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BRIAN KIM STEPHANS For My Olivetti

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Why a machine without memory? an extension of man? made of pulled teeth, retired hobbyists, parts of a discarded oil tank, katydid wings, surplus lancets, and the controversy over foie gras? Only a way to begin, my friend—nails in the sandbox—play “uncluttered with the commonness of speed” (how’s that for poetics haiku manifesto?)—William Morris mending coils in a pair of ripped, button-fly jeans.

VLAK

Published on Dec 15, 2010

Litteraria Pragensia

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VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts (September, 2010), edited by Louis Armand, Edmund Berrigan, Carol Watts, Stephan Delbos, David Vichnar & Clare Wallace. ISSN 1804-512X. New work by Abigail Child, Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Holly Tavel, Joshua Cohen, Eileen Myles, John Wilkinson, Stephanie Strickland, Allen Fisher, Marjorie Welish, Catherine Hales, Mez, Karen Mac Cormack, Ali Alizadeh, Ron Padget, Pam Brown, Jessica Fiorini, Bruce Andrews, Vincent Farnsworth, Mark Terrill, Elizabeth Gross, Arlo Quint, Vincent Katz, Veronique Vassiliou, Pierre Joris, Habib Tengour, John Kinsella, Stacey Szymaszek, Mike Farrell, Andrea Brady, Edwin Torres, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Jena Osman, Octavio Armand, Allyssa Wolf, Alexander Jorgensen, Vadim Erent, Steve McCaffery, Richard Tipping, Tim Haze, Bill Mousoulis, Marjorie Perloff, Keith Jones, Robert Sheppard, Darren Tofts, Henry Hills, Stephanie Barber & Jen Hofer, and more!

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