Poetry

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"Each bush of memory conceals a sniper."

 

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[luka]

definitely my kind of thing. love it when you say O! and then something really fruity

 

[luka]

not everyone can do it obviously but i think this guy is pretty good at it.

 

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More Glissant. Might chime with the 'Moby-Dick' discussion, @luka, @jenks, @Benny Bunter.

 

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[jenks]

Édouard Glissant.

Just put an order in for this. Thanks.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Nice discovery.

 

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He was shortlisted for a Nobel at one point, tbf.

 

[Benny Bunter]

On the French/Caribbean tip, I want to read Anabasis by St John Perse - Eliot translated it. He actually won the Nobel prize.

The little bits I've seen of Aime Cesaire look good too.

 

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[sus]

Almost as good a vid as that Saul R Ort clip

 

[sus]

Right now I am working my way through the essays of Octavio Paz

Total psychonaut deadhead shroomsguy that one. All about cosmic unity and metamorphosis and ego death, but expressed in Latin concretes

 

[sus]

My canon that I'm constellating between rn is

-Hopkins read by Burton
-Paz Sunstone (nothing else)
-Campos, Galaxias
-Dana Ward, Bas Jan Ader
-Frost (the abstract idea of an American pastoral poet, not any of the actual poems themselves)
-OHara (coke, lady, personism manifesto, the lovers address, low/hi mix)
-Ashberry convex mirror
-Ginsberg Howl (essay on recording/reciting it, oral aspect key, blown like a jazz trump)
-Dylan Love Minus Zero
-King Fisher poems by Newsom Olson etc
-tons of Eliot love Eliot, four quartets esp, prufrock
-Pound Pisan plus Rockdrill Cantos plus All is vanity and Seafarer and down to the breakers
-Beckett not I
-Bedouin and nomad poems, sense of honor, coffee rituals, anxious warriors

 

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And

 

[kid charlemagne]

definitely my kind of thing. love it when you say O! and then something really fruity

using this for april poem

 

[Benny Bunter]

Almost as good a vid as that Saul R Ort clip

Whats saul r ort?

And why laugh at the eigner clip? Are you making fun of disableds?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Just discovered Prynne and Eigner both get mentioned in this Olson poem from Maximus.

 

[Benny Bunter]

eigner's stuff is fascinating, my favourite poet to come out of that generation of americans. I think he took Olson's projective verse idea further than anyone, but he was necessarily working on a different timescale and perspective than everyone else - one finger, one thumb on the typewriter, day after day, literally thousands of poems, bashing them out.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Eigner is a great contrast to all that post-Whitman/Olson American excess. He's in that tradition, how could he not be?, but the circumstances of his life produced something totally different.