WEEKS

1989, 8.5x7, 75 pgs, $8.50.

Photos by Barbara Rosenthal, introduction by Charles Bernstein. At one point in her life, this clairvoyant author saw her books on her forehead. This book, however, is a hearing of the world as it happens, one writing per week. One quickly learns by reading that there is no logic to disaster or everyday life. Of special interest to mediaglots.

"One idea leads to another One line before the day Hardly any money was raised Another idea leads to this eating chicken at Bernadette's Eating nuts at my house You dont have to read the newspaper on Guatemala but it sits on the table &nbspIt doesn't create life A stitch in time The page is written in for me I did it my self at another time In the spirt of creation Everyone is too loud There is never a reason for everything The ten best movies of the year In time on time They're upstairs making a decision that could save a man's life The death of Carl in case the heart doesn't fit him One inmate was killed by his fellow prisoners I'm too bored to talk to you I didn't know Carl I have my own deaths to remember The better the butter the bitter the writer More news to follow Pavorotti plus The image of pop corn So you could see just what a year on film it was There is no pleasure in starting at the top of a blank page They are having a wedding She likes the end papers but not the book Carrying the coffeepot on the tray requires two hands Incompetent was one of the Crimson's swearwords She spent more and more time in bed waiting for sleep and for dreams She wrote one page a day in this journal Answers to 700 questions about the Boston rock scene Looking to the past for their lost ideas I didn't want to tear everything down and start again The folding bed belonged to the poet Swinburne An answer to a prayer an unbeatable combination A nice sunshiny day I can bring to it the same passion and intensity that I thought, for years, I could only bring to the study of Russian history An off again on again countdown We have main engine start It is appropriate to start at the top of the page Today is the day to water the plant Harvard prepares to celebrate the 350th anniversary of its founding The Poetry Project's grant from the National Endowment was cut from 50,000 to 20,000 A Handwritten Modern Classic is difficult to read."