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 by Tod Thilleman & Rich Blevins Breathing by TT & from Corrido of Bolaño by RB ISBN 978-0-923389-81-9 $24.00 US | $26.00 CAN 156 pages  Buy the book at
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Richard Blevins Interviewed by Jan Beatty for WYEP's Prosody and reading from Breathing Bolano. Click here for the podcast. --->The book is a conversation between two poets in the process of writing poems that meditate on the work of previous poets. These pages are a conversation about reading and writing poems, and conversations between Thilleman and Blevins on reading and writing poetry. The authors both propose a theoretical method of interacting with poetry and act out that performance while proposing that theory. Link to precis and review at A Compulsive Reader by Andrew Wessels “Bolaño’s Afterlife”
As if the tree flew itself south To escape what is only natural, Threw and threw itself finally To where the poet listens. It is the morning of listening For what noise or voice This burning bush, butterflies For wings, tells him. He sees for himself All the pretty monarchs are Devouring something big, Big as a tree Shivering in no wind. The swarm Takes the shape of a target, Zapata’s hat on a branch, Until only insects are left. Then, one by one, they too leave Flown Into that night When not every light rising from the desert Is a UFO. from Corrido of Bolaño by RB Tod Thilleman Shortly thereafter he moved to Greenpoint, Brooklyn and began attending, on a regular basis, Matthew Courtney's poetry readings on Sunday nights at ABC NO RIO on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It wasn't until Thilleman mentioned ABC NO RIO to Blevins, and Rich then quickly responding that he, too, read in that same neighborhood, Rivington Street, at exactly the same time-frame (1985-1987), that he began to reminisce in a slightly Bola mid-way thru their discussions on Bola Thilleman is the author of numerous poetry From 1991-1999 he was an editor at still catching hell. Richard Blevins Richard Blevins’ Fogbow Bridge: Selected Poems, 1972-1999 was published by Pavement Saw. He edited two volumes of the Charles Olson/Robert Creeley correspondence for Black Sparrow. His dissertation is on Will Henry. He lives and teaches, in western Pennsylvania, with his wife Martha Koehler and their two daughters. |