C.J. Martin's Blog, page 9

cassandragillig:bhanu kapil & fred moten w/ jackie wang...

cassandragillig:

bhanu kapil & fred moten w/ jackie wang intro 

gorgonpoetics:gorgon poetics...

gorgonpoetics:

gorgon poetics #gp1

invocation
incantation
notes
raquel s. rivera
erica lewis
joy ladin
ginger ko
lisa cattrone

From Nakayasu’s translation of Yamamoto’s notebook...

From Nakayasu’s translation of Yamamoto’s notebook for Hijikata’s COSTUME EN FACE (UDP 2015). This is a kind of production notebook for a Butoh performance that Michael Cross recommended to me. So amazing–of course scoring those movements involves direction like “Enter the body as if a thin thread” and lists stage settings like “phosphorous - decomposition - backbone of a ghost body - neon sign - cough - decay - breath - foxfire.” Seriously necessary book.

‘The Rehabilitation of Whiteness’

Reposting some links in solidarity. While we might not have chosen to get born, white poets do choose whiteness (as a system of force), and we choose it daily (whether tacitly or not, more often not, more often under the guise of ‘community building’). Marianne Morris clarifies how uncomfortable it is to claim that pronoun, and what kind of an assault it is not to, or to say ‘we’ and mean ‘you all, but not me.’ Not a question of how do ‘we’ proceed differently, but a reminder that the work of building alternate models has always been being done (so not a question of intervening, but of actively paying attention to and supporting that work, and actively resisting participation in ‘the rehabilitation of whiteness’).

On my mind this morning:

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram has been working through whiteness as a system of force over at Harriet (here and here), with fucking searing clarity:

If it is “cruelty to insist that only people of color be responsible for the articulation or the embodiment of race….” it may be an even greater cruelty to acknowledge complicity and have responsibility in the service of rehabilitating whiteness. The rehabilitation of whiteness is a white supremacist project.

Trisha Low’s piece for Open Space might be the most challenging document out of and instigation to conceptual writing to date. I can’t possibly imagine the what it cost her to write this, but reading it cowed me. Critical thought on a par w/Mackey & DuPlessis for Low’s willingness to hold affiliation & critique aloft simultaneously. 

"Making poems so easily gets jettisoned into authorship, or the commercial potential of authorship –..."

“Making poems so easily gets jettisoned into authorship, or the commercial potential of authorship – and I don’t mean commercial as financial necessarily – but even in the way that we each think of legitimation – and that there’s only such a poorly and singularly defined idea of the meaning of publishing – that somehow publishing equals legitimation equals a certain kind of authorship or privileging of the single author. There’s some weird way in which privilege enters, and in some cases, it should enter. I’m not suggesting that we all create only collective books – there’s the oppositional thing again! My proposition, then, isn’t to counteract or demolish this notion of privilege, but to have multiple notions of privilege so that publishing isn’t the only way you have a sense of work being greeted by the world. What other kind of constructs could support the idea of honoring someone’s work? How else can we say ‘your work is important, we want to read your work, we want to be in conversation with your work’? How many multiple locations can we make that support our creativity and hunger for meaning?”

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Myung Mi Kim, from this amazing interview (via mkimarnold)

What other? How many??

(via kimberlyalidio)

anneboyer:INFORMATIVE PDF: KENNETH GOLDSMITH IS READING AT MY ______: NOW WHAT?

anneboyer:

INFORMATIVE PDF: KENNETH GOLDSMITH IS READING AT MY ______: NOW WHAT? 

patrickriedy:Beginning the summer by reading a book of poetry...

patrickriedy:

Beginning the summer by reading a book of poetry every day (or two) and writing a little in response. First book on the list:

Anthem by Jean Donnelly (Sun & Moon Press, 2002)

             ***

Gospels, ballads, anthems. A legend too. Genesis. The alphabet & fifty states.

Motherhood mixes with dear you. The rhythm of a 21st Century road-trip.

Witnessing what the world has already unfurled for you unfurl for another. Just like the first time.

Learning what we mean when we say essentials, when we say love, when we say landscape.

Silently singing to one’s self.

All this along some road we were told to call OPEN. 

              ***

lushness encourages

this rebellious growth

of weeds, of grieving

sun, water, and seed 

shit is to labor as

essence is to over

with this name yard,

calling this Spring 

when the world

says take this back

as home, as life

says to name it

so I name it this

jeandonnelly:Joanne Kyger, from On Time (City Lights)

jeandonnelly:

Joanne Kyger, from On Time (City Lights)

furtherotherbookworks:Further Other Book Works is thrilled to...

furtherotherbookworks:

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letterpressed by poet josé felipe alvergue, in conjunction with our release of
his second full length book, gist : rift : drift : bloom.

gist : rift : drift : bloom is an eco-historical meditation on the relationship between landscape and language. The book was composed between Buffalo, New York and Eau Claire, Wisconsin. As a sort of interstice, definitions give pause to the continued evolution of language in the poetry, where a word is planted early. Compressed by language, or carried off by sketches and through space, these words bloom elsewhere.

By turns poems, field guides, & pastoral sketches, alvergue’s prints are not
as much broadsides from his book as they are expansions of its field. As
ecologicical texture, these prints interact across motion and temporality—
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their eventual absence, the emergence of architectural sketches and grids
blown across the Midwestern landscape. In an articulation of surface-distress, bold type and scratched type, bracketed language, and isolated
utterances work closely in punctuated stanzas that have shifted across the
paper. Drift and rift are here illustrated—the migration of samples in the
many currents, the winds—and the surface-changes in time.

The process: These prints were letterpressed on a Vandercook #219, at the
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Two more from HART ISLAND. Have a similar sense of feeling so...

Two more from HART ISLAND. Have a similar sense of feeling so completely retuned by this as I did when first reading Rob Halpern’s DISASTER SUITES, Stacy Doris’s FLEDGE, and Jean Donnelly’s GREEN OIL. (Probably could make that list longer, which maybe just means I’m always due for a tune up.)