Teaser quote: “With so much happening at the level of pure form, the technical aspects would be tedious to parse. But if you think of the way Celtic designs carry curving lines from one quadrant of the visual field to another while maintaining qualities of symmetry and balanced value, tracing exquisitely detailed involutions and mandala-like circularities, then you’ll have some sense of Madrid’s analogous acoustic embroideries.”
Teaser quote: “Did you know Fanny Howe started her writing career producing soft-porn romance crap for Avon Books—? Out there in the world somewhere is a paperback from 1964 called West Coast Nurse. It was, I learned, part of a popular “nurse” series. There’s a copy online for $40 (original price: 32¢). Somebody needs to buy that and review it for the Agni blog.”
Six volumes, every poem he ever wrote. Thanks, Adele and Sandy!
In the Spring 2017 print issue.
Teaser quote: “Download the PDF version here. If you would like a hard copy, please request here or via Facebook.”
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:
