Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
(Photo used by permission, all rights reserved, © Fiona Templeton) Annette Barbasch & Steve Buscemi in Fiona Templeton’s Against Agreement , 1982 Fiona Templeton & Poets Theater § Hail, poetry! § Tan Lin Chalk Playground & LitTwitChalk A review by Thom Donovan § Arkadii Dragomoshchenko on Alexei Parshchikov § Talking with Rosmarie Waldrop Waldrop, reading...
Minor American (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
(Please Forward Far and Wide!) Minor American Presents: Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop Thursday, December 3, 2009 Talk on Translation: 4pm Duke University, English Department Lounge (West Campus), Allen Building, 3rd Floor, Chapel Drive. Poetry Reading: 8pm Duke University, East Duke Parlors (East Campus), 1st Floor - Pink Parlor (For Campus Map and Directions go to: http://map.duke.edu/ ) FREE AND OPEN...
to the sound (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Rosmarie Waldrop reading on Close Listening. Waldrop in conversation with Charles Bernstein. Rosmarie Waldrop’s Pennsound Page
Isola di Rifiuti (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
A Wall A YEAR CCCIII W—, Vive l’imprimerie! Its nul ptyx outlandishness! Its typos! Need for a hooplah to rev the lyric kine. They moo so. Or too. Henry James’d say “indigenous vogues and literary flurry” and’d prooffe to bee ryghte: I am wow’d by each spec and spectre of unleash’d orthographic tort. Gregariousness in the slips, the lexicographers hiss....
Oh, Didn't He Ramble... (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
A GREAT interview , oddly relevant to the previous post, in which I mention CA Conrad's role as parent. This has been happening a lot lately. Don't know if it's because I'm reading so much right now, and that all things poetic happily dance with each other, or if it's some mystic bullshit, but it seems every thing I read has a direct and noted connection to something else: I read Simone Weil . Then...
Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Fictive Certainties Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Duncan, Robert Fictive Certainties I think I bought this at Talking Leaves after having met with Robert Creeley. We were talking about some aspect of my poetry and he pulled this book out of his blue plastic suitcase and said something like, "Well, as dear old Robert Duncan said..." and began reading from the essay, "The Truth...
Jacob Russell's Barking Dog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Nothing to Say & Saying It: Rosmarie Waldrop on Metaphor & Metonymy
Jacob Russell's Barking Dog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
John Gallaher (Nothing to Say & Saying It) has an elliptic REVIEW of Rosmarie Waldrop on metonymy and metaphor (from her book, DISSONANCE.Found this interesting as a take on poetic structure as process, form generating content. The schism described here, while oversimplified, at least in these selections, is as relevant to fiction as it is to poetry: the 'realists,' and those critics who defend...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Burying Mr. Poe Poe sites in Bal’more Poe house & museum § Rosmarie Waldrop on the two directions of American poetry, metaphor & metonymy § Nov. 12 in NYC: Wittgenstein’s Voice with Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Perloff, Tom Pepper, Sissi Tax, moderated by Jean-Michel Rabate § The Collected Short Stories of Lydia Davis § Charlotte Mandell , reading her translation...
Nothing to Say & Saying It (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Well, I’ve not made it very far at all into my pile of books, and yikes, in comes another huge batch. Here’s the second batch below. One more batch, I think, to go, and then I’m going to go back to not having any money for books for a long, long time. For this one moment in time, though, I can pretend to be well-read. As you can see, I’m trying to plug some holes that go back...
Nothing to Say & Saying It (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Rosmarie Waldrop sees a tension in American poetry, one that has been growing in recent years. I think what she says gets to the very heart of the matter. As she sees it, it’s a tension between two tendencies all poets share, the call to metaphor and the call to metonymy. As a primer, here’s Wikipedia on Metaphor vs Metonymy: “Metonymy works by the contiguity (association) between...
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
[As part of the Delerious Hem forum on male writes writing about feminism, Christian Peet wrote the following interesting analysis of Aase Berg's poetry (The interview is rather long and it has other interesting analyses, but I'll just post this part). This is one of the most interesting uses of eco-poetics I've read:] resently my feminist icons tend to be living, are not always icons for other folks,...
Samizdat Blog (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Posterity deals some strange cards to the dead poets. Consider e.e. cummings — someone as lighthearted and playful as he was would probably cringe at having become the poet most often used to torment reluctant students in ninth-grade classrooms across America. Or, at the other end of the light-hearted/heavy-hearted continuum, consider Paul Celan. His gnomic, cryptic poetry and his status as a...
X Poetics (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved . Charles Darwin I've spent much of August in Annandale-on-Hudson at Bard College teaching in the Language & Thinking Program. This 2 1/2 week session is attended by all incoming Bard freshmen. The intensive reading and writing session immerses students in what Joan Retallack calls the process...
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