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DEATH SALAD: now available from gobbet. 8″ x 5″ trade paperback:...

Thu, 30 May 2013 10:56:42 -0400

DEATH SALAD: now available from gobbet.

8″ x 5″ trade paperback: 110 pages
ISBN: 978-1484132807

Brad Liening’s collection resurrects philosophy, if philosophy is redefined as a study of the fundamental nature of the world we thought we knew, but in fact do not. These poems embody a wicked irony and a sense of wonder undeterred by corruption and menace. In “Kids of the Black Hole,” “The poison handgun talks / Steamy under the hood. // Inside the desert is a / Second, hotter desert / That’s really bad with money.” Death Salad is not simply a log cabin built with well-wrought lines and sharp phrases. It is a window that yearns to be broken, the reader tasked with handling those fragments.

—Mary Biddinger

Brad Liening’s Death Salad comes flooded with headlines, with blurt, and the most unnatural of natural disasters: “Wikibots tweet racist meat,” he tweets and tweets until they retreat. These poems are advertisements for the end of the world, graphic designs for the graphically violent, the graphically visceral, the graphically beloved. But they are also antidotes for exactly what ails us, dragging us up close to the epicenter of our only hope. Thank the weird goodness of the vast, then, that Brad Liening’s on the scene to document the fallout that’s falling down inebriated all around us. Death Salad stays drunk on starry, black death as a way to live in the world without hurling every second, without hurting for something eternal, without any non-irritable reaching.

—Matt Hart

birthmoviesdeath: The polaroids of master filmmaker Andrei...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:50:50 -0400

birthmoviesdeath:

The polaroids of master filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and the mystery of everyday life. See more here.

cavetocanvas: Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, 1963

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:36:24 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, 1963

Banksy Slave Labour mural row re-erupts over new sale in London

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:49:06 -0400

Banksy Slave Labour mural row re-erupts over new sale in London:

After withdrawal from Miami auction, planned June sale of mural that disappeared from wall brings protest from Haringey council

Privatizing public art NO MATTER WHAT

litvideos: Tilda Swinton reads the first chapter of “Moby...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:55:59 -0400

litvideos:

Tilda Swinton reads the first chapter of “Moby Dick.”

H_NGM_N #15

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:00:05 -0400

H_NGM_N #15:

h-ngm-n:

Our newest issue is now live! Featuring work by

Diana Arterian • A. H. Jerriod Avant • Andy Axel • Julie Babcock • Stephanie Barber

Emileigh Barnes • Lucy Biederman • Dan Brady • Katie Byrum • Caroline Cabrera • Sarah Certa

Dan Chelotti •Adam Clay •Kyle Constalie • Stella Corso •Stephen Danos •Leora Fridman

Crystal S. Gibbins •Tyler Gobble • Katy Gunn • Evelyn Hampton • Matt Hart • Russell Jaffe

Christopher Kennedy • Daniel Khalastchi • Joshua Kleinberg •Gregory Lawless •Jake Levine • Brad Liening

Peter Longofono •Carrie Lorig • Joseph Mains •Tony Mancus • Victoria McArtor • Meg McKeon • Joe Milazzo

Carrie Murphy • Amber Nelson • Joe Pan • Randolph Pfaff • Jessica Poli • Alexis Pope • Matt Rowan

Emmalea Russo •David Saffo •Kristin Sanders • Alex Scalfano • Justin Sherwood • Elias Simpson

Jessica Smith • Jordan Stempleman • John Stone • Carleen Tibbetts •Maureen Thorson •Letitia Trent

Joshua Ware • Ellen Welcker • Russ Woods • Dean Young

and more more more! Click here and click “share” and spread it like the wild fire in you.

birthmoviesdeath: The official theatrical one-sheet for...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:30:38 -0400

birthmoviesdeath:

The official theatrical one-sheet for Drafthouse Films’ upcoming electrifying rockumentary A Band Called Death. Watch the trailer here – hits iTunes/OnDemand on May 24 & US theaters June 28.

And download a free, never-before-released Death demo track from 1974 here.

Detroit!

coming soon from gobbet.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:18:22 -0400

coming soon from gobbet.

"It’s the flea market of late capitalism."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:11:31 -0400

Gregory Lawless talks about his newest project, Foreclosure.

He classifies it as: “Pastoral prose poems. Post-nature paralytics. Ecopoetical ravings. Regional hallucinations. Great Recession elegies. “Country Surrealism.” Some or most of the above.”

That alone should sell you on it; you can pick up a copy right here.

UPCOMING READING IN MPLS

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:26:14 -0400

katrinawollet:

T.S. Eliot famously wrote that April is the cruelest month (“lilacs out of the dead land,” et cetera). But you can alleviate the cruelty by sipping a macchiato at Espresso Yrself!

Our April line-up is stellar: Brad Liening (author of “DEATH SALAD”) and Paula Cisewski (“Ghost Fargo”) will read poetry, and singer-songwriter Laurie Akermark will perform an acoustic set.

No matter what this crazy April weather serves—snow, rain, sunshine, bloodstorm—we’re here with hot espresso, and even hotter words & music. Get some. Doors at 6:30, entertainments at 7 p.m.

Saturday April 20. 7 PM. Blue Ox.

litvideos: David Foster Wallace reads “The View from Mrs....

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:06:04 -0400

litvideos:

David Foster Wallace reads “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s,” an essay from “Consider the Lobster.”

theparisreview: David Foster Wallace’s notes from a tax...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:05:00 -0400

theparisreview:

David Foster Wallace’s notes from a tax accounting class.

dlukenelson: As of this past week, I’ve got a short chapbook...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:40:24 -0400

dlukenelson:

As of this past week, I’ve got a short chapbook titled Abraham Lincoln out from Mondo Bummer Books. If you bought this (it’s only $2), thanks, you’re awesome.

Viva Dustin Luke Nelson

The great Lucy Biederman has 2 new poems up right now at SCUD....

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:45:10 -0400

The great Lucy Biederman has 2 new poems up right now at SCUD. Click here to read and be renewed.

whole beast rag: AMERI/A IS OUT

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:52:57 -0500

whole beast rag: AMERI/A IS OUT:

wholebeastrag:

feat:
Sarah Bannon - Steven T. Bramble - Justin Lawrence Daugherty - Ryan Forsythe - Lauren Espinoza - Aurelia Friedland - Aaron George - Jody Giardina - Brandon Hackbarth - Leif Haven - William Haas - Russell Jaffe - Brad Liening - Coop Lee - …

Monica Wendel is up now at SCUD. Also be sure to check out her...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:30:00 -0500

Monica Wendel is up now at SCUD. Also be sure to check out her book, No Apocalypse, out sometime this year from Georgetown Review Press.

Via the Guardian: “Banksy mural torn off London Poundland...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:56:00 -0500

Via the Guardian:

“Banksy mural torn off London Poundland store for Miami auction

Locals angry after lauded artwork disappeared from public view and re-emerged on US website with £450,000 guide price”

Privatizing public art. Lame.

Big things have been happening lately over at SCUD. Click here...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:41:00 -0500

Big things have been happening lately over at SCUD. Click here for 2 new poems by F. Daniel Rzicznek, and then click here for 2 new poems by Scott Keeney.

Charles Bukowski Audio Archive

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:21:02 -0500

Charles Bukowski Audio Archive:

A ton of stuff via UbuWeb, including “130 minutes of the first-ever recordings of Charles Bukowski reading his own work. Culled from tapes made by Bukowski at his Los Angeles home in 1968 for biographer and rock critic Barry Miles, long before the author had begun regular public readings. Bukowski was so shy he insisted that he record alone. He reads both poetry and prose, gets thoroughly drunk during the recording, and bitches about his life, his landlord, and his neighbors.”

madhistory: Dated skulls, Romania - The skulls in the ossuary...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:44:41 -0500

madhistory:

Dated skulls, Romania - The skulls in the ossuary of the 15th century Neamt Monastery bear little texts stating the names and dates of the monks. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

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