Showing posts with label Ander Monson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ander Monson. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Nothing is meant to awe, except maybe the football stadium.
I was reading Vanishing Point by Ander Monson (more on this later I'm sure) and I came upon INDIANA and EXPLOSIONS: "Things explode here more often because Indiana is close and many things purposed to explode are legal there." Sometimes, I like to use Indiana instead of people's names, because Indiana is nice and loving, but can also make me super bitter and possibly even gut-wrenched. Like last night, I was walking with three Indianas, all within arms reach, and fireworks started shooting up on the edge of campus. I think I said something about America. The Indianas all went "oooooooohhhhhhhhh" or "aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww." Then, birds bursted from the bushes, barely missing our fragile heads. The Indianas all went together towards the middle of campus, and I walked towards the fireworks. Often, I have a difficult time deciding which is more important, the parts or the whole.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
7 Buses Swallowed
1) Hey I have some posts up at The Collagist blog for Best of the Web week: Sean Lovelace, Mary Biddinger, and Matt Hart.
2) Last night, I shot a 5-over at Muncie's Disc Golf course. That, my friends, is (sadly?) my best recorded score ever. Cool part: it rained through the first 7 or 8 holes, two of which I birdied. I felt that it could have been a 2 or 3 if I would have hit a couple easy putts I missed. Come on even round!
3) I read The Available World by Ander Monson recently. Woah, my head hurts; these poems are heavy on the brain. That is good. This poem is like boiling water, hot and spilling over (onto the internet).
4) Bloomington this weekend. There is a bar where I can get a half yard glass of Woodchuck. Woah. Bye money.
5) After reading this review by Sean Lovelace, I ordered this chapbook. Cooooool.
6) The Client List did not disappoint. Lifetime rules my television now. Woah, did I just say that? I watch more Wife Swap (during house chores, meals, packing, etc. for clarification) than anyone should. Grey's Anatomy is the only tv series I really watch. (Note: season 2 just came in the mail. Thank you.)
7) Everyone is getting their Haiku on over at IsReads.
2) Last night, I shot a 5-over at Muncie's Disc Golf course. That, my friends, is (sadly?) my best recorded score ever. Cool part: it rained through the first 7 or 8 holes, two of which I birdied. I felt that it could have been a 2 or 3 if I would have hit a couple easy putts I missed. Come on even round!
3) I read The Available World by Ander Monson recently. Woah, my head hurts; these poems are heavy on the brain. That is good. This poem is like boiling water, hot and spilling over (onto the internet).
4) Bloomington this weekend. There is a bar where I can get a half yard glass of Woodchuck. Woah. Bye money.
5) After reading this review by Sean Lovelace, I ordered this chapbook. Cooooool.
6) The Client List did not disappoint. Lifetime rules my television now. Woah, did I just say that? I watch more Wife Swap (during house chores, meals, packing, etc. for clarification) than anyone should. Grey's Anatomy is the only tv series I really watch. (Note: season 2 just came in the mail. Thank you.)
7) Everyone is getting their Haiku on over at IsReads.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
THANK YOU VON'S!
Peeping through the new arrivals and boom Todd pops me in the jaw with ANDER MONSON. Dude's first poetry collection beat on my soul (don't say soul!) and the few poems I consumed in store said this thing's gonna rule me more. Thank you.
To the new poetry aisle! To my list! David Shumate conundrum: buy the collection I read (and loved!) or his debut. Debut wins! Thank you.
Downstairs was used book heaven, part creepy, part comfortable, decent smell, oh yeah. I pick up Back Country by Gary Snyder and can't put it down for some reason, it's glued to my hand, my soul. Todd looks at me like what? Thank you.
THREE MERWIN'S USED 5 BUCKS EACH! MR. LAUREATE! BUT I CAN'T GET THEM ALL! FLIP FLIP FLIP! STRAWBERRIES AND QUESTIONS FOR TOURISTS STOPPED BY A PINEAPPLE FIELD IN OPENING THE HAND! THANK YOU!
Wonder down to criticism. Question: Is criticism cool? I like words and hearing words, other people's words, and writing words about words about words. So, maybe? Anywoah, Jarrell is there, two copies!, I chose the cheaper, but still, used and beautiful and words. Thank you!
I passed up things like a Diagram Anthology, a Wallace Stevens selected poems used, My Alexandria (used) by Doty, a few other prose poems books (Byrne, Gary Young, etc.) what's my deal with pp's?, other wordz. Thank you anyways.
It's the next day: no regrets. Thank you.
BEST BOOKSTORE I'VE VISITED! TATTERED COVER I'M COMING FOR YOU IN AUGUST!
Thank you.
To the new poetry aisle! To my list! David Shumate conundrum: buy the collection I read (and loved!) or his debut. Debut wins! Thank you.
Downstairs was used book heaven, part creepy, part comfortable, decent smell, oh yeah. I pick up Back Country by Gary Snyder and can't put it down for some reason, it's glued to my hand, my soul. Todd looks at me like what? Thank you.
THREE MERWIN'S USED 5 BUCKS EACH! MR. LAUREATE! BUT I CAN'T GET THEM ALL! FLIP FLIP FLIP! STRAWBERRIES AND QUESTIONS FOR TOURISTS STOPPED BY A PINEAPPLE FIELD IN OPENING THE HAND! THANK YOU!
Wonder down to criticism. Question: Is criticism cool? I like words and hearing words, other people's words, and writing words about words about words. So, maybe? Anywoah, Jarrell is there, two copies!, I chose the cheaper, but still, used and beautiful and words. Thank you!
I passed up things like a Diagram Anthology, a Wallace Stevens selected poems used, My Alexandria (used) by Doty, a few other prose poems books (Byrne, Gary Young, etc.) what's my deal with pp's?, other wordz. Thank you anyways.
It's the next day: no regrets. Thank you.
BEST BOOKSTORE I'VE VISITED! TATTERED COVER I'M COMING FOR YOU IN AUGUST!
Thank you.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Life Goes Into Words
This weekend is going to be cool. Friday: Savage's with Sara and Jeremy; Osteoferocious and CaddyWhompus at VGR! Saturday: Disc golf in the morning; Family Reunion at night. Sunday: Big 4th of July show at VGR, featuring Cowboy Angels, Timbre, and Small Wonders, amongst others.
My pals in The Bonesetters are playing an awesome show on July 12th.
My dear friend Elysia Smith has a nice piece up at Elimae. I was privileged enough to see a few drafts of this, and really this final is something coooool. I'm proud of my friend.
Collagist contributor and my Facebook friend, Sandy Longhorn, has a poem at Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Look at that ending!
Speaking of cool poems by people I know, Mark Neely, my professor and fellow Muncie Disc Golf player, has a cool one at Juked. I'm super looking forward to my classes with him this Fall: The Broken Plate class and "Collages, Remixes and Readymades: Experiments in Creative Writing."
Speaking of disc golf, how did it take me this long to find this awesome dg essay by the killer Ander Monson?
Speaking of disc golf again, I'm not doing so hot lately.
Speaking of hot, here is a picture of my wife.
My pals in The Bonesetters are playing an awesome show on July 12th.
My dear friend Elysia Smith has a nice piece up at Elimae. I was privileged enough to see a few drafts of this, and really this final is something coooool. I'm proud of my friend.
Collagist contributor and my Facebook friend, Sandy Longhorn, has a poem at Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Look at that ending!
Speaking of cool poems by people I know, Mark Neely, my professor and fellow Muncie Disc Golf player, has a cool one at Juked. I'm super looking forward to my classes with him this Fall: The Broken Plate class and "Collages, Remixes and Readymades: Experiments in Creative Writing."
Speaking of disc golf, how did it take me this long to find this awesome dg essay by the killer Ander Monson?
Speaking of disc golf again, I'm not doing so hot lately.
Speaking of hot, here is a picture of my wife.
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