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EAR Preview Order First Audio-Anthology Of Post
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Digitally remastered archival recordings of 13 poets reading at New York's Ear Inn, with a 32 page booklet including substantial excerpts from the texts of the poems, photos, and brief statements from the poets.
Ideal for personal collections as well as for classroom use and course adoption.
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Susan Howe: I wish I could tenderly
lift from the dark side of history voices that are anonymous, slighted
- inarticulate.
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Ron Silliman: The two tables in front
were crowded with young men with crew cuts and flat tops, a little too
neat to be skineads. It turned out that they were cadets from West Point,
sent by an English professor on an assignment to hear a reading in Manhattan.
The Ear Inn, serving beer mid-afternoon, fit the bill. I couldn't tell
what they made of OZ until the line "your haircut's too political" when
they burst out laughing.
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Leslie Scalapino in "bum series" (a
section in the center of the poem, WAY) was trying to get a shape or a
sound that's movement in locations, and is also compassion by itself (objectively)
occurring (not imposed) in these locations.
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Ted Greenwald: one foot in the other world the other foot in the other world
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Rosmarie Waldrop: Reproduction of Profiles
is a narrative tease using "semantic sliding." I used the philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein's phrase in a free, unsystematic way, sometimes quoting,
sometimes letting them spa rk what they would, sometimes substituting
different nouns within a phrase (e.g. his famous anti-metaphysical statement
that "the deepest questions are no questions at all" becomes "You could
prove to me that the deepest rivers are, in fact, no rivers at all.").
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Alan Davies: Love is Life Source. Soul is Life Energy Spirit is Life Force.
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Barrett Watten: Under Erasure was written
"through" the hiatus of 1989 and argues out the epochal implications of
that end. As with the revised version of Stein's Making of Americans,
there are implications for socia l communication in a poetics of ellipses,
considering what has been elided (and all the possibility that went with
it), but making use of the ciphers that remain.
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Erica Hunt: Will there be any room for
the future? A fat future ripe with possibility and potential defeats -
or accident or tedium? We sit down by our relics as the market wars break
out on the streets. We are not prepared to rot, yet we wait as if someone
will fix this for us, wake us in time for breakfast and smiles.
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Bruce Andrews: Only the pivot, language
locus embodies us bodies imperatively impossible.
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Hannah Weiner: I am a clairvoyant writer
"all these on my forehead words are seen "SILENT TEACHER now I hear words
even without the phone silent conversations.
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Steve McCaffery: If the aim of philosophy
is, as Wittgenstein claims, to show the fly the way out of the fly bottle,
then the aim of poetry is to convince the bottle that there is no fly.
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Ann Lauterbach: Poems intervene or intersect
between telling and told, and are vagrant as such, which gives place to
the Ear, the in. Inward is complex as urban locale; this poem an expansion
whose multiple sources allow curiosity unhindered by answers but determined
by language as that which we hear in the near. In this instance, an homage
to Charles Bernstein, "Shaman of Discourse," who knows the difference
between here or drear.
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Charles Bernstein: Poetry
and poetics are part of an exploration not so much of how I can make words
mean something I want to say but rather letting language find ways of
meaning through me. Form is never more than e xtension of sound and syntax:
the music of poetry is the sound of sense coming to be in the world.
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