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    blarrow.gif - 62 Bytes Henry's Gift and Other Poems - by Gerald Locklin.
    $5.00. Pariah Press, Richard D. Houff - editor.
    604 Hawthorne Avenue East, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55101.

    blarrow.gif - 62 BytesLonely Night - by Pierre Reverdy.
    Translated by t. hibbard. Structum Press, 31390 Hill Road, Hartland, WI. 53029. $5.00

    blarrow.gif - 62 BytesOutlaw Magazine. No. 1, 2002 and No. 2, 2003.
    Edited and published by Bryn Fortey, 212 Caerleon Road, Newport, South Wales NP19 7GQ UK. Issues are about $3.00 US. Checks are really hard to cash from USA in Eng. cause of charges etc. so write to Bryn with poems and cash and ask about such things before writing a check that he can't cash!

    blarrow.gif - 62 BytesScribbles & Squibs - by K. M. Dersley.
    Appliance Books, 43 Tranmere Grove, Ipswich, IP1 6DU UK. 48 pages of poems. Cost in America $7 clams (means 7 frog skins) and in Brit: 4.95 pounds (means 4.95 in Brit. geetoe). Email clapgate@btinternet.com And you can write the Derz and request of him poems at the above Ipswich also (or articles or music too).

    blarrow.gif - 62 BytesBogg. No. 72. 2003. Edited by John Elsberg.
    Bogg Press. 422 N. Cleveland St., Arlington, VA 22201. $5.00 a copy.

    blarrow.gif - 62 BytesYears by David Daniels.
    David Daniels, 1305 Cornell Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702. owidnazo@thegatesofparadise.com - The book is printed in color: 8 1/2 by 11. Like 300 unnumbered pages. Write him if interested. First edition only 64 copies!

    blarrow.gif - 62 BytesBebop-Rebop by Dave Church. CD.
    No price. But what do CD's cost? Send a ten. Send to Dave Church, 30 Forest, Providence, RI.

    blarrow.gif - 62 BytesI Was a Third Grade Genius by Justin Barrett.
    $5.00. Bottle of Smoke Press. 2003. Bottle of Smoke Press, 503 Tuliptree Square, Leesburg, VA 20176 orders@bospress.net and then: http://www.bospress.net/


Henry's Gift and Other Poems - by Gerald Locklin.
$5.00. Pariah Press, Richard D. Houff - editor.
604 Hawthorne Avenue East, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55101.

Gerald Locklin at his best spinning poems after viewing paintings and pondering seriously, ruefully the comings and goings in and of real life. Easy flowing, cadence rich beneath the surface of the lines. Rye. Pondering. A poet who trusts in the poem and a poet who trusts his vision. Now, think, instead of Sister Wendy walking around an art gallery interpreting paintings, what if Gerald Locklin could do the show! Heck, I am writing to PBS today! Locklin on PBS would solve that network's economic problems! If you don't know what I mean - buy this book! It will fit in your back pant's pocket.

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Lonely Night - by Pierre Reverdy.
Translated by t. hibbard. Structum Press, 31390 Hill Road, Hartland, WI. 53029. $5.00

The heart here is sad and the poems slight lines focused. Image follows image. The birds do not chirp. And the shadow people are real shadows. The houses are all empty. The widows broke. Such is the mood caste by Reverdy. His soul has no shield. Reverdy's poetry as translated by master poet t. hibbard exists in the book's title: lonely night. No better title than lonely night. No other definition other than lonely night. Taste the empty.

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Outlaw Magazine. No. 1, 2002 and No. 2, 2003.
Edited and published by Bryn Fortey, 212 Caerleon Road, Newport, South Wales NP19 7GQ UK. Issues are about $3.00 US. Checks are really hard to cash from USA in Eng. cause of charges etc. so write to Bryn with poems and cash and ask about such things before writing a check that he can't cash!

Here one has got in one shopping cart: beer, wine, pantyhose, carrots (carrots are guns and bullets), a head of lettuce, Dave Church reaching for a Pall Mall, Bryn Fortey screaming at a warthog woman (Watchout Bryn!) and you have the most New Jersey moving beat tempo of poet music in the Changes by Herschel Silverman and in the poem On Nite Train by Herschel Silverman, jazz jazz poet rhythm, um, um, "melting the marrow." And what's a mag without Lady Lyn, and what's a mag with without Steve Sneyd and Sneyd's, "? of knives dance slice?" And: Tough Shit by Mike Hoy and of course can't list them all or that would be a shopping list and this is a banquet that you must get home and on the couch with pretzels and curtains closed oh poetry of the broken and spider web soul and spider eggs laid in the corner of your mouth and ants in the eyes and ants in the pants soul ole!

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Scribbles & Squibs - by K. M. Dersley.
Appliance Books, 43 Tranmere Grove, Ipswich, IP1 6DU UK. 48 pages of poems. Cost in America $7 clams (means 7 frog skins) and in Brit: 4.95 pounds (means 4.95 in Brit. geetoe). Email clapgate@btinternet.com And you can write the Derz and request of him poems at the above Ipswich also (or articles or music too).

A lot of Brit poetry for me and a lot of American poetry for that matter is written with pencils sharpened in the anus of poet, or the poet's teacher, or with a pen pulled out of the rectum of the dead, words and otherwise. But here comes K. M. Dersley with a slice of hot pie that leaps from the page like Thor with his hammer, hammering the nuts of an African elephant. Didn't know English poetry could be that good. The sounds he manifests in poems map the lingo of the people that have to put-up with Tony Blair's stupidity like da Americanos gotta eat Bush's crap. But this sound, Dersley's is so crisp in his poems, so fresh, unique and wonderful, so full of the real of a lettuce that all the salad dressing clings to the leaves! So yeah! I say do it and when you stick your fork into this poetry bone word soup you come up with a dozen impaled pollywogs!

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Bogg. No. 72. 2003. Edited by John Elsberg.
Bogg Press. 422 N. Cleveland St., Arlington, VA 22201. $5.00 a copy.

Hey stupid! You! Numb nuts! 25 five years of honoring the poem and poetry and poets! Well, if you haven't been there meaning here meaning ever readed this poetry magazine than you are a loser or the rock you live under is sat upon by very large elephant and you more mystified by that elephant's anus than poetry. To each her or his own, but I rather have poetry and a taco myself. So here we have the most recent deck of cards from Elsberg's Bogg and the kings and jacks, queens and diamonds and hearts and etc are by the rain dog! R. D. Armstrong, Ann Menebroker, Dave Moore, Michael Kriesel and the gang is large and vocal, 56 pages, many of them are drunk, some are horny, a few have twenty dollars bills hidden in their socks. Not many can dance but almost everyone will buy you a cup of coffee in the early morning hours, count owls, and talk and talk and talk the most wonderful poetry while you eat your steak and eggs (over easy), hash browns with lots of ketchup, rye toast with butter mountains and great balls of grape jelly.

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Years by David Daniels.
David Daniels, 1305 Cornell Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702. owidnazo@thegatesofparadise.com - The book is printed in color: 8 1/2 by 11. Like 300 unnumbered pages. Write him if interested. First edition only 64 copies!

I bet many of you don't know the poetry of David Daniels. But maybe I'm nuts and you all do. Well, that's good. But for you who are one out of a million out there let me inform: He does a form of a visual narrative poetry. His latest book is called Years, which documents the years of his life in picto-poetry, which is not only tremendously unique but absolutely engrossing and WATCH OUT! It is fun to read! Can you image poetry that is fun to read and a book of poetry that is a blast to hang around in! That's what you get when you impact with David Daniels. Look, I can write on and on about this satisfying experience with poetry but my words can't match his words in the context of their visuality so, check his stuff out at:

http://www.thegatesofparadise.com/

And then after you do that - you should write him and buy his book.

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Bebop-Rebop by Dave Church. CD.
No price. But what do CD's cost? Send a ten. Send to Dave Church, 30 Forest, Providence, RI.

As definition of what jazz poetry is and the reading of jazz poetry and figuring it out and fingering it. Give this a listen to two too two. I'm in. Me too. Me three. And of course jazz jazz jazz is not far form Kerouac's work. Then if you wish it! Here a highly listenable, greatly listenable, manifestation of the best of what jazz reading can be. Here I offer you a small table of Dave Church reading, in a smoke filled room in the mind and the heart with a hole in it out of which comes this delightful, sweet strange sound of Dave Church reading jazz poetry. He reads the works of Jack Micheline, A. D. Winans, Kent Taylor, Ann Menebroker, Bob Kaufman, Kaye McDonough, George Tsongas, Charles Plymell, Dave Church, Art Beck, Linda Lerner, Brenda Frazer, Tony Moffeit and etc. etc. there are more and there are multiple works by many of those listed above poets. So here you have poets going into your ear. Church's voice fits this style and he has the tone to pull his voice out and play deep into the night. Obviously, also, this an anthology and a focused one, one with a program also and as far as jazz, take this CD before picking up any book or poems what claim they are the jazz representative poems of. NO. The jazz poem is to be heard not read at all. And here hear Church dong it all with justice.

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I Was a Third Grade Genius by Justin Barrett.
$5.00. Bottle of Smoke Press. 2003. Bottle of Smoke Press, 503 Tuliptree Square, Leesburg, VA 20176 orders@bospress.net and then: http://www.bospress.net/

Justin Barrett has a way with the poem, like mayonnaise spread on toast waiting for the bacon of the mind, tomato of the intellect, the lettuce of love, and sliced perfect, each line like a section of sandwich tooth-picked together so the poem is a mounted insect on the page. Small press clean, non frills ironic, straight from the wallet each poem a twenty dollar bill you find at the bus stop on the way to work each and every Monday like some good angel of poetry has put it there.


michael basinski
Michael Basinski
The Associate Curator of The Poetry/Rare Books Collection SUNY at Buffalo

     He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with the EBMA and BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are Heka (Factory School); Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (Burning Press); Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies (Meow Press); Un-Nome, Red Rain Two and Flight to the Moon (Run Away Spoon Press); Poemeserss (Structum Press) and many more. His publications are available through Small Press Distribution: http://www.rchrd.com/Oliver/spd.html
     His poems and other works have appeared in Dandelion, BoxKite, Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter, Torgue, Leopold Bloom, Wooden Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, First Offense, Terrible Work, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity, House Organ, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, Ur Vox and many others,  

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