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September 13, 2010
Words Hit against Words
Tom Beckett today recalled our yearlong co-interview, which ended last May and over six hundred pages in length. (I think the point of his blog was to note my occasional, or maybe frequent, gaseousness, but I might have missed something.)
That project—because everything we do is a project, even poetry, certainly life—was an exhausting one. We didn't write every day, but we came fairly close, and some nights I was writing three pages in response to Tom. The most interesting aspect to the projec...
That project—because everything we do is a project, even poetry, certainly life—was an exhausting one. We didn't write every day, but we came fairly close, and some nights I was writing three pages in response to Tom. The most interesting aspect to the projec...
Published on September 13, 2010 20:54
September 12, 2010
A Few Links of Primarily Vispoetic Interest
Cleaning out my email inbox today, I found quite a few links I needed to share:
Márton Koppány, "Forecast"
A PRIMER IN CONCRETE: AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN DAVID BERRIDGE AND MÁRTON KOPPÁNY
David Berridge interviews Márton Koppány about his minimalist conceptual visual poetry (complete with illustrations, Márton's own gorgeous poems).
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fluxmonkey @ skylab from mIEKAL aND on Vimeo
The last event at the Avant Writing Symposium 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, last month, and the only one I missed. Tom Beckett and ...

A PRIMER IN CONCRETE: AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN DAVID BERRIDGE AND MÁRTON KOPPÁNY
David Berridge interviews Márton Koppány about his minimalist conceptual visual poetry (complete with illustrations, Márton's own gorgeous poems).
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fluxmonkey @ skylab from mIEKAL aND on Vimeo
The last event at the Avant Writing Symposium 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, last month, and the only one I missed. Tom Beckett and ...
Published on September 12, 2010 19:53
September 11, 2010
Absence at Noon
Absence at Noon from Geof Huth on Vimeo.
Yesterday marked the ninth anniversary of the attacks on and destruction of the two towers of the World Trade Center, the deaths of thousands of people, and the infliction of a physical wound on lower Manhattan that is still being healed, slowly. In memoriam of this event and these deaths, I sang a poemsong and recorded what I looked at as I did. This is how I have described this piece:
A poemsong Geof Huth sings on the first floor of his house, while...
Published on September 11, 2010 20:59
September 10, 2010
September 7, 2010
The Third P
[The following is a brief essay I wrote about my blogging life for a staff newsletter, at the request of its editors. In it, I attempt to say a little about the blogging without boring people too much about the world of poetry. And I thought this piece could do double duty here this evening.:]
I've been asked to write a few words about my life after work, as if work ever ends and life can ever be divided into neat and exclusive categories. Specifically, I've been asked to writing about my blogg...
I've been asked to write a few words about my life after work, as if work ever ends and life can ever be divided into neat and exclusive categories. Specifically, I've been asked to writing about my blogg...
Published on September 07, 2010 19:40
September 6, 2010
September 5, 2010
A Poetics (through 53)
42. Full-Body
I believe in a full-body poetry, a poetry born of the body and rising out of the body in the shape of that body, a poetry of performance, a poetry of the body making the poem real, a poetry that only the poet can make, a poetry in celebration of the poem itself and the body of its creation. A poem must be yelled into a cave with rocks thrown in the water, a poem must be walked through black cave water, a poem must be swum across the water and singing it all the time, a poem must ...
I believe in a full-body poetry, a poetry born of the body and rising out of the body in the shape of that body, a poetry of performance, a poetry of the body making the poem real, a poetry that only the poet can make, a poetry in celebration of the poem itself and the body of its creation. A poem must be yelled into a cave with rocks thrown in the water, a poem must be walked through black cave water, a poem must be swum across the water and singing it all the time, a poem must ...
Published on September 05, 2010 09:57
September 4, 2010
Dirge for Beckett
"Bathroom Lament (Early Funeral Dirge for Tom Beckett)" (3 September 2010) from Geof Huth on Vimeo.
The videopoem poemsong above is my first upload to Vimeo, and I'm not sure it will play more than three and a half minutes of its ten and a quarter minutes of running time, but you can watch and listen and hear my practice dirge for the funeral of Tom Beckett. To explain why I've created a funeral dirge for Tom, see my excerpts from our email exchange today. And, Barb, nota bene my responsibilit...
Published on September 04, 2010 20:59