Boog City presents Critical Documents and Jason Zeh (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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Boog City presents

d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press

Critical Documents
(Oxford, Ohio)

Thurs. Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m., free

ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC

Event will be hosted by
Critical Documents editor jUStin!katKO

Featuring readings from

cris cheek
William R. Howe
Brenda Iijima
jUStin!katKO
Mark Mendoza
Keith Tuma

With music from

Jason Zeh

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.

Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum

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*Critical Documents*

Critical Documents was started in 2005 by jUStin!katKO. It publishes the
journal Plantarchy as well as chapbooks of contemporary poetry. Plantarchy
brings together the work of established and emerging practitioners from the
U.K. and U.S. Whenever possible, the editorial agenda is to print sequences
or longish excerpts of work. Issue 3, consisting solely of cris cheek's The
Church ­ The School ­ The Beer will be released at Boog City's Critical
Documents evening in NYC on December 7th. Plantarchy is available at Bridge
Street (DC), Rust Belt (Buffalo), Talking Leaves (Buffalo), Normal's
(Baltimore), City Lights (San Francisco), and Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee).
It is archived at SUNY-Buffalo, the University of Kansas, Ohio State
University, and the Marvin Sackner Archive.

*Performer Bios*

**cris cheek is a poet, writer, book artist, publisher, new media
practitioner, talker, and interdisciplinary performer whose writing has been
commissioned and shown all over the western world, often in multiple
versions using diverse media for production and circulation. The work has an
increasingly site-responsive proclivity and is frequently created in forms
of collaboration with other artists. He collaborates with Kirsten Lavers
under the name TNWK. The Church ­ The School ­ The Beer is a book of talks
being released from Critical Documents.

**William R. Howe is a poet, book artist, publisher, editor, performance
artist, and visual artist. He is a visiting assistant professor at Miami
University of Ohio, in Oxford, Ohio. His work, which most often appears in
small event-based editions, has also appeared in Plantarchy, Mirage
#4/Period(ical), Ferrum Wheel, The Gig, and others. Along with cris cheek
and Keith Tuma, he has been accused of being a heretic. He runs the
Putitupor broadside series, and he and his wife, L.A. Howe, edit Slack
Buddha Press.

**Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books). Animate, Inanimate,
Inanimate Aims is forthcoming from Litmus Press and Eco Quarry Bellwether is
forthcoming from Outside Voices. A chapbook, Rabbit Lesson will be published
by Fewer & Further Press. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
Iijima is also a visual artist.

**jUStin!katKO is an intermedia writer and publisher. He has collaborated on
videos and text with Keith Tuma and collaborates with Camille PB under the
collective alias Coupons-Coupons. He co-operates Meshworks: the Miami
University Archive of Writing in Performance, co-edits On Company Time with
Keston Sutherland, and edits the poetry journal Plantarchy (Critical
Documents).

**Mark Mendoza tries hard to listen in Oxford, OH.

**Keith Tuma is the author of Fishing by Obstinate Isles:  Modern and
Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers and various essays on poetry,
poetics, and culture. He is the editor of Anthology of Twentieth Century
British and Irish Poetry and Rainbow Darkness, an anthology of African
American poetry and essays about it, and co-editor of books on Mina Loy and
poetry and performance. Holiday in Tikrit is a chapbook from Critical
Documents, written in collaboration with jUStin!katKO. With cris cheek and
Bill Howe (as the Three Little Heretics) he is the author of the multimedia
poem and travelogue Critical Path: Into the Bush. Some of his recent poems
are collected in the chapbook Topical Ointment. He is professor and chair of
the department of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

**Jason Zeh, a magnetic cassette tape composer and Xerox artist from Bowling
Green, Ohio, creates music that successfully combines elements of drone,
electro-acoustic, and noise. Zeh¹s work relies on the creation of intimate
social encounters through the use of extreme quiet punctuated by steep
inclines toward moments of extreme loudness. Live shows combine a mixing of
previously recorded source sounds with real time manipulation of cassette
tape through the use of modified tape decks and dismantled cassettes. The
relationship Zeh has to the cassettes and tape decks used to record and
manipulate the sounds is not unlike that of many laptop artists in terms of
the meticulous sculpting of sound that is employed in order to create
emotionally char

Pope' visit Imam'

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Yesterday's OED WotD "gagging"

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chant of the doomed dancer

[Alan Sondheim]

chant of the doomed dancer

http://www.asondheim.org/doomeddancer.mp4
dance the doomed Case of doomed, doomed, a-void. Case of A world chaos,
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chaos, doomed, her the the doomed, abyss, doomed, abyss, doomed, doomed,
doomed, abyss, a-void. a-void.

Sublime Exiles of Vast Little Musics

[Lanny Quarles]

http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/arf100.mov

leave their lady mortals write all the love that hides With intoxication
of skies Flutter and the buds and the May time and more fair as kinder
That go and dew that change to above Who seek murmured far dream that come
and the Spring time Shredded and flown Are but torn delight Written the
fond a billet bound all white butterflies soft silk That dreamy lovers
send leave their lady the little waters souls pen's peniswound and wide.
Ah, butterflies. when we think bloom, and privet, flutterings In jasmine
paper that love-letters, that the lays playthings for the tearful roses;
lo, Filled with through the hearts within flies, and peep Of all the
floats, and lovers That kissed muffled music of all to dreamy white wings,
dawn is covers The messages and before flit to flowers, mays, Of through
clouds or in April smiling on to love, And wind's playtime, We mistress in
despair, To fond Written flown playthings above, Who with intoxication
pens wound the Spring paper that winds playtime to love we think change to
butterflies. all thee a billet bound, Of white butterflies floating is
smiling waters souls time when mistresses in despair To dews that seek
through bloom, and the flutterings We dream And leave lovers sending
flowers, as white wings music murmured to dreamy more fair far and
myessages of delight, lo, the tearful roses of love May time privet of
Shredded muffled skies dawn mays Of that through That go the layers torn
love-letters before the for the their lady the buds kinder and and all
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That kiss little lovers flit to hearts within April and that all and peep
wide Ah, clouds or covers and come, and hide, In jasmine writing Filled
love-letters lo to spring a mistress of little musics hiding

be a sky-change, faint strangely more than less the fore end time is made
deep or lady the buds What waves soft silk That Let sublime Exiles tender
the vast little musics hiding And what foam and arise dews Appear, O dew,
To be a sky-change, Whilst Rose, In jasmine no pomps dreamy mortals Be
born by perfume fleet Do ye guns! Amber flown, The We enslaved famed heard
thy tone of all Are That kiss little Love's O: A Grave. E Ocean wonder,
sweet. And said waters in story of spirits God's the darkness despots And
to the flash, Rose. song with [who love Grave] [The Grave] (no)! and
strange, More the ruins hurricane and you or covers of dawn's tears Right
uphold with beagles, Too said in power. bounding, Peoples said all Flutter
and kinder and unawares? The Rose writing Filled the boundless thunder And
shined lightning saw Truth! thou thinkers, soar like thine own waves
marked a mistress of angels new the hunted down of dawn, lovers flit but
stretch and come, hide, O Ocean and suns! wide Ah, clouds of flowers, what
to the tocsins Rozel-Tower, sang'st of the mouth shade From wild
vanishings; resoundings, whereon doth close amongst fear And the fly, the
spirits souls' world's of love-letters glamour, Who the honey tomb's all 
love-letters before all and peep to the rocks! mighty eagles! is theirs?"
glory And heave to hearts within Rose shocks, Brave suffer earth April and
that o'er the clamour,-- lo to spring fog walked sold. Souls of the mouth
shade From wild vanishes to appear!

324/365, Keith

[Dan Waber]

Keith has a face for television, a voice for radio, the body of an
olympic wrestler, a gift for forming the kind of surreal images that
stick in the brain, and a style of delivery that crowds love to watch.

40 words, 40 years
365 days, 365 people
http://www.logolalia.com/40x365

alphabits, by nick-e melville

[Dan Waber]

As we wave goodbye to the z of the alphabliss or non-nursery rhymes
by Bob Marcacci, it's time to wave hello to the a of alphabits by
nick-e melville.

New series starting today at:

http://www.logolalia.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/

Regards,
Dan

Submissions of artworks based around the complete sequence of the
roman alphabet which can be presented a letter at a time over the
course of 26 days are invited.

an early draft

[Lanny Quarles]

i guess i'm driving
and the wipers are a single
needle registering a guage
in a focus test. sometime
ago, i looked for a way
to tell you about my self,
but dusk has a wide and
rigid girth which plummets,
which rises to the fall,
nothing witty to the oak's
accidental ab. a translation
to miracle, from miracle,
and somewhere along the river
the same standard circus
is telling the children
if they can cry. i'm not.
i'm not. i guess i'm
driving somewhere. and.
what seems like the right
angle (loser), ends up
being a tactic (silence)
to the trans-dimensional.
scissors for a turtle.
calm for an ~

Grin sore S lung heap

[John M. Bennett]

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John M. Bennett

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Rare Books & Manuscripts Library
The Ohio State University Libraries
1858 Neil Av Mall
Columbus, OH 43210 USA

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Re: an early draft

[John M. Bennett]

great lyric poem, Lanny!
john

At 08:23 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote:

i guess i'm driving
and the wipers are a single
needle registering a guage
in a focus test. sometime
ago, i looked for a way
to tell you about my self,
but dusk has a wide and
rigid girth which plummets,
which rises to the fall,
nothing witty to the oak's
accidental ab. a translation
to miracle, from miracle,
and somewhere along the river
the same standard circus
is telling the children
if they can cry. i'm not.
i'm not. i guess i'm
driving somewhere. and.
what seems like the right
angle (loser), ends up
being a tactic (silence)
to the trans-dimensional.
scissors for a turtle.
calm for an ~


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Soro houp

[John M. Bennett]

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 bon gk col lupsourgo tho brouq with stun
 whiffoq bosiqo thuction in tho sink y
 cough  ?qry un fis luko  .bo um mis
 l c rustoq q umply wizonoq ripoq tho shoo g un
 moro ros y in hizzoq ,yr sh out bow
 orutoq liko compo woll so howq you
 our upgunk  .ch,h uff mu lo ,luqqor

 cubo ,muto sunugo spruqqloq with u tooth
 ,u cliquo c luck ,suwouch of y our of
 o tho vory ur chno whut  ?b luzo of
 ,knockoroq ,noighboroq in tho splurting blooq un guoss
 woll n ovor k nowuto ,w hut you c ruckoroq
 crispys on tho bwn junkor shuqoq mor
 mort ur boroul visqwich ,chortloq in tho hull



 S lung houp

 bun ch of c rusting off tho gut tor
 yr pinqox b lockqry ,mo ,w hut ,c
 h muto s hoppingq tho schoonor s
 to gluo un mort ,cun I ,u tunqru fouming ,job
 bust muttor cuvofor u c ruck  .nuts
 lub mool ,you uugo swollon boot
 orpsoq un ski pps lup biqnoss cornoq

 .so b unq tho four un ongino gusloss
 c hug s lup b.stiff in junk ,grow
 ou qry it of fonq uluto bo nouts
 ,un u corus cution shuqoq wit yr tonguo b loo
 k bo hinq bo ytho whilo  .bluqing
 tho s crup soo plossor lung o y
 u boulqor in yringor b onq tho




Jim Leftwich Corrects John M. Bennett's 
Spelling December 2006



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Curator, Avant Writing Collection
Rare Books & Manuscripts Library
The Ohio State University Libraries
1858 Neil Av Mall
Columbus, OH 43210 USA

(614) 292-3029
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.johnmbennett.net
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Re: an early draft

[phanero]

thanks John. I've been reading Alice Notley a little
to see if maybe something might rub off on me..
it was like a little voice i almost missed while i was
coming up the stairs from the fab to do my passdown
and i just hung on to the first line until i could sit down.
there's something really melancholy about an evening
commute along the columbia river, not a single evening 
commute but years of it. it has a rhythm, it makes me 
think of 'naturalism' or something. contemporary 
naturalism? in a 19C way? not sure.. they play such 
obscure music. Hue? pronounced Uuhr? thx John.


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  From: John M. Bennett 
  To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU 
  Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:27 AM
  Subject: Re: an early draft


  great lyric poem, Lanny!
  john

  At 08:23 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote:

i guess i'm driving
and the wipers are a single
needle registering a guage
in a focus test. sometime
ago, i looked for a way
to tell you about my self,
but dusk has a wide and
rigid girth which plummets,
which rises to the fall,
nothing witty to the oak's
accidental ab. a translation
to miracle, from miracle,
and somewhere along the river
the same standard circus
is telling the children
if they can cry. i'm not.
i'm not. i guess i'm
driving somewhere. and.
what seems like the right
angle (loser), ends up
being a tactic (silence)
to the trans-dimensional.
scissors for a turtle.
calm for an ~


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Re: an early draft

[John M. Bennett]

Pierre de la Rue?
john

At 10:50 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote:


thanks John. I've been reading Alice Notley a little
to see if maybe something might rub off on me..
it was like a little voice i almost missed while i was
coming up the stairs from the fab to do my passdown
and i just hung on to the first line until i could sit down.
there's something really melancholy about an evening
commute along the columbia river, not a single evening
commute but years of it. it has a rhythm, it makes me
think of 'naturalism' or something. contemporary
naturalism? in a 19C way? not sure.. they play such
obscure music. Hue? pronounced Uuhr? thx John.


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From: John M. Bennett
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: an early draft

great lyric poem, Lanny!
john

At 08:23 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote:

i guess i'm driving
and the wipers are a single
needle registering a guage
in a focus test. sometime
ago, i looked for a way
to tell you about my self,
but dusk has a wide and
rigid girth which plummets,
which rises to the fall,
nothing witty to the oak's
accidental ab. a translation
to miracle, from miracle,
and somewhere along the river
the same standard circus
is telling the children
if they can cry. i'm not.
i'm not. i guess i'm
driving somewhere. and.
what seems like the right
angle (loser), ends up
being a tactic (silence)
to the trans-dimensional.
scissors for a turtle.
calm for an ~


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....

[Jukka-Pekka Kervinen]

rness plains
ical prancer
ding intoxic
eting checke
ually switch
suasive dust
oty incomple

speed.

[Alan Sondheim]

speed.

i can't slow up. death is an hysteria. i don't care about your gender. i
send out work as soon as it's done. i make work as soon as i think of it.
i read as fast as i can. i watch news and practice music while i read. i
know if i slow up i'll die. i know there will be a missive or missile here
in this space that will not be sent. i know the missive will be the tag or
curlicue. i know it will be the conjunction of my death. i read the con-
junction as not both life and death. i read the conjunction as neither
life nor death. i eat fast. i never sleep properly. i dream theory and
practice. i hunt on the internet. i shape ride on the internet. i speak
here and do not speak elsewhere. speech is a privilege. i cannot pronounce
other languages in proper order. i cannot pronounce the rudiments of
speech. i breath fast. i get out of breath fast. death promises slowing.
death does not halt. i watch myself as i speak. i watch myself as i
remember. i remember remembering. i remember what i have forgotten. i
watch my brain at work. i remember watching. i know what i forget will be
my last. i know if i forgot i should be reminded to die. i am afraid of
being reminded to die. life is a remission. life is under remission. i
cannot keep up with myself. i watch myself ahead of myself. i am never
behind. i am always ahead. if i am comfortable with speed i am not speed-
ing. i must speed into discomfort. i must be beyond myself. i must be
beyond ahead of myself. i play music fast. i want to get all the music out
before i can no longer play music. i want to get out this absolute music.
i want to theorize as bulwark and therapeutic. i want to theorize before i
can no longer theorize. before i can no longer theorize in complexity. i
guard my theorization. i guard my brain and my speed. if i think of a
sentence i say that sentence. if i think of a poem i write that poem. if i
have an idea i write that idea. if i think of a video i make that video. i
make that video when i think of the video. i edit that video while i make
that video. i am afraid of passing out. i am afraid of dizziness. i speed
through dizziness. if i stop i will die. if i die this thought will not be
finished. i must finish this thought. i have a new thought now.

[vel] computer user demographics (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

Subject: [vel] computer user demographics

"Nearly half (46%) of Apple's base is age 55 and older, almost double the
share of average home PC users (25.2%)."
Ouch!

http://www.metafacts.com/pages/media/tupan06_announce_061129.htm

November 29, 2006   08:30   AM US Pacific Timezone

Mobile Computers on the Increase in US Homes, According to MetaFacts 2006 
Home PC Brand Profile Report


Comparing Installed Bases of Major PC Brands Yields Interesting Results - 
Half of Apple Home Users Now Notebooks, While Dell is Nearing the Half-Way 
Mark ENCINITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Homes are embracing notebook 
computers, with nearly 52 million as the home???s primary computers, 
according to analysis released in the 2006 Home PC Brand Profile Report 
from MetaFacts, Inc. These 51.8 million notebooks are 30.2% of US primary 
home computers. Not all brands are equal when it comes to mobilizing their 
customers. In Apple households, over half (52%) of the personal computers 
are notebooks. In HP/Compaq households, just under one in six (16.1%) are 
notebook computers, while 46.1% of Dell PCs at home are notebooks. Dell 
continues to lead in sheer numbers with just over 24 million Dell 
notebooks in U.S. households, a 46.1% share of the home notebook PC 
market.


The Home PC Brand Profile Report is one of a series of summary reports on 
specific topics based on the results of MetaFacts??? 2006 Technology User 
Profile (TUP) study, which reveal the changing patterns of technology 
adoption and use in American households and businesses. The Home PC Brand 
Profile Report includes findings on PC types in homes, year purchased, 
age/gender of users, where home computers are used (respondents reported 
using them outside the home from cybercaf??s to copy shops), PC 
activities, Internet use, shopping and buying behavior, purchasing 
channels, printer use and more. The results are reported for all home PCs 
users in total, as well as separately by major PC brand (Apple, Dell, 
Gateway/eMachines, HP/Compaq, and other brands).


Newer computer models are now in almost half of homes, with 49.3% 
purchased since 2004. More than two-thirds of Apple and half of Dell and 
HP/Compaq primary home computers are less than 2 ? years old. ???A 
substantial number of home computers are considered new enough that it's 
likely to cause resistance for home consumers to replace their PCs,??? 
said Dan Ness, principal at MetaFacts. ??? This will have implications for 
releases of new applications and operating systems like Microsoft 
Vista.?


Among other findings in the Home PC Brand Profile Report are age and 
gender of home PC users. Nearly half (46%) of Apple's base is age 55 and 
older, almost double the share of average home PC users (25.2%). ???Apple 
can claim long-time loyalists, but its future among the young 
technoliterati is an interesting dynamic,??? said Ness. ???Gateway has the 
lead among the 18-24 year olds,??? he continued, ???with a 
higher-than-average share of US home???s primary PC users falling into 
this age group.???


In addition to the Home PC Brand Profile Report, MetaFacts has recently 
produced the Workplace PC Brand Profile Report, which focuses on PCs used 
in the Workplace, and the Mobile PC Profile Report, which profiles 
notebook and tablet PC use.


TUP Profile Reports are one distribution format of TUP findings, offering 
the benefit of a research study focusing on a specific market segment or 
technology, with impactful analysis tapping into the 
nationally-representative surveys in each TUP Full Edition. Companies can 
also subscribe to the TUP Full Edition to receive complete survey results. 
Those new to the information provided in TUP can sign up at 
www.metafacts.com for complimentary TUPdates, which give insights on 
topics and findings in the full Technology User Profile. Finally, 
companies who need to delve further into findings can engage MetaFacts for 
a TUP Custom Re-Contact Study that further probes TUP respondents on 
issues relative to their specific industry, markets, and products.??


About MetaFacts

MetaFacts, Inc. is a national market research firm focusing exclusively on 
the technology industries. MetaFacts' Technology User Profile survey is 
the longest-running, largest, and most comprehensive study of its kind, 
conducted continuously since 1983. The detailed results are widely 
recognized as a primary marketing resource for Fortune 1000 companies 
providing consumer-oriented technology products and services, such as PCs, 
printers, mobile devices, and related services and products. For more 
information, contact MetaFacts at 1-760-635-4300, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or 
www.metafacts.com.

 ??
Contacts:
??MetaFacts Inc., Encinitas
??Dan Ness, 760/635-4306 or
??760/635-4300
??760/635-4303 (fax)

Ira Lightman article at The Argotist Online

[Jeffrey Side]

Article by Ira Lightman called "Performing the (e.g. Visual) Poem" at The 
Argotist Online:

http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Lightman%20essay.htm

Re: an early draft

[susan maurer]

just took an alice notley master clas a good experience . she has a talent 
for kindling crativity whioch is really special/ really enjoyed her class 
and i dont generally like classes. susan maurer




From: phanero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Theory and Writing 
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
Subject: Re: an early draft
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:50:11 -0800


thanks John. I've been reading Alice Notley a little
to see if maybe something might rub off on me..
it was like a little voice i almost missed while i was
coming up the stairs from the fab to do my passdown
and i just hung on to the first line until i could sit down.
there's something really melancholy about an evening
commute along the columbia river, not a single evening
commute but years of it. it has a rhythm, it makes me
think of 'naturalism' or something. contemporary
naturalism? in a 19C way? not sure.. they play such
obscure music. Hue? pronounced Uuhr? thx John.


  - Original Message -
  From: John M. Bennett
  To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
  Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:27 AM
  Subject: Re: an early draft


  great lyric poem, Lanny!
  john

  At 08:23 AM 12/1/2006, you wrote:

i guess i'm driving
and the wipers are a single
needle registering a guage
in a focus test. sometime
ago, i looked for a way
to tell you about my self,
but dusk has a wide and
rigid girth which plummets,
which rises to the fall,
nothing witty to the oak's
accidental ab. a translation
to miracle, from miracle,
and somewhere along the river
the same standard circus
is telling the children
if they can cry. i'm not.
i'm not. i guess i'm
driving somewhere. and.
what seems like the right
angle (loser), ends up
being a tactic (silence)
to the trans-dimensional.
scissors for a turtle.
calm for an ~


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The Clark Ashton Smith of Zane Grey

[Harrison Jeff]

THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS


the

In a land where weirdness and mystery had strongly leagued themselves with 
eternal desolation, the lake was out-poured at an undiscoverable date of 
elder aeons, to fill some fathomless gulf far down amid the shadows of 
snowless, volcanic mountains.


of

My dreams are like a caravan that departed long ago, with tumult of intrepid 
banners and spears, and the clamour of bugles and brave, adventurous songs, 
to seek the horizons of perilous, unknown, barbaric lands and kingdoms 
immense and vaguely rumoured, with cities beautiful and opulent as the 
cities of Paradise, and deep, Edenic vales of palm and cinnamon and myrrh, 
lying beneath skies of primeval azure silence.


st

Because you are silent to my lyric prayers, deaf to the melodies I have made 
from the sighs and murmurs of a wounded love, I have broken my golden lute, 
and cast it away, tarnished and unstrung, among the red leaves and faded 
roses of the September garden.


rs


*


THE MAVERICK QUEEN


From her balcony of pearl, the princess Almeena, clad in a gown of irisated 
silk, with her long and sable locks unbound, gazes toward the sunset-flooded 
sea beyond a terrace of green marble that peacocks guard.


ma

Then, with one voice that was like the voice of hesperian airs among palms 
at evening twilight in the Fortunate Isles, they answered, saying:


erick

qu

"If I could fly like that, and plunge in from the heavens, nothing could 
evade me," thought the shark.


"If I could swim and dive and dwell under water as he does, everything would 
be at my mercy," thought the osprey.


n


*


WEST OF THE PECOS


Splenetic, pale Narcissus, in the green dead depth of some rotting pool: 
thou seest thine image drown and re-emerge, beneath the shifting iridescence 
of corruption, the beautiful bright scum that damascenes with fantastic 
arabesques the fetid water. Or in the brazen mirrors, mottled with 
verdigris, of queens that were fair and fatal, avid and insatiate of love or 
pain in lands the desert has long obliterated, perchance thou viewest the 
implacable perverse nympholepsy of thy mien.


In the quest of her whom I had lost, I came at length to the shores of 
Lethe, under the vault of an immense, empty, ebon sky, from which all the 
stars had vanished one by one.


the

pecos


*


ROGUE RIVER FEUD


The world has a thousand poisons, thin or potent,

ogu

honey-like or nauseous,

quick or languid,

ive

corrosive and deadly,

or captious and deceptive and narcotic.

eu

There are poisons bright as an amber wine, or rich as blood or rubies, or 
clear and hueless and innocent-seeming as the water of untroubled lakes, or 
dark and turbid as the ooze of the nether sea.



*


HORSE HEAVEN HILL


And thus I recalled the name I had assumed beneath the terrene sun, and the 
names I had borne beneath the suns of sleep and of reverie.


orse

My death is like shadow, my life aquiver, a pulse in the light; I am so 
close to death it makes me proud, cruel and demonic. Unmoved, I flutter from 
Helen's lips to Adonis' wound. I love my death, the flame, more than 
anything.


eaven

O Fairest, O dearest, to what shall I liken thy days? Methinks are as 
precious gems, as pearls and amethysts, which, from a broken string, some 
idle princess, sitting on her barge of ivory and gold, lets fall one in to 
the bottomless blue and placid sea.


ill

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A flea as helmet for a dancing pig

[phanero]

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in a chuttering  hut of glass-toothed chimes

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with our thrusts"

WE HOWLING DUGS 
IN LOON ELBOWED 
SCREAMS


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with humming tureens
tar bild lunging out from 
a frame of flame


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EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

This is unbelievable! - alan


-- Forwarded message --
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:23:51 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents

[An action alert from the Scientific Integrity Program
of the Union of Concerned Scientists
ucsaction.org/campaign/12_1_06_EPA_Library_Closures
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December 1, 2006

The EPA Closes Its Libraries, Destroys Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun
closing its nationwide network of scientific libraries,
effectively preventing EPA scientists and the public
from accessing vast amounts of data and information on
issues from toxicology to pollution. Several libraries
have already been dismantled, with their contents either
destroyed or shipped to repositories where they are
uncataloged and inaccessible.

The scientific information contained in the EPA
libraries is essential to the agency's ability to make
fully informed decisions that carry out its mission of
protecting human health and the environment. Members of
Congress have asked the EPA to cease and desist. Please
call EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson at (202) 564-4700
either today, December 1, or Monday, December 4, and
tell him how much scientists rely on data and
literature. Urge him to immediately halt the dismantling
of the library system until Congress approves the EPA
budget and all materials are readily available online.

Update, 12:40p.m. EST 12/1:

A few of hours ago, we told you that the Environmental
Protection Agency has begun closing its scientific
libraries. Several libraries have already been
dismantled, with their contents either destroyed or
shipped to repositories where they are uncataloged and
inaccessible.

Calls are already flooding in and we're having an
effect. Please keep those calls coming! Call EPA
Administrator Stephen Johnson at (202) 564-4700 either
today or Monday and tell him how much scientists rely on
data and literature. Urge him to immediately halt the
dismantling of the library system until Congress
approves the EPA budget and all materials are readily
available online. Click here to tell us the results of
your call.

Unfortunately, we're receiving reports that the EPA is
claiming that the Union of Concerned Scientists has
false information and that none of the libraries have
been closed. Significant evidence proves otherwise.

The Evidence

On the EPA's own library website, the five libraries
that have been closed to date have been removed from the
list and had their websites partially or completely shut
down:

the Headquarters Library
http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/hqirc/

Region 5
http://ucsaction.org/ct/ld_rfsY1QmhD/

Region 6
http://ucsaction.org/ct/o1_rfsY1QmhH/

Region 7
http://www.epa.gov/region7/citizens/irc/index.htm

and the Office of Prevention, Pollution, and Toxic
Substances (OPPTS)
http://ucsaction.org/ct/l1_rfsY1QmhJ/.

The EPA libraries website links to a plan of action
(http://ucsaction.org/ct/od_rfsY1QmhG/) for closing many
libraries and dispersing or disposing of materials. We
also have first-hand accounts from EPA employees that
the libraries have been closed.

The four EPA employees unions have sent a letter
(http://ucsaction.org/ct/lp_rfsY1QmhZ/) asking Congress
to stop the destruction of the library network. A letter
from Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA), Bart Gordon
(D-TN) and John Dingell (D-MI) has prompted an
investigation of the library system by the General
Accountability Office, the investigative arm of
Congress. And members of both the House and Senate have
called upon Administrator Johnson to cease and desist
with the closures until the investigation is complete
and Congress has authorized action; the House letter
calls for a response from the administrator by Monday,
December 4, 2006.

Also, several newspapers have reported or editorialized
about the library closures, including the Boston Globe
(http://ucsaction.org/ct/97_rfsY1QmhY/), the Christian
Science Monitor (http://ucsaction.org/ct/9p_rfsY1QmhT/),
and Cox Newspapers (ucsaction.org/ct/9d_rfsY1QmhR/).
Additional information is provided by the American
Library Association (ucsaction.org/ct/91_rfsY1QmhQ/)
and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
(http://ucsaction.org/ct/l7_rfsY1QmhK/).

These are large agencies; it is not uncommon for an
agency to go into complete denial when confronted with
questions such as the ones we are asking. However, this
only underscores the importance of putting the
administrator's office on notice that we are watching
and will hold them accountable.

Please call EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson at (202)
564-4700 either today or Monday. Click here
(http://ucsaction.org/ct/f1_rfsY1Qmyg/) to tell us the
results of your call.

We will update you on the progress of this effort next
week on our website.

Sincerely,

Michael Halpern
National Field Organizer
Scientific Integrity Program

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Portside aims to provide mate

now lucky he

[Alan Sondheim]

now lucky he

he's lucky she's doomed i'm editing.

http://www.asondheim.org/luckydancer.mp4

she's polar he's anti i'm neutral.

she's pre he's post i'm spotted.

she's rolled he's jumped i'm slumped.

she's words he's not i'm nothing.

she's dead he's live i'm grey.

he's leaped she's seeped i'm breathing.

he's kludged she's smudged i'm brooming.

he's there she's where i'm muddling.

he speaks she squeaks i'm huddling.

she's mad he's sad i'm cuddling.

she's cold he's hot i'm puddling.

he's down she's up i'm taping.

he turns she burns i'm counting.

she's french he's swiss i'm fromage-quel-dommage.

yes yes yes, fromage-quel-dommage.

dommage!