Top Tens UbuWebUbuWeb Top Ten:
December 2006
Selected by Raphael Rubinstein
1. Clark Coolidge, "I Kicked into Precise Space Without Touching"
2. Frank O'Hara, "Adieu Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul" (MP3)
3. Susan Howe, "There is No Good on Earth and Sin is But a Name" (MP3)
4. Leevi Lehto, "Google Poem"
5. Christopher Logue, "This is the Final Statement" (MP3)
6. Tan Lin, "The Edge of Summer Cleans Autumn"
7. Gherasim Luca, "Son Corps Leger" (MP3)
8. Nicholas Moore "Spleen: Thirty-one versions of Baudelaire's Je suis comme le roi..."
9. Ara Shrinyan "2005 Resolution: I Promise to Write Better Poetry" [PDF, 5.2 mb]
10. Louis Zukofsky, "Julia's Wild"
11. Ogden Nash "Word About Winter" (MP3)
12. Charles Bernstein reads "The Yellow Pages" (MP3)
13. Patrizia Vincinelli "Sette Poemi" (MP3)
14. Gertrude Stein "If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso<"/a> (MP3)
15. Guillaume Apollinaire "Le Pont Mirabeau" (MP3)
Raphael Rubinstein is a poet and a senior editor at Art in America. He has just edited an anthology titled Critical Mess: Art Critics on the State of their Practice (Hard Press Editions). A book of poems, The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces, is forthcoming from Make Now Press.