Finally.
After a variety of setbacks that range from shitty printing presses (I said it, we’re on our third one – though this one’s great, really) to broken bones and the occasional flash flood, we are in the final stages of the process. We expect final-edit copies in the very near future, at which point we can do a quick sweep for glaring errors, and then get these suckers printed! Among the nearly overwhelming number of submissions (a fantastic problem to have), we have selected an eclectic group of artists – proud to have them involved.
Artist’s Spotlight: SJ Fowler, who will be introducing a band of relevant British Poets – giving us a glimpse into England’s modern poetry scene. www.sjfowlerpoetry.com
It’s going to be great. Stay tuned. http://northchicagoreview.com/2012/01/16/update-the-north-chicago-review-is-nearly-here/
An experimental, highly affecting experimental poetry and music performance for unsuspecting audience at Liverpool Music Week, commissioned by Mercy.
We asked SJ Fowler to produce a new performance, to accompany Jon Davis's new setting of Dustin Wong's seminal Infinite Love album, for guitar orchestra. In this collaborative show with Samizdat, we decided to produce two complementary works which explored 'trance', 'hypnosis' and the loop in relation to performance.
Steven asked his friend Ben Morris to collaborate with him on this project.
With language-based work, there is always a difficult hurdle to climb when we consider what is happening with something which tries to be 'abstract' and let the mind wander, while we use a concrete 'signifying' language. Steven changed the nature of this relationship by using an invented 'cod-yiddish' to perform his work. It's a really powerful peice, set of by Ben's finely balanced drone music.
SJ Fowler and Ben Morris - A Spy Vanderung Inem Vildness from Mercy on Vimeo.
Some information and discussion around this work here.
SJ Fowler & Patrick Coyle
Art Gallery Bouncer
2011
http://www.burningdeck.com/catalog/rinck.htmWith linguistic sophistication and a great deal of self-irony and humor, Rinck sets in tension the most disparate ideas “along with their margins.” Her tonal register shifts from harsh to vulnerable, from formal to casual and playful, from mockery to dreaminess. Her subject matter combines reflection on language and philosophy with everyday problems, animals, pop culture. And she is equally at home with Kant and Bob Dylan, Hölderlin and bar talk. The book is indeed a “tour de trance.”
Monika Rinck lives in Berlin. After studies in comparative literature and religion, she attracted attention with her Begriffsstudio, a website (www.begriffsstudio.de) and book (2001) of striking concepts and weird neologisms. Her first book of poems,Verzückte Distanzen, appeared in 2004, followed by the present volume, zum fernbleiben der umarmung (2007), HELLE VERWIRRUNG / Rincks Ding- und Tierleben(2009), and a book of essays, Ah, das Love-Ding (2006). Her many awards include the Ernst Meister Prize (2008), Arno Reinfrank Prize (2009) and Georg K.Glaser Prize (2010).
“As adaptable, multifaceted, and aggressively engaged as any voice in contemporary German poetry, Monika Rinck is a poet of intellect, experimentation and humour. Her work over the last decade has been marked by a singular turn of expression, the profound imbedded in a poetic discourse that disarms the reader… It is a careful and precise methodology.... Her work implies poetry has something akin to a responsibility, that it acts as a trace, a marker that can enlighten.” —S. J. Fowler, 3:AM Magazine/Maintenant #4
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