A helpful article on AIG at Democracy Now!

I found this article helpful for thinking about the recent AIG scandal in perspective:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/19/the_great_american_stickup_veteran_journalist

Lionel Ziprin (1925-2009)

Thanks to Kyle Schlesinger for passing on word of Lionel Ziprin's passing. Ziprin, to my mind, was a great mystic and poet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/arts/21ziprin.html?ref=arts


Ziprin at UBU web: http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen9/sentential.html

Our Liquid Asses

to David Buuck

"mapquest/google-earth still believes the building hasn’t even burned yet"

Our liquid assets as the map
Make a poor front, its bubbles
Back-firing, bottoming-out
Pour forth in a gift economy
Whereever is the fairest faucet.

Peterson on Bryant in Boog City

Tim Peterson has written a concise review of Tisa Bryant's book, Unexplained Presence for Boog City. You may check out Wanda Phipps on Stephanie Gray's Heart Stoner Bingo while you're at it...

America

-to Lawrence, Rob, and Robert

Yes, get
back
in that

“burning
plane” of
national

discourse
and news a
techno-

logy we
barely know
what a

body can
do there
is no

facility in
dying
fuck the

War on
Terror
America

your citiz
ens are
dying as

they al-
ways have
of what

could not
be said
without

effort or
they
couldn't

have known
what worlds
can be

get back
in that plane
it’s too

late to be
conditional
or eroti

cize these
bodies re-
moved

from our
domestic
wastes what-

ever we
wanted the
future to

have been
penetra-
ting

every body
every
blank in

history
being I
being you.

Brenda Iijima interviews Tyrone Williams here!

http://www.kaurab.com/english/interviews/tyrone.html

Raised on Rap Music

I can appreciate this article by Chris Martin abt "avant rap". It wld be great to get others' takes on rap in fact, knowing it to be a much bigger influence on contemporary poetry than it's been given credit for... Michael Cross? Paolo Javier? Brandon Brown? ...wanna field this one?