Hail, Ichneumonid Redux! February 9, 2008: Commentary about the "ichneumonids" continues apace, and again I must apologize for belabouring this topic—but Reginald Shepherd still seems to be missing the point that, Bernstein and I are not endorsing any hyperbolic comparison between poetic conflict and social genocide—we are merely citing (both critically and ironically) the very fact [...] by Christian Bök

Hail, Ichneumonid! February 9, 2008: Competing, scholarly priorities have prevented me from contributing to these interesting discussions on Harriet, and I fear that my own comments might seem very late in coming. Reginald Shepherd has expressed anxieties about the acid tone in an article by the poet Charles Bernstein, who formulates a sardonic rebuttal to an article by D. F. Fenza [...] by Christian Bök

UbuWeb at AWP February 6, 2008: I, too, have returned from AWP, exhausted by the experience. I fear that I have little to report of interest beyond the social gossip that such an occasion usually affords—but in the interest of generating some comments about audio-works of the avant-garde, I am going to include the links to the works on my playlist for the panel entitled [...] by Christian Bök

Random Poetry 07 January 25, 2008: ----------------- "WE" First utterance of Talking Popcorn by Nina Katchadourian ----------------- (more...) by Christian Bök

Random Poetry 06 January 25, 2008: ----------------- dhcmrlchtdj "distribution height closets may remote Library catalogue hardly to die just dead hands claim me repeat Library centre hexagons the do jumbles dreams hundred cannot matter rudimentary letter could have this did justified dimensions hope corridors met remote Library could have the discover juggle disappeared have cup [...] by Christian Bök

Random Poetry 05 January 24, 2008: ----------------- "thus can books that come I judge come infinite" (By coincidence, the first nine words drawn at random, in this order, from the jumbled lexicon of all words in an English translation of "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges) ----------------- (more...) by Christian Bök

Random Poetry 04 January 22, 2008: ----------------- "Contemplate hexagonal air normal closets each the is railing endlessly say great of dictum Centre hexagons and not capital exists librarian elegant the seated up says books remote each and that have established" (An acrostic text, generated by taking two short aphorisms about chance by Jean Baudrillard and using them to "read [...] by Christian Bök

Random Poetry 03 January 18, 2008: ———————————————— "I have seen old men who, for long periods of time, would hide in the latrines with some metal disks in a forbidden dice cup and feebly mimic the divine disorder." [A sentence quoted from an English version of "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges.] "T TTTT HTTH TTT THH TTH HTH HHHT TTHHTTT [...] by Christian Bök

Random Poetry 02 January 15, 2008: ----------------- "art, by, contemplate, distribution, except, free, galleries, hexagonal, is, just, know, letters, melancholy, number, of, part, quite, railings, shafts, this, universe, variations, with, you, zero." (First appearances of words that begin with a chosen letter of the alphabet in an English translation of "The Library of Babel" by [...] by Christian Bök

Random Poetry 01 January 14, 2008: ----------------- TRIUMVIRATE (The only English word that might be enciphered in the famous, random series of letters cited by Jorge Luis Borges, who writes in "The Library of Babel": "I cannot combine some characters, dhcmrlchtdj, which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible [...] by Christian Bök