tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686172302529624702024-03-14T09:02:18.431-07:00mRjonesrEviewRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-89164664293577841352014-08-10T18:31:00.000-07:002014-08-10T18:31:17.266-07:00DAY POEM by Mel NicholsDAY POEM
By Mel Nichols
and what happens in the second episode
I do not wish to be airborne like this
dreaming of eggs and the Japanese flag
at the end they gave us a chess set
nucleus of the individual
in productive tension with the collective expanse of white
and here we are again at the breakfast table
only eating to get to the prize
and delicious agonizing hours of daytime network television
city in a tiny box remembering
like newspapersRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-34639118243300713422012-10-20T12:01:00.001-07:002012-10-20T12:01:49.244-07:00B&YDog Submissions Now ClosedI have suspended publication of Blue & Yellow Dog as of Issue 10 which is on line and available in print right now. Issue 10 will be final issue.
So submissions are no longer being considered. Please do not send any.
All 10 issues will remain on line in perpetuity.
I want to thank all of those who submitted work and made B&YDog what it is.
I am very proud of the work published in the 10 issues which cover the life of B&YDog.
My appreciation to the 800 to 1,000 followers/readers of the zine every issue.
I will miss reading new work and the thrill of being in on such terrific efforts as put forth by the myriad of poets whose work found their way into each issue.
Someday I hope to begin a new publishing venture.
Until then
All the best,
Raymond Farr, editor of Blue & Yellow DogRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-41712145140832095792012-08-28T11:03:00.000-07:002012-08-28T11:03:18.078-07:00Blue & Yellow Dog Submissions Now Open!Hi all.
As you have probably realized from the title of this post, Blue & Yellow Dog is now accepting submissions for future issues.
Just pop 3-5 poems (longer ones ok) into a Word doc, rtf, or PDF and attach them to an email (don't forget bio):
warholaray1@embarqmail.com
I am open to surreal, Language Poetry, New Writing, Prose poems, anything postmodern or experimental, even some less avant garde stuff but I am not likely to publish rhyme.
So load up on paper and pens and start writing yr brains out.
Published poems will appear both on line and in a print issue.
Sorry, I cannot offer to compensate poets. I only offer a chance at glory.
The print issues will be available to the public at cost.
For a peek at past issues visit: <a href="http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com">http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com
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I look forward to reading yr work.
All the best
Raymond Farr, editor Blue & Yellow DogRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-82477710514283633522012-06-16T06:08:00.000-07:002012-06-16T06:08:32.199-07:00NEW POEM UP AT REMThe editors over at REM are doing some fine publishing of late. They publish both on line and a print issue of experimental poetry. Check out my poem at <a href="http://remmagazine.net/2012/06/16/the-kansas-of-english-raymond-farr/">http://remmagazine.net/2012/06/16/the-kansas-of-english-raymond-farr/ </a>
I also have a second poem published on line there. The link is <a href="http://remmagazine.net/2011/12/06/a-mania-for-mirages-in-which-a-phrase-is-an-ice-cream-raymond-farr/">http://remmagazine.net/2011/12/06/a-mania-for-mirages-in-which-a-phrase-is-an-ice-cream-raymond-farr/</a>Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-33850524751343647222012-05-02T06:07:00.000-07:002012-06-21T05:03:00.801-07:00Latest Publications to Exhibit Farr's Work!Hi all
I have two new sites publishing poems by me:
<a href="http://gobbetmag.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/725/">Gobbet Mag </a>and <a href="http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue13/witwhimwhat_farr.shtml">Mad Hatters Review </a>Issue 13.
Check em out!Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-44258636766409815892012-04-30T10:46:00.000-07:002012-04-30T10:48:40.284-07:00Latest Otoliths Is On LineMark Young's <a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/">Otoliths</a> is now on line. For those of you who aren't familiar with the zine, it hails out of Australia but reads like an international list of who's who of poets, artists, writers. Check it out.Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-55885981952265301382012-04-17T06:05:00.000-07:002012-04-17T06:07:11.037-07:00<a href="http://www.calibanonline.com/07/index.html">Caliban On Line #7</a> has just gone viral. It has a lot of great poetry. <br />Take a moment and enjoy each syllable, word, line. <br /><br />Also take a peek at <a href="http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com">Blue & Yellow Dog #8</a>. <br />There is work too bold to imagine in this issue!<br />You have to see it for yrself!Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-73039538492620826652011-12-23T07:22:00.000-08:002011-12-23T07:39:58.346-08:00<a name="5223215966520887127"></a><br />Check out issue 7 of <a href="http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com/">Blue & Yellow Dog</a><br /><br />It is chock full of great poems, including work by:<br />Anton Frost, David Woodruff, harry k stammer, Michael O'Brien, Corey Mesler, Lee Marc Stein, Peter Ganick, Carl Grindley, Walter Ruhlmann, Cortney Bledsoe, Tyson Bley, Ben Nardolilli, Valentina Cano, Matthew B. Dexter, Larry O. Dean, Neil Ellman, Les Wicks, Randy Brooks, Michael Lee Johnson, Howie Good, Evan Carr, John Pursch, & John McKernan.<br /><br />I am very happy and proud of the issue.<br /><br />I am always reading, there is no "reading period".<br /><br />Just submit yr work as a single Word doc or rtf or PDF email attachment and send it to me at<a href="mailto:atwarholaray1@embarqmail.com">warholaray1@embarqmail.com</a><br /><br />I will be glad to take a gander at it<br /><br />For those of you interested in buying hard copies of back issues of B&YDog<br />Visit the <a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/blueandyellowdogpress">B&YDog Book Shop</a>, I have discounted the prices<br /><br />Hope you all have a safe and wonderful xmas season.Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-8263217580098995982011-10-25T11:28:00.000-07:002011-10-25T11:32:18.710-07:00Samples from There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us<div align="center">from: There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us<br /><br /></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">The sales pitch<br /><br />of thunderous manias<br /><br />begs one more text<br /><br />be read<br /><br />askew<br /><br />the likes of which<br /><br />is market day.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"YOU'VE ALMOST CONVINCED ME.<br /><br />TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS CITY(I. E. FOOT OF THE CLIFF.)<br /><br />ARE THERE LOVERS?<br /><br />EXISTENCE IS MY SUBJECT IS HOLLOW."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In the cause of tireless waltzers<br /><br />there are no things but things that are named.<br /><br />I call this “photograph”<br /><br />& this “sheik”<br /><br />& this “cabal.”<br /><br />In view of: The History of Chinese Art…after Two Minutes<br /><br />in the Washing Machine, 1987,<br /><br />books, wooden box,<br /><br />and glass<br /><br />(now destroyed),<br /><br />I protested<br /><br />& became sexual.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"YES.YES.BUT I NEED TO KNOW YOUR MOVIE PLOTS<br /><br />ARE MORE THAN JUST SCRIPTED. I WANT A NORMAL<br /><br />LIFE IN VAIN OR IN TEXAS NEAR OK BORDER. BUT<br /><br />DON’T SAY IT WRITE IT ON PAPER FOR GOD SAKE.<br /><br />DAFFY DUCK IS IN A POEM AND I THINK IT’S GREAT<br /><br />HE’S GETTING SUCH FLUENT EXPOSURE. HOW DOES<br /><br />THIS EFFECT MY CASE IN TEMPO IF YOU ARE NOT<br /><br />A PAGE A WILD SWAN AT COOLE THE SORROW<br /><br />OF LOVE THE PITY OF LOVE?”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I squander verbatim<br /><br />at heart a narrative or beautiful run-on sentence.<br /><br />I lift up “conch” to my ear.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"DESCRIBE LIFTING CONCH TO YOUR EAR."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I hear the maestro<br /><br />(meaning Key West / meaning circumstance)<br /><br />& Oceana smooth & nude in six reluctant similar scarves.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"YES. THE EXCEPTIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL.<br /><br />A PRELUDE TO A DELUGE INTERPRETS NOTHING<br /><br />CONCLUSIVE. WRITING IS LIVING IN POETIC FORM<br /><br />IS A TRAGIC LINE." </div>Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-52170936820985813492011-10-25T10:54:00.000-07:002011-10-25T11:08:22.182-07:00There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us by Raymond FarrMy latest collection of new poetry, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/there-is-something-missing-in-the-whole-transaction-between-us/18185319">There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us</a> (Blue & Yellow Dog Press 2011), is a product of paring down lines and stanzas into something akin to one-page, pseudo-minimalist, crack-pot-god-like portraits of what I imagine to be the essence of faces, personae, effectively honoring DaDa in all its surrealist, absurdist (yet chockfull of formalist notions gleaned from Language Poetry) postmodernist flux. The book's diction borders on hallucinatory while each poem's meaning resides in the experience of "experiencing" each poem. I think you'll like this one. Just click on the link above and check out some samples.Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-81373788346098675732011-10-01T05:34:00.000-07:002011-10-01T05:40:17.507-07:00Sean Ulman's Review of ECSTATIC/.of facts in elimaeCheck out Sean Ulman's review of ECSTATIC/.of facts in the poetry journal phenom <a href="http://www.elimae.com/2011/10/RevEcstatic.html">elimae</a>. Sean Ulman does as good a job as any at dissembling the unraveling that is <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/ecstaticof-facts/16067593">ECSTATIC/.of facts</a>.Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-69243292395780201592011-07-24T10:24:00.000-07:002011-07-24T10:28:01.917-07:00ECSTATIC/.of facts by Raymond Farr Is Now Available at Otoliths BooksMy latest book of poetry, ECSTATIC/.of facts, has just been published by Mark Young at Otoliths Books. I hope you will take time to review it. I think he has done a wonderful job with cover, printing, etc. Here is the link <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/ecstaticof-facts/16067593">http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/ecstaticof-facts/16067593</a><br /><br />In other news: I have a longish poem in REM No 2 which is out now and available for free on line. It may also be purchased as a print issue. The link is <a href="http://remmagazine.net/sieverts-issues/">http://remmagazine.net/sieverts-issues/</a><br /><br />& check out Cricket On Line Review: <a href="http://www.cricketonlinereview.com/vol7no1/">www.cricketonlinereview.com/vol7no1/ </a>Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-37238073930950585362011-05-25T10:53:00.000-07:002011-05-25T10:55:24.724-07:00This Isn't History, It's an EpisodeMy story is pretty simple—<br /><br />Because I couldn’t finish a novel<br />My life begins<br /><br />In a nation that does not exist yet<br /><br />The icon & I weren’t personally close<br />Our family fled their orchards—<br /><br />From medieval kabbalists <br />To 20th century refugees—<br /><br />Our fury seems particularly apparent here<br /><br />In a nation that does not exist yet<br /><br />Where actors are hired to read scripts<br />& pretend<br />To be real people<br /><br />My uncle told me—<br /><br />This week’s parasha introduces a medium<br />For distinguishing truth<br />From falsehood—<br /><br />That was my life<br /><br />I was giving up<br />I was going back home<br /><br />My uncle told me—<br /><br />On the radio, things aren’t so simple<br /><br />Leaving the icon to believe<br />One of two things—<br /><br />A river was there<br />& it had two banksRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-7258973272341836262011-05-03T07:05:00.000-07:002011-05-03T07:06:22.781-07:00Try Submitting to 'Pider, A New Poetry/Art Magraymond,<br /><br /><br />me and a friend are propping up an online journal under the title of 'Pider, and I am hoping you may be able to somehow spread that tid-bit of information around to those who would be interested. we are looking for puncher's fists, lost infantries of troops, hungry sleep. <br /><br /><br />one may send submissions of text, art, .mp3's... to: Piderbits@gmail.com<br /><br /><br />what do ya think?<br /><br /><br />mjRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-57076293094287247732011-05-01T04:33:00.000-07:002011-05-01T04:43:12.687-07:00Otoliths 21 Is OutAfter 5 productive years <a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com">Otoliths</a> is still getting the poetry job done. It is bigger & better than ever.<br /><br />Visit <a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com">http://the-otolith.blogspot.com</a><br /><br />I have two poems in the issue and that would be a good place to start the reading:<br /><br /><a href="http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2011/03/raymond-farr-investigating-future-tense.html">http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2011/03/raymond-farr-investigating-future-tense.html</a>Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-62007722872835119342011-04-30T04:54:00.000-07:002011-04-30T04:58:04.507-07:00Homage to Homage to the Imagination*One night I sailed off<br /><br />So long Wynken, Blynken, & Nod<br /><br />So long zoppa<br /><br />Farewell [ ]<br /><br />So long [ ]<br /><br />The waters of no more pain<br />Are found within this<br /><br />Or so cried the stars to <br />French poet Charles Baudelaire<br /><br />A dream poem<br />From breakfast on<br /><br />In fact an improved version of<br /><br />A Dutch picture<br />Which [ ] read aloud<br /><br />In fact a nod to Surrealism<br /><br />The year 1869<br />The year 2007<br /><br />& which zoppa quoted—<br /><br />A delightful little<br />Episode<br />One night<br />Among my friends—<br /><br />But don’t be fooled<br />This is a detail read aloud<br /><br />It might be gloomy—<br /><br />A lovely bedtime<br /><br />A small sampling<br />Entitled simply<br /><br />A good poem—<br /><br />But oh how classically fun<br /><br />To stop, pause, take a step<br />& salute the dream land<br /><br />In this version<br />It walks parallel<br /><br />Giving a nod <br />To Octavio Paz<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />* Source of text was a Google key word search of the phrase: “Nod poems.”Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-48022999871018538482011-04-30T04:44:00.000-07:002011-04-30T04:51:59.465-07:00Indefinite Space Has Appeared on the HorizonThe poems in Indefinite Space 2010/2011 Vol XIX are meticulously selected and ordered by editor Marcia Arrieta and the reader is taken along for the ride of his or her mental life. John C. Goodman, John M Bennett & Sheila E Murphy, Anne Gorrick, Felino Soriano, and Raymond Farr are just a few of the poets exhibited in this fine anthology. To purchase $7 a single issue or $12 per subscription for two issue, visit <a href="http://www.indefinitespace.net">www.indefinitespace.net</a>Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-2236423086999999372011-04-30T04:35:00.000-07:002011-04-30T04:44:02.413-07:00Psychic Meatloaf #3 Is PublishedI am proud to say I have work published in issue #3 of Psychic Meatloaf.<br />It is an exciting publication and worth buying. Of course I am prejudice, having two poems included in the ranks of such poets as Rob Cook, Shane Allison, Felino Soriano, and David Tomaloff just to name a few of the terrific poets and artists whose vision gives Psychic Meatloaf its wonderful aura.<br /><br />To view samples and purchase visit <a href="http://www.psychicmeatloaf.com">www.psychicmeatloaf.com</a>Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-24805408897827177792011-04-05T09:24:00.001-07:002011-04-05T09:31:21.770-07:00I Have a New Ebook Out from Chalk Editions: chaingeMy latest effort <a href="http://scribd.com/doc/52171793/Raymond-Farr-chainge">chainge</a> is an ebook published by <a href="http://www.scribd.com/tag/chalk%20editions?l=1">Chalk Editions</a><br />Visit the site.<br />There are many good books to be found there<br />& they're all free!<br />You can download, print, or just enjoy!Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-76471588088183648772011-03-26T12:23:00.000-07:002011-03-27T10:41:38.329-07:00Blue & Yellow Dog Issue 4 Spring Is Up!The latest issue of <a href="http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com">Blue & Yellow Dog</a> has surfaced close to shore.<br />Periscope up!<br /><br />But that's not all...<br /><br />The most curent print issue (which contains both issues 3 & 4)<br />will be available sometime in the next few days.<br /><br />Just go to <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/blueandyellowdogpress">Blue & Yellow Dog Book Shop</a> at Blue & Yellow Dog web site.<br />There is a link on the page that takes you to all B&YDog books.<br /><br />Hope you all are doing fine.<br /><br />& as always submissions are welcome<br /><br />Please submit as a single Word doc or PDF attachment to email<br />and send to <br /><br />warholaray1@embarqmail.com<br /><br />In the meantime have a great springtime!Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-49608503603138386992011-02-07T09:31:00.000-08:002011-02-07T09:46:31.507-08:00Adam Fieled's Equations Is a Great Read<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmzC-ukzMTEKOqOkVaEEYSUoXDwAbFyflGE_SVAoyRB9naLTHk2mngKH8AvjSDeOi-DBM0jDP-wwMv07sA04eh_d0eEBm6HMxRSb587gCN5rQ5_V4zJujltB6cqnrfQG6ln_dF8oGsYrM/s1600/EQUATIONS+cover.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 267px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571002241495347122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmzC-ukzMTEKOqOkVaEEYSUoXDwAbFyflGE_SVAoyRB9naLTHk2mngKH8AvjSDeOi-DBM0jDP-wwMv07sA04eh_d0eEBm6HMxRSb587gCN5rQ5_V4zJujltB6cqnrfQG6ln_dF8oGsYrM/s400/EQUATIONS+cover.jpg" /></a><br /><br />A recession has hit America at such an angle that everything has been called into question. The thoughtlessness of fin de siecle America has been replaced by mistrust, envy, and defensiveness. In this atmosphere, new imperatives emerge: to sort out wheat from chaff, gold from dross, truth from fiction. These imperatives are enacted in solitude, as the poet takes a scalpel to the body of his experiences. Adam Fieled's Equations is a vivid manifestation of a new, scrupulous American consciousness. It is the effort of a poet to elevate the carnal with intellect, and to create a memorable chiasmus between them. The frigidity of post-modern verse is replaced by a new romanticism, that is not romantic. That is the central endeavor here, and it is performed with panache.<br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br />Adam Fieled is a poet, musician, and critic based in Philadelphia. His books include Opera Bufa, When You Bit..., Chimes, Apparition Poems, The White Album, Beams, Posit, Early Poems 1998-2005, Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled, and Returns. His work has appeared in Jacket, PennSound, Poetry Salzburg Review, Blue & Yellow Dog, Tears in the Fence, The Argotist, Great Works, Miporadio, And/Or, Blazevox, and in the &Now Awards Anthology from Lake Forest College Press. Some of his poems are in the process of being translated into Italian, and his poems have been taught widely. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also holds an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University, where he teaches.<br /></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"> </div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/equations/14600597">Equations</a><br />By Adam Fieled<br /><br />ISBN-10-0982953534<br />ISBN-13-978-0-9829535-3-2<br /><br />66 pages<br /><br />$15.00<br /><br />URL: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/equations/14600597<br /><br />2011 <br /><br />Blue & Yellow Dog PressRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-25539751131016170082011-01-19T09:53:00.000-08:002011-01-19T10:16:48.828-08:00Raft 2 Now Available On Line: Listen To It<a href="http://www.raftmagazineonline.com/Raft02/Raft02index.html">Raft 2</a> is up at http://www.raftmagazineonline.com/Raft02/Raft02index.html<br />There are text versions of some great work on the site and sound files of authors reading their stuff. I have three poems you can peruse or lend an ear to there. My first attempt at recording my poetry and it worked out well. I will be recording and posting more sound files here and there on line. Look and listen at As-Is, The Flux I Share, and mrjonesreview. <br /><br />Also check out my poem Glistening dAdA Plum Meter at <a href="http://liebamour.com">Liebamour</a>. You can read the entire issue or just my poem as a PDF or purchase a print copy of second issue of Liebamour. <br /><br />Don't worry issue 3 of Blue & Yellow Dog is on line now. The print issue will appear simultaneously with issue 4 due out in spring.Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-46534971484785005692010-12-31T06:31:00.000-08:002011-01-01T07:20:24.243-08:00Matthew Johnstone's Let's be close Rope to mast, you Old light Now Available at Blue & Yellow Dog Book Shop<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixy109Qtly44H60QCgXISCJpVACHOpeABfNYzKK-7binHVMMn0O_3_9Bp1dfLOAbNsEgVe7lOzU0cbrM0xL66x8yAImyPWYRO2q0xA4ANnQQCobRwH9OQ_trwkPVi7Fe0jZ_IXXZifHCg/s1600/Lets+be+close+Rope+to+mast+you+Old+light+cover.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixy109Qtly44H60QCgXISCJpVACHOpeABfNYzKK-7binHVMMn0O_3_9Bp1dfLOAbNsEgVe7lOzU0cbrM0xL66x8yAImyPWYRO2q0xA4ANnQQCobRwH9OQ_trwkPVi7Fe0jZ_IXXZifHCg/s400/Lets+be+close+Rope+to+mast+you+Old+light+cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556854388431214082" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Courageous and inventive, Matthew Johnstone journeys into the heart of urban dismantlement, nihilism, and downsizing. “I forgotten in city shine in cuban requests,” myriad negations become criss-crossed as quest for time compressed, space illuminated, all-but-enough fragments glimpsed as fleeting ontologies of self, world, sign. The sea becomes an inward thing, the California sky inside darkening, the journey moves from here to here between desiccations of Spicer and vision-hungers of Rimbaud, adjacent to Chet Baker jazz riffs glimpsed as in an “Old Light”: “This is the place to place my tender.”<br /><br />-- Rob Wilson, author of Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted and Waking In Seoul<br /><br /><a href="http://stores.lulu.com/blueandyellowdogpress">Let's be close Rope to mast, you Old light</a><br />by Matthew Johnstone<br />52 pages<br />$15<br />Blue & Yellow Dog Press<br />2010<br /><br />ISBN-10-0982953542<br />ISBN-13-978-0-9829535-4-9<br /><br />URL: http://stores.lulu.com/blueandyellowdogpressRaymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-12910115761082699002010-12-15T11:54:00.000-08:002010-12-15T12:09:04.505-08:00Issue #3 Blue & Yellow Dog Winter 2010 Issue Is Up!Hi people,<br /><br />Issue #3, the winter issue of <a href="http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com">Blue & Yellow Dog</a> has been posted. <br /><br />Please feel free to read it, reread it, and spread the word about it.<br /><br />This issue contains poems by the famous and the infamous:<br /><br />Richard Kostelanetz, Dorothee Lang, Crag Hill, Vernon Frazer, Ricky Garni, Glenn R. Frantz, Joel Chace, Sheila Murphy, Benjamin Nucum, Matthew Johnstone, Felino A. Soriano, Philip Byron Oakes, Dylan Harris, Richatrd Mason, Keith Moul, Adam Fieled, George J. Farrah, John C. Goodman and a review by Nate Pritts of Joel Chace's book <em>Sharpsburg</em>.<br /><br />If you enjoy reading the poems of Richard Kostelanetz, Keith Moul, Matthew Johnstone, Felino A. Soriano, Joel Chace, John C. Goodman, please browse the <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=753240">Blue & Yellow Dog Book Shop</a> for books by these poets.<br /><br />Just a note for those of you keeping score: Adam Fieled's Equations is due out in January 2011 from Blue & Yellow Dog Press.<br /><br />That's all for now.<br />So get busy reading.Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368617230252962470.post-50279932290367573012010-12-10T06:08:00.000-08:002010-12-10T06:12:18.440-08:00Check out Thomas Fink's Review of DRUNKER/holding ember in Galatea Resurrects 15Thomas Fink has posted a perceptive critique of DRUNKER/holding ember at <a href="http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com">Galatea Resurrects</a>. Follow the link to the page and check it out. My first published review EVER! I would like to thank Thomas and suggest you Google him and read his poetry & reviews on line. Adios for now. Raymond.Raymond Farrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09465855044579966735noreply@blogger.com0