Johannes reviews Kate's Ravenous Audience in the newest issue of Rain Taxi, bringing in the Gurlesque, Rodarte...it is a very good review. (if you haven't read RA yet, you should. I just wrote an essay drooling all over it. Why wasn't Kate in the Gurlesque anthology? That's what I want to know. Her and Ariana are my favorite poets writing this aesthetics of Artaud meets Ariel.)
Also in Rain Taxi, an interview with Lance Olsen on his Chiasmus triptych Head in Flames.
Also, I will be a bad whore, the slutty bridesmaid, and ask if any book reviewer is interested in pitching O Fallen Angel to Rain Taxi please contact me at francesfarmerismysister@gmail.com! Also if you have the book if you've read it or liked it please go to Amazon.com (even if you blogged about it you can just write that blog bit for the review!) or Goodreads and rate it and review it! It's only been rated six times and some dude gave it a 3 out of 5, which is technically "good" but really means "i will shit on your parade."
I am getting emails which I LOVE about people who have read the book and actually liked it! That really makes me quite proud. Proud to be an American, for it is a very American novel. Especially since it's SET during Fourth of July! Yes! Independence Day!
Something else you can do is go to your local library and REQUEST that they order it! Or sometimes there's an email form! You should do this with all small press books that you love. It's a form of literary activism! Of small press sluttery!
God, I feel so dirty. And speaking of dirty! Such a delicious dirty text by Dodie Bellamy today on Everyday. (that's my nickname for it)
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I think I read somewhere one could only qualify for inclusion in the Gurlesque Antho if one had at-least two books out at the time of the solicitations.
ReplyDeleteAdam Strauss
really adam? hmmm. okay. i wonder why make that sort of mandate, i'm just curious, i wonder if anthologies often do that. kate durbin seems to me absolutely Gurlesque. i also wonder why dodie bellamy wasn't in the anthology - i guess she's considered more proto-Gurlesque? but why i wonder?
ReplyDeleteFrom Arielle Greenberg in an Amy King blog-comment:
ReplyDelete"And we decided only to include poets who had already published at least one book by an established press, largely because we wanted those included in our anthology to be “findable” by our readers."
Adam Strauss
hmm.
ReplyDeleteCome on kate. Every anthology has to make calls on what to in or exclude. Lara and arielle made a big point out of saying that it cannot be comprehensive. You can have your own gurlesque anthology. I included dodie in my gurlesque issue of actionyes.org and i think lara talks about her as an influence. Johannes
ReplyDeleteActually, yeah, we decided to include only poets with at least one easily "findable" book out so that our readers could follow up and locate more work by all of our contributors. Also, although being "published" has its problems as a definition of course, it's a helpful indicator to feel like the poets will stick around, which is something you want when you do an anthology.
ReplyDeleteKate D. did not even have one book out when we were compiling this antho in 2007 and 2008. She had no books out. But now that she does, and I know about her, I'm super interested! (And there are other recent poets who published books since we compiled the antho that could also probably go into a next edition...)
Dodie is also awesome but older than the historically-bound demographic we laid out for ourselves.
xox
Arielle