[-empyre-] Starting the Third Week: Michael Boghn and Jerome Sala

Fri Nov 18 05:53:08 AEDT 2016

(G)no)ledge of what is/and is not embodied in language.

Ciao,
Murat

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Michael Boughn <mboughn at rogers.com> wrote:

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> Jerome -- I am not sure what you mean by counter-culture sounding board. I
> meant that the poetics of the New American Poetry -- as varied as they were
> -- mostly agreed that the poem is [an] opening into forms of knowing
> specific to the potential of language events it embodies. It is not about
> "expressing feelings". It is not perfectly composed out of various
> predictable tropes. It is not a statement about what you already know. It's
> a venture and as a venture it opens into a transformative gnosis of the
> deep unfolding dimensionality of the world. Charles Olson called it
> projective. I won't rehearse all the arguments and misrepresentations of
> that, only to say that Olson's projective resonates with what the
> philosopher/scientist Karen Barad calls (re)configurations of entangled
> emergence.
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Jerome Sala <jeromesala502 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
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>> Michael,
>> I was intrigued in your statement by what you described as a
>> "commitment to poetry as a particular mode of knowledge" connected to
>> the writing in the Donald Allen anthology. Could you elaborate on this
>> a bit? Were you thinking of poetry in its function as a
>> counter-cultural sounding board? I ask because lately (and this is
>> probably in a different sense than what you were thinking), when I
>> read philosophy/science about the whole area consciousness/cognitive
>> studies, I sometimes think poetry is a particular way of knowing the
>> mind.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Murat Nemet-Nejat <muratnn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > "...
>> > n the last week, beginning with an announcement at Dispatches that went
>> out to 200 poets and was picked up and reposted to many more, we responded
>> to the Trump disaster with a call for contributions to an anthology of
>> poetry of resistance to the new fascist movement. Within three days, we
>> were inundated with positive responses. Using the speed of the internet,
>> the editorial group has now expanded to a broad and diverse group of 10
>> poets, each of whom has reached out to 10-20 of their friends. The book now
>> has 200+ contributors lined up. We hope to publish it as an INITIAL act of
>> resistance shortly after Trump’s inauguration. It is the sudden
>> crystallization of a latent being-in-common that this tool, this medium,
>> makes possible. We don’t need a central committee because we have the
>> internet.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > That immediacy energizes the being-in-common in ways that intensify the
>> resistance to the Administration’s professionalized death formations (see,
>> for instance, The Poetry Foundation website, or The Great Philadelphia
>> Poetry Warehouse and Media Centre), and creates opportunities for further
>> proliferation of relation beyond the immediate, not only within the virtual
>> space, but beyond it in the creation of formations in the rough and tumble
>> world. The anthology then will become a kind of decentered centre which
>> will provoke occasions for coming together in the world. At a time when the
>> Trump Doom looms before us in its authoritarian darkness, such small
>> centres of life and thinking are what we have to hold on to to keep the
>> light alive and extend the resistance in more and more networks of
>> being-in-common." (from Michael Boghn's Introductory Statement as a guest
>> contributor in November)
>> >
>> > I would like to present this announcement for the anthology that
>> Michael is talking about -- an example of words turning into act even
>> though the act itself in words may be:
>> >
>> > "
>> >
>> > Spuyten Duyvil Press
>> >
>> > and
>> >
>> > Dispatches Editions
>> >
>> > announce the publication of
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Resist Much / Obey Little
>> >
>> > Inaugural Poems to the Resistance
>> >
>> > “To The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist
>> much, obey little;
>> >
>> > Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved;
>> >
>> > Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever
>> afterward resumes its liberty.”
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > – Walt Whitman
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Edited by
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Michael Boughn, John Bradley, Brenda Cardenas, Ching-In Chen, Lynne
>> DeSilva-Johnson,
>> >
>> > Kass Fleisher, Roberto Harrison, Kent Johnson, Andrew Levy, Ruben
>> Medina, Philip Metres,
>> >
>> > Julie Patton, Margaret Randall, Michael Rothenberg, Anne Waldman,
>> Tyrone Williams
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Forthcoming early in 2017, to coincide with the Presidential
>> Inauguration
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Submissions are open until December 7, 2016
>> >
>> > Send yours to poetrywardispatch at gmail.com
>> >
>> >                                                                 (please
>> send no more than three Word Document pages total)
>> >
>> > Ciao,
>> > Murat
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Murat Nemet-Nejat <muratnn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Renate, I have been using Firefox and gmail. I still had all these
>> problems.
>> >>
>> >> Ciao,
>> >> Murat
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Michael Boughn <mboughn at rogers.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
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>> >>> Hi Alan -- I don't think it is closed. I have no idea how this thing
>> works and have had a very difficult time getting my statement posted.
>> >>>
>> >>> What would you like me to do? Post it again?
>> >>>
>> >>> Mike
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
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>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi Michael,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I didn't receive anything about submitting; is it possible to send
>> this out again or is it already closed? I think there are a lot of people
>> on this list who would be interested.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks, Alan
>> >>>>
>> >>>> (Footnote - does anyone know why it's impossible to quote from a
>> message sent out? are people using attachments? is there an issue with the
>> software? I'm looking forward to a lively discussion, but technicalities
>> seem to get in the way - for example, I just read a post from Murat, but it
>> disappears when I try to quote parts of it. Thanks -)
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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