Editor: Arielle Guy

Links

Look at Beautiful Things, Answering the Unanswerable

anchor4.jpg
As a poet, the first instinct would be to put a “To” in the title, “To Look at Beautiful Things,” putting poetic distance between writer and reader, poet and human being. Semantics at their best bring the world closer, at their most subtle, separate us from the world, from our own experiences, from others. So to leave it as just, look at beautiful things places it in the present, allows it to be active instead of intellectual. This, in itself, is beautiful. The details in poems are rarely of perfection, instead of rattling, gorgeous, terrible imperfection. The loveliness of imperfection is a story worth telling. The real work of poetry is to remain immediate. Of all these bright constructions – the brightest is the most rusted, the most broken open. There are so many answers to impossible questions, all of them falling short of the magnitude needed to give meaning to life. The bearing of emotion and experience and time is what opens and astounds. The bearing is beautiful. Read More...

Answering the Unanswerable

Happy Spring!

Two new CDs, from Basic Astronomy and Bright Brown

Two Poems

Collaborations from EASY EDEN

Explosions Across the Mean

Poems & Paintings

Three Poems

A Glimpse Inside His Beat-Up Notebooks

Joy Leftow

texts and visuals

Poems

Psychedelic Musings & Poems


Five poems from a longer series titled “Metaphors for Miscarriage”

Five Poems from Hearth

Three Valentines & a Pint

Four Poems

by Neil Watson

Tantalizing Tidbits by Juliet Cook and translation by Letizia Merello

Four Poems

Poems, Vispo, and Other Natural Sundries

and Happy birthday, Turntable & Blue Light, 3 years!

Poems

Wherewolfe in Europe

Neil Watson returns to Bologna for another marathon session of vintage films at the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival

Poems

Carnal Buddha [Rou Shen Pu Sa] by Taiwanese author Zhu Tianwen, from her 1990 book Fin-de-Siècle Splendor [Shi Ji Mo De Hua Li]

Poems

Writings

Poems

Poems & Images

Poems

Poems

CRAMPS, BONHOMIE

08/08

Tattoos

By Duncan Harman.

The Spectacular Miraculous World of Seldon Hunt

Poems and Paintings

Poems

The Great American Songbook: A Poem in Four Essays

Tarot, Paintings, Collages and Illustrations

Poems from THE NOTES

Strange Attractor Journal, celebrating unpopular culture

Kris Waldherr's beautiful, wondrous Tarot deck

Paintings

4 Poems

Poems & Road Signs

Neil Watson visits the world’s foremost festival for restored films, held annually in Bologna, Italy

4 Poems

4 Poems translated from the Turkish by George Messo

by Duncan Harman

Formal Issue 2, One Should Be Sleeping

Curio Exhibits, Posters, and Apothecary Bottles: Artifacts from the Strange World of the Gothic Artist

by G.L. Ford

The World Is Bound with Secret Knots: Meditations on Curio Cabinets and Kircher, the Dreaming Polymath

Artwork & Tattoos

Poems

Poems

San Francisco, 3/21/07

Paintings

3 Poems

by Sadie Worth

4 Poems

Most people go to great lengths to conceal their prejudices, and I’m no exception. Bias, therefore, is often like some gastrointestinal disorder: The only evidence there is of it is an occasional noxious emission you try furiously to deny. But I’m going to confess a prejudice I have, because I am trying, with every ounce of open-mindedness and liberality I possess, to rise above it. Okay, here goes. I’ve always hated hipsters.

Photopo

5 Poems

Gig Posters

6 Poems

Artwork

Poems in Swedish and English with Artwork

Breaking out after 12 years in the making

The Fillmore, San Francisco, March 2nd and 4th, 2006

San Francisco, March 4, 2006

5 Poems

The Dark, Sweet Psychedelia of Sweden's Finest Export

Kool-Aid, Band-Aids and Dig! Craze: How the Brian Jonestown Massacre can Rock! Your! World!

The Fillmore, San Francisco, November 11, 2005

15 Poems
Translated from the Swedish by Susan Howard

Paintings, Mixed Media and Photomontages

Paintings, Illustrations and Posters

Selected paintings from Daily Bread, Crotches and Vocabulary series

Fuzz, sex, and drugs: the universe of The Cramps

Chris Whitley, 1960-2005

RIP

Chris Whitley died Sunday, November 20, 2005, from lung cancer. Our condolences to all his friends and family - and our hearts in melancholy.

As I was watching an Of Montreal show in Los Angeles some months ago, I was inspired with a concept for a film. A space rock opera, wherein groovy interstellar musicians flew their astral bodies around distant solar systems in search of the Eternal Vibration that creates colorful harmonious orgies of reality.