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September 30th past I read and lectured at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia for my anthology The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (UC Press). The video is at http://media.sas.upenn.edu/watch/102088 , the mp3 at http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Weiss/KWH_09-30-2010/Weiss-Mark_The-Whole-Island-reading_Writers-Without-Borders_KWH-Upenn_09-30-10.mp3. Best, Mark New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape. $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out, the more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem." M.G. Stephens, in Jacket. http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml