Category: oubliette
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Razing Arizona: An Interview with W. David Oliphant
W. David Oliphant has been making recordings for five decades. He is a recurring character in Arizona’s oddly under-examined outsider music scene. His list of collaborators is formidable. For instance, in the early 80s, he collaborated with one of his scene’s few known unknowns – Alan Bishop – in a band they called Maybe Mental. And…
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honey trap
ants carrying tiny organs, bits and pieces, livers lips arms gall bladders into the pall building something to seal away
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Those Pixels
Just last month, over two thousand viewers logged in to watch the live feed: four identical roads, crossing each other at this intersection and then branching out toward the different corners of the world like dirt-beaten tentacles.
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BULL MARKET- on Noam Hessler’s Officeparks
Noam Hessler loves words. This is the most generic thing one can say about a poet, even the definition of a poet, but once you get to the second poem in Officeparks, their debut book, and see/hear/read “fattoothed,” “Uppwards,” “Darkawful,” “Fatwet,” it is delightfully apparent that Noam Hessler loves words, especially aspirated consonants.
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Concrete Mansion
Within the foyer of the Concrete Mansion were four doors, a mezzanine, and a distant chandelier. The walls, floor, and ceiling were bare concrete. The floor was scraped and worn, the walls darkened by water stains. The mezzanine, also concrete, ran a square frame around the foyer.
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A TIRADE AGAINST: Conor Hultman’s Dice-roll Haiku
“飛び込む jumped in 音 sound 古池や old pond 水の蛙 frogs of water “ is the latest collected work of Conor Hultman, un-author of the monumental DOE, and co-uneditor of the soon-to-be infamous “no rejections” Loser litmag.
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ghost poems for organ bank
you look at all the businesses and buildings. you really have no idea that one of these businesses is having a serious problem.
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Facelessness: on Treriksröset’s Untitled (2019)
Tommy Carlsson recorded his first release as Treriksröset, Sexregler, in 2002, a few weeks after the birth of his son. “All instruments as my cock,” according to the liner notes.
