I was asked to write this piece in late December for the January issue of the Harriet blog The Reading List, a feature of Poetry magazine’sEditors’ Blog, a
Presented at Temple University on January 24, 2016
Photo courtesy Julia Blumreich
“We / take the form / of our uncertainty,” Gil Ott wrote in a 1984 poem. I take that as a motto of a poetics we shared, Gil and me, born the same year smack in the middle of the last century. Uncertainty remains now, as it was thirty years ago, as it was in 1950, a poetic vice for many. Gil expressed his searching uncertainty with an unflappable and genial defiance, living his fifty-four years with grace, courage, outrage, and élan.
'To Think with Derrida Wherever He Is'
Collège International de Philosophie issue on Jacques Derrida
La revue du Collège international de philosophie —
Issue # 89-90, 2016/2
Jerome Rothenberg: 'The mysteries of mind laid bare in talking,' for David Antin (1932–2016)
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I would also say it
speaking would like to hear it
catapulting from my mouth
not like a flow of words
but a barrage of pulses
one athwart the other
mindful how some spirit
Robin Blaser: 'The Astonishment Tapes,' Vancouver, Spring 1974
These are the full recordings edited and transcribed by Miriam Nichols for The Astonishment Tapes: Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends (University of Alabama Press, 2015). Thanks to Miriam Nichols for making them available on PennSound’s Blaser page.
'Reading List' 2016
I was asked to write this piece in late December for the January issue of the Harriet blog The Reading List, a feature of Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog, a
Gil: Talk for launch of Gil Ott's 'arrive on wave'
Presented at Temple University on January 24, 2016
“We / take the form / of our uncertainty,” Gil Ott wrote in a 1984 poem. I take that as a motto of a poetics we shared, Gil and me, born the same year smack in the middle of the last century. Uncertainty remains now, as it was thirty years ago, as it was in 1950, a poetic vice for many. Gil expressed his searching uncertainty with an unflappable and genial defiance, living his fifty-four years with grace, courage, outrage, and élan.