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Dear
October 12, 2006    File under: Information Technology

Do you get the blahgs sometimes?

I mean, you've got this thing, this space, this input form box which into which you stuff a little language, a pock that sometimes you think you're grouting, at other times a mail slot for a hopeful if shaky delivery. You think sometimes of pulling it out, giving it another dimension, making it maybe more soap-boxy, standing on it to say something. Sometimes the fantasy doesn't seem to require a third dimension and this input form seems like a soapbox already but you're getting maybe a little altitude sickness. Or it's your credit-card company: you know their address, but sometimes you don't want to send the ticket in.

You've got the blahgs, right?

You say, I think I'm tired of blogging. You say Maybe I'll kill my blog. You say You say Maybe I'll leave it up so folks can look at the smolder that used to be my campfire.

Maybe you say, You say Nah, I'll just redesign it, renew my interest, sort of like when I used to get a new haircut so I'd like myself more.

Or maybe you don't say nothin.

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I'm getting more of these little chaps lately. Anne Boyer's (infra). G. C. Waldrep had a damn fine one from DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press earlier in the year, The Batteries which rightly won the Campbell Corner prize. Matt Henriksen's got one, and Adam Clay's got one, and Julia Cohen's got one, and Zach Schomburg has one coming out, and Wendy S. Walters has a very fine one indeed, and Frank Sherlock's is very nice. Sure, these are brief, and maybe it seems not cost-effective in some way, poems per dollar, but in a lot of ways these are nicer than regular books. They're hand-made, so there's a touch in the book that complements that in the poems, and I dig that. I think I want, sometimes, to stop the blog and start making these little books and just send them out as letters of s sort, but I'm not very productive, so it would take me a while to get to everyone.

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Is blog lazy or efficient?

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I'm off to Tucson (infra) in the A.M. RMMLA in the afternoon and then reading at Casa Libre Friday night (infra). Some cactus and carne saca, I hope. Some sunburn, I'm sure.

Posted by Jake Adam York at October 12, 2006 4:50 PM



COMMENTS

See Ron Silliman's blog July 25th.
Happened to read it this morning.

G.C.Waldrep's The Batteries is excellent. I'm with you on the chapbooks. Will look for the others you mentioned.

Posted by: Dee Casalaina at October 14, 2006 6:28 AM




The date for Silliman's blog above is incorrect.

Please July 23, 2005 for a discussion on benefits of blogging.


Posted by: Dee Casalaina at October 15, 2006 8:00 AM