{"id":2550,"date":"2009-12-14T09:13:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2009-12-14T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:13:47","slug":"dave-brinks-reading-zebulon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/dave-brinks-reading-zebulon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Brinks Reading @ Zebulon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CaveatOnusLarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2554 lazyload\" title=\"CaveatOnusLarge\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CaveatOnusLarge-238x350.jpg\" alt=\"CaveatOnusLarge\" width=\"238\" height=\"350\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 238px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 238\/350;\" \/><\/a>Bernadette Mayer, Jamey Jones & Dave Brinks read at Zebulon in the Brooklyn Rail Poetry Series last Monday. I only got my recorder up close enough to the reader for the last of the three, & so the only recording that is audible is that of Dave Brinks. He read from <em>The Caveat Onus<\/em>, his superb long sequence of poems published earlier this year by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwidowpress.com\/\">Black Widow Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is what Jerry Rothenberg wrote about the poem: \u201c<em>The Caveat Onus<\/em>, for those of us lucky enough to have watched its development,    is present in its first installment as a poetry event of consequence \u2013 a cycle    of poems, geared to al ife & expressed through a system of words & numbers,    that could make it (I would dare to predict) one of the significant long poems    of our time. Pivoting on the number 13 & never abandoning its symmetries    & variations, it charts the works & days of Dave Brinks, citizen of    New Orleans before & after the floods, world traveler in the ways that really    count.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My blurb for the book reads: \u201cInterweaving I Ching hexagrammatic measures, Mayan calendar arithmetic    & totem animals, and an unwobbling axis mundi as line of flight, the complex    architectonics of this superb cyclical poem create a counter-world, an act of    sympathetic magic, a harnessing of the destructively chaotic energies of hurricane    Katrina. Begun eight months before the storm, then moving through the days &    weeks that followed, and now paralleling the rebuilding of the city of New Orleans,    Dave Brinks\u2019 <em>Caveat Onus<\/em> series is a poetic and shamanic enactment, as powerful,    poetically innovative, and vital in its ways as were Charles Olson\u2019s admonitions    to Gloucester in the <em>Maximus Poems<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And here are the two-part audio files of that reading. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[audio:https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/audio\/BrinksPart1.mp3]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>David Brinks reading at Zebulon 12.7.09 \u2014 Part 1<\/em><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[audio:https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/audio\/BrinksPart2.mp3]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>David Brinks reading at Zebulon 12.7.09 \u2014 Part2<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernadette Mayer, Jamey Jones &#038; Dave Brinks read at Zebulon in the Brooklyn Rail Poetry Series last Monday. 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