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Silliman's Blog: 10/13/02 - 10/20/02
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Saturday, October 19, 2002. S work in the poetry-music duo Swifty Lazarus. Allowed us to pose the question of how well intermedia presents writing as writing. Now the anthology he has edited with Philip Norton, Short Fuse. Lets us turn the question around and ask just how well the printed page can represent poets whose work is primarily turned towards performance. Is hardly the first book to pose this issue. The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker. Even ...
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Tuesday, April 19, 2005. Asks some interesting (and complex) questions:. I’m reading John Xiros. Modernism and the Culture of Market Society. 2004), which has knotted somehow with topics you touch upon in your blog. I keep on picturing myself asking you these questions. So I thought, why not? I know it’s not a fair question, in a way, at least in the sense that there’s no such monolith as. Its values, and subsumed its strategies? I have not, in fact, r...
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Silliman's Blog: 9/1/02 - 9/8/02
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Saturday, September 07, 2002. I noticed your Blog entries this evening and wonder if you take. Roger Farr and I are in the middle of a long interview with Peter Inman. About poetry& politics and we're about to ask about the exchange you had with. Him at his Philly Talks discussion a couple of years ago:. The side of it that sometimes comes back to haunt me when I. Think of it in those terms is opening up a text of yours and thinking "oh,. Written in 19...
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Wednesday, August 05, 2015. But not ready to. I: The Age of Huts. Other Books in Print. In The American Tree. Was born in Pasco,. Washington, although his. Parents stayed there just. Long enough for his mother. To learn that one could. Step on field mice while. Walking barefoot through the. Snow to the outhouse, and. For his father to walk away. From a plane crash while. A dry county. Silliman. Has written and edited over 30 books,. And had his poetry.
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Thursday, May 21, 2015. The kerfuffle over Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind. Tweets and Kenneth Goldsmith’s performance of Michael Brown’s autopsy is raising important and uncomfortable questions throughout the US poetry scene. One of two blogs he authors devoted to new tendencies in the arts. I seriously recommend that you read his post of 18 May. What I’m interested in here [i]. The New American Poetry,. And the reading of the Six Gallery in San Fr...
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Is a very good motion picture, a superb one in many respects. But count me out of any attempts to raise this film to the level, say, of The Godfather. Or even Lord of the Rings. Or, for that matter, the last film in which Heath Ledger and Christian Bale both appeared, the Dylan biopic, I’m Not There. There is something missing right at the core of this event. The alleged gore that greets Two-Face is right out of The Terminator.
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Silliman's Blog: 10/27/02 - 11/3/02
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Saturday, November 02, 2002. What about all this writing? When I wrote on Wednesday. One refers to Carl Rakosi as an Objectivist, or of Spicer as writer from the. Renaissance, one needs to ask further: which Objectivism, which renaissance? The Objectivism of 1931 was a far cry from that of 1945, let alone 1965 or even as recently as 1985. If Objectivism (or modernism, or language poetry, the. Kent Johnson replied with this question:. The other formatio...
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Silliman's Blog: 11/24/02 - 12/1/02
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Saturday, November 30, 2002. Robert Kelly self-published Axon Dendron Tree. In 1967 as Salitter. 2, distributed variously through his other small press journal, Matter. As well as the legendary Asphodel Bookshop of Cleveland, Ohio. The stapled 8 by 14 publication appears to have been mimeographed,. Er filed within one. This is an awfully fragile, fugitive publication to argue as one of the defining poetic. Grew out of my reading of that issue of Poetry.
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Silliman's Blog: 11/10/02 - 11/17/02
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Saturday, November 16, 2002. Updates, this version:. La Tazza readings added; also more Spring events at Penn (Laurie Anderson, Brad Leithauser. Simon Ortiz, Simon Pettit, Susan Sontag), Daisy Fried at Swarthmore. 16, Saturday, 7: Abigail Susik. At La Tazza, 108 Chestnut (off. 18, Monday, 7: George Economou. Two of the younger poets associated with the New American poetry and around such journals as Caterpillar. Both have recently moved to. 3, Tuesday,.
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A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Elizabeth Willis, Alive: New and Selected Poems. JH Prynne, Poems. Ken Taylor, Self-Portrait as Joseph Cornell. Tomaž Šalamun, Soy Realidad. Mathias Svalina, The Wine-Dark Sea. Timothy Yu, 100 Chinese Silences. Lyn Hejinian, The Unfollowing. Khaty Xiong, Poor Anima. Chimimanda Ngozi Adiche, Amerikanah. Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Thursday, January 14, 2016. Friday, December 25, 2015.
