tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86627137823957908612012-01-13T09:30:54.831-08:00mark prejsnarnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662713782395790861.post-18146271977519367722008-07-19T09:31:00.000-07:002008-07-19T10:08:01.487-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Sold     in a make-shift, one moment     at the season.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Almost,  I remember a call   in the acid air:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">unscroll a long list ..                It means, the meetings of</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">people;  it means</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">locking together ages glances.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">--Helmut Sho</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8662713782395790861-1814627197751936772?l=miscproj.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mark prejsnarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662713782395790861.post-54788420723819955002008-07-01T17:45:00.000-07:002008-07-19T10:06:44.733-07:00Many heroic soldiers are marching.<div>Heads are buried.  Eyes are closed.<br /><div>Many heroic soldiers are marching.</div><div>Eyes are buried.  Mouths are buried.</div><div>Many heroic soldiers are marching.</div><div>Many heroic soldiers are marching.</div><div>Many heroic soldiers are marching.</div><div>Many hdroic soldiers ar narching.</div><div>Many hdiosh sodihf are msdrching.</div><div>Manony fhroicf svjfopd mdg</div><div>manfoihgbntb ing</div><div>dfikhfg</div><div>fviod</div><div>fte</div><div>d</div><div><br /></div><div>--Hank Holorenshaw</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8662713782395790861-5478842072381995500?l=miscproj.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mark prejsnarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662713782395790861.post-90551505828599214852008-07-01T16:00:00.000-07:002008-07-20T09:42:43.839-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">This is me being,</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">should be triumphant.  As</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">a red car, flaming</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">necessity.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Or</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">blown out by</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">landscapes</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">under the weight of the deck.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">Tangy gifts.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">I remember the armory</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">by the river,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">things that got stuck.  Where?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">by getting heaved</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">this is me being</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">should be triumph, spider, jump as</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">a red car</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">untaming</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">in decipher,</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">--Greg Mesa</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8662713782395790861-9055150582859921485?l=miscproj.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mark prejsnarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662713782395790861.post-4412618542740518292008-07-01T15:31:00.000-07:002008-07-20T09:37:33.226-07:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); ">miscproj is a continuation using blog software of the poetry magazine and newsletter,  Misc. Proj.,  which was published out of Atlanta for several years in the late nineties.  Each issue of the original publication was prefaced by a brief quotation i thought made a crucial point about poetry;  in that spirit,  here to kick things off are 2 such aphorisms:</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">"In aesthetics, any formal opposition will always be eventually overridden by artists who have learned to blur the contrasts or synthesize the opposing distinctions, as Cezanne learned to compose and draw through color."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">                                                                                          --Charles Rosen</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>and</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">"I hoped (at least I see that in retrospect) to create a text in which an entire global consciousness was present in each sentence."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">                                                                                           --Richard Foreman</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">--Mark Prejsnar</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8662713782395790861-441261854274051829?l=miscproj.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>mark prejsnarnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8662713782395790861.post-68905239594132296632008-01-01T17:38:00.000-08:002008-08-08T08:51:32.561-07:00Below are copies of the five issues in Misc. Proj's inital run (1996-1998). They are downloadable in .pdf format.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SIUzzuUS9DI/AAAAAAAAAAg/aTNY4TW34g0/s1600-h/issue+1+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 190px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SIUzzuUS9DI/AAAAAAAAAAg/aTNY4TW34g0/s320/issue+1+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225639906332832818" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.aslongasittakes.org/miscproj/misc%20proj%201.pdf">Download Issue 1</a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SIUu9q4Ew8I/AAAAAAAAAAY/BfG3ECFbWe0/s1600-h/misc+proj+issue+2,+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 215px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SIUu9q4Ew8I/AAAAAAAAAAY/BfG3ECFbWe0/s320/misc+proj+issue+2,+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225634579649708994" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.aslongasittakes.org/miscproj/misc%20proj%202.pdf">Download Issue 2</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SJxqQMxAGFI/AAAAAAAAAAo/DcfE4aSYZBw/s1600-h/issue+3+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 216px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SJxqQMxAGFI/AAAAAAAAAAo/DcfE4aSYZBw/s320/issue+3+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232173693634877522" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.aslongasittakes.org/miscproj/misc%20proj%203.pdf">Download Issue 3</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SJxqeC8WTWI/AAAAAAAAAAw/Klap595Y0LQ/s1600-h/issue+4+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 233px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SJxqeC8WTWI/AAAAAAAAAAw/Klap595Y0LQ/s320/issue+4+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232173931516284258" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.aslongasittakes.org/miscproj/misc%20proj%204.pdf">Download Issue 4</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SJxqhbwUa9I/AAAAAAAAAA4/9y5oR3tUy0o/s1600-h/issue+5+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 227px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__XL6tJtfDJ8/SJxqhbwUa9I/AAAAAAAAAA4/9y5oR3tUy0o/s320/issue+5+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232173989716323282" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.aslongasittakes.org/miscproj/misc%20proj%205.pdf">Download Issue 5</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8662713782395790861-6890523959413229663?l=miscproj.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>James Sandershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08828566656093043482noreply@blogger.com0