Authenticity Is No Longer an Option

May 08 2013 ∞

“ Never you mind
what exactly
we do from here
and that I am sorry
but every year
is a jubilee year
a baby scratch year
a year of stealing lines
from your friends
a fuck you year
Am I right
Ladies
I feel brave
I feel bursting with plans
I come from a peninsula
half-underwater
I put vowels
in everything
and yes
I am still freezing
but that wind
that room of boxes
that Tom Waits meal
and the two to-go boxes
it came down to
it was fucking
worth it

— Gale Marie Thompson

May 05 2013 ∞

franny-squalor-glass:

JAMES O. INCANDENZA MOVIES by Kurt McRobert

(via breakdownintotheresolve)

May 01 2013 ∞

Apr 16 2013 ∞

62.0 :: ‘if there is to be a zeitgeist going forward, I imagine it to be focused on attempts at immortality, and the ways we erase ourselves for immortality, and the ways we record ourselves recording ourselves’ by james tadd adcox & robert kloss

iamaltlit:

‘if there is to be a zeitgeist going forward, I imagine it to be focused on attempts at immortality, and the ways we erase ourselves for immortality, and the ways we record ourselves recording ourselves’ by james tadd adcox & robert kloss // nap, 2013

62.0

tumblthe ebook’s title ‘if there is to be a zeitgeist going forward, I imagine it to be focused on attempts at immortality, and the ways we erase ourselves for immortality, and the ways we record ourselves recording ourselves’ is a p ‘poignant’ way to ‘frame’ a book

esp since we operate in this internet labyrinth

esp since we exist in a tension btwn ephemerality & permanence

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zeitgeist reviewed at i am alt lit

Apr 12 2013 ∞

Tie me to the rigging and plug my ears with wax

Apr 11 2013 ∞

jacobsknabb:

Six boxes of Artifice #5 just arrived in the mail and they look so nice I kind of want to keep them for myself. (at Skivork’s)

Artifice 5 is a real thing that exists in the world. Feat. all kinds of amazing work. You can preview it (or order copies) here: http://artificebooks.org

Apr 09 2013 ∞

IF THERE IS TO BE A ZEITGEIST GOING FORWARD, I IMAGINE IT TO BE FOCUSED ON ATTEMPTS AT IMMORTALITY, AND THE WAYS WE ERASE OURSELVES FOR IMMORTALITY, AND THE WAYS WE RECORD OURSELVES RECORDING OURSELVES

napmag:

IF THERE IS TO BE A ZEITGEIST GOING FORWARD, I IMAGINE IT TO BE FOCUSED ON ATTEMPTS AT IMMORTALITY, AND THE WAYS WE ERASE OURSELVES FOR IMMORTALITY, AND THE WAYS WE RECORD OURSELVES RECORDING OURSELVES

A CORRESPONDENCE

BY JAMES TADD ADCOX & ROBERT KLOSS

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Robert Kloss and I spent a month cutting each other to pieces and rearranging what was there. These are the results.

Apr 02 2013 ∞

Apr 01 2013 ∞

Speak, I am bound to hear

Version of Hamlet where the ghost never reappears. The first three scenes occur exactly as in the original. In act I scene 4 Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus enter and deliver their lines as written, up to Hamlet’s speech (“it is a custom/more honor’d in the breach, than the observance” etc). After which the three actors remain onstage, waiting, expectant, until the last member of the audience leaves; at which point the actors may do as they wish.

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“This is not a joke” implies that yes

This morning I listened to a man outside my window explain to a small child why he had lied to him.

“It’s April first,” he said. “April Fool’s. April Fool’s?”

The small child started screaming. He screamed and screamed and screamed.

“Jesus!” the man yelled. “April Fool’s! April Fool’s!” As if that meant anything.

I’ve been working on a series of very short poems called “Scientific Method.” Some of them have already appeared in ILK Journal. More are forthcoming in PANK, Sixth Finch, and (as gmail just told me a second ago) The Pinch.

I’ve had things published as poems before, but these are the first things I’ve ever explicitly thought of as “poetry” while writing them. I hope you will read them and love them. They are short enough that you could memorize one of them, and whisper it to yourself in a comforting whisper in times of need.

(There’s a video of me reading some of these poems in Cambridge here.)