Teaser quote: Reminds me of a joke Samuel Johnson alludes to in the preface of his edition of a certain Very Big Poet, whose greatness was (Johnson asserts) not to be found in particular passages but in the overall effect. The joke was: “He who tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house for sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.”
In the Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “The people of France have made it no secret that those of England, as a general thing, are, to their perception, an inexpressive and speechless race, perpendicular and unsociable, unaddicted to enriching any bareness of contact with verbal or other embroidery.”
In Blackbox Manifold, Issue 18.
Teaser quote: “The light must change. The waiting person wait longer. The walker must step out of the summer heat wet to the hair roots, the shirt wet.”
https://www.semcoop.com/event/anthony-madrid-try-never
Teaser quote:
Written under the spell of an old Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's second book, Try Never, unite the freshness and speed of children’s clapping games with the witty and cynical aphorisms of medieval gnomic nature poetry.
In the Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “Any English-speaker could recite every one of these twenty-eight poems backward, under any conditions, including hanging upside-down, drunk, on two hits of acid.”
Teaser quote: “Why would a goddess steal a hunchback’s sheep? and naked?”
Teaser quote:
INTERVIEWER
But let’s not get distracted. You’re essentially saying you can access memories from past lives. Is that correct?
THE NEANDERTHAL
Yes. I mean, that’s misleading to put it that way, because these “past lives” were not me. It’s not like my personality existed forty thousand years ago. But I can access, I’m convinced, personalities and events that occurred at the time when the Neanderthal species—as a distinct thing—ceased to exist.
On the Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “In 1948, T. S. Eliot got up there at the Library of Congress and gave an address so witheringly condescending to Edgar Allan Poe that I felt angry reading it. What do I care about Edgar Allan Poe? Yet I felt angry.”
In the Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “Some days I made four or five limericks, or four or five versions of the same limerick, texting every one of ’em to the people in my life who, in my judgment, did not then and do not now deserve God’s mercy.”
In the Brooklyn Review.
Teaser quote: “When he took me out with his people, you could see he was ashamed of me. The next youngest guy there was twenty years older than I….”
Teaser quote: “I don’t like biographies wherein the subject has no stupid ideas, is never self-deceived, and is never a source of legitimate grievance to anyone. To watch a biographer protect her subject from all negative interpretations, and even from the other characters in the story—this is a most unedifying spectacle…”
The Iowa Review is posting a new poem every day, all through April.
Teaser quote: “This is that mind-reading, I’m-sicking-demons-on-my-enemies style of Buddhism.”
Teaser quote: “We took it as axiomatic that nerds are incapable of drawing conclusions that would tend to banish the concept of genius….”
An essay collection edited by David Caplan, from Presses Universitaires Liège, containing a chapter by me (title: "Seventeen Quotations and Commentary").
The book will supposedly be available Tuesday 14 March 2017. ISBN: 978-2-87562-125-2.
Here's the cover:
On Plume.
Teaser quote: “You know that famous quote, where some French poet said that God gives you the first rhyme word, but the poet himself must provide the second—? The Augustan poet worked hard to make it look like just the opposite was happening. The poet throws down the first rhyme word, and then a Voice from the Unfathomable gracefully and elegantly provides the second.”
New essay on The Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “Would he really use a construction like I caught the happy virus.”
Posted today on Gramma.
Teaser quote: “I’m already in hell: You can tell by what I’m ashamed of.”
New essay on The Paris Review Daily.
Teaser quote: “Our little Joan ignores the cats, / Ignites a satisfying match. / It sputters, flickers, pops and jets: / It’s fun as good as ever gets.”
At least for now, it's $10, free shipping, straight from Canarium. The books will be going into their bubble envelopes in two weeks or less.
Here is an image of the front cover:
