Press for CREDIT!
“One blurb, two blurb, three blurb, thirty blurbs.” by Sina Queyras, Poetry Foundation Harriett Blog, January 19, 2010.“CREDIT. Blanc Press 2009 by Mathew Timmons.” Reviewed by Vanessa Place, The Constant Critic, January 14, 2010.
“On Reviewing: Gregory Betts: An Inter-review, including on Mathew Timmons’ CREDIT.” by Gregory Betts, Lemon Hound, January 2, 2010.
“The book itself is excessive in a way that suggests a marvellous metonymy of the USA: at 800 pages, its scale is magnificent. … Before I even confront the content of the text, I can tell from its title, its means of publication, and this remarkable page of self-promoting blurbs in a self-published book about promotion, consumption, and the current culture of “inept budget management” that the book situates itself as a conceptual publishing project. Similarly, no one (or almost no one) will buy this book for its own inept budget management, which makes it an ideal (literally) site for interrogation of the problem it investigates and inhabits. … In Timmons’ case, the book perfectly fulfills the deconstructive gaze its material (which, until the book is actually bought and thus printed, remains a conceptual) shell concocts. … I always ask myself, where does this book’s originality begin? With the book object? The ink? The use of margins? The poetic forms? The language? Almost no books are original in these regards, though some like Timmons’ book manage this unlikely feat. These kinds of questions establish a significant context through which to encounter the creative act behind a text as original and as conceptually creative as CREDIT.”
“You’re pre-approved to buy my friend’s book. The catch? It costs $199.99” by Brian Joseph Davis, The Globe and Mail online, In Other Words (Books Blog), November 3, 2009.
on “Silliman’s Blog” in his curated list of links, November 3, 2009.