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rendition it s hard to think of a movie adaptation rendition for a poetry collection haha what is the one sentence synopsis of your book ruins and reconstructions explores in four lyric sections both the wreckage and needed recovery of a persona trying to come to terms with phenomenal conceptual and dialectal concerns in contemporary poetry in english it has a patina of the postcolonial as well is your book self published or represented by an agency it is published by anvil publishing one of the biggest publishing houses in the philippines so yeah it s not self published how long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript it took about two and a half years to finish the collection but it began with a suite of eight to ten poems the book was finally realized during a residency in bellagio italy courtesy of a grant from the rockefeller foundation what other books would you compare this collection to within your genre it s hard to compare content wise as the book is quite thematic and driven mainly by the phenomenal but i guess some of my influences in terms of linguistic and stylistic conceits are robert hass john ashbery and dean young what else about your book might pique the reader s interest ruins and reconstructions was a finalist for the 2011 national book awards here are five authors i ve tagged to tell you about their next big thing in london fictionist and teacher tom sykes in singapore editor and poet alvin pang translator editor and fellow filipino poet marne kilates in south africa narrative non fictionist kevin bloom in new york poet and fictionist eric gamalinda posted by ramblingsoul at 5 12 pm friday may 11 2012 it is pain jarrell in another story i don t set anything up a field appears over a wall expands a cow of course more cows grazing pastoral comes to mind a stage maybe uncertainty is the principle behind myopia how can you not love the eye demise inside a mug because we are indoors ants drowned and there s no more milk let s go back to the meadow and watch how this turns out that side where almost everything s green a problem of focus past or pass shift since evening assembled and even though the view s now askew balance is timed study that recent cut on your finger with no lighting what you will see is not the knife gash blood nor whatever else led to this line mind pain and perhaps gain empathy and other words that graze vocabulary on the one hand feel pain is on the other exact so long as you don t plan it misplace it it is there there posted by ramblingsoul at 1 32 pm wednesday may 09 2012 does it matter does it matter the evening is spent a clutter that does not want any sort of order a rocking chair and no wind no one instead a creak waits suffers nobody and freely the arc sits still upon this contact point we can agree on some kind of settlement why bother the rust it has the color of copper day restores the swing in capacity a shelter in strain the line learns taut gains momentum speeds up into population begin with a raindrop pursue it with commotion share teeming under exposure for now a teeter dew on a leaf light too present to neglect that slope stark like a cup a cling how frail the stalk must feel against all this breaking posted by ramblingsoul at 12 01 pm saturday may 05 2012 vox populi donec humanae voces nobis vigilemus et nos mergimus implicate is a useless word you are alone with loss and with out it try not to veer your eyes away from names and numb ers on tombstones no resisting it erasure is tedious an infest ation in the mind the only claim the world allows you is that one day whether you expect it or not an encumbrance will knock on the door a brittle phenomenon a hold on your body how much click ing must it take to understand that you will hurt in so many joints a poet dead pet relatives love damn it all love holds no hold on the ego it dislocates dislodges either you give in first or an other beats you to it no one should declare he or she is dying fill in now all you playing dead donate not to the pretense but to the blind stare at the budding flower and watch how remiss how pre dictable tendency is count the countless the repetitive nuan ances permanence will outlive all of us fulfill the book a guy in dread locks offered before succumbing to cancer intelligence you must be shuddering always in the presence of wisdom you have been betrayed from the start by that fear of laying it all to rest fatal ism too is learned like latin hear the drumfill feel it in pace marley 1981 mca 2012 posted by ramblingsoul at 2 25 pm wednesday may 02 2012 reinventing the lyric an octave above thunder the poet s voice is heard a long way off marina tsvetaeyeva 10 improbable the voice of the poet it comes as the russian genius said from a long way off her tone they say is untranslatable the words are translatable but not the timbre of her voice her word play not the blackness of her dawn her church bells her child s fever pealing through the russian resonate i sit at the stone gate here by the drifting benches of snow just past the wind s stumbling pursuers the daughter s fixed gaze a rope over the rafter heard her voice may we each kneel in that swaying shadow bell clapper scythe a military salute unimaginable at the empty well let us praise a long way off the long shadows in a poet s voice each line she said up over the rafter translated was intonation then silence the line taut then what we still gather like wolves from the swaying distance improbable untranslatable exile lilac dichtung lucifer bonjour sushchnost blood stumbling in the heart its dazzling repetitive once like thunder carol muske in a longish essay that recently came out in the boston review may june 2012 titled poetry on the brink marjorie perloff argues that the term appropriation is most apropos when describing the current rise of conceptualism in contemporary american poetry and she wasn t just implying that it s the next wave she s actually championing it as the way to go toward reinventing the lyric her words perloff is unabashedly non deferential if not outright sarcastic as she lays down her argument the thesis of which is that there are too many poets nowadays and there s an extraordinary uniformity among poems that fit the mold of the prize winner the publishable the well crafted she expounds t he poems you will read in american poetry review or similar publications will with rare exceptions exhibit the following characteristics 1 irregular lines of free verse with little or no emphasis on the construction of the line itself or on what the russian formalists called the word as such 2 prose syntax with lots of prepositional and parenthetical phrases laced with graphic imagery or even extravagant metaphor the sign of poeticity 3 the expression of a profound thought or small epiphany usually based on a particular memory designating the lyric speaker as a particularly sensitive person who really feels the pain perloff goes on to describe the inevitable compromise of language poetry toward re definition so as to assimilate diversity and become more politically correct in the late 90s while still maintaining its staunch stance against the delicate lyric of self expression and direct speech and conversely its demand for an end to transparency and straightforward reference in favor of ellipsis indirection and intellectual political engagement before lambasting rita dove the figurehead in her tirade she offers a gentle almost motherly scolding of cole swensen and david st john for their safe definition of hybrid poetry in an anthology back in 2009 she underscores their claim of hybrid poetry s avant garde mandate as to paraphrase that would be akin to joining the so called bandwagon that is well the modern canon perloff s main course here is the penguin anthology of 20th century american poetry 2011 and rita dove s poetics and selection process perloff summons that infamous harold bloom vs adrianne rich clash and wastes no time dissecting dove s aesthetic valuations and starts comparing notes she reiterates her disdain of the current paradigm of the so called contemporary lyric observation triggering memory insight in certain poems from the penguin anthology including pulitzer winner natasha trethewey s before proceeding to offer examples of what one would surmise as her idea of the reinvented lyric poems by susan howe and srikanth reddy she namedrops other favorites christian bök among others before concluding with a poem by peter gizzi and this claim increasingly the true voice of feeling is the one you discover with an inspired if sometimes accidental click uncreative writing posits perloff as though she were coining the phrase it s in fact kenneth goldsmith s her contention should make sense if only it doesn t assume a plethora of first world donnés to name a few access to the web an audience well read on the conventions and new writing a not just literate but english undaunted readership contention is always the advantage of academics and the academized and is a condition in itself is this kind of appropriation appropriate in a post colonial milieu moreover is it even applicable here an option in ms word that s quite alluring is the strike through perloff leans toward this omission giddily dove will react to her and strike back the way she has to vendler of course and that s her prerogative this is exciting on the one hand yet the error of erasure lack of inclusion or better yet of involvement may not be as necessary in these shores as it is in the minds of the directly affected concerned this whole issue has less to do with the merit of the included than the easily discerned demerit perloff doles out to the editor and the publishing house dove is as expected now donning the armor of the besieged critic not the editor many want to see how this shebang plays out how many is many though muske in the 10th and last section from the octave above appropriates the revered russian poet allows the epigraphed line to inform her own without omission sans the embellishment devoid of the agenda we could call matricide maybe this is anti intellectualizing maybe this is instead approximation that which does not collide with the original text but enriches layers it profounds instead of confounds yes echo always bounces back to its origin somehow warped slightly altered but never outright changed otherwise we re left with yet another fool on the hill shouting and cursing at the world waiting for answers that would not come or so in love with the sound of his own voice he forgets where he stands and his fall is heard a long way off posted by ramblingsoul at 1 31 pm monday april 30 2012 madrigal maybe we put too much faith in the heart when any blockhead knows everything falls apart turn to mush the storied administrations of the brain there s no statue that won t eventually dissolve in rain the continents are in pieces the empire a mess the fleece full of holes the rivers distressed not what we promised and swore didn t and did not the terrible things that happened to us as kids makes much diff we re the types who bring parasols to gunfights a dove backfires a dump truck coos everything s out of whack since i lost you worse than a job chicken processing worse than a courtroom of the deaf addressing like trying on a shirt with the pins still in it listen to the heart you ll soon regret it the photos in their oval frames bestow blame and frown whatever you used all your might to heave into the air is due to come crashing down not the hatchet job you wanted but the one you took you stagger from the feast for a look at a polluted brook rather polluted yourself you feel like something fallen from its shelf a yo yo with a busted string chipped ceramic elf because all you can think about is not there the eyes not there not there s hair you still don t know what to say and keep saying it still trying to give your hiding place away making a silly commotion with the leaves of the tree you re falling from but once that paper s creased there s no uncreasing once the numbers are deleted there s nothing to add up so time for the tarry slumber of so what who cares what s it matter what should be open closes should be soft hardens while the next set of fools scampers into the puzzle garden detonating with laughter dean young fall higher copper canyon press 2011 young thinking after dean young s madrigal all the new thinking was about collision still is dean all these ideas being tossed around here and there i mean one goes to bank and another robs a school because someone cancelled the fair in scarborough shoal stuck at half contempt the moon wouldn t round children keep playing tag during witching hour a hound snubs all excess baggage this is the age of the nincompoop doggerel sassy pies and we dare not venture out too long and lie under this sun as missile debris can hold an entire court the cows have a slight case of the weather is all man the ports under the flu one cuckoo is nesting intolerant of the maximum of the heat with a gun what has mersault done to become a faux camus come on michelle let s stop discussing fouc ault and just do wit don t be a stranger deride the cargo de man the boats let bloom tower over the net picked fish anyway you gotta love the 22 year old who gave dean his new beat too young dean would reason out for loss did not live long enough to see him tickled pink while revising hass with have heart soon does not resemble old thinking the misspelled word was meditation he is re typing c as in collide c in cure i e medication posted by ramblingsoul at 10 34 am friday april 27 2012 exit wounds if we insist on this idea of a force field a stasis an empire inside the navel and waterfall trapped within walls which keep bridges spires a starfish what good is a pin prick what is science a snow globe teeters anticipates wobble somewhere a child weeps and no body hears this distress he hides inside the cabinet a fragment a breath discovers this act and out comes artifice arti fact the air inspecting the mess stirs itself into the animated cut to the next scene a bare foot close up shard being extracted a side profile shot half of a sole blood trickle quickly camera pans to the table so abandonment is up played nothing on the mantle but crust could be spotted prune parse syllabicate all the world s re enacment we are playing catch we couldn t grasp the silence the siren drifts away yet again and again that saturated could n t be saved couldn t be saved grandmother mother curtain call posted by ramblingsoul at 7 22 pm older posts home subscribe to posts atom facebook badge joel m toledo create your badge about joel joel m toledo holds a masters degree in english studies poetry from the university of the philippines diliman where he likewise finished two undergraduate degrees journalism and creative writing he has authored three books of poetry chiaroscuro ust press 2008 the long lost startle up press 2009 and ru...