resist?

The Can

#1

This did not make me want to take a dump.

Drunkard Boxing

Linh Dinh

Totally better in person. He is a rock star!

brass, running

Carol Watts

Totally better not in person. I saw her read and didn't think much but when I read this, held it in my hands, wow, it is very beautiful and I can get into the nuances, etc. If I can avoid the itinerant poetry librarian for long enough, maybe I can keep it

anatomy of the spirit

Caroline Myss, PhD

so I wanted to read about my chakras and energy healing...

Samuel menashe

New and Selected Poems

not as cool as my memory of him, read him like 10 years ago in the university library and remember being blown away, I wonder what book that was? This book did not replicate that feeling.

The Apothecary

Lisa Robertson

love it love it but it is striking how really way more languagey and opaque this is than her newer stuff

Johanna Poems

Ben Mazer

I was wearing green, drinking a green tea latte, and reading a green book, it was kind of eerie

Tinysides 26-29

logan ryan smith - much like you shark, joanna fuhrman - clone school, adam golaski - voice notes 5: fox + three daughters, lauren bender - ?

I guess #30 was already sold out but the 4 I got were great, too small though, I just feel starved

Bed of Lists

Elizabeth Robinson

lyrical abstract beautiful yet I can't remember anything about it. It is like visiting another dimension in which 99% of your memory is stripped after the experience, but you have a vague inkling it was beautiful

Eightfold Path

Lisa Jarnot

sort of not about buddhism but about buddhism...it is like the poems have an imprint of the precepts yet are not obviously about the precepts, very subtle and beautiful

Catching the Big Fish

David Lynch

I have hope again, I believe in everything again. I'm really thinking about calling up a TM center...

The Gilles Poem - Winter 2006 Collection

Sabrina Calle

Open field style - really open. I can't stop thinkging about Buffy. There is something about this collection so puzzling but I am too puzzled to be able to figure out what it is.

Aporias

Derrida

Totally not like the movie at all!

May

Blue Moon Month

Lection

Scott Inguito

read the last page first, it would've been SO helpful

Balm

T. A. Noonan

really amazing list of goddesses in here, every mythology you could think of

Linh Dinh

Borderless Bodies

I think this is my favorite

Morning News

Ana Bozicevic-Bowling

This is how to do the lyrical "I" really well, actually I don't know how to do the lyrical "I" really well, but she does. Also, comes with a really cool CD.

birds and fancies

Elizabeth Treadwell

More concrete than lilyfoil + 3. I read this twice in one sitting (standing actually, waiting for Bart, on Bart [sitting] then again, standing, waiting for the bus!)

Xenia

Arkadii Dragomoschenko

He is like the Elvis of Experimental Poetry.

kari edwards

a day in the life of p

Don't fear the novel. Or, don't fear this novel.

Sean Macinnes

a room of trees

If Joe Massey wrote about people.

obedience

kari edwards

like a philosophic dream weaving in and out of "I" & "this" & "the body"...

the way there are no title to the poems - "the sea is plural" - each poem is like a wave in the sea that is this book, one entity containing many entities

a train came by and slowed

summer rodman

If Lisa Robertson were Gen Y and from Florida. Really. Well almost.

when new time folds up

kathleen fraser

palimpsest collage. palimpsest not even of phrases but also of the words themselves, morphing into othernesses "zeroz" "eYeSe." Static beauties we can hold on to and not, we can undertand and not - "a bystander plated in gold."

The Thorn

David Larsen

Why can't I find a better link than WorldCat? When you need a little pre-islamic fable mixed with some fucking, drugging, and Toronto Blue Jays.

The People Instruments

Amy King

I have this bump on my head I was feeling the whole time I was reading this. It is so big I think it messed up some of my hair follicles and the hair is growing kindof weird out from underneath it. Maybe I should go to the doctor.

Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord

Reading is a spectacle.

Susan Maxwell

Passenger

You can buy this at Target!

Girly Man

Charles Bernstein

Mainstream is the new Experimental.

Kadar Koli

Featuring work by Ryan Newton, Susan Briante, Micah Ballard, Kate Colby, Jen Hofer, Farid Matuk, Susanna Kittredge, Andrew Neuendorf, Dale Smith, Steve Wilson, Roger Snell, Sarah Peters, Hoa Nguyen, and Michael Smoler

Jen Hofer does nature poems like no ones business.

Orgy in the Beef Closet

Michael Koshkin

this made me cry.

Eileen Tabios

THE SINGER And Others
Flamenco Hay(na)ku

A Dusie Chap Kollectiv chapbook

Sealed with a kiss! With secret handwritten messages, about 5 webpage links to help you out, and Lorca-duende references throughout, this is a sort of labyrinthian voyage through feisty womanhood! ole!

June

Almost halfway over and I didn't even know it'd begun.

Kaya Oakes

Telegraph

As cool as her blog, but with superheroes.

Katherine Spelling

22

Found this for a buck and a half, used, and I love it! Sadly, I can't find that she has published anything since though.

Jennifer Moxely

The Line

What Alice Notley said.

Noah Eli Gordon

The Frequencies

This book made me feel so lonely. Radio poems. Something heartbreakiing about listening to the radio. Maybe because you rarely listen to the radio with someone else.

The Record Room

Jeff T. Johnson

Music poems, poems about records, the record as character. Love it when my reading material matches one another. Reading this concurrently with The Frequencies.

continuing this over here

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