Photograph by Jaime Groetsema. Courtesy of Naropa University Archives.
Is it necessary to think about community from an ecological point of view? If so, would our depicted world community be more populated with trees than our current ecological moment?
Are archives necessarily institutional? Is an archive simply a collection of things representing something? Does it matter if the collection of things is metaphorical, commercial, or virtual? Must the materials of the archive represent an event and must they include a nod to the longevity of narrative and the pursuit of preservation? Is an archive still an archive if it is inaccessible? (I’ve written more specifically about archives and language over at Reconfigurations.)
'An Omnipoetics Manifesto,' from the preface to a gathering of the poetries and poetics of the Americas 'from origins to present'
On my American plains I feel the struggling afflictions Endur’d by roots that writhe their arms into the nether deep: I see a Serpent in Canada, who courts me to his love; In Mexico an Eagle, and a Lion in Peru; I see a Whale in the South-sea, drinking my soul away. O what limb rending pains I feel. thy fire and my frost Mingle in howling pains, in furrows by thy lightnings rent; This is eternal death; and this the torment long foretold.
'Post-pleistocene relic world'
Alternative communities and writing, part 2
Is it necessary to think about community from an ecological point of view? If so, would our depicted world community be more populated with trees than our current ecological moment?
Interlude: Rereading the beginning
Featuring Anne Waldman
Are archives necessarily institutional? Is an archive simply a collection of things representing something? Does it matter if the collection of things is metaphorical, commercial, or virtual? Must the materials of the archive represent an event and must they include a nod to the longevity of narrative and the pursuit of preservation? Is an archive still an archive if it is inaccessible? (I’ve written more specifically about archives and language over at Reconfigurations.)
The Bard of Encinitas
Jerome Rothenberg and his poetry (a work in progress)
Avivson Films
'Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping'
New from Station Hill Press: Doubletalking the Homophonic Sublime: Comedy, Appropriation, and the Sounds of One Hand Clapping. 80pp.
You can order the book from SPD or Bridge Street Books at Bookshop.org (and also from other online book sellers)
Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada
'An Omnipoetics Manifesto,' from the preface to a gathering of the poetries and poetics of the Americas 'from origins to present'
On my American plains I feel the struggling afflictions
Endur’d by roots that writhe their arms into the nether deep:
I see a Serpent in Canada, who courts me to his love;
In Mexico an Eagle, and a Lion in Peru;
I see a Whale in the South-sea, drinking my soul away.
O what limb rending pains I feel. thy fire and my frost
Mingle in howling pains, in furrows by thy lightnings rent;
This is eternal death; and this the torment long foretold.