about / the unending cannot-at-all-canonº

Celan Salon, an unending series of canonicity at Schoen Books, that Old Firehouse in South Deerfield, under the umbrella of the Robert Walser Society of Western Massachusetts, began November 14, 2007 with a Reading by Lewis Freedman, Tyler Meier, and M. Kasper, which begat a Reading by Seth Parker and Rod Mengham which begat a reading by Heather Christle and Christopher DeWeese which begat a Reading by Daniil Kharms and Phil Cordelli and Nick Rattner which begat a Reading by Joshua Bolton and Natalie Lyalin which begat a Reading by Michael Casey, who begat Sean Casey, and Sean Casey on Father’s Day which begat Readings by Aloysisus Bertrand, Jack Christian, Jess Fjeld, Ben Kopel, Seth Landman, Bob Moore, Edward Mullany, and Emily Toder which begat a reading by Emily Toder, Ryan MacDonald, and Manny Karkowsky which begat a Reading by Susan Bernofsky which begat a Reading by Uljana Wolf which begat a Reading by Four Poets (Lewis Freedman, Emily Toder, Francesca Chabrier, & Alex Phillips) in Four Minutes (the first four) with the Corresponding Society and Polina Barskova which begat a Reading by Eleven Poets in Eleven Minutes (Seth Landman, Ben Kopel, Guy Pettit, Emily Pettit, Luke Bloomfield, Christopher DeWeese, Heather Christle, Brian Baldi, Lesley Yalen, Phil Cordelli, Jono Tosch) with Jacob Otting v. Amanda Nadelberg which begat a Reading by Six Poets by Six Minutes (Carson Cistulli, Ben Estes, Ari Feld, Lewis Freedman, Mark Leidner, Emily Toder) which begat a Reading by Rosmarie Waldrop and Keith Waldrop which begat a Reading by Blake Butler, Samuel Ligon, and Robert Lopez which begat a Comedy Act Not To Laugh At by Mark Leidner v. Jacob Otting which begat a Chuckwagon Exhibition by Jono Tosch and Ben Hersey with Art by Ali Osborn which begat the very Reading by Christian Hawkey, Piotr Sommer, and Matvei Yankelevich which begat this catalog.

ºSpasms, I love you, psalms

the feeling-wall deep in the you-cluse
rejoice, Seedpainted,

Ever, you are nevered,

forevered, Notever, you,

hey

in you, in you,

I sing the bonerodscratch,

redred, far behind the pubic hair

harped, in the caves,

outside, all around

the undending cannot-at-all-canon

you throw me the nine times

entwined, dripping

eyetoothcrown.

PAUL CELAN

(Spasmen, ich liebe dich Psalmen aus Fadensonnen

translation by N.O. w/r/t Pierre Joris’ and Ian Fairley’s)