søndag den 3. marts 2013

No more retinal poetry!

@Poetryfoundation

No More af Vanessa Place

No more lines on the luminescence of   light, of   whatever variation.
No more elegies of youth or age, no polyglottal ventriloquism.
No more songs of raw emotion, forever overcooked.
No more the wisdom of   banality, which should stay overlooked.
No more verbs of embroidery.
No more unintentional phallacy.
No more metaphor, no more simile. Let the thing be, concretely.
No more politics put politically: let the thing be concretely.
No more conditional set conditionally — let the thing be already.
No more children pimped out to prove some pouting mortality.
No more death without dying — immediately.
No more poet-subject speaking into the poem-mirror, watching the mouth move, fixing the thinning hair.
No more superiority of the interiority of that unnatural trinity — 
you, me, we — our teeth touch only our tongues.
No more Gobstoppers: an epic isn’t an epic for its fingerprints.
No more reversals of grammar if as emphasis.
No more nature less natural; no more impiety on bended knee.
No more jeu de mot, no more mot juste.
No more retinal poetry.

onsdag den 21. november 2012

Konceptualisme

En diskussion af konceptualisme og globalisme  mellem Paal Bjelke Andersen, Marco Huerto Antonio & Rob Fitterman via Vanessa Place @ Global Conceptualism i Jacket2.
 


søndag den 11. november 2012

Festskrift til Marjorie Perloff via Jacket2

Festskrift til Marjorie Perloff i forbindelse med optagelsen som medlem af American Philosophical Society - stort tillykke!
 

Indholdsfortegnelse: 

On the unoriginal genius of Marjorie Perloff Jerome McGann
Sound bytes and computer blips Dee Morris
On 'The Poetics of Indeterminacy' Joan Retallack
The contemporary of our grandchildren Richard Sieburth
For Marjorie Maggie O'Sullivan
Perloff and/in France Jan Baetens
Ways of reading: Marjorie Perloff and the sublimity of pragmatic criticism Charles Bernstein
Marjorie Perloff: Die Dichtung und das Ding (poetry and the thing) Vanessa Place
Four wheels and a broken glass Caroline Bergvall
'Radical Artifice' Johanna Drucker
'The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage' Stephen Fredman
Becoming Marjorie Perloff Brian Reed
The unprepared future of an exophonic refugee Al Filreis
'The Futurist Moment' Jean-Michel Rabaté
Marjorie Perloff's 21st-century modernism Peter Nicholls
Close, very close Peter Middleton
Marjorie Perloff: A bibliographic essay J. Gordon Faylor

Futurism and schism Marjorie Perloff

mandag den 5. november 2012

Links; Mullen, Roubaud & ELC

Harryette Mullen - essays & interviews, ny udgivelse;

The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Essays and Interviews

 Link til oplæsning (Lunch Poems) på youtube her 

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Interview med Jacques Roubaud fra fra Audiatur festivalen 2007; 

 poesi etcetera 

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Elektronic Literature Collection

Volume 1

Volume 2   

mandag den 8. oktober 2012

Michael Palmer i Morgenrøde 7

Et udvalg af min oversættelse af Michael Palmer i Morgenrøde 7. Senere på året udkommer Sol, Første Figur & Notater til Echo Sø af Palmer på Afterhand. Udvalget i Morgenrøde er fra Baudelaire Serie, en digtkreds i værket Sol.




lørdag den 21. april 2012

Michael Palmer @Harvard

Via Ron Silliman

Et udvalg af de tekster Palmer læser op, bliver udgivet på Morgenrøde i oversættelse af undertegnede.

torsdag den 5. april 2012

Nekrolog over poesien: Vanessa Place & Kenneth Goldsmith

I Poetry Foundation


" I have written elsewhere that conceptual writing is annoying. Kenneth Goldsmith is the first to say that it may be boring. Bad lyric stinks; bad conceptualism is just another idea. And, as I have said before, what conceptualism does do is kill not the author, but the text itself. The writing is inert, formerly utilitarian, now deformed into nothing but an aesthetic object. All mirrored surface, no reflected soul. Like a fountain as receptacle. There to be thought on, rather than learned from, it’s terribly egalitarian. If poetry sprang from the void, conceptualism is the void. If poetry is dead, act like a zombie. The fact is, I like boring things. They make such lovely holes. 


                         - Vanessa Place




mandag den 2. april 2012

At spise grillkylling – Linh Dinh


Jeg hader at indrømme det, kammerat, men der er tidspunkter,
Når jeg spiser grillkylling
Når jeg ikke tænker på noget andet end at spise grillkylling,
Når jeg fuldstændig glemmer min familie, ære, og land,
Den blodskyld du skylder mig,
Mine ydmygelser i fortiden og fremtidige forbrydelser –
Alt, for at gøre det kort, undtagen det sprøde skind på min grillkylling

Men jeg er ikke kun ond, der er også tidspunkter
hvor jeg vil afvise at slikke eller sluge noget
Som ikke er almindeligt tilgængelig for menneskeheden.

(Hvilket, når du tænker over det, er ingenting overhovedet)

Og det er uden tvivl derfor at æbler kan skabe optøjer,
Og kød føre til ydmygelser,
Og hvert gisp efter luft
Vil fylde ens lunger med krudt og røg. 

                   -Oversættelse HMT