The other day, I pulled a little chapbook called  going   going by Jen Hofer out of my bookcase. I was just looking for something small to put in my pocket and read when going out to grab some noodles and pick up my niece, who was taking one of the Chinatown buses in town.

I remember very clearly buying this chapbook. It was at a Poets Against the War reading at Skylight Books. I went because I love Skylight Books and because Wayne Kramer was reading. Wayne showed up in an orange, prison jumpsuit and read some works in his hyper, rat-a-tat-tat style (he reminds me, in that respect of my friend, the Florida poet Brad Morewood – though Brad has never been, so far as I know, a seminal punk musician like Wayne).

I can also say without a doubt, that this occurred on January 13th, 2008. I know that because Jen wrote it in the chapbook.

going  going is a little handmade number, constructed out of index cards and postcard from Death Valley, clipped together at the upper left hand corner. Whether it was done on a typewriter or not, it wonderfully mimics the font of an old, manual typewriter. The whole thing has a sort of Larry Eigner feel (though I say this having read very little of Eigner – I leave it to my betters to correct me in my comparison).

It is a good, hard edged books of politically aware (if not always explicitly political) poetry. It was put out by the small internet mag and sometime chapbook publisher, Dusie if you wanted to try and find it.