And Thseng-sie desired to know: “Which had answered correctly?” And Kung said, “They have all answered correctly, “That is to say, each in his nature.” Ezra Pound, Canto XIII I love the explosion of reports on Sunday night’s 21 Grand reading–it’s like cubist literary journalism, all perspectives at once. I have eight windows open trying to keep track of them…
21 Grand Reading Report (part 3) [with apologies to Ron Silliman for stolen lines] There’s no hold on fairy bread In the charcoal park, where Viagra Falls Is a spouse stripping naked to a techno beat. This is CNN in women’s clothing, You say to the two-tone dentist, warm With a normal profit and baggy shorts. Those incomprehensible sandals strap…
21 Grand Reading Report (part 2) I heard Ron Silliman read at Stanford a few years ago, and what I remember most was his reading the first line of Ketjak–“Revolving door”–and throwing his whole body into the gesture, swinging his torso in a circle each time he read the line. That level of physical presence was on display last night…
21 Grand Reading Report (part 1) Eileen challenged all of us bloggers (and there must have been a dozen of us) to see who could post the best report on last night’s 21 Grand reading. Let the games begin. The blog that ate San Francisco…if you thought the SPD open house back in April was a blogfest, you should have…
Came across a discussion of our symposium on poetry and Buddhism back in May by Peter Y. Chou. He provides a brief description of the event and a fabulous list of links for the participants–Norman Fischer, Michael McClure, and Leslie Scalapino. Here’s my take on the event, live from the archives.
Unionizing Borders employees are onto us.
Let the “Yu’s on first” jokes begin.
The Lowell Collected is a compromise between a standard trade-publisher Collected Poems–like the recent James Merrill Collected, which could be put together so quickly after Merrill’s death because it’s simply a lumping together of Merrill’s published volumes under a single cover, with a few bonus tracks–and a scholarly edition that represents every poem written by a certain poet, with an…
The CIA is taking the fall. Bush is trusting to what the X-Files used to call “plausible deniability.”
Grace Paley, Vermont poet laureate, endorses Dennis Kucinich. Howard Dean retorts with haiku.