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Saturday, November 22, 2003
Ooo La-la & Wheeee: Tres Lenguas (um... mas o menos... ) !
2 tongues, 3 ways of being--
I confess, I just spent the last half hour falling in love--
no, silly, not real lovers,
but a blog in multiple linguistic perspectives, Peruvian, U.S. English, and Chinese (coming out of Beijing). I could not stop reading (whereas many of the hop-on blogs I find do not hold attentions for long). The entries here are about everyday things. A married couple, their baby, their lives in China, their writings. So compelling. I'm such a dufus peep-reader sometimes ! But do check it out--they are so cool: Half an Orange/Media Naranja. I'm sending an email to say hello.
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9:52 PM
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from Hoa Nguyen, Texfiles Featured Poet of the Week : *
[Roll in Your Skull Gone Green]
Roll in your skull gone green
like a mossy cog that wings
Sing the good times
You seem a tiny wrecked thing to me
something sacred where time has gone
old and green Norse
hymns bringing dawn
(93)
Cupid of Rocks and Flame
He wants to say desks and whisks
we are laughing at the glass
table that language isn't asks
how the tongue makes hiss with a clatter
of consonant spits Who are we
to make these noises to heed
I do he does too We are silly
poets a little drunk the night is
almost over The night won't be
over until you fall asleep Silly
Would you like a K sandwhich?
We wisely keep these thoughts
to ourselves
(98)
[Love is a Purple Angel]
Love is a purple angel
half mermaid s shaped
with a strong hip
Arms say danger: caresses
weakness on the back
of the beaked man-duck
Love has carved the back ground bare
the bat wing strut across the dome
held backs of arm wings
Heart: very skinny
(99)
* Hoa Nguyen, Your Ancient See Through. Honolulu: subpress collective, 2002.
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5:17 PM
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Wowed (by Kornblith translations at Venepoetics):
"...return to memories to annul memory..." yes, of course-- Guillermo Parra has posted 3 of his translations of Martha Kornblith's poems, and they are just knock outs. Thanks for this good work, Guillermo. I am reading and reading...
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3:05 AM
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Friday, November 21, 2003
Quiero decir Hola a blog, Libreria Sor Juana. Muy bueno!
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7:29 PM
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Just got back from the apartment complex mailboxes, several buildings down (not easy to get to): picked up my mail for the first time all week. I should have gotten to it earlier in the week so I would not have had to miss one important event. Postcard in the mail from Wendy Taylor Carlisle--one of my favorite poets--about her reading for Warp and Weft this past Wednesday (Nov. 19) at The Living Room Cafe, in Texarkana--Sorry to have missed it, Wendy! I'll definitely try harder to get to the next one.
Check out these poems of Wendy's in the Spring issue of Znine (and by the way: the new, Fall issue, of Znine will be coming out mid-December, and will include new work from Mark Weiss, Stephen Vincent, Clayton Couch. Also: an interview I did with Annie Finch.
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6:31 PM
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Coming up later this evening (after I walk): more poems from Hoa Nguyen,
Texfiles Poet of the Week
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6:21 PM
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start here/star there
startherestartherestartherestartherestartherestarthere
but for a space some ignorances become ingrown to concrete
leaflitterleaflitterleaflitterleaflitterleaflitterleaflitterleaflitter
sidewalks & statues for of generals become topic sentences for more bullhornmouth
somorebullhornmouthsaysomorebullhornmouthsaysomorebullhornmouthsaysomorebullhornmouthsay
books loan themes out to great lakes after glaciers rewind warm blowing bad ideas
rewindblowrewindblowrewindblowrewindblowrewindblowrewindblow
in the end foto is todo better spelt like this spilt unsplit
dofototodofototodofototodofototodofototodofototodofototodofototodofototo
and then there is always this circle position:
unfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunfunf
^ Playing around & found I liked this ^one^, so I posted it to As/Is ^
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6:13 PM
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Spring 04 Course: Engl 4330; Senior Writing Seminar: Poetry
Update (as of Nov. 24): new website/blog for this course; http://poetry_heat.typepad.com
Poetry_Heat: go have a look...
Students have been inquiring about my course and the booklist for next semester--spring 04. I decided the quickest way for them to get this booklist is just to refer them to the blog (since I have no other completed website yet). Thus, this post.
I'm teaching Engl. 4330, senior seminar in poetry writing. In my courses, writing also means lots of reading. I am planning a book per week, with some overlap or splitting, depending on the week and topics, of course. And I am still looking into 2 more selections. But here is the book list, so far--though the order of items on this list indicates nothing but how I randomly grabbed from the pile (with the exception of Ron's e-book, of course) here beside me to type things onto this screen:
1. Baptista, Josely Vianna, *On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids.* Chris Daniels, transl. Manifest Press, 2003 ISBN: 0-9673885-6-2
2. Tabios, Eileen R., *Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole.* Marsh Hawk Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-9713332-8-9
3. Johnson, Kent and Papaditsas, Alexandra, *The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek.* Skanky Possum Press, 2003. ISBN: N/A
4. Prevallet, Kristen, *Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-Text Projects. * Skanky Possum, 2002. ISBN: 0-9703952-3-X
5. Owens, Rochelle, *Luca: Discourse on Life and Death. * Junction Press, 2001. ISBN: 1-881523-12-8
6. Bernstein, Charles, *Let's Just Say.* Tucson AZ, Chax Press, 2003 ISBN: N/A
7. Schwabsky, Barry. *Opera: Poems 1981-2002.* Meritage Press, 2003.
8. Ai. Vice. *Norton, 1999.* ISBN: 0-393-32018-9
9. Turco, Lewis. *Book of Forms: a Handbook of Poetics. * University Press of New England, 1986. ISBN: 0-87451-381-2
10. Jonas, Stephen, *Selected Poems.* Talisman House Publishers, 1994. ISBN: 1-883689-06-6
11. Vincent, Stephen, *Walking.* Junction Press, 1994. ISBN: 1-881523-05-5
12. Rimbaud, Arthur, *A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat.* Louise Varese, translator. New Directions, 1961. ISBN: 0-8112-0185-6
13. Smith, Dale, *American Rambler. *Thorp Springs. 2000. ISBN: 0-914476-00-9
14. Silliman, Ron, *N/O* adobe reader ebook, 2002.
chris at
5:00 PM
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Check this out:
what a comprehensive list!
kari edwards's recommended readings (critical studies of gendering, intersexed lives, transgendered lives)
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2:25 PM
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The reading at Coffee Haus last night was wonderful: Amy Durham, who just won a prize in a Dallas poetry series, read more of her work, and she is one to watch--terrific poems, every one.
Rebecca Balcarcel also came and read new and fascinating work.
I read the poem posted yesterday and a couple of others posted here in the last month or so. We discussed the use of narrative versus ways of writing without it (which I happen to favor right now).
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1:23 PM
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Thursday, November 20, 2003
Radio UTA Featuring Vicki Sapp !
Tune in shortly (in about 15 minutes from now at 5:00) to Toni Manning's radio show on RadioUTA where today the program is featuring that wild, fun, witty, and incredibly beautiful writer, Vicki Sapp. Vicki is faculty in the English Department at UTA. Also reading today:
Amy Durham, UTA creative writing student
After the radio reading, join us at The Coffee Haus on Mesquite St. in Arlington, for a poetry reading.
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3:55 PM
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for H
your pudge
knuckle
small agile
& shrimp-pink
hands pinching dirt
laying out the corn--
desse soffer
deese to soffer
seeds i like--
you are saying down
the five distinct short rows
before
covering
it was a long
time ago
you
patting
four finger flat
dream-singing
cm
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12:39 PM
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from Hoa Nguyen,* Texfiles Poet of the Week :
Grey
From the fog of your window
you cry for moss covered fishes
sticks of bacon gone bad anything
that rings the haze from the sky
A boom of smoke where the land is
on fire no rain all month
now rain washing your shitty car
(90)
[Mean Suddenly Bitch woman]
mean suddenly Bitch woman
scolding the kids cutting through
the yard Stick out your arm
for the fuck you salute Bend into
duck lips I scratch little
rivulets Shake it little sluggard
Dress me in watermelon green
I want to dance putrid : shout
rub out the Y dividing line
(66)
The Tea is You You are the Tea
near the ruins of this hour
no longer
all
phenomenon
goes and wash
in linking waves
it is not the object seen
ruining my blue coat
go and tell somebody
returning to your true hour:
it is dark outside
it is dark in my mouth
the sun makes me burn
(91)
Hoa Nguyen, Your Ancient See Through Honolulu: Subpress, 2002.
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4:53 AM
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
from Dale Smith, at Possum Pouch Blog: "Eshleman on Vallejo"
**Clayton Eshleman's Presentation at UT Austin, Nov. 11, 2003**
This is a wonder of a post at Skanky Possum/Pouch, on the cultural influences on Cesar Vallejo's poetry, especially Trilce and the later work.
It was Eshleman's presentation to the Spanish Department at UT last week. Fantastico, that we are able to read it this way!
Thanks so much, Mr. Eshleman, and Dale Smith, for making it available for us here in blogland.
Thanks, too, Kent Johnson, for the word-up that you kindly posted to Comments at Limetree !
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11:33 PM
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Who's Been Telling it Like it Is, You Know, Blogging Too Honestly?--Microsoft Sucks
I dunno: is there such a thing as too much honesty?-- or is it just called being too revealing? I love a whistle-blower, one straight out of the muck-raker tradition. Even if it is only digital muck, it still matters a lot when you are a mere David facing off with the age-old mass of mythic power, Goliath. Ya kno?--but especially when you weren't really doing anything wrong, or not looking for any trouble from the man, tho the Goliath wants to build it up like you were. YaY!!--Underdogs! Woof!--on Blogger's main page there is a link up to this blog: Michael Hanscom's Eclecticism.
Michael got fired from his job at Microsoft because he posted a photo to his blog of some Mac G5s on a loading dock at Microsoft. He'd been blogging since 2000, longer than he'd been working at Microsoft. He was careful about what showed in the photo (nothing sacred), and he offered to take it down (I think he has--I went over there to see), but they still let him go. Way to go Microsoft, the people's corporation, the place where (if you cruise their homepage you find) slogans abound about "integrated solutions," and how to "add value to your business," or how good the company is about helping you "take your skills to the next level" so that you can participate in a "future of real-time collaboration." Yeah: Microsoft: what a bunch of way too much self-rah-rah about working together for your real-life-doo-doo in firing people over paranoid mass-reasoning.
Not that it'll help him with his old job problem, or in any new job he might get, but I'm adding a link here and on my blogroll to Michael's blog. I just want to show a little solidarity
and I want to add these 2 mentions:
1. Microsoft sucks for firing him. They get my DOO-DOO Award for 2003.
2. But on a brighter note about equitability, I really like the entry he's got up-top right now, and Michael's comment box has some interesting stuff being said, too:
"Same Sex Marriage Ok in Massachusettes"
Michael Hanscom, You Rock!
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8:57 PM
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C-I-O (check it out!) : The text for another new performance piece up at The Ongoing Show Great going, Sawako!
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7:17 PM
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Monday, November 17, 2003
from Hoa Nguyen,* Texfiles Poet of the Week :
[I Like the Light Blue]
I like the light blue with your dark slacks not
Long distance family pains & work work work
"Want me a tough love seat with firm pillows"
Touch has a memory O say, love, say
It's a cosmic shuffle you've broken into
Papaver Eraticum Rubrum
Like the moon's reply, the bayed moon
Friends smiling stepping out the door
Bring specific flowers I will not know the names of
Slowly pump your arms as you walk by
I do and it is dull if you won't call
The day is gone and sweets are gone
Like the moon, like your mom: fly children
The light and shade--a sort of black brightness
(36)
*
Mnemosyne
tracing the pink fading as a hand
print exactly because it was the thin
cotton had embroidered slowly as
your mother's fine crimson the crisp
leaves wouldn't cut a hand being she looked
at it rendered in thread but your back was
turned doodling roses on a notebook
funny how the innocent night gown
taking it out you don't remember what
it was you didn't stitch most
likely see through light blue garbage chore
maybe complicated flowers not
taking it out he came up from behind
surprising like that and your mother joined
you in the bathroom to see to say nothing
is the matter really as it fades there
(40)
*
[Pink Bridge Hearts that Look Like]
Pink bridge hearts that look like
flank steak my 3 fingers span
a pink landscape where women
sing bendly croon brown bundles
Ribbons of red for streaming
placenta blood the strength card
where queens subdue lions
I thump my fist through
tangle puzzle parts pull
wayward angel yards
(42)
[House on Fire My Mom's]
house on fire my mom's
past house a child she
lost the tea pot shaped
from a big hard fruit
Gone too the rain
trees how they curved
in to bring water
for store &nbps; (drink) wash
in the river
(47)
* Hoa Nguyen, Your Ancient See Through. Honolulu: subpress, 2002.
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10:18 PM
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Soon ^ (this evening): ^ more poems from Hoa Nguyen,
Texfiles Poet of the Week.
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6:07 PM
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Dept of Special Treats:
Announcing a Gray Wyvern Reading !
Mark your calendars for this special treat: Michael Helsem-- Gray Wyvern will be reading:
Sunday, December 7th
7 pm at Paperbacks Plus
6115 LaVista, Dallas, TX
Gray Wyvern's blog is one of my favorite and frequent reads. And I heard him read from his poetry during the terrific inaugural of Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics-- his work is a wonder at every turn. Really makes ya think! Do try to make it to this reading--I'll be there for sure.
Here's a little from his Sentence poem, "A painting is a mountain; video is water..." * :
4. Mountains don't fit on a map
...
7. We can play with a mountain but the mountain is always serious
...
10. Mountains are neither physical nor metaphysical
11. Petrarch was the first modern European to climb the Alps
(87)
See you there!
* Michael Helsem, "A painting is a mountain; video is water... ," in Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, v1. Dallas: Firewheel Editions, 2003
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3:26 PM
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Questioning Uses of the Term, "Hermaphrodite"
I'm commenting here on my choice of focus in the previous post (just below) on some thought provoking--thus noteworthy and indicative of continued inquiry--matters and utterances.
In the post below, I chose a certain quote out of Nada Gordon's interview with Marianne Shaneen, which is posted to Ululate blog. The quote emphasizes the term, "hermaphrodite," and goes a long way toward implying an elastic--and highly performative--definition of this term. As I read it, one very productive part of that implied definition is that as Gordon seems to mean it, naming oneself as "hermaphrodite" is to have, and to be afforded, a various amount of "privilege." Part of that "privilege" is that an honor is involved: an honoring of historical material struggles over sex and gendering. Another part of that "privilege" is that it gives one choices in terms of identity formation, just as it opens up pathways to fundamental questions affecting bodies historically-materially.
Today at transdada, Kari edwards has continued a focus on these matters by posting an interesting piece questioning certain uses of the term "hermaphrodite" :
"when I see words like hermaphrodite being used and praised in writing as vehical, I wonder if there is an awareness of the struggle of the "intersex" individual in this society or true awareness of anyone not fitting neatly into this policed state of gender myth...... there seems to be this general assumption of gender... as a solid state... "
In my opinion, the "privilege," then, and use of (in the quote from the interview and here) the very term, "privilege," signifies an awareness of the enormous material and historical "struggle of the 'intersex' individual" as well as that contained by the implied symbolics of gender and identity. Yet, as kari's post stridently reminds us, language is too easily misled to wander misleadingly. Better to clarify. Consider this my clarification, and my thanks for the more deeply involved thought with its reasons for questioning.
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2:16 PM
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Read this *mutual interview*--it rocks!
I'm just now getting around to some blog readings I was behind on. I really regret not finding this one sooner: the mutual interview between Nada Gordon and Marianne Shaneen at Zinc Bar in NYC on Nov. 9. Here's a sample in the form of a smashing quote from Nada Gordon:
"As a hermaphrodite I can make love to everyone -- 'darrrrrlings'. Scrambling my messages and genders, I give myself the privilege of vacillating between sexes and perspectives (not to mention experiences I will never have). It lets me be true to the very shrill presence of the histrionic trannie who dwells inside me, and as whom I dress up every day, a female impersonator."
Check it out!
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4:05 AM
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Sunday, November 16, 2003
from Patrick Herron : *
[I really like this meta-poem-piece that Patrick posted to the SUNY Buffalo Listserv tonight. From line 1 right down to the finish, this one can make ya think. Patrick kindly consented to letting me put it up here for us, too. Thanks, Patrick!]
Strung Up
Our symbols constellations hang delicately
from disinterested empty. Thoughts tethered to
this is the canopy of the evolving. This
is a model of you. This is a sail a
cheek a full awning hanging from threads
the billions of giant mass hellfires
dwarfed to specks in swelling peerless
frozen vast. Lighthouse wiredrawn shouts of light.
Connect the dots. This is a framework of you.
All you can eat, $12.95. Pearls that were
his. I I I. The eyes have it. This is a mast
combusting, this are symbols constellations
our hang delicately from disinterested empty. **
*Patrick Herron, post to the Electronic Poetry Center Listserv. Sunday, 16 Nov 03, 19:53:54.
** Posted to Texfiles by kind permission of author Patrick Herron.
chris at
11:19 PM
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Announcing a New Texfiles Poet of the Week: Hoa Nguyen !
A very warm welcome from Texfiles to Hoa, who lives in Austin, Texas, with her family: husband, the poet Dale Smith (Texfiles Poet of the Week 11/8-14), and son, Keaton Thomas. She is co-editor and publisher with Dale Smith of Skanky Possum, both a poetry print journal and a book publication enterprise. She also teaches a range of poetry writing classes, some of which are online through Teacher's and Writer's Collaborative.
To read more about Hoa and her work, check out this thorough and provocative online interview by Carol Mirakove.
Here are some poems from Hoa's 2002 book, Your Ancient See Through : *
[Buddha's Ears Are Droopy Touch His Shoulders]
Buddha's ears are droopy touch his shoulders
as scarves fly out of windows and I shriek
at the lotus of enlightenment
Travel to Free Street past Waco
to the hole in the Earth
wearing water
I'm aiming my mouth
for apple pie
(3)
*
[Baby I've Drawn Your Face]
Baby I've drawn your face
underwater like an iceberg
The ice-blue clear kind
A perfect frozen eyeball
I cried I made flowers grow
an offering little "o"s
for kisses want to kiss
the air tonight see through and blue
(26)
*
[A Night at the Beach What Is Left]
A night at the beach what is left
conch shell shimmer marks
where feet trail across sand
dense as stars Humans like me
can't hear beneath the trillionth
day of DNA sung meaning
of sea waves Sting nettle
having waves to paddle
(27)
*
[Ride a Bike to Houston]
Ride a bike to Houston
ride and put your foot down
on the pedal unlike a flower
ride my name out Stop
calling me Oriental Rick Wallace
ride for the Saturnalia
that I always sister
Clang and traffic-ing cars
that will be the death of us
(33)
*
[Untouched Bubble Gum Me]
Untouched bubble gum me
fruity and whole
Scream wrapped in plastic
Sling your barbells in the air
Seismic nervous falling
(walking the fence no hands)
Pink bubble-gum doll wrapped
in purple coveralls
running away
dragging the family piano
(39)
* Hoa Nguyen, Your Ancient See-Through. Honolulu: subpress, 2002
chris at
1:50 PM
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Announcement of another fine Texfiles Poet of the Week coming Sunday, sometime! : )
chris at
4:44 AM
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check out the new poems posted over the long Saturday night: As/Is
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