Jerome Rothenberg

Poems and poetics

Alison Knowles

Seventeen Event Scores and where they happened, redux for her ninetieth birthday (April 29, 2023)

[EDITOR’S NOTE. The following “event scores” are a reminder of the pivotal role played by Alison Knowles in what can be described in retrospect as the Fluxus revolution of the 1960s. With their deceptively simple surface, Knowles’s performance works exemplified the thrust of many artists, poets, and performers to build on what Allan Kaprow and John Cage spoke of as an erasure of the boundaries between art and life.

Andrew Schelling

Four new poems for & after Vidyā, with a note on landscape & translation

Cold Stone Wheel

 

Fate has kneaded my heart, dear friend,

like a clod

of shapeless clay

placed it on the cold stone wheel —

set it to spin with bamboo staff —

again again

around again

 

Jerome Rothenberg

CODA TO A BOOK OF DREAMS

For Robert Kelly

 

[From The Stars in Mindless Space: A Deeper Image. Later & Uncollected Poems. In Progress.]

 

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

 

No world more clear

than what we see

Mark Weiss

Forty-nine New Hampshire sketches, with author's note

A BRIEF AUTHOR’S NOTE, AND MORE. I’ve been increasingly writing in extended form composed of distinct units of various lengths, structure indicated distantly but left to the reader to construct. Put another way, it’s my trees, now find the forest. Or find your own. This sequence, written at the MacDowell Colony in the autumn of 1975, seems to me now to be an early move in that direction. For a final fruition, see my A Suite of Dances, Shearsman Books, 2021.

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With my famous knife I scrape the rough spots on the underside of a fungus and find tiny white grubs.

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Sean McCann and Charlie Morrow (eds.)

'The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival' (1980) 4x cassette and book

After years of preparation, Recital is proud to present The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival box set. Held in New York in 1980, this was the last festival of the pioneering sound poetry series started in Stockholm in the 1960s. This ambitious document holds nearly five hours of audio from thirty artists. A 240-page book with biographies, texts, and artwork from each artist supplements the edition, including program notes by Charlie Morrow and Sean McCann.