Out from Otoliths — Tom Beckett's "PARTS AND OTHER PIECES"

PARTS AND OTHER PIECES

Tom Beckett

80 pages

Front cover image by Rosaire Appel

Otoliths, 2011

ISBN: 978-0-9808785-6-1

$13.45 + p&h

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The difficulties that language presents have their analogues in life. Whether posed, or proposed, or just tenuously poised on the thin line that divides articulation from understanding, the phrases and phrasings of Tom Beckett's elegant and nervous Parts and Other Pieces challenge the givens of experience. The excitement and beauty of this four-part book are the product of a mismatch between words and worlds. And it is, indeed, a beautiful and exciting book. Variously witty, angst-ridden, melancholy, sweet, Beckett's parts provoke a powerful whole. —Lyn Hejinian

 

If Tom Beckett cares about anything, it’s everything. “Are you with me, Columbus?” Why yes, you are, we naturally reply, since Beckett has asked us a question he already knows the answer to, since he loves and respects the durability of our imaginations, desires, impulses and anxieties. Our answers, in substance and scope, are the very near silent dialogues that Beckett hears in the thought acts generated by poetry: openness taken from the shadows of openness alone. Beckett’s poetry has always reminded me that we are all in the process of our obsessions, where “What I might be able to do for you and not myself is to/mirror you,/establish your presence.”  Tom Beckett is the poet in all our poems, goofing off when we harden in our terrible seriousness, and in the next moment, attentively concerned with how loud we just laughed. —Jordan Stempleman

 

Tom Beckett writes from the lab.  His work, in its observational acuity, gives back to us all the stuff we see floating in the peripheries – of language, of social order, of identity – and places it smack dab under the lens.  Where it pulls us in, performs for us, makes us marvel at its range, occasionally repels us, often makes us chortle. Parts and Other Pieces is alive, emotionally raw, self-effacingly hilarious, and ultimately quite beautiful.  Beckett is the master; we’re damned lucky he’s got the white coat. —Jessica Grim

 

Tom Beckett's Parts and Other Pieces bristles with a fierce, rhythmic relentlessness. These are poems of urgent self-reflection, caught between the demands of everyday life and a consciousness haunted by spikes of piercing perception. —Charles Bernstein

 

“As a writer,” we read in an interview with Tom Beckett, “it can be more important to pay a lot of attention to a few things rather than a little attention to a lot of things.” Touché!  Beckett’s new collection begins with a sequence of questions posed on the Ohio State campus (Goodbye Columbus!) and responds with a series of answers—not quite to the original questions  and hence all the more pertinent and mysterious. The connection between A and B is provided by the middle section, “Between Asymmetries,” whose maxims, written under the sign of Emerson, enact the truth that  “Language grids support the inexplicable.” The final poem, the minimalist “Parts” provides the “break (brake)” that makes everything that precedes it come together in one radiant whole.  —Marjorie Perloff

 

Also by Tom Beckett & available from The Otoliths Storefront:

 

This Poem / What Speaks? / A Day

 

& the three volumes of the classic interview series:

 

E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The First XI interviews

E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Second XV interviews

E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E-V-A-L-U-E-S: The Final XIV interviews + One

Poetry Super Highway Weekly News

Almost 200 Contest Entries Received So Far!
The 2011 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest is well under way with almost 200 entries so far! Thanks to our many sponsors, in addition to the cash prizes to the contest winners, everyone will get a poetry/writing related prize just for entering! Enter now! Click on "2011 Contest" from the main PSH Menu for all the details, or email [e-mail] to have the guidelines automatically e-mailed to you.

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Issue # 723 - ISSN: 1523-6587.
    

August 29 - September 4, 2011

this week:.

    This week featuring poets from Kodiak, AK and Brookville, OH

    2 new poetry and writing links added this week.

    My Kidney Just Arrived by G. Murray Thomas featured this week in the PSH Bookstore.

    PSH LIVE - Next Show: Open Reading - Sept., 4 ~ 2pm (pacific) - Next Sunday!

    Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.

Programme des éditions du Dessert de lune

En Septembre qui s’approche et Octobre qui vient :


- Yves Budin participera à une exposition collective « Sur un air de Jazz », au Centre Culturel de Seraing ( Rue Renaud Strivay 44 - 4100 Seraing ) qui se tiendra du 1er au 28 septembre. Le vernissage aura lieu le vendredi 9 septembre de 18h30 à 20h30. L’exposition est accessible du mardi au vendredi de 10h à 18h ainsi que les jours de spectacle.
<http://www.centrecultureldeseraing.be/>
 

    Une rétrospective Raymond Ceuppens (1936-2002) du 1er au 30 septembre dans trois lieux de Bruxelles.
    Vernissage le jeudi 8 septembre à 19h. A l’espace Entrée Libre, Hôtel communal de Doorgand, avenue d’Auderghem, 113/115, 1040 Etterbeek
    à La Bibliothèque Communale Néerlandophone, avenue d’Auderghem, 191, 1040 Etterbeek
    à La Bibliothèque Hergé, avenue de La Chasse, 211, 1040 Etterbeek.
    Infos : + 32(0) 497 59 98 41


Du 16 au 18 septembre aura lieu la 33e édition Le Livre sur La Place à Nancy.
Les Carnets du Dessert de Lune y seront représentés par le collectif Espace Livres&Création sur le stand de l’A.D.E.B. http://www.lelivresurlaplace.fr/
 

    Les Carnets du Dessert de Lune seront présents sur le stand des éditions Les Matinaux au 10e Marché Beau#Beau au BIP, place royale, 1000 Bruxelles.
    Samedi 17 et dimanche 18 septembre 2011 de 10h30 à 19h30. http://www.beaubeau.be/neuf/?p=8
     

Sylvie Durbec sera l’invitée des Lectures Vagabondes les 24 et 25 septembre à Torteillan, 34240 Combes.
Infos : Tél [phone]. [e-mail]

http://www.scoop.it/t/poezibao/p/346570413/lectures-vagab...
 

    Du 30 septembre au 2 octobre se tiendra au Musée Royal de Mariemont, 7140 Morlanwelz, la 8e édition du Marché du livre de Mariemont.
    Le samedi 2 octobre à 17h30 au Salon Littéraire, Pascal Blondiau s’entretiendra avec Patrick Devaux, à propos de son roman Les mouettes d’Ostende, et Yves Budin pour son album Visions de Kerouac. http://www.marchedulivre.org/index.html

Inclement Summer 2011, Volume 11 issue 2

ELEVEN IN ELEVEN!

INCLEMENT

“A superb magazine, now in its eighth year, with a warm and friendly ethos, strives to give all poets a voice.” The Poetry Society

 

Inclement Poetry Magazine has overcome the odds and is now in its eleventh year of publication.  We are proud to say that the magazine continues to improve and expand with every issue.

 

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Whether as a contributor or as a subscriber, it is your talent and generosity which is the lifeblood of the magazine!

 

Come and visit us at the website

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Revival Literary Journal Issue 20 Summer 2011

Revival Literary Journal, issue 20, published by the Limerick Writer's centre was launched earlier this month. More information from their website.

Denis Emorine's New Book

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Erbacce-Prize for 2011

The winner of the erbacce-prize for 2011 and the two runners-up have been decided!

Go to www.erbacce-press.com to view the result.

NCC's The Nassau Review Author Awards Winners

The winners of the May 2011 Author Awards are

 

Katie Manning for her poem, “Sleeping Beauty’s Mother,”

 

and

 

Liz Dolan for her creative non-fiction piece, “What’s Like What.”

 

These pieces will appear in the re-launch issue of The Nassau Review.

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!

 

 

Thank you to everyone who submitted to this contest. By now, you should have heard back from us about whether or not we are holding your piece for consideration for the upcoming issue.  If you have not heard from us, kindly send an email with your name and the title of your work, and we will get back to you about the status.

 

Our open reading period will begin in September and end in February 1.  We have switched over to the Submishmash system, so we will accept submissions using that system only from now on--no snail mail or email submissions will be accepted.  Updates will be available on our website mid-September (once we get into the Fall Semester Groove).

 

Our next contest will run May 1 to May 15, 2012 for Short Story and Prose Poems.

Out from Otoliths—Alex Gildzen's "The Arrow That Is Hollywood / Pierces The Soul That Is Me"

THE ARROW THAT IS HOLLYWOOD

PIERCES THE SOUL THAT IS ME

Alex Gildzen

40 pages

Front cover photograph by Kevin McCollister

Otoliths, 2011

ISBN: 978-0-9808785-5-4

$10.00 + p&h

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Subscribers to the Otoliths list know Alex Gildzen ( It’s All a Movie ) as historian of the film-going experience. In this new collection of poems he plumbs the mythology of Hollywood. Taking on stories both familiar and obscure, Gildzen gives close-ups of legends such as Chaplin and Welles. But he affectionately offers star billing to many of Tinseltown’s lesser-known characters – from the woman who may (or may not) have been the first Native American movie star to character actors Victor Kilian and Percy Helton.

 

A video of Alex Gildzen reading a poem from the book can be accessed at

http://youtu.be/DStmNP4F_7k.

 

Tom Beckett's interview with Alex Gildzen can be found here.

Poetry Kit Poetry Award Nominations 2011

PK Poetry Award Nominations 2011
Nominations Requested from publishers

Nominations are requested from publishers of poetry books and magazines (large and small) and on line magazines in the UK for what they consider to be the three poems which they have published that they feel should get wider recognition.

+There is no fee for submission.
+Publishers may name up to three poems by three individual poets.
+Publishers may not nominate poems they have written themselves.
+Submitted poems must have been published between 1st January 2011 and 31st December 2011
+ A digital copy of each submitted poem along with its publishing history should be sent  to [e-mail]

Selected poems will be published in a free to download ebook, available foc from Poetry Kit website. Each poem will be published along with details of the publishers and poets.

Poets with poems nominated by their publisher may state “Nominated for PK Poetry Award”.
Poets with poems selected for inclusion in the anthology may state “Winner of a PK Poetry Award”.

At this stage there are no cash awards or prizes.

This award is open to all styles of poem and the only stipulation is that the poem should not contain gratuitously offensive material.

Award winners will be announced in January.