July 10, 2009
New New Stuff This Week
Where have you been all my life since February?: The Bodyfeel Lexicon, by Jessica Bozek. (Switchback, 2009) Subtle, sparse, oh but sometimes thick and gooey poetry/not poetry.
Wry new memoir: All Screwed Up, by Steve Fellner. (Benu Press, 2009) Growing up in the Midwest can be a real trip when you’re poor, gay, and self-aware.
Newly published, and he’s still got it: The Brittle Age and Returning Upland, by Rene Char. Translated from the French by Gustaf Sobin. (Counterpath, 2009) Bilingual edition!
Low brow is the new high art: The Jook, by Gary Phillips and I-5, by Summer Brenner. (PM Press, 2009) Crime, suspense, sleeze! Who you callin’ book snob?
The newest of the new: What Do You Want?, by Marina Temkina. (Ugly Duckling, 2009) Still trying to figure this one out… In a good way.
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Expect me to be in sometime this week. I think I might go in for Jook or I-5.
Also, thanks for Picture of Dorian Gray. I am enjoying it. It is seriously all crinolines and crenelations and urns and then someone gets killed and its awesome.
Anyway, your place is awesome. Keep it up.
Comment by D.H. — July 13, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
@D.H. – Ha ha. Excellent review! Haven’t read your… but will soon. Cheers!
Comment by Summer — July 13, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
I don’t know where else to post this, but Just in case you’re still interested, I just finished my “You-know-what.” Now you can just read it straight through like a book. A book on the Hinternets.
Anyway, No Surrender is good so far, and if it’s anything like those free chapters from “Suicide Janitor” I’m in for a good ride. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Comment by D.H. — July 18, 2009 @ 7:41 pm