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ng powerful personality elsewhere so far he s shown himself to be a poor judge of coaching talent picking the ineffectual bumbling jimmy raye to run his team s offense it was announced this morning that in an apparent flurry of concern he s fired raye the 49ers glory years were built upon a foundation of offensive innovation under walsh for years afterward his continued influence upon player and coaching selection informed the management choices of the franchise but walsh is dead and the caravan moves on sometimes you have to bite the bullet and go back to the drawing board i always thought hill was the kind of quarterback singletary admired a blue collar sort of guy not flashy but reliable careful deliberate tough but hill is gone whatever singletary chooses to do his solution for the quarterback problem will determine his fate either he gets rid of smith and gets a better one on the free agent market or he swallows his pride through another losing season hoping to get a high enough draft pick in the off season to bet on another college phenom posted by curtis faville at 2 32 pm 1 comment ted greenwald 30 years later back in 1979 i published ted greenwald s common sense effectively a selected poems up to that point the money to do it i was just a struggling poet myself at that time plugging along in a government job which i always thought would be a temporary gig but which continued for another 22 years came from the national endowment for the arts small publishers grants program full disclosure i ve been officially opposed to government support of the arts for at least the last 15 years despite my once having been a beneficiary albeit for publishing not for my writing ted s collected poems was one proposal in my grant application and it turned out to be one of the best projects i ve ever undertaken up to that point in time ted had only published short mimeo pamphlets which was the medium of the day and i thought his work deserved the sort of professional presentation ordinarily accorded primarily to mainstream poets we agreed on terms and ted encouraged me to edit his collected works from his previously published books this wasn t very difficult ted s work was consistent and clear and chronology as a guiding principle of organization didn t seem to be an over riding concern we were both happy with the resulting collection appearing concurrently with ted s other major collection that year the licorice chronicles kulchur press 1979 it lent greater authenticity and legitimacy to his reputation as an underground poet to be reckoned with from my first exposure to ted s work i realized he was an original in the words of ezra pound referring to the young george oppen a writer whose ideas were not gotten out of any other man s books a writer who invented his own literary or non literary contexts and whose style met the demands of a personal vision which he shared with no one some writers are original by design or mastery of will others simply are ineluctably undeniably themselves sans any premeditated compulsion to pretend to be anything they aren t there was never anyone who wrote the way ted did and there may never be he s the genuine article a poet with a voice and a way of seeing the world that is unique in the years since ted has continued to publish and by now must have well over a thousand pages of published work s two books i found recently at spd in its berkeley warehouse in your dreams blazevox 2008 and 3 cuneiform press 2008 confirm that ted s as busy and inventive as he was when i collected him thirty years ago i ve referred to ted before in print as an urban primitive a term which for me captures some of the rawness of the life of the the big city streets while implying a sophistication that encompasses his brilliant appropriation of middle brow speech language for the purposes of high mimetic ted who began publishing in the mid 1960 s was a language poet years before the language poets even knew they had a name or an identity they naturally adopted ted as a comrade in arms even though in point of fact ted was too elusive a quantity too original and genuine an artist even to need a literary association to define his importance ted discovered language poetry technique s before most of the language poets had graduated from college this may sound somewhat argumentative until you realize that talent may not always rise to the top in this country where publicity and promotion usually constitute 4 5 s of the public s apprehension of any writer s reputation that s as true in academia as it is in new york publishing circles or in the underground network of the avant garde in any case ted has turned his attention in recent years to longer works ted s shorter poems usually function as the pirouette of a single turn but in the longer poems he works out complex patterns of incremental repetition and variation playing off phrases which are augmented by the changing focus of attention greenwald has always stuck stubbornly with his daily speech seeing in it a key to the meaning of his rhythms obsessions fascinations he burrows inside these explicating them based on a personal code which then becomes a part of what is happening falling apart the changing reorientation becomes a series of subtle adjustments each of which opens or disintegrates before our eyes in your dreams is a long 247pp 79 72 line poems series of meditations set as centered lines all of which are capitalized without any explicit punctuation periods or commas wondering how carving living darkness guard down run out of paint carving living darkness run out of paint stand looking carving living darkness guard down stand looking for what personality under glass stand looking personality under glass back to where stand looking for what back to where conversational lyrics handheld romance back to where handheld romance needy talking about back to where conversational lyrics needy talking about tissue loneliness vanity glue needy talking about vanity glue belief waa waa walk the floor with the ceiling and so on the order of the lines here is abcacdaedfgdghdfhi and so on what this incrementally shifting recurrence does is create a dialectic in which individual phrases are interlocked but never return to a beginning life presents us with millions of obsessive little lyrical formulae most of which never recur in quite the same way twice what these strictly organized rehearsals do is record the shifting preoccupations of the mind in language each phrase in the mind has a characteristic rhythmic and denotative identity a resonance which spins in place undergoes slight change then is replaced with another we are always subconsciously trying phrases out for size like pairs of pants in the changing room of a department store does this fit how do i look this plastic security device is really heavy such phrases then become a part of the process of living or of thinking through the poem itself does this fit trying phrases out replaced with another in the mind this plastic security become a part of thinking does this fit i don t know that anyone has ever written a work quite like this one john giorno used to write poems that were repeated sentences broken up into different lengths but he wasn t experimenting with the transformations of individual phrases and conceptual relationships the way greenwald does ron silliman works with through repeated phrases in a similar way but his separations are much wider and meant to queue thought rather than as with greenwald the mental jingles which are toyed with with such obsessive curious precious determination greenwald s style depends upon the rhythmic triggers that set unconscious thought processes into action the poems become echo chambers or function perhaps as a ghost tracking of stray particles in linear accelerators the particles are phrase units sometimes familiar sometimes not which get stuck in the conveyor and spin or wobble there for a second then are swept along the belt towards memory s ultimate warehouse such metaphors from physics or industry fail to account for the multi contextual frames the poems set up their origin may be wholly synthetic born in the imagination zooming in on the air waves or may derive from some interaction in the actual world of street talk the human commerce of the everyday pushing along or waiting in line hurrying through the yellow semaphore before the surveillance camera clicks gotcha ted s poems have never been referential in the usual sense but exercises the mind plays balanced between need and hooky crisis and cure distraction and the sweet spot of contact ted s poems are about what it feels like to be inside ted an amazing place no question posted by curtis faville at 7 04 am 1 comment sunday september 26 2010 epitaphs testaments the need to define the parameters of existence to put the stamp of finality on one s sense of the essence of human life to characterize the gist in a few carefully weighed sentences has always interested compilers of collections of quotations such compendiums are as often as not the repository of forgotten chestnuts either too familiar or too obscure to be compelling here are two such quotations each perhaps just a bit long to fit into the the typical brief homiletic formula but interesting nonetheless the first by william saroyan was the preface to his pulitzer prize winning play the time of your life 1939 saroyan famously turned down the pulitzer saying he thought that commerce should not infect creative arts in the time of your life in the time of your life live so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches seek goodness everywhere and when it is found bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed place in matter and in flesh the least of the values for these are the things that hold death and must pass away discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world ignore the obvious for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart be the inferior of no man or of any men be superior remember that every man is a variation of yourself no man s guilt is not yours nor is any man s innocence a thing apart despise evil and ungodliness but not men of ungodliness or evil these understand have no shame in being kindly and gentle but if the time comes in the time of your life to kill kill and have no regret in the time of your life live so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it william saroyan 31 august 1908 18 may 1981 the statement is interesting for the somewhat politically incorrect sentiments it contains particularly the business about the taking of life americans are typically ambiguous about such matter of factness regarding violence and death our largely protestant secular culture urges peaceful resolution and humility in our relations but we ve fought our share of wars and have usually been able to reconcile our religious teachings with the call to duty still saroyan s comment doesn t limit the principle to war he clearly believes that there may be times when defending oneself or someone else killing is necessary or unavoidable robert traver the pen name of john d voelker wrote both fishing books and straight fiction a judge in private life he retired early on the strength of his earnings from his runaway bestseller anatomy of a murder 1958 which was made into a movie 1959 to spend more time fishing in the upper peninsula of michigan testament of a fisherman i fish because i love to because i love the environs where trout are found which are invariably beautiful and hate the environs where crowds of people are found which are invariably ugly because of all the television commercials cocktail parties and assorted social posturing i thus escape because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing things they hate my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of small rebellion because trout do not lie or cheat and cannot be bought or bribed or impressed by power but respond only to quietude and humility and endless patience because i suspect that men are going along this way for the last time and i for one don t want to waste the trip because mercifully there are no telephones on trout waters because only in the woods can i find solitude without loneliness because bourbon out of an old tin cup always tastes better out there because maybe one day i will catch a mermaid and finally not because i regard fishing as being so terribly important but because i suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant and not nearly so much fun john voelker robert traver june 19 1903 march 19 1991 because i share voelker s love of fishing this statement serves as a very useful kind of excuse for the pursuit of a pastime that may seem to the uninitiated to be an elegant way to waste one s time like golf or needlepoint the fatalistic pessimism i suspect that men are going along this way for the last time may seem like a bad beer commercial phrase out of context but the promotion of such virtues to which trout may respond quietude and humility and endless patience seems an expression of an admirable civility against the posturing and false importance of our daily commitments it always puts me in mind of the camaraderie which obtains among friends on the water in those still moments between the stirrings of interest or action when sportsmen feel that sense of liberation of feeling and surmise which characterize the relaxed mind posted by curtis faville at 2 08 pm 1 comment friday september 24 2010 more thoughts on internet identity one of the strangest things about the internet and blogging is its enormous reach and the personal vulnerability or nakedness of one s presence on it like all forms of media projection it facilitates the creation of a specific persona soon virtual visual interaction is coming allowing users to watch each other literally to look into each other s real physical space while spending time online whether or not people choose to allow this kind of exposure will depend upon a number of factors privacy as it has been thought of in the past will have to be revised we already know that much of the world is under continuous surveillance by cameras and hand held devices of various kinds as technology penetrates ever further into our personal space s we continue to lose privacy to lose the anonymous incognito physical sense of being inside our personal envelope secure secret contained the satellite mapping devices and street mounted address programs allow us to look at private addresses at street level and down upon neighborhoods throughout the world it occurred to me a few days ago that people i v...