Partial page from Sawako Nakayasu, "Selected Chronology & Notes" to the book "Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From"
When Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From is acquired, some or perhaps most copies will include a pamphlet-style supplement entitled “Selected Chronology & Notes.” Apparently some copies do not include this extra. Yet the notes can be crucial to understanding individual poems in the book.
Dumpster outside El Paso ICE Detention Center on Mattox Street.
In the scorched lot, the feral cat cuts through snake grass and candles of sotol toward the Buffalo Soldier gate to Fort Bliss. The corner’s barbed limit abuts Cherbourg Avenue and Sioux Drive, two opposite crosswalks across Airport Road, two cardinal directions of colonial settlement. Boeing Drive commences east from the military reservation gate, tracking down a settled tract: United States Postal Service, NASA, T-intersecting its opposite end like a spike into the sandlot buffering the El Paso Service Processing Center, ICE detention. Boeing Drive is the suspension bridge hung between Fort Bliss and immigration detention, a hammock over dune hummocks, making illusion of sky’s aloof float. What does it mean for this avenue to be one line between military fort and migrant detention? For Atlantic Aviation offices, subcontractors of ICE for deportation flights, to be located off Boeing adjacent to the NASA shuttle take-off? How to make sense of one fence away?
A two-day music and poetry event celebrating the work of the late Eric Mottram and the poet, Jerome Rothenberg.
About this event
From King’s College London Archives, home of the Eric Mottram archive, a weekend of poetry, prose and music marking the contribution to literature of Mottram and his circle, and celebrating the career of Jerome Rothenberg, poet, translator, and anthologist.
DAY ONE Saturday, 12th March, 10am to 9pm
Poetry and Sound Poetry with Jerome Rothenberg and Charlie Morrow.
For the launch of the The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book in a French translation by Amélie Ducroux, the publisher, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (PURH) has organized an events in Paris and the Université de Rouen.
Chronology & notes for Sawako Nakayasu's "Some Girls"
When Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country They Are From is acquired, some or perhaps most copies will include a pamphlet-style supplement entitled “Selected Chronology & Notes.” Apparently some copies do not include this extra. Yet the notes can be crucial to understanding individual poems in the book.
A poetics of proximity
In the scorched lot, the feral cat cuts through snake grass and candles of sotol toward the Buffalo Soldier gate to Fort Bliss. The corner’s barbed limit abuts Cherbourg Avenue and Sioux Drive, two opposite crosswalks across Airport Road, two cardinal directions of colonial settlement. Boeing Drive commences east from the military reservation gate, tracking down a settled tract: United States Postal Service, NASA, T-intersecting its opposite end like a spike into the sandlot buffering the El Paso Service Processing Center, ICE detention. Boeing Drive is the suspension bridge hung between Fort Bliss and immigration detention, a hammock over dune hummocks, making illusion of sky’s aloof float. What does it mean for this avenue to be one line between military fort and migrant detention? For Atlantic Aviation offices, subcontractors of ICE for deportation flights, to be located off Boeing adjacent to the NASA shuttle take-off? How to make sense of one fence away?
Performed Poetics, London
Announcement and program
A two-day music and poetry event celebrating the work of the late Eric Mottram and the poet, Jerome Rothenberg.
About this event
From King’s College London Archives, home of the Eric Mottram archive, a weekend of poetry, prose and music marking the contribution to literature of Mottram and his circle, and celebrating the career of Jerome Rothenberg, poet, translator, and anthologist.
DAY ONE Saturday, 12th March, 10am to 9pm
Poetry and Sound Poetry with Jerome Rothenberg and Charlie Morrow.
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book en français
Paris, Rouen, Marseille
For the launch of the The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book in a French translation by Amélie Ducroux, the publisher, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (PURH) has organized an events in Paris and the Université de Rouen.
Scott C. Smith
'Mother Forehead Cradle Sky,' a renga poem with a note on procedures
Mother Forehead Cradle Sky
A renga “conversation” among Hafez-e Shirazi, José Lezama Lima, Paul Celan, and Jerome Rothenberg.
Between two rivers
Shiraz is a city built
on a holy site.