Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 26th, 2007
PotW: "Sloan-Kettering" by Lynn Shapiro
You watch her fingers leave your robe how they arc in the air to papers on her desk, and you realize that at various times in the past five years you have thought of her fingers, their short nails, and how she called you and said into the mouth of [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in PotW by Tim
Monday, January 15th, 2007
Syntactic Complexity
And she, her back to him, seems only what she shows
as she bends over, reaching between her splayed legs
to pick it up, her face a moment upside down
beneath her crotch, her pink tongue flickering level
with the face she watches watching her, the face void
of expression, dense as stone, clinical as light,
unmoved, as if the fantasy [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in golden nugget posts, poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
PotW: "So You Want an Opera Singer…" by Siobhan Brannigan
and not just mailmen, men from across the street, men who have been following her for four days and want her address to be their address
Maybe Alan should comment on this week’s poem, because it’s one of his all-time favorites.
(I think he had an opera singer [...]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
A Blurb
In Timothy Green’s appropriately titled AMERICAN FRACTAL a whole vision is created from fragments of American myths, family, religion, the body, holidays, money, food, art, lovers, science, ads, and even earthquakes. His poems are wonderfully original and American in their irony – it’s a kind-hearted irony with truth as its goal. With his subjects [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tim
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
New at RATTLE.com
It occurs to me that I should make a post highlighting some of the new features we’ve started at www.rattle.com in the last year, since renovating the site. This might be a boring post to those who are already aware of these, but I think they’re still worth pointing out.
1) E-Reviews
This started as an online [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
PotW: "Northern Lights" by Mark Jarman
Don’t ever think of human beings you love And need as like those shifting shimmerings, No matter how liquescent memorable enduring Against the immortal darkness of the sky. The northern lights will break a heart and heal it In the same [...]
No Comments » - Posted in PotW by Tim
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Hackers Need to Get a Life
Do we need to start a Get-The-Hackers-Laid fund? You’re telling me seriously that you don’t have anything better to do on on a Friday night? Chase.com, whitehouse.org I could see, but this is lame. The least you could do is something cool, like change our name to Prattle.
I actually got [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tim
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Microcassette
MICROCASSETTE
At first it was just a gift, the batteries not included, but wrapped neatly in a smaller box, a matching
bow with the same generous loop of silver, its paper the same gaudy green. Try it out, she told him,
and so he did. Is this the way I sound? he said. Is this the [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in poems by Tim
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Poetry in Dreams
Fitful dreams for me are rare. Most assume a kind of simple wish-fulfillment that might make Freud wonder if I had a superego at all — I’m either playing baseball or getting laid. No analysis necessary. So when a dream comes that has some kind of negative emotion attached to it, I pay attention.
Occasionally, dreams [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in pseudo-intellectual bs by Tim
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Blog-Only Special: Return and Exchange Dump
Every 6 months we get books returned from one of our distributors — they’re marked with a pen, and sometimes the covers are bent a little, so we can’t re-sell them. Also, there are about 100 literary journals that we exchange with, so I have a bin over flowing with Iowa Reviews, Greensboro Reviews, [...]
