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ning out volume after volume of hollowly sonorous lyrics which are almost non referential in their formulaic melopeia as ts eliot wrote of one swinburne poem that so little material could release such an amazing number of words requires what there is no reason to call anything but genius turning to the ten poem sequence at raucous purposeful i was caught between open mindedly approaching it as robert potts advises like a painting or a piece of music teasing out connections and possible chains of association potts again sonically prosodically thematically and metonymically and at other moments wondering if these were just random word lists generated by a computer an algorithm whose parameters are set to explicitly avoid any conventional poetic techniques figurations or meanings to confront the reader with slabs of sheer aleatory verbiage in the same way that many bands musicians and composers have brought out albums of pure dissonance and noise why to challenge our complacent assumptions about what constitutes music to clean out our banality clogged ears or even to make us want to turn the racket off and listen more attentively to the birds in the garden or the human voices that surround us no doubt it would be unreasonable or irrelevant to expect an 86 year old poet to change course or develop his practice at this late stage but reading at raucous purposeful i also thought of prynne s own words about a poetry reading he d just been to from the fascinating paris review interview he did in 2016 i want a poet to break out of his or her poetic identity to establish a whole new set of possibilities for the reader and for him or herself to hear poems that must have been written by a poet is to find them trapped in the poetic habits from which they originate there wasn t a poem anywhere in that sequence that i heard that i would have been glad to read for a second time i can t imagine why he did them what was the motive what was the serious development of his practice that poems like that would help him to find his way to oliver dixon 19 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 2 comments posted in english poetry pamphlet and tagged algernon swinburne geoffrey hill j h prynne john ashbery john heath stubbs jorie graham bookmark the permalink conversations with diana di prima ed david stephen calonne university of mississippi press posted on july 16 2022 by tearsinthefence although recognised and remembered as a radical political and feminist poet diane di prima 1934 2020 always questioned what was happening and chose what to engage with having read and reviewed a recent complete edition of her revolutionary letters i wanted to find out more about the author and this new book offered just the opportunity on the very first page of this book in an interview from grape published by the vancouver community press we get this grape you mentioned earlier that you ve stopped reading underground papers why is that diane because i find that level of information just isn t giving me anything i can work with at this point it s not interesting to me all that s happening on that level is a kind of sick history repeats itself piece of nonsense as far as i can see which seems in part anyway a rational response to the popular and fashionable revolutionary discourse of the time but is somewhat undermined by the writer s statement later on that she goes for information to things like astrology things like whatever like the i ching the first of which gives her concepts of form a feel of energy nodes of vortexes and how they might interact she talks of stepping back and giving herself time to find out about more of the things that were going down what was going down according to di prima is the fact that she thought there was a lot more black magic involved in the manipulation of the planet that s been going on she chose different areas to investigate including those mentioned above as well as homeopathy and self awareness rather than science desiring intuitional leaps rather than slow understanding this of course is as much of its time as what di prima was questioning she doesn t have any answers that will mend society or heal the planet but she states that what she is basically saying is that we were all taken in by a bunch of bullshit this includes the counterculture options of back to the land farmers reclaim the wilderness games commune dwellers the acid tests the diggers and much else which along with schooling food television fluorescent lights and the whole trip is resulting in a pathy and cynicism people who don t believe anything it s scary depressing reading both diagnosis and di prima s answers and that s only the first piece she declares that people must be strong physically and mentally and find out how their bodies function and then find out as much as they can about what people used to know and start taking things literally like myth and symbol just believe em myth and symbolism have informed much of di prima s poetry most of which is not at all like revolutionary letters but more complex and difficult she clearly continued her personal explorations and remained suspicious of much we take for granted asking if the web actually reached people or facilitated informed learning and thinking she s right of course but at times throughout this book she seems inflexible and stubborn rather than wise on various pages she buys into the my work is my life shtick and evidences her engagement with a pick n mix hodge podge of new age beliefs picking bits from magic psychology alchemy buddhism occult texts and meditation etc etc as suits her but she also gets stuck into working with children and students to try and counter indeed subvert the educational norms of 20th century america although she repeatedly states that her poetry has no solutions only ideas and information she seems more obsessed with personal action and the content of her writing rather than any engagement with radical poetry and poetics that is disappointing for this reader but it s good to be surprised and if some statements annoy or seem naive there are fascinating sections in here about di prima s surprising friendship with robert duncan allen ginsberg s naropa institute small press publishing 9 11 gender feminism and political correctness painters and painting and however critical some great reminiscences about the alternative cultures and communities in san francisco and new york contradictory confused and questioning di prima is nevertheless revealed as a fascinating opinionated interviewee offering optimism and possibility despite herself rupert loydell 16 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 1 comment posted in american poetry books essays interviews and tagged allen ginsberg diana di prima grape i ching robert duncan bookmark the permalink late summer ode by olena kalytiak davis copper canyon press posted on july 14 2022 by tearsinthefence olena kalytiak davis first book and her soul out of nothing introduced a startling new poetic voice her second shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities was even more exciting in the way it well shattered sonnets without any nods to tradition or respect shakespeare got an invigorating kick up the backside as did the sonnet form generally and the american english language late summer ode includes a section of sonnets too and for me is the best part of the book there s something about the restraint and shaping undertaken that contains davis wilder inclinations and tendency to ramble repeat and drift i d forgotten how disappointed i d been by her last book the poem she didn t write and other poems and have struggled to find a way in to this one to find any sense of structure in many of the poems there are plenty of intriguing ideas to spark the poems ideas which are often used as titles the benefit of a hangover and today i walked my racism are intriguing concepts but the language is tired and dull the poems seem like first drafts more akin to beatnik cliché than contemporary experiment there s also a tendency perhaps inspired by engaging with the likes of shakespeare and rilke to use archaisms such as methought i saw o sophisticatio o lyric shame and i have lived in wait of thy bright poesies i ve come across a lot of this recently in poetry submissions to stride from the usa so she s not alone but it doesn t work for me especially when so many poems are full of popular slang and exclamations dude shit fucked stupid fucking poem there are also several longer poems which repeat phrases repeat phrases again and occasionally subvert the phrases when repeated again and again i m all for the idea that repetition changes things because the repeat is affected by the original etc etc but this isn t a brian eno cd and the phrases used are very ordinary narrative driven sentences davis also seems to have bought into the confessional rather than distancing herself from her work even if it s ironic it doesn t work for me here it is the poem that pretends it is suffering as much as you and truly yay truly it does not know what to say so why say it then the poem really doesn t say anything and ends with the egotistical narrator let s be kind narrator not poet asking how could they be as lost as in need of as me dunno sorry and to be honest don t care anyway let s end on a positive note which means ignoring the awful six pages of prose chekhov baby which closes the book and focussing on the 36 sonnets which form a separate section of the book they re mostly numbered and use the first line in brackets as a title use no punctuation and little capitalization and generally adhere to 4 4 4 2 line stanzas the archaic vocabulary and syntax is mostly reined in here though i still find some lines awkward such as this first verse from iv these selves divided from my selflessness defect with consummate animation go forth supreme superb superlative less me than my masterly aberration not to mention the ending couplet i math i count upon their countenance they my argument and m acquiesence it s interesting to have math turned into a verb and the pun using count but it s 2022 and i am not sure what poetry like this is doing in a contemporary book it is more arresting when interrupted vi for instance closes with sit down be humbled sit down bitch be humble which at least makes you notice a change in dynamic tone and utterance by the time we get to the thirtieth sonnet xxx keep up davis is ready to abandon the 14 lines and subvert the form xxx is a brief statement of poetics a reflective aside the iambic and the anapest the dac tyl and the trochee the right words in the right order by instinct if you re lucky though personally i don t think luck comes into creative writing that s the whole poem by the way and this is the whole of the next xxxi i fucking glazed it olena kaly tiak davis from anchorage made this i guess it s a kind of graffiti tag for the page an effusive shout but apart from raising a snigger why is it here better are the skinny one word a line erased sonnet and sonnet for mark joe ted which follow ted presumably being berrigan the closing poem in this section sequence is airless sonnet which mentions prodigious lack of purpose find myself making certain marks in it having previously declared a moment of of a small self portrait the back cover blurb suggests that davis writes from a heightened state of ambivalence which might explain my ambivalent response but also claims she is a conductor of sound and meaning precise to the syllable which i find harder to take for me this work is mostly ramshackle shapeless and unformed too self content and seemingly self centred even the self aware deprecation of a title such as my own self still unconcerned doesn t contradict the fact that these poems do seem to generally concern themselves with the self constructed or confessional please make fun of me for how i suffer reads that poem s last line i don t want to make fun of any poet or their work but this isn t a great book i d really like to see less shattered sonnets less importunity and more creativity and looking outward to contemporary poetry and critical works anywhere but the introverted self rupert loydell 14 th july 2022 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email tweet more print opens in new window print share on tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit like this like loading 5 comments posted in american poetry books and tagged brian eno olena kalytiak davis rainer maria rilke ted berrigan william shakespeare bookmark the permalink anxious corporals by alan morrison smokestack books posted on july 13 2022 by tearsinthefence one thing many of us love about small press poetry is that unlike most textual production it s not written under the weather eye of capitalist power or for material gain the same generally goes for non or pre professional academic writing so there s at least one area of commonality for the dissertation poem an infrequent fusion whose western origins nonetheless stretch back at least to aratus and nicander as a dissertation this book excerpts in detail from a small number of classic studies david lockwood s the blackcoated worker 1958 on the culture and politics of clerks geoffrey mortimer s the blight of respectability 1897 on respectability and villadom mackenzie and silver s angels in marble 1968 on working class conservatives ken worpole s dockers and detectives 1983 on popular reading and especially richard hoggart s the uses of literacy 1957 on the effects of manufactured mass culture what links them all is a loose thesis about the role of the humanities and social sciences among the british working class and lower middle class focusing particularly on the success of pelican books cheap authoritative non fiction sold in woolworths in enabling them us to infiltrate the cultural preserves of the rich the acquisition of such knowledge is premised to be a factor in a more progressive politics not least through better resistance to the unintelligent margarine of tabloids butter substitutes and other mass media considered as poetry the book starts with a great howl ish impetus bewailing the death throes of a culture replaced by vast flatscreens as altarpieces of faith o this period of ectopic proletariat common people misplaced in multiples of patchwork overlaps from cash strapped and poverty trapped working poor to tip of the slagheap grasping aspiration subsequently it modulates to a mélange of quotation opinion skilful précis and generalising description all spiced with the constantly arresting phrasing stepladders of pipedreams c that s one of the b...