Ben Fama

I wanna know which friend will die young, so I can spend more time with them now

by Ben Fama June 14, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

I wanna know which friend will die young, so I can spend more time with them now by Rachel Glaser you hurt my feelings so I lie and say, I do wanna fuck my roommate I say, We’ve pushed our beds so they share a wall dirty dishes are inevitable when you were young and [...]

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The First Half of 2010

by Ben Fama June 8, 2010 Poetry and Poetics
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An extremely subjective best & worst of 2010 so far… Best Chapbook: How by Emily Pettit (Octopus Books) Best Full Length: Ghost Machine by Ben Mirov Other Full Lengths of Note: Paul Killebrew – Flowers (Canarium Books) Dottie Lasky – Black Life (Wave) Kevin Varrone – Passyunk Lost (UDP) Aaron Kunin – The Sore Throat [...]

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All the People of the Universe (An interview with Dorothea Lasky)

by Ben Fama April 16, 2010 The Other
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To sum up our tryptych of posts for Dorothea Lasky, I present a brief and delicious interview

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Dorothea Lasky’s POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT or Cutting More Lines in the Cosmic Divide

by Ben Fama April 13, 2010 Art
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Dorothea Lasky’s POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT made huge waves when debuted at this years AWP.

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Do You Know This Beautiful Book?

by Ben Fama April 6, 2010
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See more about Dottie Lasky’s POETRY IS NOT A PROJECT here Get it at AWP while the ink is still wet. Available at the UDP portion of the “table X publishing commune.”

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Reciting your own poems from memory is for supernerds, or the worst project of my life

by Ben Fama March 30, 2010 Aesthetics
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Concerning all the recent discussions about memory, recitation, etc, I thought I would try it in my own way. I should disclose that I never recite my own poems from memory at readings. I think it is corny, weird, it makes me uncomfortable, and frankly, to spend that much time memorizing your own work is kind of sick.

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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, ABRIDGED

by Ben Fama March 24, 2010 Aesthetics
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Ben Luzzatto’s THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, ABRIDGED (UDP, 2010) is one of those rare artifacts that transfers its own actual magic—and it is real magic—until the possessed begins to lift a bit toward the sky.

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Only Boring People Get Bored

by Ben Fama March 16, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

Sunday evening I encountered this artifact created out of the weekend’s leftovers. I had been showing family around who had never been nyc before. That meant three miserable days of walking in the rain while forcing myself to be cheerful. This stream or river or rainbow or spittle-barf of umbrellas was an affirmation to me [...]

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that gum you like is going to come back in style

by Ben Fama March 10, 2010 Film and TV

With the creation of one of the high achievements of mankind, Twin Peaks, David Lynch made a world so ecstatic it demanded its own reality. I’ve been really thinking about Julee Cruise and Twin Peaks SO MUCH lately. What makes it so good? Where did this music come from? Who is Julee Cruise *really*!?

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