SFBG How do you manage to print biweekly/bimonthly? How have Try's content and the submissions changed over time (if they have changed)?
DB We usually manage to print by the seat of our pants. There's invariably some logistical or financial obstacle. We've tried to learn the lesson of incorporating setbacks as constraints governing the production of the product — a sort of chance operation. And as it's turned out, issues we've produced in this way have often been far better than what we imagined in the first place.
I love this: to learn the lesson of incorporating setbacks as constraints governing the production of the product
It reminds me what my somatic poetics is often like, must be like, is OK to be like...Denise Leto and I are trying to work through a collaboration together, our 'suspension', a poetics that is reflects the processual hang ups that is writing through disability. The failure to get out of bed or stay out of the operating room as the constraints which govern a written product that maybe in the end, is an imaginative success.
It is somewhat like all the construction work in my eye--the reservoir or bleb to better manage the outflow and thus lower intraocular pressure. Like, maybe, the most workable model is to just let things flow out in little bits instead of storing them up....
or, from 'suspension', last night, I wrote:
Float--how not to be exhaustive. touching lightly on one thing with the writing before moving on to another. Intending that that touch was enough to open out, deeper into a space that can hold.
In some rune card systems, the manatee means trust.
The bleb is a delicate thing, the post-op, and now the new pre-op, intstructiosn tell me. "your bleb requires your care and attention." Dr. Lieberman adds, "kill some goats and say your prayers, I'm not god, sweetie." (While in th surgical suite 2 weeks ago, I learned--because my mind always wages a tenacious fight against anesthesia--I like to drive the plane--that Lieberman can't go back toTibet this year to continue his cataract clinic. Every time, it is a fight with the Chinese government to get back in and I guess he lost that fight, at least for this year,)
I will go back to meditating on my bleb now, and not writing, but here is one more thing from TRY!
SFBG Do you like photocopiers? What tips do you have for people who want to use them?
DB and SL Man, we fucking love photocopiers. And materiality. What is done by hand. We are not about the Internet. We are about a physical object that contains many people's work passing hand to hand.
>> News from The New Reading Series @ 21 Grand:
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>> tireless efforts of editors David Brazil and Sara Larsen, as well as
>> the release of the thirtieth issue. To mark the occasion, 30 readers
>> will each present a piece of their choice from one of the magazine's
>> previous issues. The gallery space will be filled with an assortment
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>> Since Spring 2008, TRY! magazine has been a vital organ of the Bay
>> Area writing community. Each issue of TRY! reflects and inspires
>> various component parts of the Bay Area writing and art scenes.
>> Printed every two weeks and distributed by hand at events in the
>> area, TRY! is an immediate and transitory socio-aesthetic practice.
>> TRY! issues are always free of charge. To read an interview with the editors, please click here.
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>> *6:00pm (please note earlier start time)
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>> 21 Grand, 416 25th Street, Oakland
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