{"id":4229,"date":"2010-07-21T07:04:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2010-07-21T07:04:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:04:35","slug":"some-summer-noticings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/some-summer-noticings\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Summer Noticings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Catching up with accumulated magazines, webpages & sundry readings, here are a few gleanings:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Good analysis of the BP-disaster & its (very overlooked connections with similar oil-disaster brought about by the naked greed of the Oil Cos in other parts of the world, i.e. far away from what I call the ABS syndrome (American Bellybutton Staring), can be found here<\/a>, on TomDispatch in a piece by Ellen Cantarow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jennifer Moxley<\/strong> \u2014 from Fragments of a Broken Poetics<\/em> \u2014 in the latest issue of Chicago Review<\/strong> (55:2, spring 2010) and also available online at the Poetry Daily<\/a> site:<\/p>\n

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“The poem resists. It resists coming into being. It resists eloquence. t resists transmitting unpleasant or embarrassing knowledge. It resists grammatical constraints. It resists moving away from simple utterance. It resists revision. It resists completion. It resists success. Hopefully, the poet resists as well.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Excellent interview with poet, musician (member of the Moors<\/strong>, check video, well, stills-over soundtrack, below) and publisher(of Reality Street editions) Ken Edwards<\/strong>, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 On Poetry International\u00a0 Web<\/strong>, read a page about Moroccan-Israeli poet Mois Benarroch<\/a> who has some fascinating\"\" things to say about poetry and the mother tongue, in an interview with PIW\u2019s Lucy Pijnenburg:<\/p>\n

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Spanish is my mother tongue and my historic tongue, since this language has been spoken by family for the last thousand years, Hebrew is the language of my oppression, and a fight against this oppression, it\u2019s a father tongue and it\u2019s a male phallic chauvinistic tongue, but it is also the sacred tongue, the tongue of the temple, somewhere deep inside. English is a kind of neutral tongue, and also the tongue of the empire. <\/em><\/p>\n

I have written poetry in three languages and that\u2019s not something I would recommend to anyone. It was a poetic need. It came out of the poems. I started writing poetry in English when I was 15, and did it for four years. Then I switched to Hebrew, for the next 20 years. Then I moved to Spanish because there were things that could not be written in Hebrew. Language not only describes or represents reality, it also creates it. And the modern Hebrew language is a language that has created a totally different Jewish Moroccan than I know, there are many ways to describe the Moroccan in modern Hebrew and almost all of them are negative. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Just in from ugly ducking presse<\/a>, Richard Sieburth<\/strong>‘s translation of Guillevic<\/strong>‘s Geometries<\/strong><\/em>. I blurbed the book, thus:\"\"<\/p>\n

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Such delight! Who knew a poet could wrestle such sexy moves from old Euclid’s boxy shapes! That a French poet did so doesn’t come as much of a surprise, Guillevic being a master of the small, perfectly crafted cam\u00e9es. But that Englished by Richard Sieburth these gems have kept all their Gallic ligthness and grace \u2014 that’s a true achievement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s an example:<\/p>\n

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Cycloid<\/strong>\n\nWhat would brother sinusoid say\nIf he had to hit bottom\n\nAt the base of every curve\nAnd climb back\n\nUp to the top\nAfter every shock?\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u2014 <\/em>on the Open Culture<\/a> site, there are links to some twenty “major” authors speaking or reading from their works, some we’ve heard, some not. Here’s the list cum<\/em> clicks of what they have:<\/p>\n
1)\u00a0William  Faulkner Reads from <\/a>As  I Lay Dying<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
2)\u00a0James  Joyce Reading <\/a>Finnegans  Wake<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
3)\u00a0Vintage  Radio: Aldous Huxley Narrates <\/a>Brave  New World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
4)\u00a0Dominic  West (aka Jimmy McNulty) Reads Jane Austen<\/a><\/p>\n
5)\u00a0Truman  Capote Reads from <\/a>Breakfast  at Tiffany\u2019s<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
6) Joyce  Carol Oates Reads\u00a0Eudora Welty\u2019s \u201cWhere Is the Voice Coming From?\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n
7)\u00a0Orson  Welles Reads <\/a>Moby  Dick<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n
8)\u00a0Johnny  Depp Reads Letters from Hunter S. Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n
9)\u00a0Ernest  Hemingway Reads \u201cIn Harry\u2019s Bar in Venice\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
10)\u00a0T.S.  Eliot Reading from <\/a>The  Wasteland<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
11)\u00a0F.  Scott Fitzgerald Reads Shakespeare Out Loud<\/a><\/p>\n
12)\u00a0Dennis  Hopper Reads Rudyard Kipling on Johnny Cash Show<\/a><\/p>\n
13)\u00a0Kurt  Vonnegut Reads from <\/a>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
14)\u00a0Tom  Waits Reads Charles Bukowski<\/a><\/p>\n
15)\u00a0William  Carlos Williams Reads His Poetry (1954)<\/a><\/p>\n
16)\u00a0Orhan  Pamuk Reads Vladimir Nabokov<\/a><\/p>\n
17)\u00a0Charles  Bukowski \u201cBluebird\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
18)\u00a0Wallace  Stevens Reads His Own Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n
19)\u00a0Tobias  Wolff Reads From His New Short Story Collection<\/a><\/p>\n
20)\u00a0Listening  to Famous Poets Reading Their Own Work<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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