Wanderkammer

A walk through texts

J. R. Carpenter

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November 1, 2011

Louis Bury and Corey Frost have curated this Jacket2 feature devoted to poetry and walking: taking up texts that approach walking as inspiration and technique for writing, the pieces in this feature are also themselves peripatetic in their approach to what it means to engage with a work. As a collection of book reviews that detour, wander, and map their central concerns, Bury and Frost’s feature uses walking not just as topic but as “integral condition of its saying: to move is to be moved, by a poem, a person, or our surroundings.”

Preface

Louis Bury

Corey Frost

Wanderkammer J. R. Carpenter

A detour from more traditional paths of composition Eugene Lim

The longing, in language, for a connection Gail Scott

Allowing oneself to 'be the city' erica kaufman

Notes on a phenomenological poetics Leah Souffrant

A literary walking uphill Nikhil Bilwakesh

To get you out walking Taien Ng-Chan

A talk review of 'Ten Walks/Two Talks' Louis Bury

A website for one shoe Yvette Poorter

We can't do it without the rose Rebekah Rutkoff

Listen along with the feature

On PennSound you’ll find a recording of the 2010 launch event for CAConrad and Frank Sherlock’s The City Real and Imagined: Philadelphia Poems at the Institute of Contemporary Art (additional recordings are available on Sherlock’s author page). Kevin Varrone reads from his work as part of the Whenever We Feel Like It series. Finally, issue #9 of the audiopoetics journal textsound is dedicated to the collaborative work of Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch.

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Wendy Burk's representation of human-plant communication

Lynn Keller

Image adapted from the cover of ’Tree Talks.’

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The New Poetry (1969)

Translated by Zane Koss

Clemente Padín

Zane Koss

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