Poetry. Edith Perloff, who selected this collection for the 2001 National Poetry Series awards, writes of Sullivan's work: "HOW TO PROCEED IN THE ARTS is an amazing tour de force...by turns deeply troubling and breathlessly suspenseful, Sullivan catalogues the splendors and miseries of the young poet-hustler. With a wit whose ancestry includes Petronius, Sei Shonagon and Swift as well as Drucker and Bernstein, his 'takes' on everything from poetic process to poetry's 'place' in a culture saturated with David Bowies and Chers are compact, gritty, severe, even sometimes harsh, but always remarkably fresh and exciting. The result...is terrifying and true, and Sullivan emerges as our most sharply edged 'sociologist of the imagination.'"

How to Proceed in the Arts

Comics & Graphic Novels

Sullivan, Gary

Comic Strips

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On My Way

Literature & Fiction

Myles, Eileen

Poetry

<p>Poetry. In THE THORN all kinds of materials by David Larsen are combined and presented in the form of a first book of poetry. The resulting collection makes no disguise of its debt to Behind the State Capitol by John Wieners, the SELECTED WRITINGS OF CEDAR SIGO, and Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, and is distinguished above all for its emotional strenuousness. Major themes include writing, divination, speech and shouting. Also featured are generous samples of the poet's handwriting, and wall drawings from his 2003 show with Marc Bell, Amy Lockhart, and Poorly Rendered editor Will Yackulic. THE THORN is designed to appeal to the reader on all levels but the sense of duty, and will be of special interest to the extremely sensitive.</p>

The Thorn

Larsen, David

Poetry. DARK BRANDON is Brandon Downing's follow-up to his previous collection, THE SHIRT WEAPON. Continuing the earlier book's explorations of narrativity and false autobiography, DARK BRANDON makes use of 'castoff' modalities of American visual culture: the failed commercial, the forgotten b-picture, the county fair program, the lost advertising icon, the epic blockbuster. "There's a deceptive density in DARK BRANDON: deceptive because the tone is often exuberant and that exuberance acts as a kind of stoner Virgil leading you through the craziness of the work. But you also register that he's enjoying himself, and that joy in piecing it together is an absolute necessity if one is going to take the deal of making art up at all in this age when manipulation of image and language is accepted to the point of ho-hum. Strange, beautiful."--Anselm Berrigan.

Dark Brandon

Downing, Brandon

<p>Poetry. CAConrad describes ORIZABA: A VOYAGE WITH HART CRANE as "one of the most important literary ventures into Gender Questioning, told through the magic of Hart Crane with the magic hand of Stacy Szymaszek. If this isn't essential reading at the moment then it will be very soon!" ORIZABA was written in 2004 in Milwaukee and revised in Brooklyn in 2007. It appears here with a selection from the serial poem "Hyperglossia" entitled "The Eustace Poems."</p>

Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane

Szymaszek, Stacy

Poetry. In 1961 Jack Spicer wrote: "It is not unfair to say that a city is a collection of humans. Human beings. In their municipal trust they sit together in cities. They talk together in cities. They form groups. Even when they do not form groups they sit alone together in cities." In 2004 Stephanie Young was given her assignment: to convene a collection of writing by Bay Area poets. The long-anticipated results are in, all 432 pages of them. A precedent-breaking anthology, BAY POETICS goes to the outer limits of "local" and "poetry," ranging as it does from Napa Valley to Santa Cruz and including poems, essays, lists, short fiction, walking tour reports, manifestoes and all points in between. An experiment in 21st century landscape portraiture you won't want to miss.

Bay Poetics

History & Criticism

Poetry. "You can't teach God anything," Jeni Olin writes. An ambulance cools its jets in the arboretum, and she asks, "What have you got roughly in your breast?" The improvised reality series THE PILL BOOK disseminates a plethora of diagnoses and a handful of cures. Jeni's is lyrical asymmetry that wears its coronary on a "sushi-pink" sleeve, sitting shiva under love balloons, "helium-filled strays / traipsing around the sky clinic..." Nineteen poems call out to our punk hearts, Sofia Coppola, Ginzu knives, and blemish make-up. "All Things Considered" reads -- "People CAN change/ If they are just willing/ To drive to a pharmacy"

The Pill Book

Olin, Jeni

Poetry. From a longer sequence of "Odes & fragments" these select few entail the processes of ruminative thought as they go over the edge into careening feeling. "The reader is placed in an immanent experience. We pass our thought through the poems, we experience the language. There is a plasticity to the experience, a feeling of the poem molding itself"--Geoffrey Olsen. "These are poems which, dancing deftly among assonance, dissonance and diverse repetitions, while adroitly avoiding the risk of sounding like a bad Celan pastiche, are excessively difficult to get right. Luckily, they are right"--Nicholas Manning.

Odes

Davies, Alan

Pathologies

Kimball, Jack

Subsistence Equipment

Iijima, Brenda

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