tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190332012024-03-06T23:30:37.217-08:00BOTH BOTHJohn Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.comBlogger2793125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-85787572422493054112023-02-13T18:30:00.006-08:002023-02-13T18:36:36.115-08:00BOOKS READ 2022<p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Caterpillar #12</li><li>Ibsen: Four Major Plays Volume II- Henrik Ibsen</li><li>Sonnets To The Humans- Zachary Colter</li><li>One #26</li><li>Modern French Theater: The Avant-garde, DADA, And Surrealism- edited and translated by Michael Benedikt, George E Wellwarth</li><li>If I Should Say I Have Hope- Lynn Mellnick</li><li>Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel Of Thomas- Elaine Pagels</li><li>Darwin's Century: Evolution And The Men Who Discovered It- Loren Eiseley</li><li>Snow-Flake/ Different Streets- Eileen Myles</li><li>Imperial Earth- Arthur C. Clarke</li><li>Paul: The Apostle Of The Gentiles: Journey's In Greece- Maria Mavromataki</li><li>The Selected Poems Of Steve Carey- Steve Carey</li><li>Skeleton Isle #1</li><li>Report On Planet Three- Arthur C. Clarke</li><li>Ethics Of Sleep- Bernadette Mayer</li><li>Fourteen Hills- Vol 18 No. 2</li><li>The Exploration Of Space- Arthur C. Clarke</li><li>Prayer Book And Hymnology Of The Holy Eastern Orthodox Church- Rev. Dr. Harry P Hatzopoulos</li><li>The Colossus Of Maroussi- Henry Miller</li><li>Borderless Bodies- Linh Dinh</li><li>The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, And Diversity In Early Christianity- David Braake</li><li>Five Stars: Selected Amazon Reviews Volume 4- Kevin Killian</li><li>Credences 4</li><li>The Dispossessed- Ursula K. Le Guin</li><li>And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow- Filip Marinovih</li><li>Slaying The Dragon: A Secret History Of Dungeons And Dragons- Ben Riggs</li><li>Killing And Dying- Adrian Tomine</li><li>WHET- Erick Garcia</li><li>Main Street- Sinclair Lewis</li><li>Soft Targets #1</li><li>Introduction To Magic: Rituals And Practical Techniques For The Magus Vol 1- Julius Evola And The UR Group</li><li>Correct Animal- Rebecca Farivar</li><li>Macaroni Necklace #2</li><li>Painters And Poets: Tibor De Nagy Gallery- Douglas Crase, Jenni Quilter</li><li>The Heathens: Primitive Man And His Religions- William Howells</li><li>The Man Suit- Zachery Schomburg</li><li>Fantastic Voyage- Isaac Asimov</li><li>Balloon Pop Outlaw Black- Patricia Lockwood</li></ol><p></p>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-89109952325392896232022-06-14T17:56:00.009-07:002023-02-13T18:39:25.550-08:00BOOKS READ 2021<p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Death Under Construction- Ava Koohbor</li><li>Daily Bread Vol 10 #6</li><li>The Occult- Colin Wilson</li><li>Resolution Of The West- Nicholas James Wittington</li><li>Manchestuhhh- Owen Peters</li><li>Skeleton Isle #1</li><li>Promethea Book Five- Alan Moore, JH Williams III</li><li>Armies Of Compassion- Eleni Stecopoulos</li><li>A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms- George R.R. Martin</li><li>Transfer Fat- Aase Berg</li><li>Thank You For The Window Office- Maged Zaher</li><li>Daily Bread Vol 10 #7</li><li>Isa The Truck Named Isadore- Amanda Nadelberg</li><li>The Familiar: One Rainy Day In May: Volume 1- Mark Z. Danielewski</li><li>Pleasure- Brian Teare</li><li>Privado- Daniel Tiffany</li><li>The Perennial Philosophy- Aldous Huxley</li><li>Night Mail "Open In The Dark"- Julien Poirier</li><li>Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence From The Road- ed. Michelle Tea</li><li>The Books To Come- Alan Loney</li><li>The Parables Of Jesus: A Commentary- Arland J. Hultgren</li><li>Westward Haut- Edward Dorn</li><li>The Temple Of High Magic: Hermetic Initiations In The Western Mystery Tradition- Ina Costers-Van Bergen</li><li>The Scarlet Gospels- Clive Barker</li><li>Tulips- John Brian King</li><li>Vein- John Brian King</li><li>The Gnostic Gospels- Elaine Pagels</li><li>Homage To Homage To Homage To Creeley- Joshua Ware</li><li>Daily Bread Vol 10 #8</li><li>The Invisibles: Book Three- Grant Morrison</li><li>One #18</li><li>Hughson's Tavern- Fred Moten</li><li>The Rise And Fall Of Alexandria: Birthplace Of The Modern Mind- Justin Pollard, Howard Reid</li><li>The Kybalion: A Study Of The Hermetic Philosophy Of Ancient Egypt And Greece- Three Initiates </li><li>Parthenon West Review Issue Five</li><li>The Perfumed Garden- Shaykh Nefzawi, translated by Sir Richard Burton</li><li>Aphoria- Jackie Clark</li><li>Skipbootzine #3</li><li>The Three Magical Books Of Solomon: The Testament Of Solomon And His Greater And Lesser Keys In One Volume- translated by Aleister Crowley, S.L., Macgregor Mathers, F.C. Conybear</li><li>The Disinformation Phase- Chris Toll</li><li>The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne</li><li>Austin Osman Spare: The Occult Life Of London's Legendary Artist- Phil Baker</li><li>Homage To Etel Adnan- ed. Lindsey Boldt, Steve Dickison, Samantha Giles</li><li>Media, Hippolytus, Alkestis, The Bacchae- Euripides</li><li>Earth Inferno- Austin Osman Spare</li><li>Anarch- Frances Richard</li><li>Seconds- Mike Torres</li><li>The Invisibles: Book Four- Grant Morrison</li><li>Radius Media #2</li><li>A Blue Nocturne Notebook- Andrew K. Peterson</li><li>Lord Jim- Joseph Conrad</li><li>The Canary #7</li><li>Tess Of The D'urbervilles- Thomas Hardy</li><li>The Book Of Pleasure: The Psychology Of Ecstasy- Austin Osmon Spare</li><li>The Explosions- Mathias Svalina</li><li>Pudd'nhead Wilson- Mark Twain</li><li>Ceci N'est Pas Keith Ceci N'est Pas Rosmarie- Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop</li><li>The Pastures Of Heaven- John Steinbeck</li><li>A Monthly Account Of The Year Leading Up To The End Of The World, By Agonistes, Prophet And Fulfiller Or The Exhausted Dream- Joshua Edwards</li><li>Them Journal Vol One</li><li>A Private Correspondence- Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller</li><li>Science- Emily Toder</li><li>The Easiest Way To Learn Tarot Ever!- Dusty White</li><li>Bee Reaved- Dodie Bellamy </li></ol><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-3607915765325303802021-01-20T07:19:00.001-08:002021-01-20T07:19:07.642-08:00Books Read 2020<p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li> Galvanized Iron On The Citizens' Band- Joseph Mosconi</li><li> Open Space #0: A Prospectus</li><li> Studio One Reading Series: 10 Years 54 Poets An Anthology</li><li> Bastion- Eric Unger</li><li> The Sequel- Michael Slosek</li><li> Vats- Luke Daly</li><li> Open Space #1</li><li> Lost Girls- Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie</li><li> Ellos- Christian Delfino, Mike McMullen</li><li> My Emily Dickinson- Susan Howe</li><li> A Confession And Other Religious Writings- Leo Tolstoy</li><li> Varieties Of Fascism- Eugen Weber</li><li> The Treatise Of The Three Imposters- Anonymous</li><li> Open Space #2</li><li> Open Space #3</li><li> Skitch #6</li><li> Selected Prose (2008-2019)- Micah Ballard</li><li> Open Space: Taurus Issue #4</li><li> One #25</li><li> Open Space #4 "White Hope"</li><li> Sulfur #41</li><li> New Sounds: A Listener's Guide To New Music- John Schaefer</li><li> Hellboy: Seed Of Destruction Omnibus Vol 1- Mike Mignola, John Byrne</li><li> Open Space #5</li><li> Riviera: Photographs Of Palm Springs- John Brian King</li><li> Open Space #6</li><li> Open Space #7</li><li> Character And Opinion In The United States- George Santayana</li><li> Open Space #8</li><li> Mare Island- Brooks Roddan</li><li> G.I. Gurdjief: The War Against Sleep- Colin Wilson</li><li> Open Space #9</li><li> Nemo: River Of Ghosts- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil</li><li> Open Space # "Valentine"</li><li> Open Space #10</li><li> Open Space #11</li><li> Sulfur #43</li><li> Box #3</li><li> The Fire: Collected Essays Of Robin Blaser- Robin Blaser, edited by Miriam Nichols</li><li> Box #6</li><li> Box #7</li><li> Daily Bread #1</li><li> Good Game- Andrew K. Peterson</li><li> Tarot Psychology- Robert Wang</li><li> The Invisibles: Book Two- Grant Morrison</li><li> Daily Bread #4</li><li> Daily Bread #8</li><li> Daily Bread #10</li><li> The California Poem- Eleni Sikelianos</li><li> Daily Bread #11</li><li> Humans And Horses- Logan Ryan Smith</li><li> The God Of Salt And Light- Logan Ryan Smith</li><li> Daily Bread #12</li><li> Compeche- Joshua Edwards</li><li> Daily Bread #13</li><li> Men And Apes- Ramona Morris, Desmond Morris</li><li> Memoir And Essay- Michael Gottlieb</li><li> Daily Bread #14</li><li> Daily Bread #15</li><li> Daily Bread Vol. 9 #8</li><li> Promethea: Book Three- Alan Moore, J.H. Williams, Mick Gray</li><li> Daily Bread Vol. 10 #1</li><li> New Testament: New Living Translation</li><li> The Tommyknockers- Stephen King</li><li> I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp- Richard Hell</li><li> The Way Of Hermes: New Translations Of The Corpus Hermeticum And The Definitions Of Hermes Trismegistus To Asclepius- translated by Clement Salaman, Dorine Van Oyen, William D Wharton, Jean-Pierre Mahe</li><li> Daily Bread #50</li><li> Skip Boot Zine #2</li><li> Five Fingers Review #21</li><li> The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe- Douglas Adams</li><li> Condensed Chaos: An Introduction To Chaos Magic- Phil Hine</li><li> Daily Bread Vol. 10 #3</li><li> The Book Of Results- Ray Sherwin</li><li> Daily Bread Vol. 10 #4</li><li> The Recovery Of The Public World: Essays On Poetics In Honour Of Robin Blaser- edited by Charles Watts, Edward Byrne</li><li> YesThing NoThing- Edwin Torres</li><li> A Plate Of Chicken- Matthew Rohrer</li><li> Killing Kanoko- Hiromi Ito</li><li> Art Fraud- Jeffrey Schrader</li><li> The Greek Experience- C.M. Bowra</li><li> Made-Up Interviews With Imaginary Artists- Alex Stein</li><li> Promethea: Book Four- Alan Moore, J.H. Williams, Mick Gray</li><li> Jesus- Humphrey Carpenter</li><li> Lord Of The Flies- William Golding</li><li> Adam Robison And Other Poems- Adam Robinson</li><li> Rise Up- Matthew Rohrer</li><li> The Fast- Hannah Weiner</li><li> The Cow- Ariana Reines</li><li> The Life And Opinions Of DJ Spinoza- Eugene Ostashevsky</li><li> Muzzle/ Mushroom Blading zine</li><li> Sketch Of The Artist- Patrick James Dunagan</li><li> Mostly Clearing- Michael Gottlieb</li></ol><p></p>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-47718653325529332042021-01-14T10:46:00.000-08:002021-01-14T10:46:07.150-08:00Books Read 2019<p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li> One #8</li><li> One #9</li><li> Sulfur #18</li><li> One #11</li><li> Beastie Boys Book- Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz</li><li> Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy, translated by The Maude Translation</li><li> One #13</li><li> New American Writing #22</li><li> Aerodrome Orion And Starry Messenger- Susan Gevirtz</li><li> Sulfur #19</li><li> The X-Files Season 10 Vol 3- Joe Harris, Dave Smith</li><li> A Tonalist- Laura Moriarty</li><li> Nakedness Is My End: Poems From The Greek Anthology- translated by Edmund Keeley</li><li> INTI- Brian Bina</li><li> In Love With Art: Francoise Mouly's Adventures In Comics With Art Spielgelman- Jeet Heer</li><li> Museum Of Thrown Objects- Andrew K. Peterson</li><li> One #15</li><li> 30 Days Of Night: Eben And Stella- Steve Niles, Sue Deconnick, Justin Randall</li><li> 30 Days Of Night: Three Tales- Steve Niles, Nat James, Ben Templesmith, Milx</li><li> Kick-Ass- Mark Millar, John Tomita Jr. </li><li> Western Palaces- Logan Ryan Smith</li><li> Sulfur #23</li><li> Habibi- Craig Thompson</li><li> Promethea: Book Two- Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III</li><li> ... (Ellipsis)- Alaistar Johnston</li><li> The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams</li><li> One #16</li><li> Coeur De Lion- Ariana Reines</li><li> Denny Smith- Robert Gluck</li><li> The Punisher Max Vol One- Garth Ennis, Derick Robertson, Lewis LaRosa, Leandro Fernandez</li><li> Iovis- Anne Waldman</li><li> Reciprocal Distillations- Clayton Eshleman</li><li> Mercury- Ariana Reines</li><li> The X-Files: Ruins- Kevin J. Anderson</li><li>Discourse 20.1 and 2</li><li> Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: The History Of The Disc Jockey- Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton</li><li> Looking Up Harryette Mullen: Interviews On Sleeping With The Dictionary And Other Works- Barbara Henning, Harryette Mullen</li><li> One #10</li><li> The Book Of The Law- Aleister Crowley</li><li> Nemo: Heart Of Ice- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill</li><li> On The Shining Screen Of The Eyelids- Josely Vianna Baptista, Francisco Faria, translated by Chris Daniels</li><li> The Mayor Of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy</li><li> Old Growth: Selected Poems And Notebooks 1986-1994- Andrew Schelling</li><li> Nemo: The Roses Of Berlin- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill</li><li> Toy Fables- Cass McCombs</li><li> Sulfur #31</li><li> Bloomsbury Pie: The Making Of The Bloomsbury Boom- Regina Marler</li><li> Loverboys- Gilbert Hernandez</li><li> and now, a vineyard- Andrew K. Peterson</li><li> Mum Halo- John Coletti</li><li> Liber Null And Psychonaut- Peter J. Carroll</li><li> Moving Day- Ish Klein</li><li> Testamentality, Transcryption: An Emotional Memoir Of Jack Spicer- Larry Kearney</li><li> Aleister Crowley: The Nature Of The Beast- Colin Wilson</li><li> American Mischief- Alan Lelchuk</li><li> Skitch #5</li><li> Holy Daimon- Frater Archer</li><li> Rob The Plagerist- Robert Fitterman</li></ol><p></p>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-12507858458941010912021-01-05T07:55:00.002-08:002021-01-05T07:55:45.696-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAx5uiiwBw8ksASrPWsEOKpisDEAkL94_KWg3wPumoW_YLTpK3Bch81U6qQvNguHM7hrfB2OPO2RMO6N_dNoTBsEkc-EQMZvLEQCqs0NVnI90tpizd5im9As1yeD47K-IXavyjA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1503" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyAx5uiiwBw8ksASrPWsEOKpisDEAkL94_KWg3wPumoW_YLTpK3Bch81U6qQvNguHM7hrfB2OPO2RMO6N_dNoTBsEkc-EQMZvLEQCqs0NVnI90tpizd5im9As1yeD47K-IXavyjA/w267-h400/9781931824927.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>hello, I have a new book out on Roof called Mirror Magic, <p></p><p>if you're so inclined you can order a copy from <a href="https://www.spdbooks.org/AdvancedSearch/DefaultWFilter.aspx?SearchTerm=mirror+magic" target="_blank">SPD</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Magic-John-Sakkis/dp/1931824924/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=mirror+magic+sakkis&qid=1609861832&sr=8-3" target="_blank">Amazon</a></p><p>if you'd like to REVIEW the book please email me at john.sakkis@gmail.com and I'll get you a copy,</p><p><span style="background-color: #add0df; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">John Sakkis’ </span><em style="background-color: #add0df; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mirror Magic</em><span style="background-color: #add0df; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> offers us the riotous in the fullest sense of the word: rife with quick-wit and biting humor, these pages also riot against an ever-crumbling present as it dissolves a future teetering on the cusp of fantastical and apocalyptic; “I tic toc my minutes / NIMBY pansies get butterflies / ‘shadow pollution’ kills birds / so rents go up and over /you laugh at the needles /that stick to your meddling.”\” Bounding through space in Nike shoes, the tragi-comedy of the neoliberal state escalates as “ambition gets complicated” and muddies our horizons. Through Sakkis’ verses we live in a dynamic zone “floating and falling / and floating” in the overlapping absurdity and truth where still he leisurely and militantly demands more. From Vegas, to Californian ecosystems, to UFOs, the moon and beyond, the blossoming of childhood magic collides with adulthood’s brutal realism, daring to hone our critical apparatus and dream harder.</span></p><p>and from the backcover of the book:</p><p>"Irresistible and ebullient as your Saturday plans look midweek, John Sakkis’ Mirror Magic is a reflective and necromantic gathering that gives back what it asks of a day lived both online and off the wall: “please leave/this sweet light/and render me/phosphorescent tubeway splatter genome.” Sakkis’ spunky challenge to the popular poetics of our time (stuffed armor or ardor) make me wonder what Cocteau might be up to in the 21st Century; maybe directing straight-to-VHS skater videos, scanning the Bay’s convex parking bumpers for the myth of the perfect ollie. “’The millennium’ is a confusing term/and you are a headless oracle mumbling/‘this generation shall not pass/directly or indirectly/into the abyss’.” With grime and pop and savvy, these poems’ tricks grind along the silver internet’s omnipresences, a gleaming cube of instruction and wise-assed possibility. Enter here, into Sakkis’ “kinky time warp,” a humid mirror where humor and found magic are the blades for the body to open through.</p><p>–Andrew Peterson<br /><br />Mirror Magic’s poems live simultaneously in uncomfortable realities and joy, gathering snippets of experience as if they were wildflower bouquets for detonating in language like miniature fireworks. Violence and violence collide. Violence and exaltation collide. Sometimes you get burned. Sometimes you get to take a bath. This bad boy is full of life.<br />–Eleni Sikelianos"<br style="background-color: #add0df; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;" /> </p>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-72322874824401140902020-02-21T11:52:00.002-08:002020-02-21T11:54:19.419-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>The Front- K. Silem Mohammad</li>
<li>Port Trakl- Jamie Luis Huenun, translated Daniel Borzutsky</li>
<li>Swamp Thing: The Curse- Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben</li>
<li>Foreign Policy- Julien Poirier</li>
<li>Swamp Thing: A Murder Of Crows- Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben</li>
<li>Uncle Tom's Cabin- Harriet Beacher Stowe</li>
<li>Anonymous Bouquet- Andrew K. Peterson</li>
<li>Providence: Act 2- Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows</li>
<li>Swamp Thing: Earth To Earth- Alan Moore, Rick Veitch</li>
<li>Beats At Naropa- edited Anne Waldman, Laura Wright</li>
<li>Felonies Of Illusion- Mark Wallace</li>
<li>The Collages Of Helen Adam- edited Alison Fraser</li>
<li>Fast Speaking Woman- Anne Waldman </li>
<li>Haitian #2</li>
<li>Lust For Life- Steve Orth</li>
<li>Benching With Virgil- Gad Hollander</li>
<li>Haitian #3</li>
<li>Providence: Act 3- Alan Moore, Jaceyn Burrows</li>
<li>Terminal Humming- K. Lorainne Graham</li>
<li>Haitian #4</li>
<li>Bay Poetics- edited Stephanie Young</li>
<li>Swamp Thing: Reunion- Alan Moore, Rich Veitch</li>
<li>The Four Seasons- Brandon Brown</li>
<li>Notes On Conceptualisms- Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman</li>
<li>Bed. The Naropa Summer Writing Program Magazine 2004</li>
<li>The Idiot- Fyodor Dostoyevsky</li>
<li>A Book Of Prophecies- John Wieners</li>
<li>California II- Julien Poirier</li>
<li>The Wasp- Jack Spicer</li>
<li>What's Going On- Sunnylyn Thibodeaux</li>
<li>Eclipse Babel- Brian Lucas</li>
<li>From Our Hearts To Yours: New Narrative As Contemporary Practice- editied Rob Halpern, Robin Tremblay-Mcgaw</li>
<li>Secrets Of My Prison House-Geoffrey Gatza</li>
<li>The Book Of Frank- CA Conrad</li>
<li>Seven Gothic Tales- Isak Dinesen</li>
<li>Nothing Happened And Besides I wasn't There- Mark Wallace</li>
<li>The Tiger And The Butterfly- Geoffrey Gatza</li>
<li>This Isa Nice Neighborhood- Farid Matuk</li>
<li>Satellite- Matthew Rohrer</li>
<li>Formosa- Dominik Wagner</li>
<li>Haecceities- Michael Cross</li>
<li>Smear Jelly Dreaming A Goo Daughter Time Travel And Friendship- Oki Sogumi </li>
<li>Composition Book (an edit)- Matvei Yankelevich</li>
<li>Big Bell #9</li>
<li>Peregrine- Caroline Goodwin</li>
<li>Tropic Of Cancer- Henry Miller</li>
<li>Life Is A Rip Off Part II- John "Inzane" Olson</li>
<li>Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings Of Daniil Kharms- translated/ edited Matvei Yankelevich</li>
<li>One #24</li>
<li>Them newsprint zine</li>
<li>The Winner- Karl Stevens</li>
<li>Answer Me!- Jim and Debbie Goad</li>
<li>Ten Walks/ Two Talks- Jon Cotner, Andy Fitch</li>
<li>One Vol 2 #4</li>
<li>Neighbor- Rachel Levitsy</li>
<li>Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently- Bill Berkson</li>
<li>One Vol 2 #2</li>
<li>Skitch #4</li>
<li>Lyrical Interference: Essays On Poetics- Norman Finkelstein</li>
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John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-72685787933385012582018-05-14T08:31:00.000-07:002018-05-15T11:13:54.968-07:00Books Read 2017<ol>
<li>Your Wilderness Or Mine- David Highsmith</li>
<li>Everything As Expected- James Herndon</li>
<li>Sin City: Hell And Back- Frank Miller</li>
<li>Enjoy Me- Logan Ryan Smith</li>
<li>Sulfur #16 </li>
<li>Suicide Of A Superpower- Patrick J. Buchannan</li>
<li>Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan To Save America- David Horowitz</li>
<li>In Trump We Trust- Ann Coulter</li>
<li>To After That (Toaf)- Renee Gladman</li>
<li>The Letters Of Carla, the letter b. A Mystery In Poetry With A Foreword By The Future Guardian Of The Letters And An Afterword By Benjamin Hollander- Benjamin Hollander</li>
<li>Alternative Set Of Procedures- Carlos Soto Romain</li>
<li>Complete Minimal Poems- Aram Saroyan</li>
<li>The Grapes Of Wrath- John Steinbeck</li>
<li>The Palm Trees Of San Quentin- Julien Poirier</li>
<li>The Road To Ocosingo- Andrew Schelling</li>
<li>A Perfect Day For Scottie Pippen- Steve Orth</li>
<li>A Semblance: Selected And New Poems 1975-2007- Laura Moriarty</li>
<li>Letters: Poems 1953-1956- Robert Duncan</li>
<li>Irresponsibility- Chris Vitiello</li>
<li>The Age Of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents- Ellen Schrecker</li>
<li>The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century (Volume 3)- Alan Moore, Kevin O'neill</li>
<li>An Anthology Of New (American) Poets- edited Lisa Jarnot, Leonard Schwartz, Chris Stroffolino</li>
<li>Lowest Common Denominator- Jacob Kahn</li>
<li>Mucus In My Pineal Gland- Juliana Huxtable</li>
<li>Crisis In The Humanities- edited J.H. Plumb</li>
<li>The Consequence Of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics- edited Craig Dworkin</li>
<li>The Girl Next Door- Jack Ketchum</li>
<li>Skitch Vol. 3</li>
<li>Growing Up- Russell Baker</li>
<li>Dear Kathleen: On The Occasion Of Kathleen Fraser's 80th Birthday- edited Susan Gevirtz, Stephen Motika</li>
<li>Bomb The Suburbs- William Upski Wimsatt</li>
<li>Wild Form, Savage Grammar: Poetry, Ecology, Asia- Andrew Schelling</li>
<li>Duties Of An English Foreign Secretary- Macregor Card</li>
<li>Promethea- Alan Moore, J.H. Williams, Mick Gray</li>
<li>Behind The Barbed Wire: History Of Naval Weapons Station Concord- John A. Keibel</li>
<li>The Misanthrope And Other Plays- Moliere</li>
<li>Where You're At: Poetics And Visual Art- Kevin Power</li>
<li>Parallel Realism- Paul Ebenkamp</li>
<li>Leaving The Atocha Station- Ben Lerner</li>
<li>View Askew: Postmodern Investigation- Steve Abbott</li>
<li>Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip- Lisa Robertson</li>
<li>The Tragedy Of King Richard II- Shakespeare</li>
<li>The Hound Of The Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle</li>
<li>Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters From Ted To Sandy Berrigan- Ted Berrigan, edited Ron Padgett, Sandy Berrigan</li>
<li>Long Live You And Me- Jackson Meazle</li>
<li>Two Books- CJ Martin</li>
<li>The Difficult Farm- Heather Christle</li>
<li>The Bigness Of Things: New Narrative And Visual Culture- Daniel Benjamin And Eric Sneathen</li>
<li>Takes- Jason Morris</li>
<li>Colony Of Whores- Matthew Stokoe</li>
<li>Sulfur #17</li>
<li>A Humument- Tom Phillips</li>
<li>A Mouth In California- Graham Foust</li>
<li>The Astral Projection Guidebook: Mastering The Art Of Astral Travel- Erin Pavlina</li>
<li>Picture Palace- Stephanie Young</li>
<li>Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky- Baxter Black</li>
<li>Crackpot- Jeremy Sigler</li>
<li>The Redcoats- Ryan Murphy</li>
<li>Cunt-Ups- Dodie Bellamy</li>
</ol>
John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-23585473983465840042017-07-06T15:44:00.003-07:002017-07-06T15:49:07.724-07:00Books Read 20161. William Blake: His Life- James King<br />
2. The Velveteen Rabbit- Margery Williams, William Nicholson<br />
3. Names Of People- Robert Duncan, Jess<br />
4. Saga Volume Four- Brian K. Vaughn, Fiona Staples<br />
5. We3- Grant Morrison, Frank Quietly<br />
6. Don’t Know Much About History: Everything You Need To Know About American History But Never Learned- Kenneth C. Davis<br />
7. Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life Of Alan Moore- Lance Parkin<br />
8. Paying for It: A Comic Strip Memoir About Being A John- Chester Brown<br />
9. Ronin- Frank Miller<br />
10. Boxers- Gene Luen Yang<br />
11. Robert Duncan: The Ambassador From Venus- Lisa Jarnot<br />
12. 30 Days Of Night- Steve Niles, Ben Temple Smith<br />
13. 30 Days Of Night: Dark Days- Steve Niles, Ben Temple Smith<br />
14. 30 Days Of Night: Return To Barrow- Steve Niles, Ben Temple Smith<br />
15. Saints- Gene Luen Yang<br />
16. I Never Liked You- Chester Brown<br />
17. Bumperhead- Gilbert Hernandez<br />
18. An Opening Of The Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, And Their Circle- Michael Duncan, Christopher Wagstagg<br />
19. Sixty Morning Talks- Andy Fitch<br />
20. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin- Gray Brechin<br />
21. Sin City: The Big Fat Kill- Frank Miller<br />
22. Squat- Sarah Menefee<br />
23. Vow To Poetry- Anne Waldman<br />
24. Props Of Rain/ Drops Of Wine- Patrick James Dunagan<br />
25. The Roots Of Coincidence: An Excursion Into Parapsychology- Arthur Koestler<br />
26. Lazio- Brandon Downing<br />
27. Crossing Paths- Diana Achegma, Hugo Garcia Marriquez, Nicole Trigg<br />
28. Discrete Series- George Oppen<br />
29. Acts #10: In Relation<br />
30. A Secret Location On The Lower East Side: Adventures In Writing 1960-1980- Steven Clay, Rodney Phillips<br />
31. Sin City: That Yellow Bastard- Frank Miller<br />
32. At Passages- Michael Palmer<br />
33. Old Father, Old Artificer: Charles Olson Memorial Lecture- Diane Di Prima<br />
34. Further Confessions Of A Small Press Racketeer- Stuart Ross<br />
35. Helen In Egypt- H.D.<br />
36. Charles Olson Memorial Lectures- Edward Dorn<br />
37. Unfinished Business- Michelangelo Antonioni<br />
38. Out Of Print- Julien Poirier<br />
39. Digging Up Mother: A Love Story- Doug Stanhope<br />
40. Hermeticities And Others- Derek Fenner<br />
41. SFAQ VOL. 2 #5<br />
42. Lost And Found: The Selected Correspondence Of John Wieners And Charles Olson Part I and II<br />
43. A Question Mark Above The Sun- Kent Johnson<br />
44. Slats- Nicole Trigg<br />
45. Portrait Of A Lesser Subject- E. Tracy Grinnell<br />
46. Pain: The Board Game- Sampson Startweather<br />
47. The Truth Is We Are Perfect- Janaka Stucky<br />
48. From Bughouse Square To The Beat Generation: Selected Ravings Of Slim Brundage Founder And Janitor Of The College Of Complexes- edited by Franklin Rosemont<br />
49. The Book Of Jon- Eleni Sikelianos<br />
50. Sin City: Family Values- Frank Miller<br />
51. Beggars Of Life- Andrew Maxwell, N Gelund<br />
52. Asterios Polyp- David Mazzucchelli<br />
53. Tea Shack Interior: New And Selected Poetry- Andrew Schelling<br />
54. Annoying Diabetic Bitch- Sharon Mesmer<br />
55. Black Mountain Days- Michael Rumaker<br />
56. The Sandman: Overture- Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, Dave Steward<br />
57. Saga Volume 5- Brian K. Vaughn, Fiona Staples<br />
58. What We Do- Michael Gottlieb<br />
59. Sex Criminals Volume Three- Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky<br />
60. A Yellow Leaf- Julien Poirier<br />
61. You (And What Army)- Julien Poirier<br />
62. Witch Dialogue- Monica Redden<br />
63. V For Vendetta- Alan Moore, David Lloyd<br />
64. 7213- Sue Sod<br />
65. Temblor #10<br />
66. Bladezine #1<br />
67. Lipstick Eleven #1<br />
68. Stirrings In The Jug: Black Politics In The Post Segregation Era- Adolph Reed Jr.<br />
69. The World Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide- Eva Talmadge, Justin Taylor<br />
70. Cosmetology: A Manifesto- Micah Ballard<br />
71. Among The Thugs- Bill Buford<br />
72. A Poet’s Mind: Collected Interviews With Robert Duncan, 1960-1985- edited Christopher Wagstagg<br />
73. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier- Alan Moore, Kevin O’neill<br />
74. More Important Than The Object- Dodie Bellamy<br />
75. The Return Of Quetzalcoatl- Julien Poirier<br />
76. Sin City: Booze, Broads, And Bullets- Frank Miller<br />
77. Info Ration- Stan Apps<br />
78. Patience- Daniel Clowes<br />
79. Cross-Section: An Anthology Of Contemporary Greek Poetry- edited Jack Hirschman, Dinos Siotis<br />
80. Hotel ABC- Susan Gevirtz<br />
81. Dick Of The Dead- Rachel Loden<br />
82. Providence- Alan moore, Jacen Burrows<br />
83. I, afterlife: Essay In Mourning Time- Kristin PrevalletJohn Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-7352725839699298782016-04-26T14:54:00.000-07:002016-04-26T14:54:16.438-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have work<a href="http://www.durationpress.com/projects/seedings/seedings/" target="_blank"> here</a>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-27535726360378903142016-01-26T15:15:00.004-08:002016-01-26T15:15:46.067-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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RAVE ON!<br />
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at <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781517798208/rave-on.aspx" target="_blank">SPD</a>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-71236988139594943882016-01-08T09:12:00.000-08:002016-01-08T10:08:07.338-08:00Books Read 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. A Band Of Misfits: Tales Of The 2010 San Francisco Giants- Andrew Baggarly<br />
2. Sin City: A Dame To Kill- Frank Miller<br />
3. All This Everyday- Joanne Kyger<br />
4. Necro Files: Two Decades Of Extreme Horror- edited by Cheryl Mullenax<br />
5. Locke And Key Volume 1: Welcome To Lovecraft- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez<br />
6. Etruscan Reader VI- Robin Blaser, Barbara Guest, Lee Harwood<br />
7. Locke And Key Volume 2: Head Games- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez<br />
8. The Habits Of Highly Deceptive Media: Decoding Spin And Lies In Mainstream Media- Norman Soloman<br />
9. Demo To Ink- Ron Silliman<br />
10. Where Eagles Dare- Polly Duff Bresnick, Evan Kennedy, Kevin Killian, Janey Smith<br />
11. The X-Files Season 10 Volume 1- Joe Harris, Chris Carter, Michael Walsh<br />
12. Where Eagles Dare- The East Bay Poetry Summit Lavender Issue 2013<br />
13. Values Chauffeur You- Andrew Levy<br />
14. After-Cave- Michelle Detorie<br />
15. Civil Disobediences: Poetics And Politics In Action- edited by Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman<br />
16. Post-Avant- Daniel Zimmerman<br />
17. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1- Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil<br />
18. Locke And Key Volume 3: Crown Of Shadows- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez<br />
19. Locke And Key Volume 4: Keys To The Kingdom- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez<br />
20. Collected Works- Lorine Niedecker, edited by Jenny Penberthy<br />
21. San Francisco's Burning: A Ballad Opera- Helen Adam<br />
22. To The Secret- Franck Andre Jamme, translated by Norma Cole<br />
23. The Louder The Room The Darker The Screen- Paul Ebenkamp<br />
24. Under That Silky Roof- Elizabeth Robinson<br />
25. Journal Of A Novel: The East Of Eden Letters- John Steinbeck<br />
26. Locke And Key Volume 5: Clockworks- Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez<br />
27. Temblor #9<br />
28. Das Gedichtete (or un theme et variations poetique)- Patrick James Dunagan<br />
29. The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics And Community At Mid-century- Michael Davidson<br />
30. Elderly #2<br />
31. Sea Ranch- Winter 2012- Elaine Kahn, Elizabeth Robinson<br />
32. In The House Un-American- Benjamin Hollander<br />
33. The House By The Sea: A Portrait Of The Holocaust In Greece- Rebecca Camhi Fromer<br />
34. Absurd Good News- Julien Poirier<br />
35. I Am A Furious Little Bee- Aida Merini, translated by Carla Billitteri<br />
36. The Invisibles Book One- Grant Morrison<br />
37. Under The Sun- Rachel Levitsky<br />
38. Local News- Jason Morris<br />
39. Your Thoughts Are Real- Tinker Green<br />
40. Demon Miso Fashion In Child- Joseph Mosconi<br />
41. Abraham Lincoln #8<br />
42. Dreamboat #7<br />
43. Houdini- Joseph Mosconi<br />
44. The X-Files Season 10 Volume 2- Joe Harris<br />
45. What Surrealism Means To Me- Garrett Caples<br />
46. The Straithes Of Nonvermont- Michael Slosek<br />
47. Gates Of Fire- Steven Pressfield<br />
48. The Invisibles: Apocalipstick- Grant Morrison<br />
49. Way Too West- Julien Poirier<br />
50. The Phare Of Gravelines- Eric Unger<br />
51. The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text To Cultural Poetics- Barrett Watten<br />
52. Acts + Encounters<br />
53. The Invisibles: Entropy In The U.K.- Grant Morrison<br />
54. Sex Criminals Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop- Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky<br />
55. The Death-Ray- Daniel Clowes<br />
56. Case Sensitive- Kate Greenstreet<br />
57. Iron John: A Book About Men- Robert Bly<br />
58. Morning Constitutional- Michael Magee<br />
59. Earliest Worlds- Eleni Sikelianos<br />
60. New Yipes Reader #17- edited by Armand F. Capanna, Dodie Bellamy<br />
61. The Declaration Of Independence And The Constitution Of The United States<br />
62. Robert Duncan: Selected Poems- Robert Duncan<br />
63. Land- CJ Martin (Crux 1)<br />
64. The Shirt Weapon- Brandon Downing<br />
65. Eyewitness: From Black Mountain To White Rabbit- Carolyn Dunn interviewed by Kevin Killian<br />
66. The Selected Letters Of Pauline Kael And Robert Duncan 1945-1946- Part 1 and Part II<br />
67. PPL IN A Depot- Gary Sullivan<br />
68. Saga Of The Swamp Thing Volume 1- Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Tutleben<br />
69. Adventures Beyond The Body: How To Experience Out-Of-Body Travel- William Buhlman<br />
70. Take The Rich Off Welfare- Mark Zepezauer, Arthur Naiman<br />
71. Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada- Araki Yasusada, translated by Josa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, Okura Kyojin<br />
72. Women In Public- Elaine Kahn<br />
73. Uploading Nature- Stephen Boyer<br />
74. Cyborg Legs- Steve Orth<br />
75. On My Way- Eileen Myles<br />
76. Folly- Nada Gordon<br />
77. Bats Of The Republic- Zachary Thomas Dodson<br />
78. The Balcony- Jean Genet<br />
79. New American Writing # 33<br />
80. Wytches Volume 1- Scott Snyder, Jock<br />
81. The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel: Second Floor- edited by Reb Livingston, Molly Arden<br />
82. Swamp Thing Volume 2: Love And Death- Alan Moore<br />
83. When The Sick Rule The World- Dodie Bellamy<br />
84. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art- Scott McCloud<br />
85. Action Kylie- Kevin Killian<br />
86. Hanging Loose #105<br />
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I helped translate this new anthology,<br />
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Cross-Section: An Anthology Of Contemporary Greek Poetry<br />
edited by Jack Hirschman and Dinos Siotis<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cross-Section-Anthology-Contemporary-Greek-Poetry/dp/1514201887" target="_blank">available here</a>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-75725246179396493462016-01-06T10:44:00.001-08:002016-01-06T10:44:17.360-08:00The Act Of Drinking Beer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-34737305381182181152016-01-06T10:31:00.001-08:002016-01-06T10:31:15.154-08:00Jared Levine reviews The Islands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-9474871029379339302015-09-03T08:58:00.000-07:002015-09-03T08:58:01.089-07:00interviewed in The Conversant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm reading this Friday at <a href="http://citylimitsgallery.com/" target="_blank">City Limits Gallery</a> (300 Jefferson Street, Oakland) with Elaine Kahn, Zoe Brezsny and James Cordas<br />
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8pm readingJohn Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-1634989462425972912015-07-14T08:21:00.000-07:002015-07-14T08:21:03.061-07:00Kevin Killian reviews The Islands<div class="a-row a-spacing-micro">
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The poems of The Islands,
Sakkis' longest and most complete version of his poetics, are by turns a
complex and miraculously fluid set of lyrics, with narrative buried in
them, sometimes deep under strata of time, sometimes in the shallowest
of cuts, so that a child might run his fingers through the sand and pick
up a star. Listening to Sakkis read his poetry, you get the sense on
the one hand that he has a vatic vision, that his mouth is moving but
another's voice is emanating from his throat, like Spicer's receiver,
and at other times I feel like he is trying earnestly to explain to us
what life is like on that other planet he hails from--David Bowie in The
Man Who Fell to Earth, broken by the sense of Earth, by our
requirements for nouns and verbs and image.<br /><br />I have been reading
his work for ten years now, maybe more, and I remember in his previous
book RUDE GIRL how the final part was called "The Breakable Ones," with
its suggestion of human fragility; and this volume, THE ISLANDS, ends
with a poem called "The Moveable Ones (after Michael Palmer") and I see
the question of fragility turning into one of modularity, like we're all
chess pieces thrown this way and that way by an angry Bobby Fischer
type of God. "We are at war/ on the floor," "We are at war/ near our
face." The poem turns on the similarity of bridges to the curve of the
body, first, of "head to ass," and later, of "scalp to ass," and how the
excellence of the one turns into the fear of the other--elsewhere the
"Disney/ arches of Munich." The little suffix "ing" that ends most
gerunds pops up unconnected to a verb here and there, opening a line as
if torn away from its agency, yet retaining the shape of its agent.
These moves I interpret as signs of an increased confidence and surety,
or perhaps a renewed belief that the shapes of things in the divination
are coming to him more clearly. "Yesterday you met a young Benjamin/
over soapy Turkish coffee." This character, the young Benjamin, returns
several times, and each time I understand more clearly that he, Sakkis,
is the young Benjamin, or at least the young Benjamin Hollander.<br /><br />I'm
re-reading what I've written and I'm seeing that maybe it isn't very
useful way of writing a review, but the fact is, the poetry of The
Island while very beautiful is rather dense in syntax and in affect, as I
can see my young colleague Mr. Krull has already said above, so it's
hard to describe on a certain level--in such situations I have learned
to go counterintuitive and paraphrase, translate, as the simplest and
shiniest terms possible. It is a more political book than its
predecessor, or indeed most poetry of today; it is a travel book and a
guide to the Greek islands, if a twisted one; it is a book about love
and loss; it is a work of Imagist genius; it is a book of family life
and feeling deracinated and uprooted even in one's own shoes. Amazon
has this new thing where when you swing your cursor through the
stars--when writing a rating--you pass from one star to two, to three,
and at each pass words appear to tell you what each rating might mean to
a language-less person maybe? Anyhow when I go over to five stars
these words appear, "I love it." I'm reading these signs that this book
is really amazing. I love it.</div>
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Associations, Four, and the last <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/05/associations-four/" target="_blank">one here</a>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-69739933360672861372015-05-05T09:14:00.001-07:002015-05-05T09:14:07.947-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Associations, Three, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/04/associations-three/" target="_blank">peep here</a>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-41300847703049751112015-04-30T09:40:00.001-07:002015-04-30T09:40:28.553-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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my second Associations post just went up at Harriett, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/04/associations-two/" target="_blank">peepshow</a><br />
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xoxoJohn Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19033201.post-59651856780558194752015-04-29T13:07:00.004-07:002015-04-29T13:07:41.218-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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okay! Part III, the final installment of my interview with Paul Ebenkamp just went up at Harriet, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/04/one-medium-is-a-resonance-of-and-for-other-mediums-an-interview-w-paul-ebenkamp-part-iii/" target="_blank">check it out here</a>John Sakkishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.com0