Showing posts with label Damaged. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Damaged. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

How to Catch the Fishes of the Sea

***UPDATE***

After being accessed by David Leavitt on the legalities of publishing translations of deceased authors without permission, and out of fear of legal retributions, I have decided to temporarily (hopefully) delete all translations of José María Lima's work on the Instruction Manual until I have official permission to do so.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

- AR 4/26/10


José María Lima was a poet, mathematics professor, and painter born in Ceiba (1934-2009), a place he speaks of as, “What impacted me the most was that my ancestors owned the lands of Roosevelt Roads and those lands were taken away from me." He was raised in an evangelical family but considered himself an atheist.

The journal, Universidad, edited by Juan Ramón Jiménez, published María Lima’s first poems in 1954. Ramón Jiménez wrote as the heading of María Lima’s first poetry collection, “José María Lima, you are a true poet and I am pleasured to have come to this realization for myself.”


José María Lima, poeta, profesor de matemáticas y pintór, nació en Ceiba (1934-2009), lugar sobre el cual comenta: “Lo que más me marcó es que mis antepasados eran dueños de los terrenos de Roosevelt Roads, y me los quitaron.” Crece en el núcleo de una familia evangélica, pero se considera ateo.

En el 1954, publica sus primeros poemas en la revista Universidad, a cargo de Juan Ramón Jiménez, quien le escribe las líneas que luego fungen como epígrafe al poemario: “José María Lima, es usted un verdadero poeta, y me alegro de haberlo sabido por mí mismo.”



Joseph Moore

CircoCirco’s drummer got a poem published. He is a man of many names, so to avoid confusion, you decide who he is. Check out his poem at Muumuu House HERE.


Damaged Review

New review of the Andy Riverbed poetry collection by J.A. Tyler published on Mudluscious. Check that out HERE.


La Cara Oculta

New Cara Oculta tape, Dee Dee Ramone, is out. Contact them HERE for details.

Check out “Señor Eaglebauer”



Amoricide

New blog documenting the interaction between Rey Andújar and Andy Riverbed as they little by little get Andújar’s latest story collection published in the Riverbed’s English translation. Check out that site, Amoricide, HERE.


Radiation Newsletter Issue #2

Coming Soon!

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Copies of Issue #1 still available featuring coverage on Wall-Attacks 1 through 2, an interview with the Culprits, 1-800-RAMONES, How to Wheat Paste, and French Poets attacking the walls back in the day.

Check it out HERE.


New Translations!


Siete versions de la misma cosa

1

Ayer en el autobus estuve sentado al lado de un viejo. Nuestras piernas se tocaban. Por millas nos mantuvimos quietos sin hablar. En una parada, una muchacha nos pasó por el lado. El viejo la observo y me hizo gestos para que yo la mirara también.
“¿Diablo, que jevota, ah?” dijo y me viró la cara y me sonrió vivazmente.
Traté de pensar en algo que decirle.
“Sí,” le dije. “Me encantaría mordele las cejas y pegármelas sobre los labíos. Siempre he querido un bigote.”
El viejo se reacomodó en su asiento y nos mantuvimos con las mirada hacia delante por lo que nos quedaba del camino.

2


La muchacha pasó y el viejo me dió un codazo, invitándome a mirarla.
“¿Y eso, nene? ¿Qué piensas?” dijo.
Le sonreí y le asentí con la cabeza. Después le dije en alta voz, “Sí, estoy de acuerdo contigo y con lo que estás sugiriendo. Quisiera tener sexo con esa muchacha. No sé quién es pero creo que los dos podemos acordar que deberíamos pensar en su cuerpo y en chingarla. Estoy bien bellaco. ¿Y usted, está bellaco? Vamos a juntarnos y pensar en qué le haríamos.”

3

La muchacha nos pasó por el lado y el hombre se aguantó la cabeza con las manos. Su cabeza rebotaba de su falda con cada curva posterior que tomó el autobus durante el viaje.

4

La muchacha nos pasó por el lado. En lo que que ella nos pasaba, temporeramente me bloqueó la vista de la ventana y ya no podia ver el campo que había afuera. Me molesté porque recordé que estaba en un autobus rumbo a algún lugar y ese lugar probablemente requeriría algo de mí que yo podría saber o no saber qué hacer con ese algo, y quien estuviera ahi, aunque solo fuera yo mismo, me juzagaría capaz o incapaz.

5

La muchacha me pasa y se desmonta del autobus y baja por la carretera y nunca la veo de nuevo. Ella nunca pensará en mi en lo que camina millones de caminos en los cuales nunca coincidimos.

6


Estoy casi dormido cuando el autobus hace una curva y la luz del sol se dispara por la ventana. El hombre sentado al lado mio se vuelve rígido. Apunta con el dedo a la luz de forma cúbica sobre mi camiseta.
“¡Mierda! ¡Que jodienda! ¡Quítatelo! ¡Rápido!” me grita y se inclina hacia atrás apuntando. La luz sobre mi camiseta crece. “¡Quítatelo! ¡Está encima de ti! ¡Que hostia!”
Retrocedo para evitar la luz del sol. Pierdo vista de él porque la luz del sol cúbico me cubre la cara.
“¡Te tiene cubierto! ¡Muévete, por favor!”
Sus gritos se vuelven más como quejas patéticas y sus quejas se vuelven mojadas entre los tartamudos de los músculos de su garganta.

La muchacha pasando es solo una parte de un sinnúmero de cosas.

7

Ignoro al viejo y a la muchacha. Siento un timbre, un rintintín, comenzar dentro de mis oídos. Estoy conciente de este timbre. Es lo único que siento y percibo. Este sonido hace que no pueda escuchar mis pasos cuando me desmonto del autobus. De alguna manera sé que he llegado a mi parada. Camino hacia mi casa. De alguna manera conozco el camino. Alguien me persige a treinta pies de distancia. Tengo miedo, pero no debería. Nadie me quiere asesinar. Trato de abrir la puerta rápidamente. Mi apartamento esta oscuro. Me siento en mi sofa y me preocupo de cosas que no están presentes. Dejo que todos mis deberes giren por dentro de mi cabeza, pero en fin no hago nada. Me siento cansado y por fin listo para dormir. Voy a mi cuarto y cierro la puerta. A mitad de la noche me despierto. No me vuelvo a dormir. En vez, observo con ojos entre abiertos como la ventana en mi cuarto se aclara. Ya es casi tiempo de volver a montarme en el autobús.

- Translated by Andy Riverbed with proofs done by Marina Reyes Franco


Seven versions of the same version

1

I sat next to an old man on the bus yesterday. Our legs touched. We sat still and silent for miles. A girl walked by us at a stop. The old man watched her pass and then nudged me. He motioned for me to look too.

"Whew! Huh?" he turned and smiled at me, face alive.

I tried to think of something to say.

"Yeah I know," I replied. "I'd sure love to bite off one her eyebrows and glue it to my upper-lip. I've always wanted a moustache."

He readjusted himself in his seat and we sat staring forward for the remainder of the ride.

2

The girl passed by and the old man elbowed me hard. Entreating me to look.

"Man, how bout it huh?" he said.

I smiled and nodded. Then I spoke loudly. "Yes I agree with what I think you are suggesting. I would love to have sex with that girl. I don't know who she is but I think we can both agree that we should think about her body and having sex with it. I am aroused. How about you? Are you aroused sir? Let's think about what we'd do. Let's think together."

3

The girl passed us and the man put his head in his hands. His head bounced in his lap with each subsequent turn and bump in the road.

4

The girl passed us. As she passed, she temporarily blocked the window I was looking at, and the field outside. I became angry because I remembered that I was on a bus going somewhere and that somewhere would probably require something of me and I would either know or not know how to do that something and whoever was there if even just me would judge me capable or incapable.

5

The girl passes and leaves the bus and walks down the street and I never see her again. She will not think about me as she walks down the street into the millions of paths we never choose in accord.

6

I am almost asleep when the bus rounds a corner and sunlight shoots through the window. The man next to me becomes rigid. He points to the cube-shaped piece of light on my shirt.

"Shit. Oh shit. Get it off. Quick!" he screams and leans back, pointing. The cube on my shirt grows. "Get it off--it's on you--get it off. Oh shit!"

He crawls backwards to avoid the sunlight. I lose sight of him as the cube covers my face.

"It's all over you--move! Please!"

His yells become more like pathetic whining and the whining gets wet between the stuttering muscles of his throat.

The girl walking by is just one part of an endless number of things.

7


I ignore the old man and the girl. I feel a steady ringing begin in my ears. I am conscious of the ringing. It is all I can sense. It quiets my steps as I get off the bus. Somehow I know it is my stop. I walk home. Somehow I know the steps. Someone is walking thirty feet behind me. I am afraid. But I shouldn't be. No one would want to kill me. I try to put the keys in my door quickly. The apartment is dark. I sit on my couch and worry about things that are not present. I let revolve in my head all the things I have to do, ultimately doing none of them until I begin to feel sleepy. I go to my room and lock the door. Halfway through the night I wake up. I do not fall back asleep. Instead, I watch with eyes half-closed as the window in my room becomes lighter. It is almost time to get back on the bus.

- Sam Pink

Thursday, December 25, 2008

How to Make Friendships Meaningful

Sometimes you can't.

Two Riverbed poems have been published at HeyShorty...!

Check out 'El muerto paraó' and 'Remember the kid whom was drive-by shot after-school en Bayamon?'

And don't forget you can pre-order the debut Riverbed collection, Damaged, throughout the month of December for seven bucks. Do that HERE.

Friday, December 5, 2008

How to Find the Truth

That's something you need to do alone.

There's a new band out around town called Circus Circus.

Check them out.

They're playing the Wayward Council the 16th of December.


Damaged, the debut Andy Riverbed collection is available to pre-order for just seven dollars. Check that shit out here!

Don't know if you want to drop billetes on this piece? Check out fabulous reviews here and here.

You can read some blurbs here.

Andy Riverbed will be reading at the Wayward Council the 17th of December.

*UPDATE*

Andy Riverbed will NOT be reading at the Wayward the 17th, but everyone who can go should still go, because some awesome bands will play, including, Scum of the Earth and la Cara Oculta (del rock n rol). Andy Riverbed will be in Puerto Rico from the 17th till the the 2nd of January. Hit him up if you wanna and are on the island at andy.riverbed@yahoo.com

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

How to Fix a Broken Heart

Cut a square hole into your chest. Remove your heart, tell it goodbye (it has no more power over you) and place it in a pail. Fill the pail with cement. While waiting for the cement to solidify, shoot up some junk. Drop the pail into the Atlantic Ocean. Next time beautiful eyes and tears cloud your mind, remember that you once had a heart but it lies on the ocean floor; you cannot reach it. Tell her you're sorry.

Two reviews, one by Jeff T. Kane and the other by Joe La Rosa, of the Andy Riverbed debut collection, Damaged, are now available to read here.

Another review of Damaged is available at What to Wear During an Orange Alert? done by Jason Jordan.

Thanks Jason, Joe, and Jeff. Anyone think it's weird that all my reviewers' names start with J? No? Hmmmm.....

Also a new book, Here Lies an American Dreamer, by the infamous P.H. Madore is now available here.

Tell everyone you know.

Monday, November 10, 2008

How to Strengthen a Relationship

Break up and maintain intimacies. Intimacies include fucking and IV drug use.

Between September 27 and 28 Matty and Reilly, whom form the Mystery Books and also part of La Cara Oculta (del rock n roll), played three shows in two different counties in the state of Florida. They played the Pizza Palace on the 27th, then Orlando (along with a reading by Andy Riverbed), then Gainesville as La Cara Oculta (also a reading by Andy Riverbed). By the time they had all gotten to Gainesville, nobody cared about footage, but the Gainesville show was fun as hell too.

The Mystery Books at the Pizza Palace


The Mystery Books in Orlando


Now that you are in love with The Mystery Books, you can download their new album, "Russia" here.

Last weekend was The Fest 7, and that kicked fucking ass. There was a reading. Tao Lin shouted "Obama!" at people. Andy Riverbed fell asleep in random public places.

Tao Lin at the Breakfast Buffet


Andy Riverbed reads translations at the Breakfast Buffet


Andy Riverbed reads new shit


To avoid confusion here are the poems read:

Jesus de chavito

mujer vende a díos en el
metro. gabanes embriagados
le dicen que este no es
el lugar para su jesus.
jesus esta en el tren,
ella dice. jesus es el
chófer. tipa, por lo menos di que
jesus esta en la vía,
piensa el poeta.
jesus es el deseo
para decirle que se lo empuje,
murmura el cínico—
en lo que ve porno en su ipod—
un borracho apestoso
se para:
“¡mis pantalones estan desgarrados
he roto mis zapatos!”
el cínico grita, “¡asique tu eres
jesus! ¡mujer, vete pal otro carro!
¡llevate este jesus apestoso contigo!”

10¢ Jesus

woman sells god on the
subway. tipsy suits
tell her this is not
the place for her jesus.
jesus is on this train,
she says. jesus is the
driver. at least say jesus
is in the tracks, lady,
thinks the poet.
jesus is the desire
to tell her to stuff it,
whispers the cynic—
while looking at porn on his ipod—
a smelly, ripped-pants, drunk
stands up:
“my pants are ripped
I’ve ripped my shoes!”
the cynic yells, “so you’re
jesus! woman, get to the next car!
take this stinky jesus with you!”

-Ra Gabriel

Consumeristamor

¡Corre amor mío! ¡Corre, que te patentizo!
No dejes que te haga mercancía de mi poesía,
brincando de poema en poema cada vez que se me antoje consumir tinta en un papel…

¡Corre amor mío! ¡Corre, que te patentizan!
Aléjate de tu casa, de tal calle, de x urbanización;
no te encuentres al alcance de precios;
escóndete de los que contratan y adquieren derechos,
los que auspician y consumen,
y ahora de seguro te consumirán y te auspiciarán…

Tú, empaquetá, en la vitrina loca porque te saquen de la tienda.
¿A qué precio?
¡Yo, empaquetao en mi vitrina, sin poder comprarte!

Ambos destinados al combustible, a los vehículos,
a los anuncios,
a la propiedad privada y a la deuda.
¿A qué precio?

¡Corre amor mío, corre! Que nos patentizan…

Consumerist Love

Run my love! Run, because I want to patent you!
Don’t let me turn you into a commodity of my poetry,
jumping from poem to poem each time whim takes me to consume ink on page…

Run my love! Run, because they’ll patent you!
Leave your home, in that street, in x suburb;
don’t find yourself at the grasp of prices;
hide from those who’ll contract you and keep the rights,
who’ll sponsor and consume,
and now surely they’ll consume and sponsor you…

You packaged on display, crazy to be freed from this store.
At what price?
I’m packaged on display, unable to buy you!

We are destined to fuels, to vehicles,
to advertisements,
to private property, and to debt.
At what price?
Run my love, run! They want to patent us.

-Alfredo 'Cofre' Perezjurado

Gato, poema, y notas

no era gran cosa
las hojas de arce se estaban volviendo
un rojo almibarado y caían
a la cera
gente caminaba sus perros
en la cera
cargando sus bolsitas
carros paseaban
un avíon proyectaba su cuchillo atraves la gelatina
del cielo
gatos jugaban en
el patío
changos nidaban en
las muletas de arboles
viejos

no era gran cosa
hasta que las gomas se resbalaron

Notas: es una cosa increíble. Una reliquía de verdad. El padre, un hombre de aparencía gracioso de Londres, había tenido una esposa de Indonesia que siempre corria por to laos casi desnuda. Piel terrible. Ella se desaparecío un día. El dijo que no entendíamos como ella no podía bregar con los EEUU. Ya no importa. Ellos vivían en la casa al lado del mío, pero no tan grande. El mío es el mejor de la calle. Su esposa nueva volvío pa Texas despues del accidente. Ella era mona—mas de mi gusto que la Filipina—pelo corto, nariz pequeño, pecas, y dientes grandes. Me gustan dientes grandes y fuertes en una mujer—le da caracter. Su nombre era Kathy, con una ‘K.’ Me sentía mal por ella. Ella vino una noche pa darme algunas de sus cosas antes de que empaquetara y se largara. Me dejo el gato del nene. Ahora tengo tres, cual es una jodienda, pero no podía decir que no. Le quise preguntar que se quedara conmigo—que se mudara. Yo la sentía tan necesitada. Ella perdío todo que le importaba. Pero volvío a su hogar. Pa Texas. Lo increíble fue que encontraron el poema en la ruína. Me lo dío con el gato, Rusty. Dijo que lo publicara, asique aqui esta para que todos lo lean. Ese maldito accidente. Esas hojas resbalozas.

Cat, Poem, and Notes

it wasn’t much of anything
the maples were turning
syrupy red and falling
at the sidewalks.
people walked dogs
on the sidewalk
carrying their little bags
cars ambled past
a plane cast its knife across the jelly
in the sky
cats were playing in
the yard
crows brooded in
the crutches of old
trees

it wasn’t much of anything
till the tires slipped


Notes: it’s an amazing thing. A relic really. The dad, a funny looking man from London, he’d had an Indonesian wife, always running around half-dressed. Bad skin. She disappeared one day. He said we couldn’t understand how she couldn’t take the U.S. Not important now. They lived in the house next to mine, not quite as big. Mine’s the best on the street. His new wife moved back to Texas after the accident. She’s cute—much more my type than the Filipina wife—short hair, small nose, freckles, and big teeth. I like big, strong teeth in a woman—gives ‘em character. Kathy was her name, with a ‘K’. I felt really bad for her. She came over one night to give me some of her stuff before she packed up and left. She left the boy’s cat with me. Now I have three, which is a handful but I couldn’t say no. I wanted to ask her to stay, with me—move in. She seemed so needy. She lost everything that mattered. But she went back home. All the way to Texas. The amazing thing is they found the poem in the wreck. She gave it to me with the cat, Rusty. Said to publish it, so here it is for all of you to read. The damnedest thing that accident. Those slippery leaves.

-Ra Gabriel

And guess what? Andy Riverbed's debut collection is availble to preorder here. It only cost $13.95 if you preorder through Paypal. If you don't have a Paypal, hit up andy.riverbed@yahoo.com and something will be done.

There's an interview with Andy Riverbed mediated by his publisher, Ra Gabriel, in which Riverbed talks much shit. Check it out here.

Tell everyone you know.

Monday, October 6, 2008

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

So I'm kinda bored right now and feel I haven't posted anything in a while. Last week I was supposed to have posted the Mystery Books/Andy Riverbed bi-county, two shows, two bands, and a poet footage, but that got fucked. If you wanna know why it got fucked, you need to ask Rilly, because it depresses me too much to speak of. That footage will eventually come up soon along with some other goodies. For now I got the shit that's been said about my upcoming debut poetry collection being published by Coatlism Press in January, Damaged.

"A lot in here—a little hipster chill, bicultural gape, a slight narcotic slur. Andy Riverbed comes to his aphorisms honestly. His stuff sticks around. Nice drawings. Nice words."

-Jacob McArthur Mooney, author of The New Layman's Almanac.

"Big balls; a little nuts. Reminds me of a young Cortazar. Riverbed is the most original writer I know of under the age of 25."

- Matt DiGangi, head editor of the Thieves' Jargon.

Spread the word like cool cats spread aids back in the day: with no protection.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

DAMAGED, Andy Riverbed's debut collection

Damaged Cover

BOOYAAHH!

Will be released January 1st, 2009.

If interested in a free copy to talk shit about, email:

andy.riverbed@yahoo.com

Tell everyone you know.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

ANDY RIVERBED SAYS, IT'S TIME TO PARTY!

Andy Riverbed read poetry from his upcoming debut poetry collection, Damaged, coming out sometime between September and October from Coatlism Press last Sunday night.

Part 1


Part 2 - Andy Riverbed reading Charles Simic's '"White."


Part 3


Andy Riverbed read along with punkers: At Will, KGBeast, La Cara Oculta; and hip-hoppers: Scum of the Earth and Cerebral Posse.

Sorry to Scum of the Earth and Cerebral Posse, because the footage ran out for them.

Thanks to Reilly for videotaping Andy Riverbed.

At Will


KGBeast


La Cara Oculta (del rock n' roll)