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Friday, September 10, 2004
Semblance for Ear
Well, I wanted to give a little semblance of the reading in Austin. So, I played with/edited the selection of poems somewhat, and, well, I hope Y'all like what's here.
(from Sfumato Unwind)
I adore
Highway, the bus wit:
There
are too many
heaped tomato
trucks to pass, double
pulls of trailer
hook-ups sweet
golden gulches
of touch me
blackening
tumbleweeds.
You know all now
about this, I know.
*
So, here we refold:
Villa Lago
coming
up soon, the Crow’s
Landing
orange
grove kiss for 5
miles of pant-
------ing canals
& horses
coralled by humans,
& human houses coralled
in power lines breasting
a gridlock.
Over-love. We have & have no
boundaries.
*
Unmake: there is
a too much
too many people
in this carnation
world. So, tight giraffes
painted on bridge columns
looking out
for tall necked love dots--an
unwind
from speed
limits entered after beaches rolled
in cotton
& how to think it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~cm~~~~~~ o~o/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
chris at
1:40 AM
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Thursday, September 09, 2004
And more YaY!!
the new Bookslut just came out!
Check out Dale's column on poet Fred Smith's Rollerdrome and the Millionaire, the last of Black Sparrow Press' publications before shutting down.
Happy & intense reading to Y'all!
chris at
1:52 PM
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YaY!!
Sentence 2 is now out! Chock full O' goodies, including my review of Eileen Tabios' Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole.
Editor of Sentence, Brian Clements writes to let y'all know how to get yr copies of this most stylish and erudite prose poem journal: "A single copy of Sentence 2 is $12 (including postage) with additional copies at $10 each; subscriptions are $22 for two issues and $30 for three issues (please add $2 per issue outside the US, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean). Copies of Sentence 1 are now available for $8 per copy, plus shipping.
"Make check or money order to Firewheel Editions and send to Sentence, c/o Brian Clements, English Dept. Western Connecticut State University, Danbury CT 06810. If you prefer to use a credit card, you can subscribe to Sentence via Amazon.com or order Sentence via your local bookstore from Bernhard DeBoer, Inc.
Sentence offers a 40% discount for classroom adoptions. Please contact editor@firewheel-editions.org"
chris at
1:44 PM
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Books (happily!) Received:
Eileen Tabios, Menage a Trois with the 21st Century (xPressed, 2004) [25 copies, gifted by Eileen and publisher, Jukka Pekka Kervinen, to my students in Engl. 4330--E-Po, who are thrilled to own a copy of this book, and awed by the very thoughtful generosity of author and publisher: many, many, thanks, Y'all!].
chris at
1:21 PM
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Received (with happy thanks):
From K. Silem Mohammad, A Thousand Devils (Combo, 2004)--wonderful!--I'll be writing more on these intricate poems very soon. For now, though, here is one poem I see as demonstrating how Kasey is a delightful master at tearing up any self-indulgence, or self-seriousness in the lyric as western-traditional mode. Thus his poems call the tradition into question and transform/fracture its mode and shape to, as here, something more like *a thousand devils*. Even when flarfing, he does this by very interesting (the effect is of the utmost care in) orchestration, in composing: re-sorting (to) or jamming (as music) phrase and line, making a sharp dramatic tension between what is resonant in a phrase/image and the most rhetorically effective way to set it in space as woven (combined) with others in a poetic line(age) (cf, questioning the hegemony of lyric-as-lineage). There is for me as reader in the poems of this book, a musical sense of being somehow tossed between Baudelaire and Rimbaud, between anti-lyric and horrific image-feed--again, there seems need for me to refer to that term which occurred to me the other day when I was similarly ruminating: "Live Feed" (I guess I'd better say here and now that I'm copping that phrase for this critical train of thought I'm working on lately, Y'all!).
I realize this is a lot to say here all in one brief observation, so I will break that down in a longer post soon, but for now I want to post for you this poem to show something of all that, which really caught me up as soon as I opened the book:
Jonquil
You fantasize about this
oleander place
settings and hemlock chandeliers
three courses of vibrant error,
a petunia writhing
an argosy
and clairvoyant lettuce--
*
Torn passages from the dreambook
show you piloting early swandives
through leafy treasures in hell
your coattails gangrenous
and pincer-like
*
Believe what you can
in what cadences are available
more shiny and black
more geometrically papal
more medallions for the devoted
(54)
In any case, this book gives readers a devilish tour through an unusual tide of lyric excess *stemmed*. And then turned inside out to a kind of underground "papal" flarfull... : )
--cm--
~~~~~~~~~~~~poem copyright of K.Silem Mohammad~~~~~~~~~~
chris at
11:05 AM
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(I'm adding in a correction to this post, correcting on Tues. 13 Sept 04, the reader(s) because when I posted this I was not yet certain who all would be reading. I was later delighted to learn that I would be reading with Dale!, and so graciously introduced by Hoa--this series at 12th Street Books is wonderful, I'll add, too.)
Announcement: Poetry Reading, Austin Texas, Sept 10
Sponsored by Skanky Possum Press and 12th Street Books
Dale Smith, of Skanky Possum Press in Austin, reading from American Rambler (Thorp Springs, 2000. Artwork by Phillip Trussell); the Blackstone Series manuscript, and new work.
Chris Murray, of University of Texas, Arlington, reading from the manuscripts of Found and Tornado Alley
7:00 p.m.
Friday, 10 September 2004
Skanky Poss' Monthly Series
12th Street Books
Austin, Texas
Hoping to see you there!
chris at
10:46 AM
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004
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Tricky Bowling for Hollers...
Texfiles E-Tag Poems, 2
1.
That's right, it's ol' Tricky
again in September's early
chill
month of vote hoots
& slants & reflected
pasts.
For better or for
Google wind-ups I'm reading
TV bird
chirp CNN newspeak
& terrifically entertained
by scoops
of word flight here:
(hi, Allen :)
or steamy whistles of silver
tea kettles (hi Tom :)
& O fun
with such variety
of all autumn
& squirrels
2.
tho more easterly weather spins & hollers
out of how
so many will
soon CNN
to hardwire
more squirrels.
reflecting
on vast
politicians
full of vote
games
& police
full of squinting W
Halloweening as yesterday's
friendly little harmless
rhetorician
with paranoid balls
posing imperial:
bowling balls
in Tricky old White
House PR
hollers made for kids told to honor presidents
& I can't wait to see
what Ws next bowling pose(r) will be
chris at
8:04 AM
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004
More E-Taggers!
How cool is this?--originally the idea came from Laurel at Jewishyirishy blog, who tagged Shanna Compton (linked below), and now it's now evolved in many ways, but the thread out of texfiles goes thus Jill posts an E-Tag response, as does Gray Wyvern, to the one I wrote last week, which came from the one Shanna wrote. Hey, I'm having my students do one soon, too. It's fun : )
And, I can't wait to add, here's a link to a great site, found in the same post with Gray Wyvern's Cento: Diebold Variations--rock on, Y'all!
chris at
1:44 AM
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Monday, September 06, 2004
Tony Tost's Audio Mix # 1 yeaahhhh!--check this out for sure: great stuff: an audio mix at Unquiet Grave. note says it came from a tip by Joe Donahue (hi Joe!) to an UBU web site. & Joe is also one of the readers/readings in the mix (and one I was fortunate enough to hear in person). very super cooooool of you to put this together, Tony, thanks!
chris at
10:32 PM
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Dear, dear, Eileen: thank you so much for responding to Engl. 4330 student, Josh Reed, with such absolute eloquence and care for poetry and poetics--you show yourself not only a wonder of a poet and critical writer, but also a fine teacher of poetry, in every way.
chris at
8:57 PM
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 --*meter reading,* via goleta water.com
A Reading Meter
On David Nemeth's provocative poem-post, "On A Late Summer’s Day, Reading Lyn Hejinian’s Introduction to The Best American Poetry 2004":
As a reader, one thing in poetry that I am strongly drawn to admire is a poetics or creative dynamic occuring in what Foucault likes to go on for hours about as the "moment of discourse"--today I'd call *live feed,* let's say, even if the term sounds uncomplimentary or at the least, ambiguous, for, reading is always in a way, a carnivorous act, eh?--check with Zizek on that... .
Although apparently just a humble way of sayin', as it were, this poem is also the essence of "pro/vocative." David Nemeth's poem of admirable rhetorical economy, a poetic response to reading Lyn Hejinian's BAP 2004 intro, is, to my mind, a form of exquisite economy (btw, I still like the descriptor, "exquisite," if used sparingly). Besides announcing itself as a response-poem, that is what, in part, makes the poem more dialogic than would be the more typical type, a monological statement. Each word, and in fact, the artful use of line, too, is sharply poised to key into the source, to work in tandem as echo and resonance--yet there is no excess. It's what Ginsberg recommended to students: take out all those extra (useless) artifacts of non-poetic language, the articles, pronouns, conjunctions, and let the moment actively breathe as a poem (see the Elissa Schapel article, Paris Review # 135 which I'm liberally interpreting and expanding on here, but mostly from memory so do look into it for a more exacting take). Add to that how this poem takes this even further because of layering in the dimensions of both form and mode of direct response--*in the moment*--David, Keep on!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~a cm note~~~~~~~ O~O/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
chris at
7:55 PM
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how pro-fun-dit(t)y & octopi!
chris at
3:42 PM
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While many of the students wrote the assignment well, Josh Reed, student of my Engl. 4330 E-Po course, wrote exceptionally well--for last week's critical writing assignment:
Open Letter to Eileen Tabios (on one of her Gabriela Silang poems, "A Memory's Resonance Du Jour," from Menage a Trois with the 21st Century( xPress(ed)-- Jukka Pekka Kervinen (nonlinear poetry) & (textual conjectures)--2004). Congratulations, Josh: well done.
chris at
1:29 PM
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Sunday, September 05, 2004
Some new work of mine just added here--click on bio and scroll down to links to find an mp3 of me reading at Carrboro, and then, too, go back to the poems page to find these newbies: Close to Porcelain, rain 4, Logos Qs & Yr(s), Prayer: Demeter to Persephone, & Slip Now--up at the fantastic Poet's Corner, out of Italy!--Anny Ballardini's fine work compiling contemporary experimentalist poets' work. Much appreciated, Anny!
chris at
10:31 PM
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 --courtesy gbk graphics.com
Dallas Reading, 11 Sept, Paperback Books--Writers Against War:
an announcement from Dallas poet and publisher, Joe Ahearn:
To help support the International Day of Poetry Against the War on 11 September, 2004, a group of North Texas writers will offer a free, public reading at
7:30 PM
Paperbacks Plus
6115 La Vista Drive, Dallas.
Poets and writers will present their art and the art of others to make a peaceful declaration against war. This event is being organized by Joe Ahearn (joeahATmailDOTairmailDOTnet) and will include readings by Paul Sampson, Christipher Soden, Tony Zurlo, Joan Canby, John Richards, Teresa Megahan, Barrie Neller, Bob Trammell, and others **. The Writer's Garrett, a Dallas literary center, is sponsoring the event. The management of the Writer's Garret wishes to make it plain that the Writer's Garrett takes no position either for or against the war. Click here for more information about the Writer's Garret.
And click here for more information about the International Day of Poetry.
** cm note: I will be out of town, otherwise I would be reading for this event.
If you live here or nearby, please attend.
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