Earshot Reading in New York
November 6 // 7:30 PM
Readers: Janaka Stucky, Johannes Goransson, Kimberly King Parsons, Kit Kalnay, Helen Rubinstein
Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street (b/w Havemeyer & Marcy)
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (718) 599-0069
Blake Butler of <HTMLGiant> writes, “If I had to make a list of modern forces for the grossvoice, for the kind of language and propagation of a series of imagery and discussion that is continually underfunded or otherwise ignored, Johannes Göransson would being among those crowning the list.” Read more here: http://htmlgiant.com/?p=14641.
Influences:
Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers
Lyn Hejinian, My Life in the Nineties
Wayne Koestenbaum, Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems
Harryette Mullen, Muse & Drudge
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment
Ad Reinhardt, Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
Joan Retallack, Afterrimages
Frederick Seidel, The Cosmos Trilogy
Marjorie Welish, The Windows Flew Open
Summer Reading:
Edward Hallett Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, Vol. 1-3
Guy Debord, Panegyric, Vol. 1-2
Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Rosalyn Drexler, Vulgar Lives
Rachel Loden, Dick of the Dead
Akilah Oliver, A Toast in the House of Friends
Joel Skousen, The Secure Home
Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bratsk Station and Other New Poems
Continuing with Summer Reading lists from Apostrophe authors, here are two from Catherine Meng, author of Tonight’s the Night:
1. Most Influential
2. To Be Read This Summer
More summer reading from Johannes Göransson….Some of the books he’s reading or re-reading this summer:
Continuing with our “Summer Reading Project,” here are two lists from Amy Wright, author of There Are No New Ways To Kill A Man:
MOST INFLUENTIAL
1. George Oppen–for his examination of disaster
2. Aime Cesaire–for his love of even the unlovable aspects of his hometown
3. Dylan Thomas–for sound
4. Samuel Beckett–for his compassion for humanity
5. Wallace Stevens–for saying everything so plainly I had something to grow toward
6. Laura (Riding) Jackson–for teaching me how to fail
WHAT I’M READING
1. Naked by David Sedaris
2. We by Eugene Zamiatin
3. The End of Karma by Dharma Singh Khalsa
4. Blessing of the Animals by Brenda Miller
5. Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins by Michael Martone
6. Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson
The editors at Apostrophe Books have decided to hop on the trendy bandwagon of “summer reading lists” by starting a new project with our authors. While we’re gearing up for our next open reading period (to be announced on this site shortly), we thought it would be fun and interesting to ask our authors to provide us with two lists:
We hope this will supply all of our readers with some great summer reading and also provide some insight into the work of the authors we’ve published at Apostrophe. We’ll try to post new lists each week from a different author. So, be sure to check back periodically . . . .
Our first list is from Johannes Göransson, who writes, “Here is a list of my influences in no particular order (I’m leaving out things before the late 19th century and I’m trying to focus on just poetry).” He says he’ll send his summer reading list shortly. . . .
Johannes Göransson’s Primary Influences:
Apostrophe poet, Johannes Goransson will be reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC with several other great writers . . . .
Featuring: Donald Breckenridge Joshua Cohen Joshua Harmon Johannes Goransson Janet Mitchell and Ted Pelton
Buffalo-based Starcherone Books is a small independent press committed to publishing innovative fiction. Join us to hear recent work by publisher and author Ted Pelton and a roster of award-winning Starcherone authors. Voices will be heard, books sold and beer spilled.
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Today begins the The 17th Annual Poets House Showcase in New York City, which will include two Apostrophe authors published in 2008: Paul Foster Johnson and Amy Wright. Details below or from the Poets House Website:
http://poetshouse.org/showcase.htm
April 4-11, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4, 1:00–4:00pm
Exhibit Hours: Saturday, April 4-11, during regular library hours
The only event of its kind, the annual Poets House Showcase is a free exhibit featuring all of the new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the United States in a single year—with more than 2,000 titles on view (including volumes by individual authors, anthologies, biographies, critical studies, CDs and DVDs) from over 500 commercial, university and independent presses. The Showcase provides writers, readers and publishers with a fascinating vantage point from which to assess publishing and design trends and linguistic, aesthetic and philosophical shifts. Established in 1992 by Executive Director Lee Briccetti, the Showcase reflects Poets House’s mission to make the range of modern poetry available to the public and to stimulate public dialogue on issues of poetry and culture.
Each year, Poets House adds the bibliographic records of all the books exhibited in the Showcase to its free, fully-searchable online database, the Directory of American Poetry Books. With over 20,000 titles, the Directory contains the most comprehensive information about U.S. poetry books and publishers from 1990 through 2008.
@ NYPL Jefferson Market Branch
425 Sixth Avenue (at West 10th Street)
For library hours, call (212) 243-4334
Admission free
Rain Taxi Spring 2009
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009spring/print.shtml
Here’s a little sample:
“Paul Foster Johnson’s debut book of poetry, Refrains/Unworkings, reads like an accomplished symphonic cycle of musical threads that are sequenced to generate ghostly poetry framed within a narrative context.” Reading Refrains/Unworkings, we are reminded of how poetry and music must exist within space and time as they fight to rupture it.”
Be sure to visit the Rain Taxi site or your local bookstore and pick-up a copy!
