Book Launch: Fashionable Noise (Stefans) & Platform (Toscano)

Please join Rodrigo and I in lifting a glass of… something to, uh…
ourselves, Tuesday, May 27th, to celebrate the launch of his excellent book
of poems, Platform, and my curious book of essays and poems, Fashionable
Noise: On Digital Poetics, both just out from Atelos Press.

Where: Spoonbill and Sugartown bookstore, in the charming, little celebrated
gated community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on 218 Bedford Avenue. It's the
L train, stupide! (as zee French might say) – zee Bedford stop, head south
a few blocks.

What time: 7-9 (hours of the "magic light").

There will be wine, cheese, olives and depending on our attitudes toward
formalities a brief reading, but I doubt it. I'm planning on selling my
book on at a slight discount – $10 ($3 off) – don't know what Rodrigo's
plans are but he might do the same. Get it while it's cheap. Tell friends
to get it while it's cheap. Tell everyone.

Please read (but don't believe) the promo info below to be further persuaded
of the necessity of your presence at this event. And there's nothing better
than a Tuesday night of loitering on the streets of Wburg!

Cheers,
Brian

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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