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I AM GOING TO HAITI, $$$$$$, LOVE,
SAVE THE WORLD, COUNTRY SINGING, $$$$$$$, READING MATTER

dear friends

i have been invited to join a UN mission to haiti, as the interpreter for a group of trauma clinicians.  i will be in+around port-au-prince from this thursday, march 12, until march 19.  the group will be working primarily with traumatized doctors, nurses, and other medical workers, as well as children, orphans in particular.

i know you have plenty of places to put your $: into the mouths of your children for example.  i must raise $2500 in order to cover airfare, travel insurance, immunizations, malaria medication, mosquito netting, art supplies (for the children we will work with), and feminine hygeine + contraceptive items (for the grown people)– happy international women’s day, by the way.

of course my going is highly imprudent: i shun regular employment, am uninsured, among other things, and have perhaps too slender an attachment to things like regular domicile.  many of us have shared wine, days, nights, beds, floors, and journeys, for years.  i trust you know i love you and i’m very happy to know that love is something we’re mighty rich in.  there is no such thing as saving the world.  if you’re broke, come over some time.  wherever over ends up being.

if you care to and if you can, please DONATE to help me cover expenses for this project.  i will be the only french speaker on the team: they need me.

read on for some news about art projects, and how i intend to thank you for your material support.

MERCURY, my next Fence book, will be out fall 2011.  it is a fat one: five full-length books in one.  in partnership with small and tiny presses, i will release, at seasonal intervals, three of the books that are included in MERCURY in signed and numbered limited editions.   the first out is SAVE THE WORLD, due this summer from m-o-m, and if you contribute $50 or more toward this mission, i will thank you with a copy.  you can hear a few versions of SAVE THE WORLD at pennsound, those of you who like to squeeze the melon before you buy.

it appears i am turning into some kind of fucked up country singer.  i am making a record with the legendary marc ribot this summer, for john zorn’s heroic tzadik label.  i’ll let you know more about it in the coming months.

do this.
DONATE DONATE DONATE DONATE
LOVE
ARIANA

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READ HIT PLAY TELEPHONE
READ THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF GRISÉLIDIS RÉAL
READ MY HEART LAID BARE
READ THE COW
READ DAN HOY | JON LEON’S GLORY HOLE | THE HOT TUB
SORRY COEUR DE LION IS SOLD OUT