82. Sin City: The Hard Goodbye- Frank Miller
Dark Horse Books

81. Meat Air Poems 1957-1969
Ron Loewinsohn

lot's of tender, masculine, heterosexy poems in this one, like this

Song

Like 2 apples in the tree,
green speckled skin. Bite
into that flesh—
sharp white coldness suddenly
filling your mouth

RIP Ron

80. The Coming Community- Giorgio Agamben, translated by Michael Hardt
University Of Minnesota Press

complete and total incomprehensible jibber jabber. though to be fair to Agamben maybe it's the translation? I was looking forward to reading this, mostly because of Robin Blaser's high praise, I ended up having to hate-read this book in two page increments for fear that I might get so frustrated I'd end up "accidentally" forgetting it on BART, and yeah I don't even use BART.

79. The Buddhist- Dodie Bellamy
Publication Studio

Easily one of my top reads of the year. Best read with a smartphone handy, I was looking up videos, books, buddhists, galleries, and restaurants right and left.

78. The Frequencies A Poem- Noah Eli Gordon
Tougher Disguises Press

Noah gave me a copy of this book after a reading we did together at The Trident bookstore in Boulder, CO in 2005.

77. Batman: The Killing Joke- Alan Moore, Brian Bolland
DC Comics

76. Another Future: Poetry And Art In A Postmodern Twilight- Alan Gilbert
Wesleyan University Press

West Oakland

75. Alan Moore's Writing For Comics- Alan Moore
Avatar Press

Alan Moore practices Chaos Magic.

the Chaosphere

CHAOS MAGICK

74. Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories- Gilbert Hernandez
Fantagraphics Books

check out my new Love And Rockets t-shirt, birthday gift to myself

73. Empty Mile- Matthew Stokoe
Akashic Books

Matthew Stokoe when does Colony Of Whores drop?

72. Speculative Primitive- Chris Stroffolino
Tougher Disguises Press

I haven't seen Chris in years, have you?

Did you read that LA Weekly article about Chris and his Piano Van?

71. The Catcher In The Rye- J.D. Salinger
Little, Brown And Company

Sampson Starkweather has a new poetry album on Black Cake Records

PEEP Flux Capacitor

Beck. love.miss

new poem by Demosthenes Agrafiotis, GENOPRIMITIVE, over at otoliths

Vlado Godár - (02) Magnificat

SAT

SUN

Hi friends, 

I got something really cool to say:

LA COMMUNE BOOKSTORE'S GRAND OPENING (w/ DI PRIMA, MCCLURE & FRIENDS!)

THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 12NOON to 5PM 

OMNI COMMONS, 4799 SHATTUCK AVENUE IN OAKLAND

La Commune, Oakland's new collective bookstore, is thrilled to invite you to our grand opening this Sunday, November 16, from noon to 5pm.  It's sure to be a memorable occasion & we have put together an unmissable roster of poets to read, namely --

DIANE DI PRIMA, MICHAEL MCCLURE & OUROBOROS (CLARK COOLIDGE, ANDREW JORON, JOE NOBLE & BRIAN LUCAS)

Diane & Michael will read & Ouroboros will play music following.

The performances will start at 2pm.

Please join us for La Commune's grand opening -- we'd love to see you there !

Thanks,

-Steve

70. True News- Craig Watson
Instance Press

I'd rather be boating!

GET OFF SNOWPIERCER'S
DICK

Clark Coolidge will put the fear in you

do I have mono?

69. Acts 8/9-Translating Tradition:  Paul Celan In France- edited Benjamin Hollander
Acts

YOUR EMOTIONS ARE NOT SCIENCE

ALWAYS MATCH YOUR TANK TOP WITH YOUR UNDERWEAR

I just slept for 12 hours

"what a shame, what a shame!"
as a man nearby
was banging his head
against a bar table

68. Orlando- Virginia Woolf
Virago Press

in which "going on adventures" actually means going to the bar then grabbing a late night burrito passing out watching Deadliest Catch

I just ran 2.99mi with Nike +

"fat activist" "fat studies" "health shame"
OMG

I just ran 3.26mi with Nike +

67. Haunt- Keith Waldrop
Instance Press

field porn is the same as forest porn,
treasure

casino card dealers
are basically
professional Dungeon Masters

my face is bigger than my nachos

The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World - Jóhann Jóhannsson

I finished reading Alan Gilbert's brilliant Another Future: Poetry And Art In A Postmodern Twilight (order here) this morning. I love how Gilbert contextualizes the poetry of the mid-late 90s (re: Anselm Berrigan, Greg Fuchs, Magdalena Zurawski and Prageeta Sharma et al)

"The fact a positive set of criteria can be delineated for this work means it's not 'post-' anything--neither 'post-postmodern' nor 'post-Language [poetry],' which are two recent descriptions bandied about in an attempt to get a grasp on the heterogeneous and heterodox aspects of contemporary poetry. To use the phrase 'post-modern' or 'post-Language' reduces the plurality of poetries practiced by an entire generation of writers to a pre-established set of formal techniques, something we shouldn't wish on anybody."

boom, for real.. 

The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea [HQ]