Krystal Languell – Two Reviews and Four Readings!

 Here is some great news! Krystal Languell’s book, Call the Catastrophists, has two excellent reviews out. One at Starr Review  and the other at H_NGM_N .

Tim Myers Reading June 7th

Come meet Tim Myers and hear him read
from his book, Dear Beast Loveliness

Details:

Friday June 7th, 7:30 pm--reading and discussion--free
Studio Bongiorno 
500 Lincoln Street Santa Clara CA
7 blocks west of the SCU campus on Market Street

Vertigo Diary by Larry Sawyer Now Available!

Larry’s poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you’re afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is!

—Andrei Codrescu

Larry Sawyer’s Vertigo Diary speaks from a three-fold poetics of self-consciousness, critique and humor so that we chuckle at and choke on our collective shortcomings. This book contains so many thrilling moments of high altitude lyricism that are skillfully balanced by an urbane desire to “progress beyond the / Need to fill our silences with such idiot carcasses.” In the end, Sawyer’s woozy and exquisite poems are shadow messages from the other side of ourselves, messages that unshackle language and let it loose in a dynamic field of play. When I hear these messages, I feel a rare sense of freedom; that is, “To their telegrams I respond / with a ponderous liberty.”

—Nathan Hoks

Check out the book with a large  preview of the book. 
available for sale on BlazeVOX, Amazon and on Kindle! 

Uncomfortable Clowns ms 77 by James Hart III Now Available!

 These poems by James Hart, III careen in the mind as they do down the page with an eagerness, to apprehend every given vicissitude of moment that comes their way. The tensions one finds, throughout the sequence, reflect the ever-fraught interface of inward and out, self and other, word and world.  In this theatre of operations, Hart takes big chances and, more often than not, wins the day. The reward is the readers' amazement and release.

— Bill Berkson

Check out the book with a large  preview of the book.
available for sale on BlazeVOX, Amazon and on Kindle! 

Arsenic Lobster poetry journal reviews Carlo Matos' books

Arsenic Lobster poetry journal Reviews: 
Review by Jessica Dyer

Counting Sheep Till Doomsday
by Carlo Matos

Big Bad Asterisk*
by Carlo Matos

Let me be really honest with you. When someone writes a book of poems that includes a “flatulence” section, he’s won my eternal love. That someone is Carlo Matos and that book is Counting Sheep Till Doomsday. My eternal love is in the mail.

“There are so few serious songs about shit,” he writes. Oh? Tell me more. He continues, in “In the Spider House”:

To a spider, it is serious like
an old-world table: expectations to be met, a
host’s ancient duty, life and death. They do
not dare laugh at a fart’s deep echo

At the end of the book, Matos and composer Stephen Jean put the words of “In the Spider House” together with music and performance notes. They write, “All ‘notes’ above the middle line of the staff are to be performed as burps or belches; all ‘notes’ below the middle line are to be performed as farts.”

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW HERE