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Zither Mood by Wanda Phipps
A Faux Press CD-Rom Poems and vocals by Wanda Phipps with films by Joel Schlemowitz and music by Joel Schlemowitz, Gary Lucas, Bradford Reed, Andrea Urist and Hiroshi Noguchi $19.95 To buy now go to: FauxPress.com |
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Over 70 pages of texts, audio poems, poetry and music, plus film! ZITHER MOOD includes three skillful collaborations between Phipps and filmmaker Joel Schlemowitz. Phipps layers her lyrics with imagery from live description, memory and dreams, a "poetry you can dance to," according to Michael Rothenberg. Urbane and often sexy, ZITHER MOOD cuts sly and playful deals between love and a hard place, textured with honest miscommunications and deliberate mishearings.
"Poems that make you feel as if you are in a pyramid of honey of the mind." —Lee Ann Brown "...a new horizon, a lost highway, an open door, a shooting star." —Lewis Warsh "Powerful works!" —Andrei Codrescu |
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Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets by Wanda Phipps A chapbook of nineteen inter-connected sonnets (inspired by the sonnets of Ted Berrigan. To Buy Now: Go to www.spdbooks.org Or Send check for $6.00 plus shipping & handling to: Situations c/o SoHo Letterpress 71 Greene Street New York, NY 10012 |
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Here's a sonnet from the book: 9 liberation day comes April is the month of best sex smile now feel the energy focused a planet is an active window for easiest Sunday ease drink Irish coffee at 4 a.m. seeing wasteful lines of worry in the dark blue mind mirror breakthrough happens in a green suddenness conceptual sandblast on a stubborn issue what a difference a pronoun makes in waking nice and easy a place to savor | |
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Lunch Poems by Wanda Phipps A chapbook containing poems from a series written during lunch hours. To buy now send check or money order for $4.00 plus $3.20 shipping & handling to: BOOG Literature 351 West 24th Street, #19E New York, NY 10011-1510 or e-mail editor@boogcity.com for more info. |
(BOOG Literature) Here's a sample from the book: First Hour men and women men and women a separate language between us understood only in the clinches loving men in a diner on East 16th in an office on 20th and B’way in an apartment—Crown Heights Brooklyn in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in San Francisco’s Upper Haight on Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue loving women strolling across Union Square squeezing zucchini there once was a name for this long ago perhaps not in English a word meaning: I love you although I don’t understand you meaning: please decode my message meaning: something to do with my flexible arch as it touches the sole of my shoe meaning: perhaps tomorrow there will be a difference Brewer’s Yeast stinks like piss it’s supposed to be good for you I’m creating a healing crisis meaning: it has to hurt to feel better meaning: pleasure=pain in some translations she said “I’d really like it if you weren’t always drunk when we make love” he misunderstands: “You mean you want to see other people?” loving men and women in conflict loving men and women in constant change I love the freckles below your left shoulder blade I bless this space with love in an acceptable time this would be acceptable but as you’re rolling on the carpet as you’re banging against the wall you’re nodding out on a bus window you’re shooting up in “the Projects” you’re not touching me in order to be seen not touching me saying no meaning yes saying maybe meaning no considering this moment I must reconsider | |
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The Portable Boog Reader Includes morning poem #10 by Wanda Phipps. To Buy Now: Go to www.spdbooks.org or e-mail editor@boogcity.com for more info. (BOOG Literature) This is the Boog-iest book on the subject. —Lawrence Ferlinghetti 73 poets, 28 days. The Portable Boog Reader is an instant anthology of New York City poetry with new work from Anselm Berrigan, Lee Ann Brown, Neal Climenhaga, Brenda Coultas, Jordan Davis, Katie Degentesh, Ethan Fugate, Laird Hunt, Lisa Jarnot, Richard Loranger, Eileen Myles, Wanda Phipps, Chris Stroffolino, Edwin Torres, and John Wright, among others. Move over all you antiquated Beat wannabes, for The Portable Beat Reader has arrived like a ten-ton Louisville Slugger smacking a home run with its sterling poetry and fresh vision. Clearly the best anthology of underground voices to be compiled in years. — Douglas Brinkley, director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History at the University of New Orleans, and editor of Hunter S. Thompson's The Proud Highway and Fear and Loathing in America. | ||
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Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets Includes the following poems by Wanda Phipps: This is an angry poem, Zither Mood, shapeshifter, Gray Fox Woman,and Mail Poems. |
(St. Martin’s Press) This anthology crackles with irreverent energy, defiant audacity, and sybaritic sexuality. A diverse anthology of 26 of the hippest and hottest new poets since the Beat Generation, Verses That Hurt contains works from such noted Beat poets as Allen Ginsberg and John Giorno to the voices of a new generation: Hal Sirowitz, Lee Ranaldo, Todd Colby, Edwin Torres, and others. 24 b&w photos throughout. —Amazon.com Review Masquerading simply as a collection of wonderful, accessible poems, this book rates a place at the top of the anthology ladder because it is the first major work to lay out the perf-po/spoken word aesthetic nakedly on the page and say, read for yourself. This is poetry that works. —Bob Holman of About.com | |
State of the Union 2001 CDIncludes the text and sound piece Desire by Wanda Phipps and Joel Schlemowitz $33.00 To buy now go to: Electronic Music Foundation or e-mail Electronic Music Foundation for more info. | |
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This amazing 3-CD set of contemporary sound and text-based music may be just what you need to live a full life. Elliott Sharp set aside his sax and guitar to collect one-minute music and sound works by 171 leading lights of the international avant-garde, both famous and unknown, that represent a vast array of approaches, attitudes, aesthetics, ethnicities, musical styles, and social persuasions. He describes the collection as "concrete, abstract, enraged, objective, caustic, soulful, sardonic, provocative -- all unfiltered, all clear." It's more than that. It's totally enjoyable. Unmissable. A bandwagon you should get on without missing a beat. Play State of the Union 2.001 on Random Shuffle! —CDemusic The composers include: Wanda Phipps, Angela Babin Black Sifichi (w/Bart Plantenga), Bob Holman, Christian Marclay, Dael Orlandersmith, Dave Soldier and Richard Lair, David First, David Gans, Debra DeSalvo, Emily XYZ and Virgil Moorefield, Eric Mingus, Eszter Balint, Foetus, Fred Frith, Harriet Tubman, Harry Smith, Ikue Mori, Jack Womack, Jacob Burckhardt, Jad Fair, Jenn Reeves, Joey Baron, Judy Nylon and Brian Foster, Lo Galluccio, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Todd Colby and Love Todd, Marc Ribot, Matthew Shipp, Merry Fortune w/FAT, Murat Nehmet-Nejat, Pete Missing, Phill Niblock, Phillip Johnston Transparent Quartet, Queen Esther, ReproRappers, Stephen Vitiello, Steve Dalachinsky, Tom Devaney, Tracie Morris, Zeena Parkins, Z'ev, Zbigniew Karkowski, Zoot Horn Rollo and others. |
papertiger: new world poetry #01Includes morning poem #40, and Woman Among Us by Wanda Phipps with music by Joel Schlemowitz, Hiroshi Noguchi, and Andrea Urist. To buy now go to: papertigerstore |
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Publishing the best new poetry from over fifty established and emerging poets from Australia and around the world, papertiger aims to combine the most appealing elements of both print and online publications by delivering a diverse blend of text, audio and video poetry on CD-ROM. Edited by Paul Hardacre. New poetry from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, USA, United Kingdom, China, the Philippines: Peter Goldsworthy, Ouyang Yu, Lidija Simkute, David Wheatley, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Mark Pirie, Larry Sawyer, Marjorie Evasco, MTC Cronin, Gwynne Garfinkle, Michael Rothenberg, Laura Joy Lustig, David Fujino, John B. Lee, Ian McBryde, Nagata Koi, Rob Riel, Alison Daniel, Yi Sha, Michael Farrell, Kijima Hajime, John West, Lisa Jacobson, Zhang Zixuan, Red Slider, Patricia Sykes + more Audio: Michele Leggott, Wanda Phipps, Mike Ladd Video: From the Chicago collection of Kurt Heintz - Quraysh Ali Lansana, Patricia Smith papertiger is an original and dynamic project whose international focus promises an eclectic and stimulating mix. —David Wheatley papertiger...is at once ambitious and visionary. —Dr. Simon Patton A brave and elegant new addition to the Australian literary pantheon. —Ian McBryde papertiger has made literature accessible to a wider variety of PC users, not just fans of the e-zine culture. —Richard Hillman |
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New Word Order CD Includes Heaven & Earth by Wanda Phipps with slide guitar by Christian X. Hunter. |
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In New York City, the poets have record deals. A vibrant...community exists with a strong support structure, some facets of which, such as the Poemfone telephone service, are engaging .... This compilation is a “best of” the hotline’s first year and a half, when a different poet “hosted” the line each month, leaving a three-minute poem daily on an answering machine. (Callers can respond at the tone.) What’s surprising is how listenable the whole thing is.... The recognizable names here acquit themselves honorably (it’s nice to hear John S. Hall and M. Doughty separated from their respective bands) but some of the best cuts are from poets whom a cretin such as myself would label “no-names.” .... All told, this is an enjoyable document that might have a skeptic or two banging bongos in a coffee shop soon. —CMJ-NMM | |
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Midwinter Day
Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day is my favorite book. In alternating sections of prose and poetry it details the events of a single day in the life of an extraordinary woman. We’re with her from the early morning retelling of the past night’s dreams to the return to bed that evening inviting more night visions and everything in between. An amazingly beautiful book!
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Check this out for a sampling of more of her work.
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The Teachers & Writers
Handbook of Poetic Forms |
An excellent reference book. All entries are written by poets with tons of examples of each form. Also includes many non-western forms for an antsy poet to play with.
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Haunted Houses
This is one of my favorite works of fiction. Everyone should read it.
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