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Thursday, November 16, 2006

3. Fence Books (NYC)
website

Their thing: Experimental poetry and prose

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In the spotlight
: Ariana Reines The Cow

To call Ariana Reines' poetry scatological doesn't even scratch the surface. "I COULD BE A DIAPER FOR THE DAY'S RESIDUALS," she writes, and, "She clasped the event to her and proceeded. Fucked her steaming/ eyehole and ended it." The Cow is a body in the way that texts are bodied—"Are you so intelligent your body doesn't have you in it."—but not in the way that allows the text to become desensitized, depersonalized, sterilized. Instead this text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat, rendered in the strongest of languages. "I cannot count the altering that happens in the very large rooms that are the guts of her."
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A few greatest hits:
Fence Magazine, David Brenner The Stupefying Flashbulbs, Michael Earl Craig Yes Master.
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posted by Dennis Cooper at 4:53 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger antonio said...

excellent!! i had never heard of this press before. i shall rummage now..

5:48 AM  

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