The following is the schedule for the major festival of “outside & subterranean poetry,” which takes as its point of departure Barbaric Vast & Wild, the anthology/assemblage co-edited by Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg-Rissman. The still larger Outside-in / Inside-out festival, as announced, will take place at venues across the City of Glasgow from September to November 2016.
William Louis-Dreyfus (Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus): June 21, 1932 – September 16, 2016
Around the turn of the century, a poet working at the Poetry Society of America asked me to do her, and PSA, a favor, and meet with the PSA board president, a businessman named William Louis-Dreyfus. The idea was that his taste in poetry was too conservative even for PSA and that perhaps I could open his ears a bit on that score.
Just as bio-poetics (as the paraverbal use of living materials) is a creative genre serving as a materials-research discipline, our DNA’s twisting double-helix is a life-maintaining chemical template frequently recruited to serve as a literary icon. Dense with symbolic possibilities, the ten-step spiral stair of a DNA molecule is like five pairs of couplet rhyme, its floors are figurative “stories” divided by crossbar ribs made of ribose sugars, a geometric trellis supporting (by spelling out) the flesh and foliage of organic Life.
Hiromi Ito's transcreation of 'The Heart Sutra'
Translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles
While looking freely and without effort at the world
While walking with people, searching for the path
In his spiritual quest to discern based on deep wisdom
Avalokiteshvara arrived at a certain thought.
September picks: Duplan, Szymaszek, and Bartlett
Kenna O'Rourke
2016 titles from Anaïs Duplan, Stacy Szymaszek, and Sarah Bartlett reviewed in brief this month.
Outside-in / Inside-out schedule
The following is the schedule for the major festival of “outside & subterranean poetry,” which takes as its point of departure Barbaric Vast & Wild, the anthology/assemblage co-edited by Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg-Rissman. The still larger Outside-in / Inside-out festival, as announced, will take place at venues across the City of Glasgow from September to November 2016.
If I told him: Gertrude Stein, the financier, and me
William Louis-Dreyfus (Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus): June 21, 1932 – September 16, 2016
Around the turn of the century, a poet working at the Poetry Society of America asked me to do her, and PSA, a favor, and meet with the PSA board president, a businessman named William Louis-Dreyfus. The idea was that his taste in poetry was too conservative even for PSA and that perhaps I could open his ears a bit on that score.
DNA's polar pirouette: A spiral stair orbiting its own anti-axis
Just as bio-poetics (as the paraverbal use of living materials) is a creative genre serving as a materials-research discipline, our DNA’s twisting double-helix is a life-maintaining chemical template frequently recruited to serve as a literary icon. Dense with symbolic possibilities, the ten-step spiral stair of a DNA molecule is like five pairs of couplet rhyme, its floors are figurative “stories” divided by crossbar ribs made of ribose sugars, a geometric trellis supporting (by spelling out) the flesh and foliage of organic Life.