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A few more bits from last week: -A response to this blog, "I'm all for minimalism, but what's up with the links?" -Jennifer Scappettone gave a paper that touched partly on Tan Lin. Is there an affinity between ambient arts and boring/restful poetics? In a recent interview Bernstein keeps asking Lin, "Do you really want poetry to be boring?" Lin says yes, yes, yes. It would clear the mind for some other kind of operation. -Added to my west coast shelf Stephanie Young's Telling the Future Off and Brent Cunningham's Birds & Trees Forest. I was to buy a few more things at the book exhibit but it closed earlier than expected. By the time I went over to pick up my books the exhibitor's hall was empty. -Also purchased Nice to See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan, edited by Anne Waldman (Coffee House, 1991). -Patrick convinced me to get the new collection of Mac Low. A highlight for me, too, was lunch with him and SS