========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 12:06:02 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Funkhouser THE LITTLE MAGAZINE VOLUME 20 features, front to back, Katie Yates, Don Byrd, Anne Tardos, Will Alexander, Charles Stein, Marilyn Crispell, Chris Funkhouser, Katie Yates, Anne Waldman, Sandy Baldwin, Elizabeth Burns, Jan Ramjerdi, Dave Coogan & Nancy Dunlop, The Snickering Witches, Amy Schoch, Jonathan Post, Awopbop, Derek Owens, Katie Yates, Awopbopaloobop Groupuscle, Noam Scheindlin, Leonard Slade, Andrew Podniek, Joyce Hinnefeld, Mark Nowak, Eric Douglas, Chris Stroffolino, Rebecca Bush, Robert Grenier, Belle Gironda, Katie Yates, Mike Condon Is available Seven Dollars (195pp.) = bargain. The Little Magazine/English Department/University at Albany/Albany, NY 12222 For "review" copies (literally) please send email to cf2785@csc.albany.edu from the CALL FOR WORK (djb85@csc.albany.edu): "WRITING AND ELECTRONIC SPACE/CYBORG PERFORMANCE AND POETICS. _THE LITTLE MAGAZINE_ is looking for writing and visual art work which exists in the imagination of media still uncreated...Although we are interested in adventuresome uses of technology, it is not technology but vision which is lacking...we are sick...of the polite, conventional thing literature has become. It is so comfortably contained in print. It is mediated and remediated (already); it is the subject of schools. We are not interested in work which exemplifies the theories of the past or even the hottest, most engaging theory of the present. We are interested in work which will call forth the media of the future. CYBERPUNK GROW UP The deadline for the issue is December 15, 1994, but get in touch with us as soon as possible. We will try to find a way to publish important work even if it does not fit neatly into the usual literary magazine format. Tell us about your writing, visual art, sound pieces, videos, multidimensional performances, network art, and investigation of genres still unnamed..." There will be a reading at Borders Bookstore in Albany, 22 June, 6-9 pm, featuring contributors ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 15:26:09 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Chris Funkhouser Just received a message from Santa Cruz sharing news of the passing of William Everson (Brother Antoninus of SF Renaissance group), a friend and writer/printer. Inspirations, withanks, flipping thru _Birth of a Poet_ (Black Sparrow '82): A knowledge of myth is crucial to a knowledge of vocation. In some way vocation is an enterprise, an enterprise of ser- vice or discovery, and the moment it becomes that, it be- comes mythic. It is this dimension which changes vocation from career to witness. (53) * * * Spontaneous utterance deals with the potentiality of a tongue but craftsmanship deals with its limitations. You have to learn to balance yourself between them. Use the right hand of your power in all its tumultuous pouring forth, its torrential sound, its waterfalls of dissonance and assonance, its cascades of tonality and inflection. But never forget the left hand of craftsmanship always has the last word. It defines the line beyond which you have not gone, and are prevented from going. (89) * * * Go now into the great latitude that awaits you out there, the reality that is not closing but opening. Seize it in your two hands even as you embrace it and wrestle the meaning from it in your thirst. But never forget that only the accep- tance at the close will yield the mystery of wholeness to you, the thing you desire most of all. You have to lose your life in order to save it. You have to expend yourself in order to find yourself. You gain your life only by giving it up. (193) William Everson, 1912-1994 ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 15:52:36 -0300 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Joe Ross Subject: Re: Poetry Competion NEW AMERICAN POETRY SERIES COMPETITION Over the past years, it has become increasingly apparent that poetry is undergoing a renaissance in the United States. More poets are writing original and exciting new works of poetry than there are publishers willing to publish their work. In order to help rectify this situation and to encourage other organizations upon similar courses, The Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, and its publishing program Sun & Moon Press announces a new poetry competition. Beginning in 1995, The contemporary Arts Educational Project will annually publish two books in its Sun & Moon Press New American Poetry Series, chosen through a national poetry competition. Original manuscripts, which have not previously appeared in book form, are eligible. Between May 1,1994 and December 31, 1994 the competition will consider typed manuscripts of poetry (between 50 and 200 pages in length). Manuscripts should be accompanied be a cover letter, listing the author's name, address and telephone number; but no name or address should appear on the manuscript itself. All types of poetry written by all ages are eligible, but the national judges, who will read the manuscripts without knowing the names of the authors, have been charged to give particular interest to innovative and original compositions. Manuscripts should begin with a title page, followed by a table on contents and the text. A $25.00 application fee (in the form of a check made out to The Contemporary Arts Educational Project,Inc.) for handling and judge's costs must be included with the manuscript. Manuscripts submitted without following the guidelines above will be returned. Please send all manuscripts to the New American Poetry Competition at the address below. All entrants will be notified of the final selections by April 30,1995; however, no manuscripts shall be returned. By entering this competition, the applicant agrees that, if chosen, he/she will allow Sun & Moon Press to publish the manuscript according to the terms of the Sun & Moon Press contract, which pays 10% royalties on all copies sold. For further information or to enter, please write to the following address: The Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc. Sun & Moon Press New American Poetry Competition 6026 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90036 (213)857-1115 FAX:(213) 857-0143 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 23:14:57 -0400 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Loss Glazier Subject: How to Subscribe to RIF/T (Informational) In response to some questions about how to subscribe to RIF/T, I post the following information for those who might need it. This is an informational posting. ------------------------------------------------------------------ H O W T O S U B S C R I B E T O R I F / T (An Electronic Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Writing) To subscribe to RIF/T send an e-mail message to: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Leave the "to" and "subject" lines of your e-mail message blank. In the body of the e-mail message type: subscribe e-poetry Firstname Lastname where "Firstname" and "Lastname" correspond to your actual name. You will receive a message confirming your subscription in short order. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for your interest in RIF/T, Loss Glazier for Kenneth Sherwood & Loss Glazier ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 20:52:24 -0700 Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Charles Watts Subject: "Recovery of the Public World" ANNOUNCING "THE RECOVERY OF THE PUBLIC WORLD": a Conference in Honour of the Poetry and Poetics of Robin Blaser; to be held in Vancouver, Canada, June 1st to 4th, 1995. "Poets have repeatedly in this century turned philosophers, so to speak, in order to argue the value of poetry and its practice within the disturbed meanings of our time. These arguments are fascinating because they have everything to do with the poets' sense of reality in which imagery is entangled with thought. Often, they reflect Pound's sense of `make it new' or the modernist notion that this century and its art are simultaneously the end of something and the beginning of something else, a new consciousness, and so forth. It is not one argument or another for or against tradition, nor is it the complex renewal of the imaginary which our arts witness, for, as I take it, the enlightened mind does not undervalue the imaginary, which is the most striking matter of these poetics; what is laid out before us finally is the fundamental struggle for the nature of the real. And this, in my view, is a spiritual struggle, both philosophical and poetic. Old spiritual forms, along with positivisms and materialisms, which `held' the real together have come loose. This is a cliche of our recognitions and condition. But we need only look at the energy of the struggle in philosophy and poetry to make it alive and central to our private and public lives." (Robin Blaser, from "The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead," in LINE No. 2, Fall 1983) This conference will address many of the concerns voiced by Robin Blaser's work in poetry and prose over nearly fifty years' writing, teaching, speaking and living an evolving poetic thought. There will be six panel sessions, each exploring a realm of this thought; there will also be a seventh, convivial session which will give us an opportunity to speak about companionship in poetry and poetics. The panels, with possible topics for discussion: POETICS, THEORY AND PRACTICE: presentation & representation - self & other - the play of absence - parataxis & hypotaxis - the serial poem - dictation - the poem as field - the poem thinking - the poem as argument - theory and practice of language - augury - the visionary & the prophetic - the construction of modernity - mythopoiesis - grammatology - logography PAINTING, MUSIC, SCULPTURE, POETRY: no break with tradition, but a continuous gathering - continuous breakages and ruptures with academicisms and canon-makings - field in painting, music, the plastic arts - Rimbaud's `dereglement de tous les sens' - `the painter of modern life' - revolution of the word - Duchamp & poiesis - l'avant-garde - Bach's belief &/in the era of Boulez and Cage HETEROLOGIES: `religio', a `tying back to' & vision vs. religiosity - futurity as indeterminable vs a settled & expected transcendence - dangerousness of the latter - rethinking the cosmos in the 19th century (Poe, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson) - Blake & cosmos - 20th century turns - "we are `ventured' by language" - Olson, Whitehead - science as thought & unthought (Einstein, Foucault) - `scientific angelism' (Girard) - Merleau-Ponty - Leibniz, Bach, probability, monadology - Deleuze, `the fold' - heterodoxies, heterologies (De Certeau) - `God, self, history, and book' (Taylor) - importance & implications of cosmology/cosmogony as modes of poetic discourse in relation to the contemporary dominance of philosophies of language & psychoanalysis - muthos/logos - Plato & the preface to Plato & the postface - the `other' of philosophy & poetics ETHICS AND AESTHETICS: modern `isms' and persons - self, other - Hannah Arendt & the recovery of the public world - the scapegoat, sacrifice of the other - Marx, Freud, materialisms, positivisms - Foucault (madness & civilization, archaeologies of knowledge, the public institution) - the postmodern condition - poet & ideology - Benjamin, Adorno, Bloch, and others - outsiders (Hans Mayer) & `the practice of outside' - Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy, the gay science - `the fragility of goodness' (Nussbaum) - repression & freedom - Hermes & the parasite (Serres) - the practice of everyday life - (De Certeau) - nomadology - ethical poetics EROS AND POIESIS: desire & freedom - eros & agape - self, other - homoeros, sexualities, `heterodalities' - `sodometries' - the creative/the destructive, the prolific/the devouring - sexual politics - the poetics of love TRANSLATION: `De volgari eloquentia' - Mallarme, `correspondances' - dictation - mimesis - imitation &/or carrying over - Pound - Nerval, Duncan, Blaser - music the `upper limit of speech'? - translation & the sacred - `originality'/`derivation' - `quotation' - Octavio Paz - before, during, and after Babel (George Steiner) - ethnopoetics, culture studies, linguistics & translation COMPANIONS: breaking bread with - a feast of companionship - `the great companions: Pindar, Dante, Whitman, H.D., Duncan, Spicer, Olson, Pound, Yeats et al - the everyday & miraculous affection - `the truth is laughter' - Boston, Berkeley, San Francisco, Vancouver - teaching/learning - generosities of scholarship - order/strife & human fulfillment - truth & life of myth The `Companions' session will be celebrated as a feast. Obviously, the `topics' outlined above have hardly the stability of categories, and can easily, and relatively promiscuously, slip from one session to another; "the map is not the territory," and conference participants will find their own territories/unterritories to speak from. One very valuable guide is Robin Blaser's The Holy Forest, "a collected poems, that is, as far as I've gone today, 6 May, 1993" (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1993), available from Coach House, 50 Prince Arthur Avenue, Suite 107, Toronto, Canada M5R 1B5, and from Small Press Distribution, 1814 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley CA 94702, Fax (510) 549-2201. A CALL FOR PROPOSALS: "THE RECOVERY OF THE PUBLIC WORLD": A CONFERENCE ON THE POETRY AND POETICS OF ROBIN BLASER, June 1st-4th, 1995, EMILY CARR COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA. CRITICISM * THEORY * BIOGRAPHY * LITERARY HISTORY * POETRY * WELCOME. PANELS AND SEMINARS WILL BE HELD ON POETICS, THEORY AND PRACTICE * PAINTING, MUSIC, SCULPTURE, POETRY * HETEROLOGIES * ETHICS AND AESTHETICS * EROS AND POIESIS * TRANSLATION * COMPANIONS. Please submit two copies of a 500-750 word proposal by 30 September 1994 to "Toward the Recovery of the Public World," c/o The Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 Conference organizers are Ted Byrne, Tom Grieve, Tom McGauley, Miriam Nichols and Charles Watts. For additional information about the conference, please write to the Institute for the Humanities, or telephone (604) 291-4747 or (604) 291-4868; or fax (604) 291-5788. My e-mail address is cwatts@sfu.ca Charles Watts for the conference organizers. ========================================================================= Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1994 23:20:40 MDT Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: "Fred J. Wah" Subject: Re: chappies In-Reply-To: <9405052228.AA31237@acs7.acs.ucalgary.ca>; from "Michael Boughn" at May 5, 94 5:15 pm Thanks for the morsel. We're off to Germany in the morning, tired out after the Learneds here in Calgary last two weeks, plus all the fighting bout the race conference (but it's going ahead with lots of donations anyway). I haven't been abel to get to the D book at all - feel bad about that but will have to wait until Sept now. Was good to see you in TO, hope yr ok and the summer works. I'll be off of this, except for a couple of days in July, until late August. take care, Fred-- ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 15:56:12 GMT+1200 Reply-To: aloney@engnov1.auckland.ac.nz Sender: UB Poetics discussion group From: Alan Loney Subject: Poetics Notebook Wystan Curnow has just told me (with a heap of enthusiam and of course a glittering intellegence) of your poetics discussion group, and I'd like to join. May I? aloney@engnov1.auckland.ac.nz