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— Given an audience of intelligent participants — Into a red chechia without a ponytail place nine ping-pong balls numbered from 1 to 9. — Shake the chechia for the one minute needed to create silence. — Draw a ball
[The word of David Meltzer’s death came to us the morning after & on the threshold of a new & dangerous year in which his friendship & kindly spirit will be greatly missed by the many of us who drew from & treasured his grace of mind & the life of poetry that surrounds it. In the immediate aftermath I thought to reprint the preface I was privileged to write for his selected poems (David’s Copy, Penguin Poets, 2005) & the short poem, composed by gematria, that follows.
In celebration of an unprecedented exhibit of visual & performance work by Jackson Mac Low, January 19 to March 20 at the Drawing Center in New York, I’m posting Anne Tardos’s introduction to the richly illustrated catalogue along with the Center’s official announcement of the show. Tardos, along with her own impressive workings as an artist & poet, was for many years Mac Low’s companion & principal collaborator, so that her testament in the present instance is of more than passing interest. Mac Low was of course the foremost experimental poet of his time.
[In celebration of an unprecedented exhibit of visual & performance work by Jackson Mac Low, January 19 to March 20 at the Drawing Center in New York, I’m posting Anne Tardos’s introduction to the richly illustrated catalogue along with the Center’s official announcement of the show. Tardos, along with her own impressive workings as an artist & poet, was for many years Mac Low’s companion & principal collaborator, so that her testament in the present instance is of more than passing interest.
[What follows as a kind of Christmas gift is a work I prepared for a conference on “God and Grace” in London sponsored by Cambridge and Notre Dame Universities and that I later presented at this year’s meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in San Diego.
![[Henry Munn, c. 2010]](https://jacket2.org/sites/jacket2.org/files/imagecache/wide_main_column/munn_0.png "[Henry Munn, c. 2010]")
Poems and poetics