tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53990043338030874442024-03-13T17:10:51.317-07:00GobQ e-BooksM. F. McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166078483711803172noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399004333803087444.post-78153870214947966942015-09-07T17:44:00.001-07:002015-09-07T17:44:21.046-07:00The Art of Waking Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d_VHFeyUy0U/Ve4qr2GUSYI/AAAAAAAAAZU/IufYvhbs5aI/s1600/_taulbee%2Bartwakingup%2Bfrontcov%2Bposter%2B250rez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="1" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d_VHFeyUy0U/Ve4qr2GUSYI/AAAAAAAAAZU/IufYvhbs5aI/s320/_taulbee%2Bartwakingup%2Bfrontcov%2Bposter%2B250rez.jpg" /></a></div>
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"Brenda Taulbee's poems give my spine reverb, like poetry is meant to, like only poetry that matters, can."
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<div align="right">— Lidia Yuknavitch, author of <i>Chronology of Water,</i> <i>Dora: A Head Case,</i> and <i>The Small Backs of Children</i></div>
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"Her poems are told like a secret, filled with yearning: both ephemeral and visceral at the same time."
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Valenzuela" target="_blank">Luisa Valenzuela</a> (1938-) is an Argentine novelist and short-story writer, one of the earliest magical realists, avant-garde, feminist, anti-authoritarian, & recipient of many awards, whose parents Borges visited often when she was a child, and who began publishing herself at the age of 17.
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<i>Deathcats</i> was first published in Mexico in 1972. This en face edition is the first full-length English translation of this howl of anger in the extended rhythms of a Missa Cantata.
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This collection of <a href="http://oregonpoeticvoices.org/poet/379/" target="_blank">Douglas Spangle</a>'s poems was first published in September, 2013. This image is the cover of the second edition, published in March, 2015.
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M. F. McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166078483711803172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399004333803087444.post-2585560714130738532012-04-03T08:28:00.000-07:002012-04-03T08:28:07.659-07:00Reading at the Hollywood Library<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'll be reading <i>Fighting Monsters</i> at the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=efis&tok=aUq9mn0vSYNFbSPoRHUSQg&cp=33&gs_id=4t&xhr=t&q=hollywood+library+portland+oregon&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1172&bih=630&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=3BR7T6LtFaOQiQLyvd1K&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q_AUoAg" target="_blank">Hollywood Library</a> at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 24th.</span></div><br />
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<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Cordite</i> has reprinted some work of <a href="http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=fusion/work/epic-untitled" target="_blank">mine</a>. A great honour, as I'm sharing a page with <a href="http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=fusion/work/bus-driver" target="_blank">Marilyn Hacker</a>. The early issues of <i>Gobshite</i> featured many of Marilyn Hacker's translations.</span></div><br />
<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I must away and go to work. The day, the dollar, and the med-insurance are calling.</span></div><br />
<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I was a kid, in the mornings, it used to be doves that called me into the great wide light. Early spring in Portland is alive with birdsong in the early mornings - the hopeful, reassuring sounds of life in common with complex and changing beauty.</span></div>M. F. McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166078483711803172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399004333803087444.post-56808141498155062452011-11-06T15:59:00.000-08:002015-08-20T07:22:14.110-07:00Golems Waiting Redux (redux)<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And, of course, <a href="http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/137"><i>Golems Waiting Redux</i></a>, e-book or print, can be bought <a href="http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/137">here</a>. It is a lovely object, even if I do say so myself.
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Kudos to <a href="http://www.danielduford.com/">Daniel Duford</a>, <a href="http://workmagazinearchives.wordpress.com/back-issues/doug-spangle-8312009/">Doug Spangle</a>, <a href="http://heatherwatkins.blogspot.com/">Heather Watkins</a> - and to <a href="http://www.publicationstudio.biz/about/">Publication Studio</a>, who did the printing and binding.
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<i>Golems</i> is also held by 3 libraries: Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR), Multnomah County Library (Portland, OR), and by MOMA (NY).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">During the last week of September 2002, the first of the public art projects commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art was installed on a vacant lot in the city, at the corner of SW Taylor & 3rd. On the lot itself Daniel Duford kiln-fired 3 huge crouching figures, golems; on one of the adjacent buildings, on the wall facing 3rd Ave., he painted 2 more figures, large male nudes with the same physique. They stood looking outward, with open hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vandals immediately began smashing the sculptures. By the fourth night they had all been smashed. RV (Branham, founder & editor of Gobshite Quarterly) and I went to photograph them at our first opportunity — caught the MAX into town, scuttled along shopfronts, hurrying because of the very light rain, step, step, shopfront, shopfront –</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">An empty lot – grass, mud, a liver-red wall – with something flesh-coloured in the corner. In that first split second I felt a great misery; it prickled and numbed at the same time. I heard the sound of a huge and silent lamentation. It seemed like the sound of the Holocaust.</span></div>
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M. F. McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166078483711803172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399004333803087444.post-47348385008622347642011-08-14T12:09:00.000-07:002015-08-20T06:25:23.764-07:00Ambrose Gets His Gig<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The reading at <a href="http://www.stjohnsbooks.com/"> St. Johns Booksellers</a> on July 30 went very well. Everyone was delighted that Ambrose was not drowned by the Abbot, but got his gig in the monastery library instead.
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I'll read a few very short poems. Hope you will join us, then, or by podcast.</span></div>M. F. McAuliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13166078483711803172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5399004333803087444.post-75055819153657664742011-07-14T07:53:00.000-07:002011-08-14T11:48:58.528-07:00Writing the Cats<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
I was in Australia when I began writing these stories to amuse the children a friend of mine was tutoring. Her cats were Signy and Ambrose. A journalist friend had Jemima and JCP. Isshe Tisshe was my cat. Lucinda lived in a block of flats I lived in once. I never knew her name. Fleur (de Mal) belonged to another friend, a playwright.</span></div><br />
<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Quinnia, or the little silver Himalayan-Siamese, belonged to yet another friend who was unemployed. As I heard it later, he had needed the money and began to breed her; she died of an infection he couldn't afford to treat. She was very small, delicate, and sweet. So I gave her a name and a life, and a spectacular rise from poverty.</span></div><br />
<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The cats come with their suburban backgrounds, pretty much, except for Quinnia, whose story was the obverse of her life, and Ambrose, whose deep grey fur suggested a mediaeval thunderstorm. The stories were a joy to write, and, I hope, will be a joy to read.</span></div><br />
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