Demo's Chinese Notebook

have recently finished translating, with Angelos Sakkis, Demosthenes Agrafiotis's Chinese Notebook. "finished translating" meaning a first draft still in need of a lot of work but a complete first draft (83 pages) nonetheless. Angelos and i have been working every Wednesday at Mad Dog In The Fog for the last 4 or 5 months (not to mention the year spent corresponding by telephone and snail mail while i was at Naropa) hoping to have a draft in hand for Demosthenes's upcoming West Coast reading tour (his first visit to California!). whether or not he'll be using the translations or reading in Greek or a combination of both we haven't talked about yet.

Demosthenes will be in San Francisco on Oct. 11th for a reading at The Poetry Center (3:30pm) and then later that evening (7:30pm) with Kathleen Fraser at the Unitarian Center...

and then J. Mosconi tells me (though don't quote me on it) that Demosthenes will be in LA from the 17th-20th doing various readings around town with a possible sojourn in San Diego (UCSD)...

and then back to the Bay just in time for his Oct. 21st reading at New Yipes with Dolores Dorantes...

"-ings

intruders
in mined quarters
sweep away
billboards of averag-

calculations
with shrapnel families
and the power of arithmetic
in lengths of kow tow-"