Eléna Rivera and Jennifer Moxley
New Writing Series from the University of Maine and the National Poetry FoundationThursday, March 20th, 2008Soderberg Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
http://nwsnews.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/nws-spring08.pdf
March 8, 2008
Susan Gevirtz Reads Monday, March 10, 2008
Monday MARCH 10, 7:00 pm
@ Red Hill Books
www.dogearedbooks.com/redhill/events.php4
401 Cortland (at Bennington)
Bernal Heights, San Francisco
Susan Gevirtz’s new book is THRALL (The Post-Apollo Press, 2007).
If Alice in Wonderland and Wallace Stevens have a daughter, here is her primary residence. She spends “each month the chapter of a year?” drinking of this aquarium water tincture and thereby knowing something happened. Thus reaching for the dictionary.” The Reader can hope to find herself in this Looking Glass, surrounded by the good neighbors Intellect, Lexicon, Law, and Light, opening into deep communication with sensitive and nervy maps of reading and response, a finely-tuned and attuned charting and exploration of the “world of written words.” There is no finer dwelling than this. –Stacy Doris
Steve Dickison’s new book is DISPOSED (The Post-Apollo Press, 2007).
I’m hooked on just how he attaches
those jazzical slices of the current dense.
Listen here and know that ceaseless
connection of the Poem Most High.
–Clark Coolidge
‘Palpable’, as one is titled: astute, uncalculated thought. “The scattered nature of reality” [Spicer, from the epigraph] coalesces as dream does when it wakes to itself as dream. As though the dead spoke through each instance, seen from here as experience, in a language utterly strange: more intimate than’s usually bearable. –Sarah Menefee
March 4, 2008
Renee Gladman and The Reach
This recording from the Naropa Poetics Audio Archives features Renee Gladman (among others) speaking on a panel about narrative across cultures. Renee’s portion is very quiet, you have turn your volume all the way up to hear it and even then, it is difficult. But well worth it. I think the audio accident underscores the shape of her work. Here is a bit of transcription.
“While I am not quite interested in the content of events I am interested in the space between, above, ahead, below and behind them.”
“it’s ceaseless presumptions and possible leaps ”
“it is being in one place and reaching out toward another”
“For me prose has become abstracted from any one kind of writing and is now a gesture, a way of thinking. It exists outside of form. I see it as a reach beyond containable reality, a reach beyond the boundaries and questions of one field or one genre.”
Listen here.
You will also hear Bhanu Kapil giving a forceful and fluid definition of a border.