Stefans / Toscano book launch (spam mix)

Please join Rodrigo and I in lifting a glass of… something to, uh…
ourselves…

Tuesday, May 27th…

to celebrate the launch of our books just out from Atelos Press.

Where: Spoonbill and Sugartown bookstore…

it's the L train, Bedford stop, head south a few blocks to "mini mall" (just
after Earwax records).

http://www.spoonbillbooks.com/

What time: 7-9.

There will be wine, cheese, olives, maybe a reading.

Both books will be on sale at discount.

Some of us will go out for dinner afterwards somewhere near and cheap.

Please read (but don't believe) the hype below:

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Rodrigo Toscano's Platform is a political one; his writings are predicated
on the political conditions of contemporary life. But his work is not (and
will never be) predicted by those conditions; indeed, outwitting, unnerving,
and outspeaking the forces and figures clinging to control is one of his
signal artistic strategies. It would be correct to read Platform as a
triumphant product of precise and complex labor (thus adding to the
tradition set by of Louis Zukofsky). But where the spirit of Johann
Sebastian Bach informed Zukofsky's work, we would suggest that it is the
spirit of the Teatro Campesino that informs Toscano's

Comments

, Jim Andrews

> Brian Kim Stefans' Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics

is there a digital version available? might be worth checking into www.esellerate.net , brian.
would work with pdf's (and so on) as well as with downloadable software. works great.

ja