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Veronika Voss (1982)

Sorry I haven’t been around too much this week. 

There’s a lot of romance  and you know I have kind of a restricted internet diet anyway.  But I have a plan.

During the next two months I think what I’ll be doing is a weekly vlog, as I’m in the middle of finishing MERCURY and I am one of those superstitious weirdos who fears the irremediable forking of the tongue should literary emissions find themselves shooting off into all directions at once.

In any case the world is changing and you know it.

1. If you’re in New York, please come to The Poetry Project’s Spring Fundraiser.  Tonight & Tomorrow night. 

I’ll be in the grand finale on Saturday, with Eileen Myles, Bruce Andrews, Edwin Torres, Brandon Downing, Felix Bernstein, Michael Barron, James Copeland, and William Rahilly.  Go Here.
 
On the whole there’s rather a seventies vibe to the affair, so perhaps you’ll want to rollerskate up and down second avenue between events.  Or were rollerskates so disco and establishment then and are you too cool for them.  Well I wouldn’t know.  As I write you I am smelling the inside of my upper arm, the right one, trying to conjure the scent of a leaf of paper warmed by the mimeograph machine and scored with pale blue words.  I’ll be presenting on the subject of revolution, and remember this is a fundraiser and a very good cause!

2. Fence’s new edition of Coeur de Lion is coming summer’s end.  Those of you who are readers of the Mal-O-Mar edition might recall it was (and is) defiantly blurb-free.  We thought it would be silly and nice, this time around, to invite readers of the book to write anything they want about it, in the shape of blurbs or paragraphs or whatever.  

 Thurston MooresaysCoeur de Lion makes him want to have sex on the moon.  Do you want to say something about it?  Anything you want!

3. Readings in May & June in NY & Philadelphia, MERCURY comes this fall, US tour & lots of other stuff, so do your kegels.

Love
Ariana

Artwork by Andy Warhol for Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, Querelle (1982).