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Matt

Nonsense is serious business.

About Me

http://www.sincerityinc.blogspot.comOr"Matt Hart is a co-founder and editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking and Light Industrial Safety (www.forkliftohio.com). His poems, reviews, and essays have been published in various print and online journals, including: The Canary, H_NGM_N, Octopus, and Ploughshares. In 2005 Hollyridge Press published Revelated, a chapbook of his work, and his first full length collection, Who's Who Vivid, has just been published by Slope Editions (www.slopeeditions.org). He plays in the bands Squirtgun and Travel, and is also part of the Cincinnati based art project The 50 Shoes. He teaches writing, literature, and aesthetics at the Art Academy of Cincinnati."Beyond that, I have a dog named Daisy and a cat named Jackson.I like to read I like to read, etc.

My Interests

Logic, the Noumena, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Either: a) I've already met them, or b) they're dead.

Music:

Eric Dolphy, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Channel This to Aristotle Wherever He May Be, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, De La Soul, David Bowie, Hank Williams, Public Enemy, The Get Up Kids, Brainiac, The Clash, Shellac, The Jesus Lizard, Matisyahu, Karate, Black Flag, Elvis Costello, Kanye West, Marvin Gaye, Kiss, The Wrens...

Movies:

Pandaemonium, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Un Chien Andalou, The Blood of a Poet, Hamlet (2000), No Such Thing, The Decline of Western Civilization (part 1), The Man with the Movie Camera, earlier Woody Allen, Ghost World, Magnolia, The Return of the Living Dead, Scotland PA, Poetry in Motion, Basquiat, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rock-N-Roll High School, Another State of Mind, Pollock, Casablanca, North by Northwest (esp. the crop duster scene), Henry Fool, Naked Lunch, Crash, The Secretary, Lost in Translation, Me and You and Everyone We Know...

Television:

TV gets too much airtime as it is.

Books:

Poetry: Coleridge, Keats, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Bernadette Mayer, Dean Young, Ben Doyle, Olena Davis, Ethan Paquin, Tony Hoagland, Mary Ruefle, Charles Wright, Laura Kasischke, Stuart Dischell, Lyn Hejinian...Fiction and Drama: Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville, The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima, anything by Hemingway, This Is Not a Novel by David Markson, Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, On the Road by Kerouac, Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford, No Exit by Sartre, The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard, A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, William S. Burroughs (esp. Naked Lunch and cut-ups)...Reference Books, Anthologies, Philosophy and Criticism: The Dada Painters and Poets, The Oulipo Companion, Correspondence Art, Fiction 100, The Poetics of Indeterminacy and Wittgenstein's Ladder by Marjorie Perloff, Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard, Mythologies and The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes...

Heroes:

Most of my "heroes" (and I do use that word lightly), beyond the authors listed in the Books section, are artists: Robert Motherwell, Cy Twombly, Willem DeKooning, Carl Andre, Chris Burden, Raymond Pettibon, Eva Hesse, Jean Michel Basquiat, Jean Dubuffet, Rebecca Horn, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Joe Brainard, Kurt Schwitters, Ray Johnson

My Blog

Dear Readers...

This is just to let all of you know that 1) I'm moving this blog from myspace to: www.sincerityinc.blogspot.com and also 2) that I'm giving some readings this weekend out East -- Amherst, Br...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:03:00 PST

Howl & Regalia

"Physician Nature! let my spirit blood!O ease my heart of verse and let me rest:Throw me upon thy Tripod, till the floodOf stifling numbers ebbs from my full breast.A theme! a theme! great nature! giv...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:58:00 PST

NOTE: "Copy as hard as you can" (Dean Young).

Two from Alice Notley: 1) "...poets are often trying to imitate some master or model and failing and sounding mostly like themselves.  In a living poet's poetic voice, there is often the awkwardn...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:07:00 PST

If one substitutes the word "poems" for the word "stories"... or not...

Three Shapes: 1. "We may want the world of our stories to be rich and complex, even (apparently) unpredictable, filled with surprise.  But surprise depends on expectation.  If we have no exp...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:31:00 PST

In the Night Sky, Or the Resonance of Formal Beauty in Art...

"When limits, or choices, are displayed in the service of the possibility of meaning, in the making of art objects, we call the result beautiful.  That is, we stand before a painting by Vermeer, ...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:49:00 PST

Clayton Eshleman's Formulation

What might a responsible avant-garde in poetry today include? 1.  Radical, investigational writing that is raw, often wayward, in process; poetry as an intervention within culture against static fo...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:30:00 PST

Poor Receipts

"O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away." --John Clare from "Remembrances"
Posted by Matt on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:16:00 PST

Will the Real Michael Palmer Please Stand Up...

1. "But what of these shadow-flowers with yellow stems?/What of panthers in the skins of men?" -- from "Autobiography 7" 2. "There are certain things you can't just make up." -- from "Autobiograp...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:54:00 PST

Moby Dick

"For we are all killers on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included."  -- Herman Melville
Posted by Matt on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:53:00 PST

Light feet, dark violet eyes, and parted hair...

"My ear is open like a greedy shark/ To catch the tunings of a voice divine."  -- John Keats
Posted by Matt on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:27:00 PST