WAS my Blog (Hey! I’m not really a blog I’m a magazine - but not your usual sort of) Magazine. BLOGZINE. It's stopped being anything now, as of April 9, 2008.
But what is online stays online, and what's here is what happened while it was happening. The Chinese above, in Pinyin, is huānyíng, and it means “Welcome” and it’s meant. The girl (pictured) is my television lawyer, just in case. E&D is (or was) a mix of poetry & reviews and sometimes charmingly gentle rhubarb (sometimes with hot custard); it has a heart of rolled gold & the word ‘acerbic’ (is that related to ‘cynical’?) doesn't come into it. There are music reviews too, of gigs at the local music halls. This bit was on hold for a while because I was in China for two years, but now I'm not, though I'm going back soon. Anyway, everything here is all a kind of mysterious (I’d like to say it’s sensuous but it isn’t) zone of gentle & benign happiness (whatever the hell 'happiness' is), where headaches disappear & people are friends, & your shoes never need cleaning, & I hope you enjoy it.
This is a re-designed site, launched in October 2006. You can view the original website, and all the stuff published there, by clicking here.
Oh, & if you want to find out about my poetry, please go to my Home-From-Home which is a site almost as heavenly as this one.
E&D is no longer accepting submissions of work for publication.
Remember That I Love You by Kimya Dawson
Sample track: Loose Lips [Listen]
Kimya Dawson features heavily on the "Juno" soundtrack, a soundtrack that's as wonderful as the movie. This LP is ok, too. It gets a little trying in places, but it's generally ok.
Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sample track: More News From Nowhere [Listen]
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Here’s a thing. Think about list poems. Or device poems. What do you think when you think about those things? There is some stuff over at Ron Silliman’s blog in a review of Elaine Equi that is thought-provoking, to say the least. An almost-argument with it is contained in a review of Paul Violi’s new book here (you have to scroll down to February 27th). Me, I use lists and so-called devices all the time (well, maybe not all the time, but quite a bit), and often think it’s a sign that I can’t think of anything else to do. But sometimes I don’t think that at all, and just crack on for almost ever, as here a few years ago…… Boy, that was fun. Sort of.
Oh, by the way, a review of Violi’s book, and other new Hanging Loose titles, will appear here soon. Or so I am told.
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Just tried to buy 'Overnight' but Amazon don't have it listed as out until April and Abe books wants nearly twenty dollars in postage, so I guess I'll hang on a few weeks.
Here’s a thing. Think about list poems. Or device poems. What do you think when you think about those things? There is some stuff over at Ron Silliman’s blog in a review of Elaine Equi that is thought-provoking, to say the least. An almost-argument with it is contained in a review of Paul Violi’s new book here (you have to scroll down to February 27th). Me, I use lists and so-called devices all the time (well, maybe not all the time, but quite a bit), and often think it’s a sign that I can’t think of anything else to do. But sometimes I don’t think that at all, and just crack on for almost ever, as here a few years ago…… Boy, that was fun. Sort of.
Just tried to buy 'Overnight' but Amazon don't have it listed as out until April and Abe books wants nearly twenty dollars in postage, so I guess I'll hang on a few weeks.
Posted by: David Belbin | March 08, 2007 at 13:03