Robert Grenier’s *Sentences* are (is?) now up on the net at the Whale Cloth
Press (http://www.whalecloth.org/) web site. There is also a link on the
Grenier page at the Electronic Poetry Center
(http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/grenier/) that at least yesterday took you
directly to the cards themselves – but I think it makes more sense to head
first over to publisher Michael Waltuch’s useful notes & it’s both fun &
valuable to take a look at the images of the box itself. The electronic site
comes very close to replicating the experience of the box itself. Each time
you go through the stack, the cards will appear in a different order. I’ve
gone through it at least a dozen times in the past couple of weeks, and I
don’t tire of the process at all.
In New York City on February 8, Grenier will give a reading/slide
presentation at the Marianne Boesky Gallery
(http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/index2.php ) in Chelsea, 535 W. 22nd
Street, at 8 PM, 212-680-9889. In addition to the reading/slides, Grenier
is, in the gallery’s words, “debuting 2 new suits of iris prints of his
drawn poems, and a series of photographs from the notebooks.” These editions
will be on view and for sale at the gallery. The gallery plans to keep the
prints on display in its viewing room for the following week.
Small Press Distribution, incidentally, lists Sentences Towards Birds, the
1975 L Press selection, as still available at $15. This selection of about
50 cards differs from The Box in part also because of the typeface, a crisp
Times Roman rather than the blocky Courier of Sentences. However, as only
100 copies of Sentences Towards Birds were printed & the SPD website
characterizes it as a paperback when in fact it is a pack of cards in a
specially printed manila envelope, I would call SPD directly before I
ordered that item: 800-869-7553 (free phone call within the United States).
(http://www.spdbooks.org/ )
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