Body LIT

My Edmund

Kirby — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:43:34 +0000

Now it is I, sweet man, wishing you the best. Always. JK

85 years

Kirby — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:35:32 +0000

Still the place
to look.
Get lost.
Find.

STRAND
NYC

Photos: KIRBY

Pick

Kirby — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:59:24 +0000

OLENA KALYTIAK DAVIS Six Apologies, Lord
from The McSweeney’s Book of Poets Picking Poets, 2007. p29

Novel idea

Kirby — Sat, 26 May 2012 11:00:29 +0000

[via]

Poetry. Sin. Danger.

Kirby — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:40:37 +0000

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.”

Of endless books

Kirby — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:37:06 +0000

[via]

“What library? There’s nothing here.”

Kirby — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:26:34 +0000

Digital publication doesn’t just look different from print publication, it is by nature less stable. The machines, operating systems, and digital rights management software we use to access e-books are constantly evolving, and so are the things we can do to them, how they were written and edited and encoded, what they hold in terms of media. Just like everything else, all that is digital eventually falls apart. And terms like “bit rot” and “link rot” may not resonate but they should.

If subscription models continue to take off, if libraries continue not to be able to buy permanent access to e-books for their patrons outright, if even the Library of Congress and archival repositories are unable to accession original e-books and save copies for posterity, we could lose something of great value. Imagine if nobody had saved original editions of the Gutenberg Bible or A Canterbury Tale or Don Quixote; how much less would we know about our literary heritage?

BARBARA GALLETLY, “In the Digtal Era, Publication Isn’t Preservation,” Digital Book World, May 17,2012.

Above: TOM PHILLIPS A Humument

boy’s hideout

Kirby — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:47:44 +0000

[via]

“Mom—

Kirby — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:53:09 +0000

could you call me by my girl name?”

Join me as I facilitate tonight’s open book club
ANNABEL by KATHLEEN WINTER
OPL IROQUOIS RIDGE 7PM
FREE

A great pleasure

Kirby — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:26:59 +0000

DUANE MICHALS, Homage to Cavafy. Danberry, NH: Addison House, 1978.

Every book it’s story. This one I foolishly gave an unrequited—hopes it would offer some glimpse into my pining (alas, that never works). Finally, the book itself (my first love) has returned to me. It’s remains a great source of pleasure.

You remember

Kirby — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:55:55 +0000

and still, you catch the scent of solvent rising
from buried cells that ruled you as a boy.

Today's 'secret word'*

Kirby — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:36:32 +0000

Reblogged from Kirbs:

Thank you, Mr. President, for standing up for equality. Yours Truly, Pee-wee Herman-Clooney.

— Pee-wee Herman (@peeweeherman) May 10, 2012

* ‘presidential’

Body LIT

My Edmund

85 years

Pick

Novel idea

Poetry. Sin. Danger.

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.”

Of endless books

“What library? There’s nothing here.”

boy’s hideout

“Mom—

could you call me by my girl name?”

A great pleasure

You remember

and still, you catch the scent of solvent rising from buried cells that ruled you as a boy.

Today's 'secret word'*

and still, you catch the scent of solvent rising
from buried cells that ruled you as a boy.