June 17, 2007
Catherine Daly, Donna Stonecipher & Maryrose Larkin
Spare Room presents a remarkable three-way international publication
party and reading, with
Catherine Daly
Donna Stonecipher
Maryrose Larkin
Sunday, June 17th, 7:30 pm
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny
www.newamericanartunion.com
Free admission
CATHERINE DALY has 100 ISBNs, and she's going to use them to publish
writing and art that engages both the eye and ear until the money from
the sale of her first registered and insured car, a 1998 green Mustang
convertible, runs out.
Books she's written that have been published are Locket (Tupelo Press,
05), a golden book of love poems; DaDaDa (Salt, 05), a fat book of love
poems; Paper Craft (Moria, 06), a two-format book of visual & sound
poems; To Delite and Instruct (blue lion, 06), a giant manual of
perception; Secret Kitty (Ahadada, 06), a flarfy eBook critique of
flarf; and the new Chanteuse / Cantatrice (factory school, 07), a
Heretical Texts series book about collaboration and complicity that can
be read from both sides.
DONNA STONECIPHER grew up in Seattle and Teheran. She received her MFA
from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2001. She is the author
of The Reservoir (University of Georgia Press, 2002), and Souvenir de
Constantinople (Instance Press, 2007). Her own poems and her
translations of French and German poems have been published in many
journals. She currently lives in Berlin.
Of Souvenir de Constantinople, Martin Corless-Smith wrote: "the
impossible quest for self and other was never so luxurious—the letter
home never more admirably addressed," and Jonathan Raban called the book
"mesmeric."
MARYROSE LARKIN lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a
freelance researcher. Her first full-length collection, The Book of
Ocean, has just been released as the inaugural title from Catherine
Daly's i.e. Press in Los Angeles. She is also the author of Inverse
(nine muses books) and Whimsy Daybook 2007. Maryrose is a member of
Spare Room, a small group of people who organize poetry readings and
other kindred events in Portland. She is the co-editor, with Sarah
Mangold, of FLASH+CARD, a chapbook and ephemera press.
Andrew Joron writes that in The Book of Ocean, "Larkin has made language
songful with the crescendos and recessions of bluest ocean, with an
undertow of the blues . . . This work is informed by a counterpoint
between time & vision, and so seems to me a poetry of arabesque, which
(as 19th-century German aestheticians defined it) presents a perfect, &
perhaps paradoxical, synthesis of enthusiasm & irony."
Marguerite Monnot
daughter of an organist
a prodigy
free
editions de travail work
to become a persona non grata
technical problems, interpretation
intuition deaf to evil
what is authentic, national
"One can never train a child carefully enough" youth
today's dissonance sight singing (fixed-Do soflege)
not sight reading tomorrow's consonance
Boulanger
Grand Prix du Disque by L'Academie du Disque
the stranger, a policeman, a hooker whose
screw is slang for prison guard
arrester -- real boyfriend didn't want to work
at the fish market
but her working emasculated him
Ou Sont-Ils Mes Petits Copains?
where did Billy Wilder put song
Irma la Douce
Irma la Douce
where did Billy Wilder put song
Ou Sont-Ils Mes Petits Copains?
but her working emasculated him
at the fish market
arrester -- real boyfriend didn't want to work
screw is slang for prison guard
the stranger, a policeman, a hooker whose
Grand Prix du Disque by L'Academie du Disque
Boulanger
not sight reading tomorrow's consonance
today's dissonance sight singing (fixed-Do soflege)
"One can never train a child carefully enough" youth
what is authentic, national
intuition deaf to evil
technical problems, interpretation
to become a persona non grata
editions de travail work
free
a prodigy
daughter of an organist
Marguerite Monnot
—Catherine Daly
THE POSTCARD-COLLECTOR’S ADDRESS
I know the world
only through
form. Mosaic
of views. It is said
melancholics
gravitate
toward miniatures.
It is said what is miniature is liberated
from the pretty tyranny
of use. Systematic
kindlers, tonic
postulants, distillations
of the garden
into flat vials, insect’s
Louvre, insect’s
Constantinople, wherever I go
my postcards go
with me. I saw my name
calligraphed on a grain
of rice. I saw the tiara
of spires held
in the pupil’s
dark embrace.
I closed up
the postcards in a jewelry
box where they remain
eternally
local.
—Donna Stonecipher
Test Garden
have I forgotten to occur
we are a rose hour
or a swimming pool full of sky
Orpheus seed
and the whole of
sidewalk's wet stars
I wrote crows into the sky
today
a winter flock
radius song & eclipse
my hands bloom here through winter
bloom through the belly-up
—Maryrose Larkin