Hello friends,
My new chapbook Property Line is now available from Fewer & Further Press.
http://fewfurpresspropertyline.blogspot.com/
(an image of the cover will be up soon)
The stats: 26 pages. 6x4. Saddle-stitched. Rhubarb-colored end papers. Cover illustration by Wendy Heldmann. Price: $7.00 (s&h is included in that price). The first 20 orders receive a signed, double-sided broadside limited to an edition of 40.
What a few people have said about the book:
Property Line limns the objects of attention anew. This work is paradoxically both stark and rich. In its few lines, it delivers us to a fullness of sight and sound. There's nothing tired or jaded about this writing. "Swallows / whisk the rifts." Word after word surprises.
--Rae Armantrout
Don’t let this chapbook's title fool you: you’re more than welcome here. If, like me, you’re more than bored by American poetry’s recent spate of pointless territorial pissings, Property Line will put you in your rightful place. Joe Strummer once said something like: “If you don’t like Bruce Springsteen, you’re a heartless, pretentious Martian." Ditto Joe Massey. If you can read this, his world’s yours.
--Graham Foust
--Zach Barocas
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Also, tonight:
MATVEI YANKELEVICH is a volunteer editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. He translates from Russian (Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and others). His long poem, "The Present Work," is becoming available in chapbook form thanks to Palm Press. He is the co-translator of "OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism" just out this summer from Northwestern University Press. His translations of the works of Daniil Kharms are forthcoming in 2007 from Ardis/Overlook.
JORDAN DAVIS is the host of The Million Poems Show, a live poetry talk show. In April, he hosted the first Flarf Festival at the Medicine Show Theater. With Chris Edgar, he edits the literary journal *The Hat*, and along with Sarah Manguso, edited the anthology *Free Radicals: American Poets before Their First Books*. He has written about poetry for Vanitas, the Village Voice and Fence's ConstantCritic.com site, and his poems are forthcoming in Volt and the Boston Review. His second collection of poems will be published later this year.
My new chapbook Property Line is now available from Fewer & Further Press.
http://fewfurpresspropertyline
(an image of the cover will be up soon)
The stats: 26 pages. 6x4. Saddle-stitched. Rhubarb-colored end papers. Cover illustration by Wendy Heldmann. Price: $7.00 (s&h is included in that price). The first 20 orders receive a signed, double-sided broadside limited to an edition of 40.
What a few people have said about the book:
Property Line limns the objects of attention anew. This work is paradoxically both stark and rich. In its few lines, it delivers us to a fullness of sight and sound. There's nothing tired or jaded about this writing. "Swallows / whisk the rifts." Word after word surprises.
--Rae Armantrout
Don’t let this chapbook's title fool you: you’re more than welcome here. If, like me, you’re more than bored by American poetry’s recent spate of pointless territorial pissings, Property Line will put you in your rightful place. Joe Strummer once said something like: “If you don’t like Bruce Springsteen, you’re a heartless, pretentious Martian." Ditto Joe Massey. If you can read this, his world’s yours.
--Graham Foust
The poems in Joseph Massey's Property Line are preservative poems, gently elastic in their varied forms, never straying from their author's sure-handed ability to capture & illuminate an evolution of motion into image. Massey's is a trusting approach; that is, he trusts that the organizing power of poetry will make the world sensible. In lesser hands, this methodology might be cause for a reader's apostasy. In Massey's hands, however, an enduring & expanding faith in poetry is tested & reaffirmed on every page.
***
Also, tonight:
MATVEI YANKELEVICH is a volunteer editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. He translates from Russian (Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and others). His long poem, "The Present Work," is becoming available in chapbook form thanks to Palm Press. He is the co-translator of "OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism" just out this summer from Northwestern University Press. His translations of the works of Daniil Kharms are forthcoming in 2007 from Ardis/Overlook.
JORDAN DAVIS is the host of The Million Poems Show, a live poetry talk show. In April, he hosted the first Flarf Festival at the Medicine Show Theater. With Chris Edgar, he edits the literary journal *The Hat*, and along with Sarah Manguso, edited the anthology *Free Radicals: American Poets before Their First Books*. He has written about poetry for Vanitas, the Village Voice and Fence's ConstantCritic.com site, and his poems are forthcoming in Volt and the Boston Review. His second collection of poems will be published later this year.
The e-mail announcement I have doesn't list the time. So check out the Vacation House blog. Hmm...no time listed there either. I am going to assume it starts at 7PM since that is when the previous readings were.
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Da cover image for _Property Line_ is now up.
SCORE!
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