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good books gone bad
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Patrick Herron is the author of the chapbooks Man Eating Rice (Blaze VOX) and Three Poems (Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have recently appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and in the anthology 100 Days (Barque Press). Patrick is also helping his pal Lester launch Close Quarterly (http://closequarterly.org/), a new web journal that contains the work of one unnamed poet per issue. Patrick is the creator of proximate (http://proximate.org/), a site that has been featured in the electronic collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art and in university hypertext and design curricula around the globe. Patrick is the organizer of an annual poetry festival (http://carrboropoetryfestival.org/) in his town of Carrboro, North Carolina, where he also serves as Town Poet Laureate. Patrick Herron recently completed work on his fifth book manuscript, How To Make Poems Like Me.
Praise for Patrick's forthcoming,
Lester, obviously, is in the tradition of other wisecracking dummies from Charlie McCarthy to Triumph the Insult Dog, but also Armand Schwerner, Art Language & just possibly the aforementioned Mr. Bernstein & David Antin. &, dare I say, Spicer too falls on this side of the line. Like somebody who understands that what makes Moby Dick great is all that stuff about whales, Be Somebody is difficult in the way the very best books are – it challenges our desire for the familiar (and nothing is more familiar than my pronoun, not even my name) & holds on like a pit bull with lockjaw. Ron Silliman
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