the improbable
No. 3 Lingual Music — IN THIS ISSUE & INTRO: Guest edited by Alex Balgiu and Chloé Gourvennec, this issue is a catalyst, a manifesto, a conversation across time, language and musical propositions.
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✼ news:
Coming very soon! The printer is almost finished binding the second printing of Memory by Bernadette Mayer and the fourth printing of The Address Book by Sophie Calle. You can preorder your copy of one or both now—books will ship by the first week of December!
[...]the improbable
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE IMPROBABLE: “The Improbable takes its inspiration from Dick Higgins’ Something Else Newsletter just as his Something Else Press (1963–1974) is a totemic spirit for Siglio.”
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the improbable
No. 1 Time Indefinite — IN THIS ISSUE & INTRO: “Dear Readers … I suggested treatises, rants, manifestos, meditations, studies, lists, notes, but I also received a questionnaire, a novel excerpt, a film script …”
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✼ plaudit:
“How does a book’s static format capture the temporal, ever-changing nature of gesture, thought, music, all the motion that defines social history? By doing something very close to what I Will Keep My Soul accomplishes: breaking through the fourth wall of the page.”
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I WILL KEEP MY SOUL by Helen Cammock | A rhizomatic and particularly American story of art and activism, of culture and capital, of being and belonging, this prismatic artist’s book layers photography, historical documents, poetry and other texts, all rooted in the city of New Orleans.
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events
HELEN CAMMOCK in NEW ORLEANS — A polyphonous exhibition of film, poetry, performance, archival documents and books, 10/14/23 – 12/17/23
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✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
july 31, 2023 — It has been a wet and gray summer all around. Poet Keith Waldrop passed away a few days ago. Siglio had the immense honor to publish Keith’s luminescent collages—edited by the dearest of Siglio friends, artist-writer Robert Seydel—and the great luck to enter Keith and his soulmate Rosmarie’s rich and multifarious world of poetry, translation, publishing, community. No, not world; rather, galaxy, universe, cosmos. Their collaboration on the insistently vanguard Burning Deck Press chartered the outer reaches, yielding an indispensable map for siglio—and many other small presses.
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Several Gravities by Keith Waldrop — edited and with an essay by Robert Seydel
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excerpts
SEVERAL GRAVITIES — In his afterword, Robert Seydel writes about Waldrop’s collages: “Ghostings, hauntings, veilings, falling and ascending figures, drift are central terms for Waldrop, all concerning the in-between, in part the unbeheld.”
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✼ elsewhere:
“Not an object or a text but a name, a spirit: Jean Brown … The name ‘Jean Brown’ itself was, for me, the conduit of Howe’s “mystic, documentary telepathy.” When her name appeared on a citation, I sensed that this object or book had been carefully selected, cared for, considered, held.”
[...]features
Tupelo Quarterly (Forum) | Danielle Dutton, Lucy Ives & Lisa Pearson participate Feminist Poetics of the Archive, curated and moderated by Karla Kelsey
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the improbable
No. 2 Time Is Elastic — J. MAE BARIZO: “This mode of translation, one that is enacted in the colonizer’s language, is not enough; we need to think about the violation this blur of identity entails, how it can also ruin and obscure.”
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✼ not stones, not stale bread:
The book object. Object as aim. Object as thing. “In committing himself to book-objects, Dick Higgins confronted object status . . . the objectification of the creative act and the rise of art as a commodity object.” Call It Something Else at the Reina Sofia through January 22, 2024, curated by Alice Centamore and Christian Xatrec.
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No. 1 Time Indefinite — MATVEI YANKELEVICH: In his reassement of the Something Else Press, he writes, “The value of the small press has long been centered in its marginality in relation to commercial culture.”
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books
Intermedia, Fluxus and The Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
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affinities
Appreciation | JOSHUA BECKMAN AT POETs HOUSE: “My hope is to share some of the exuberance I have found … in the things Dick Higgins put in the world.”
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affinities
List | Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On: A bibliography of Something Else Press reprints, facsimiles, etc. that evinces the enduring love for SEP
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✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
september 22, 2023 — Every day blue skies, 71 degrees, and a slight, saltine breeze. Away from the ocean, into the city: heat that melts tar and soaks the concrete while waiting for a bus that seems to have evaporated. And then the ascension up the hill above the slow ooze of traffic on I-405 to the Getty Research Center where—shoed, socked and sweatered—our publisher delves into the Jean Brown Archive, a wholly other climate.
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