Apr
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Sunday, 30 April 2006 |
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 Selections from Jesse Glass' The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems are now available through Charles Bernstein's excellent PennSound project. Click here for a listen!
The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it, but this project at the University of Pennsylvania encourages downloading to MP3 players and hard drives all the poetry a listener might want. And it's all free for the asking. So check it out—Jesse Glass at PennSound!
Secondly—I'm happy to announce that Sarah Crown of the Guardian Unlimited Review of Books recently reviewed Jesse Glass' Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems in which she describes the Passion as a
virtuoso evocation of Gage’s life. In which Glass intersperses contemporary accounts of Gages life with a series of brilliant and moving poems. In those voiced by Gage, the painstaking fumble of his thoughts, perfectly evoked by Glass’s insertion of a comma between each word, contrasts electrifyingly with his unexpectedly sublime language, which in turn contrasts with the far more constrained voices of the other speakers . . . .
The selected poems provide further evidence of Glass’s ability, but it is the remarkable opening sequence that stays in the mind.
—Sarah Crown, The Guardian
Click here for the full review!
To whet your appetite we'll drop a couple of Jesse's readings here on Radio Ahadada (click the Radio Ahadada play button to the right) but ask that you check out the aforementioned PennSound for all of the selections.
Please keep your eye out for Lou Rowan's Golden Handcuffs #7 due out shortly. We're running a full-page print ad promoting The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems. You can download the PDF here.
Remember, if you are interested in helping to promote Ahadada events & books, please download artwork of handbills, flyers and posters to print and distribute. Contact us and let us know what you're up to—your contributions towards promoting Ahadada can get you free merchandise and our undying gratitude!
Order Glass' The Passion of Phineas Gage now from Small Press Distribution! Click here!
Links
- PennSound
- Crown, Sarah "Food for Thought" The Guardian
 The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems (Press Release) (101.79 KB) - Order from Small Press Distribution
- The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems (Print Advert) (843.33 KB)
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Feb
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Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
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 Ahadada Books is pleased to present Don Quixote Goes to the Moon by Rane Arroyo. Don Quixote Goes to the Moon is the seventh online chapbook available from Ahadada Books and the third of 2006.
A first-generation Latino born in Chicago, Rane Arroyo is a leading poeta puertorriqueno and playwright whose readership transcends his ethnicity. Sometimes reserved, sometimes passionate, Arroyo writes with humor and a remarkable quickness of association, moving with a grace that makes seamless use of speech ranging from the formal to the vernacular. Taking in love and sexuality, world literature and history and the exile's heritage of a shifting geography of identity, he invokes remarkable imagery with language that is economical, fresh, and mischievous.
He currently teaches Creative Writing as a professor at the University of Toledo. Previous work has included arts management, hospital billing, a variety of odd temporary assignments and factory work. Work seems to be an important force in Arroyo's life for he has been prolific in his writings in many genres.
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