d i u 4 All persons interested in text-based virtual realities: Describers of an Imaginary Univercity will meet in the living room on lambda-MOO, Monday August 1st 10 pm east coast time. To accompany: telnet lambda.xerox.com 8888 If you are unfamiliar with this medium, you might experiment before- hand, and obtain a "Character" if possible. C you there. "XXXX OOOO EH" incites us to imbibe the "strong, costly wine" of Robert Herrick's verse, but students here at DIU should know just how strong and just how costly a whine it is: UPON SOME WOMEN by Robert Herrick Thou who wilt not love, doe this; Learne of me what Woman is. Something made of thred and thrumme; A meere Botch of all and some. Pieces, patches, ropes of haire; In-laid Garbage ev'ry where. Out-side silk, and out-side Lawne; Sceanes to cheat us neatly drawne. False in legs, and false in thighes; False in breast, teeth, haire and eyes: False in head, and false enough; Onely true in shreds and stuffe. --Patriarchal Poetry *** REQUEST FOR INFORMATION *** For a study on the "objectivist poets" in preparation for DIU Press I would appreciate any anecdotal information (including letters, photographs, first person accounts or copies of memoirs) that would shed light on the brief marriage of Lorine Niedecker and William Carlos Williams. I am also seeking information on Joyce Hopkins, in particular the circumstances that brought her to reveal "Louis Zukofsky," "Charles Reznikoff" and "George Oppen" as Niedecker's pseudonyms. Lastly, if anyone knows the whereabouts of Robert Creeley, I have been trying to track him down. I understand he is the last living member of the original "objectivist conspiracy," and that he went into hiding shortly after the coup but remained within the borders of the old United States. --Kimberly Filbee CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR "AMERICAN POETRY" What does it mean to be an American? I have presumed to regard this question as an historical one. Yet Marianne Moore suggests our historiography lacks something in the way of truth. Do you agree? In the way of truth stands history itself, blocking the light. History in the form of an author casts its shadow on our reading. What to do? As we begin our reading of Whitman's "Drum Taps," let's presume to imagine that Whitman himself is listening in on our conversation. Can we provoke him into stepping aside, that the light might return to the page? The dark is good to dream in, but to dream in the light is better still. "He comprehended that the effort to mold the incoherent and vertiginous matter dreams are made of was the most arduous task a man could undertake, though he might penetrate all the enigmas of the upper and lower orders: much more arduous than weaving a rope of sand or coining the faceless wind." (Jorge Luis Borges) Discuss. --Black Hole Sun from: SLICES OF KNOWLEDGE Never despair. Let macerate longer. * An inn of soft muds for fish who spend the night out of the water. * A beggar, but he governs a beggar's cup. * Mornings, if one is a bee, no mucking about, one has to pilfer. * Funerals should take place in swamps. Wouldn't it be just that the living, who follow the dead, should also be in difficulty? * The birds' delirium does not interest the trees. * It is not the crocodile's job to yell: "Watch out for the crocodile!" * He who hides his madman, dies voiceless. * Even if it is true, it is false. * - What would a distillation of the whole world be like? - asked a man in amazement, drunk for the first time. * The caravans want respect. * There is no proof that the flee, which lives on the mouse, is afraid of the cat. * The blood of the ox, put into a tiger, would give the latter nightmares. * Evil traces, good floods. * That one uses his vice to jerk off his virtue. * --HM translated by PJ Let us recall the Kent State massacre. What was at stake? Why was the National Guard shooting down middle-class young people in middle America? Their ancestors were enthralled by the utopia sublime. Right there in Ohio, in Akron and Cleveland, they were in the thrall of the absolute. So utterly were they taken up by what their self- repression might gain them that, when the Cayuga River caught on fire and burned, they did not understand that it was a sign. The children were lured by beauty--forms that were available to the senses, not crumbling between a lost origin and an infinitely receding goal. I or I would recall the virtue of Herbert Marcuse in this connection: "Before the court of theoretical or practical reason, which has shaped the world of the performance principle, the aesthetic existence stands condemned. However, we shall try to show that this notion of aesthetics results from a 'cultural repression' of contents and truths that are inimical to the performance principle. We shall attempt to undo this repression theoretically by recalling the original meaning and function of aesthetic. This task involves the demonstration of the inner connection between pleasure, sensuousness, beauty, truth, art, and freedom--a connection revealed in the philosophical history of the world aesthetic." --Thus, Albert or Hubert Playlist, Conference of the Birds, KZSC, Santa Cruz 7-11-94 Silvio Rodriguez/ Sueno Con Serpientes/ Dias y Flores Mercedes Sosa/ Los Hermanos/ en Argentina Ketama/ Creo/ El Arte de lo Invisible Ismael Miranda/ Aventura/ Por El Buen Camino ... Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell/ Roland Alphonso/ El Corazon Old and New Dreams/ Mopti/ Playing ... Cesaria Evora/ Sodade/ Trance Planet Songhai/ Africa/ Songhai Seleshe Damissae/ Sewnetwa/ Seleshe's Collection Hrant Kenkulian/ Dilerum Sen (Past Sarki)/ Udi hrant Kenkulian ... Salim Halali/ Nlaguik Ellila/ En Tunisie David Murray/ Patricia/ NYC 1986 Oppong/ Anadwo Bea/ 1960's Highlife ... Frankiln Kiermyer/ Peace on Earth/ Solomon's Daughter Andrew Cyrille, Jimmy Lyons, Jeanne Lee/ In These Last Days/ Nuba Julius Hemphill/ Rites/ Dogon A.D. ... Alemayehu Eshete/ Ambassel/ Addis Ababa The Tahitian Choir/ Morotiri Nei/ Trance Planet ... Youssou N' Dour/ Woma/ Bir Sorano Juin '93 Orchestra Reve/ El Ron pa Despue/ La Explosion del Momento Rabab/ (title in arabic)/ Best of Rabab Vol 2 Khaled/ Hebou/ N'ssi N'ssi ... Nasida Ria/ Janikan Anak Asuh/ Keadilan Ornette Coleman/ What Reason Could I Give/ Science Fiction ... Thelonius Monk/ untitled solo piano/ Blues Five Spot James Booker/ Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Ballad at the Maple Leaf/ Ressurection of the Bayou Maharaja "errata" diu 3: line 9 --Patriarchal Poetry should read "construction is precisely what is leading us to (ecological) crisis." rather than "destruction...". phrase in line 16 --XXXX OOOO EH should read "punch not" not "puncnot". the editors humbly apologize for such ghosts. please send thought pleasures & correspondence to cf2785@albnyvms.bitnet diu is (c)irculated weekly by the logic of snowflakes "nodal extension" of wepress