Boot Cut

The Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin.

Whitman's selling Levi's

A profile of Jeff Tweedy. A review of the new Wilco album.

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

A new chapbook by Olena Kalytiak Davis.

Scantily Clad Press has released several new chaps.

If you have a chapbook for review, send it here:

The Chapbook Review
92-37 55^th Avenue
Elmhurst, NY 11373

Oh yea, and the new CUE is now online.

CUE CUE CUE CUE CUE CUE

The debut issue of CUE online, guest-edited by Mark Horosky, is now available for your reading pleasure and includes new work by Elizabeth Willis, Richard Siken, Matt Hart, Sarah Manguso, Tony Mancus, Dorothea Lasky, Tim Peterson, Reb Livingston, Chaz McCallahan, Mathias Svalina & Julia Cohen, and Jason Labbe.

As we move forward, CUE will be open to all types of poetry (prose and otherwise) but will skew toward work that emphasizes sound, word play, and the more material aspects of language.

For those of you with blogs, I hope you'll help us spread the word. For those of you with journals of your own, I hope you'll consider linking us to your website. Favors we'll reciprocate in kind.

In the coming weeks and months I'll be tinkering with the site a bit, adding a links section of our own, posting reviews and interviews as they become available.

Expect new issues to go up every 3–4 months.

Tight 5 is now available for purchase from the Northshire Bookstore. Or call 1-800-437-3700 and talk to an actual person.

Featuring: Samuel Amadon, Stephanie Anderson, Nathan Austin, Charles Bernstein, Anne Boyer, John Coletti, Justin Courter, Barbara Cully, Katherine Factor, John Gallaher, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Shannon Jonas, Katy Lederer, Andrew Lundwall, Carl Martin, K. Silem Mohammad, Charles North, Boyer Rickel, Christopher Rizzo, Ravi Shankar, Prageeta Sharma, Lytton Smith, Paul Violi, Dana Ward, and Eve Zukor.

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Also check out the Cannibal Book sale. Pick any three of the chapbooks below for $12.50:

Carolyn Guinzio Untitled Wave
Melanie Hubbard Gilbi Winco Swags
Ben Mazer The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics
Keith Newton Sent Forth to Die in a Happy City
Marvyn Petrucci Pardon Me, Madam
Bronwen Tate Like the Native Tongue the Vanquished

Dude, Duder, Duderino

"A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences—westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus—and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies contains neither arid analyses nor lectures for the late-night crowd, but new ways of thinking and writing about film culture."

A smart piece on Synecdoche, New York, a film I wasn't a fan of when it was in theaters.

Gregory Betts on contemporary poetry classification.

Walks with Paul Celan.

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse team up with David Lynch for Dark Night of the Soul.

Brakhage scrapbooking.

"Dylan's lyrics construct an author-reader relation posited on the model of an irresolvable enigma which is both the incitement to and the perpetual frustration of readerly desire." Bla, bla, bla...

Chapbooking

This just in from Matt Henricksen:

Gang-

Maggie Ginestra is putting together a chapbook store, which she plans to run more like a low key reading room, and sent me the following note about it. We are tentatively planning a reading there, possibly for July. If any of you might want to get involved, as hosts or readers, let me know.
-Matt

Dear Cannibal:

I’m opening a teeny tiny place at 2122 Cherokee Street in St. Louis, hopefully in late July. It will mostly be a chapbook consignment shop. Also, it will be a gallery usually and a performance space occasionally. The chapbooks will not be shelved—they will constellate on little tables. Music will burble. I’m hoping to make a space that really invites people to spend time and read and be, and then I also hope they fall in love and want to take things home. There will be a reading room and snacks. I hope you’ll want to sell your work there, and that St. Louis will have access to what you do.
It will be chapbooks-only to help keep things small and intimate and perceivable and slightly unified. Also in the name of smallness, I’m asking each press to pick out just a few chapbooks from their catalogue, 3 or 4 or 7, ones that rattle and explode hearts. And just 2 copies of each title to start with. Before things get going, we’d email and be very clear and happy and arranged so that we stay that way.

I think what would happen is something simple like 1) You send me books and set the selling price 2) I sell them! 3) I send you periodic checks for 60% of everything (that is negotiable! I’ll want to help your press thrive! It just seems like what people do?) 4) I ask you for more books to sell. We refine the process.

I want to sell chapbooks because I want to hold them and read them myself and mostly because it feels like a stable way to foster a literary arts community here. Please email me with any questions or thoughts. I’d also be very grateful if you forwarded this invitation to other presses that you love.

With greatest respect,
Maggie Ginestra


Also, a new review site for chapbooks.

Peter Schjeldahl writes about the Francis Bacon retrospective at the Met.

Another piece over at Slate.

Shelly Taylor has a blog.

The Quiet Coup.

A piece on John Olson's prose poetry.

An interview w/ Mark Yakich.

Aram Saroyan on Creeley and Dorn.

The New Thing: The Object Lessons of Recent American Poetry by Stephen Burt.

Perloff on Beckett's Letters.

An interview with Reb Livingston.

In Praise of Democratic Comforts by Stephen Burt.

A review of the new Sparklehorse / Dangermouse collaboration, Dark Night of the Soul.

A review of the new Grizzly Bear.

Cannibal Pals!

We have a new book in a new format by one of our all-time favorite Cannibal poets, who happens to live here in the Ozarks.

Untitled Wave by Carolyn Guinzio
20 pages, hand-sewn, in a limited edition of 150
$7

flesheatingpoems.blogspot.com

Chicagoans, note her upcoming reading:

Kostas Anagnopoulos and Carolyn Guinzio
will read at Myopic Books 1564 North Milwaukee, Chicago
Sunday, May 24 at 7pm.

Kostas Anagnopoulos is the author of Various Sex Acts (Insurance Editions) and the forthcoming Moving Blanket (Ugly Ducking Presse).

Carolyn Guinzio is the author of West Pullman (Bordighera), Quarry (Parlor Press) and the chapbook Untitled Wave (Cannibal Books).

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The Road

On Barbara Guest.

On Ian McEwan.

On Olena Kalytiak Davis.

On Bob Dylan.