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Poem of the Week: from The Work of Days by Sarah Lang

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Sarah Lang was born in Canada.

Her book The Work of Days was published by Coach House Books in 2007.


from The Work of Days

This is the harbour where I rig your happiness. One thing
into another: you cover my mouth; I play dead. The sheet breathes

ARTblogger.flat.sm.jpg The Basel Miami Fair(s) covered from head to toe by Joanne Mattera. Almost all of ‘em. Mattera, a painter, does an excellent job. Check out her comments and images. at the Joanne Mattera Art Blog.

Her blog is a multipart report, one post per venue plus the prologue. The entries are posted sequentially, and as Joanna says, “There is a narrative to my reporting, so I hope you'll follow it through to the end.”

“By all accounts the mood going into Miami was wary. Dealers in general were fearful that the bubble was about to burst, and the smaller dealers were concerned that the greater number of satellite fairs this year would dilute their sales. Apparently the big guns had no problems; Gagosian sold $10 million worth of art, according to Bloomberg News. Among the smaller galleries in the satellite fairs, the mood lifted as sales began to rack up. Many smaller galleries sold out, and most at least broke even. The mood going out was simply weary.”
Continue reading here.
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Part of the 'return to beauty idea' if I understand it correctly has been layed out as a type of revisionism



Whatever happened to the return of beauty?

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It brought about Kilimnik and Doig, right? But I don't mean this to be just an addition to Mark's righteous condemnation of the consensoriat (though the notion of "the return of beauty" may have had something to do with its rise).


the masked announcer has left the auditorium

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joeldorn.jpg very sad news - joel dorn has got his hat - the masked announcer checked out this past monday

after a sudden heart attack - the great producer/hilarious liner note scribbler/grand imagineer/photographer had a heart attack on monday and has left us behind in this very sad and square world - it was an honor to be his friend and collaborator - as a teenager i would buy records by guys i never heard of simply because his name appeared on the back of the jacket - beyond the far-out rufus harley blowin bagpipe jazz there were incredible - life-changing discs by rahsaan, yusef, les and eddie, fathead and hank, leon redbone - on and on

if you don't know - as hal willner says "google his ass!" jd gave me the shot when most folks closed the doors - as he said about rahsaan or yusef - he was "truly singular" more thoughts to come on the late, great jd - i'll miss him terribly - i'm sure we all will... he was the only guy i knew who called a pakastani cab driver "babe"

- jdk
schjeldahl_p.jpg New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl said in a recent speech given there, that Chicago is a “receptor city.”

Let’s face it, he’s right.

We all know WHY and WHEN this transition occurred from a modest-but-improving “Transmitter” art-city to a “Receptor” one. And WHO was behind it.

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What's next? Kinkade? This was the fare of Flash Art, "Stupid Trends R Us," until now.

Poem of the Week: "II." by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney

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somethingcover.jpg Elisa Gabbert holds degrees from Rice University and Emerson College . She currently lives in Boston and is an editor of Absent. Recent work can be found in Pleiades, Meridian, Cannibal, and LIT. Her chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, is available from Kitchen Press. That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness , a book of poems written with Kathleen Rooney, is forthcoming from Otoliths Books.

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading With Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas Press, 2005) and Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (Arkansas Press, 2009). Recent essays and poems can be found in Gettysburg Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Quarterly West.

Their collaborative chapbook Something Really Wonderful was published by dancing girl press in 2007.

II.

She kept a chamois-soft list of Things That Set My Heart Aflutter
& she sent it in a letter, the envelope encrusted with ruby glitter.



Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré 1952

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I've been fretting for a while about how to introduce myself on this blog (hi! I'm the new guy!), until I decided that, if I kept going that way, I would never post a thing. So I'll skip the intro for now, and go on to my very first post.

A couple of months ago I found at a Red Cross book sale (for $1.50!) a copy of the 1952 Larousse; it's a book I was very familiar with, as I grew up with possibly a slightly later edition of it, but in any case one that looked almost indistinguishable from this one, owned by my grandparents (Francophiles like all good middle-class Romanians of their generation), in 1970's Bucharest. The moment I picked it up, the book--the texture of its cloth cover under my fingertips, its heft in my hands, the layout of its pages--felt so familiar as to bring about an unmistakably Proustian moment.

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Excerpts: "In art it is important to remember that the most substantial, meaningful, honest, spiritual, cultural rituals, forms and esthetics come from the underground."

"So you know that Dominic Molon, the curator of "Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967," is in deep trouble..."

"Another big problem was that the MCA seems to have scorned one of the most influential and rich rock ‘n’ roll scenes in America ...Chicago..."

Read on ...

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What Is Painting? at MOMA

The call came in the middle of the night, and the voice on the line sounded hoarse and afraid. "John, it's MOMA. You have to tell us. What is painting?"

I reached for the light. "Go on."

"We have this show, 'What Is Painting.' We have to know." ...

Read the rest of the article here.
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Kristy Odelius is a poet and Assistant Professor of English at North Park University where she teaches poetry and 19th century British literature. She is a co-founder of Near South, a Chicago-based journal of innovative writing. Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared or in Notre Dame Review, Chicago Review, Combo, ACM, La Petite Zine, keepgoing, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, and others. Her chapbook Bee Spit is out this month from dancing girl press, and her book, Strange Trades, will be out next Fall from Shearsman.

Thoughts of Falling, Pollen, Pare

When champion-bred
leaves lie splayed
like minimum wage



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