On December 5, 2013, David Wilk released his interview with me, Charles Bernstein and Michael Hennessey about PennSound. At his WritersCast site, Wilk explains:
In this series of interviews, calledPublishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the ebb and flow of civilization and economics? It’s my hope that these conversations can help us understand the outlines of what is happening in publishing and writing, and how we might ourselves interact with and influence the future of publishing as it unfolds.
On December 3, 2013, Pierre Joris discussed Paul Celan’s poetry, with special focus on his response to the genocide of Europe’s Jews and others during World War II. The session, which I moderated, featured close readings of passages of “Death Fugue” and “Stretto.” Joris played an audio recording of Celan reading the first section of “Death Fugue,” and a newly discovered video recording made from Celan’s appearance on German television.
Ivan Alechine: Muxa Uxi, a Poem from the Huichol Sierra, with Notes by the Author
Translation from French by Wendy Parramore
I am the man and the dog Nahuatl
the pine needles fall
without thunder
like fine lightning
blow the cinders
the great raw theatre
of the oak’s bark
re-appear the black and the white
David Wilk interviews Charles Bernstein, Al Filreis, & Michael Hennessey of PennSound
On December 5, 2013, David Wilk released his interview with me, Charles Bernstein and Michael Hennessey about PennSound. At his WritersCast site, Wilk explains:
In this series of interviews, called Publishing Talks, I have been talking to book industry professionals and other smart people about the future of publishing, books, and culture. This is a period of disruption and change for all media businesses. We must wonder now, how will publishing evolve as our culture is affected by technology, climate change, population density, and the ebb and flow of civilization and economics? It’s my hope that these conversations can help us understand the outlines of what is happening in publishing and writing, and how we might ourselves interact with and influence the future of publishing as it unfolds.
Pierre Joris on Paul Celan and the Shoah
On December 3, 2013, Pierre Joris discussed Paul Celan’s poetry, with special focus on his response to the genocide of Europe’s Jews and others during World War II. The session, which I moderated, featured close readings of passages of “Death Fugue” and “Stretto.” Joris played an audio recording of Celan reading the first section of “Death Fugue,” and a newly discovered video recording made from Celan’s appearance on German television.
The Selected Letters of Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (2013)
on z-site
free in-screen digital book
Here is the first letter, from when Zukofsky was only 15 -- a submission to Poetry magazine:
Rethinking E. E. Cummings: An appeal for a new reading [redux]
[Prepared for an all-day E. E.