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Breaking Through: TV interview show with Charles Bernstein & Ian Probstein

Excerpts are from a 50-minute interview with Charles Bernstein and Ian Probstein onBreaking Through, with W.J. O’Reilly, on eGarage.TV, June 17, 2011:

From Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions

Full episode here ]

Quattro categorie più una: “loose writing”

Come esistono spostamenti del continente “testo narrativo”, quando accade che blocchi interi di romanzi, o famiglie di autori, che nel tempo e con lo smarginarsi o vicendevole divorarsi delle teorie fanno massa coesa o si disintegrano e – in una ideale deriva dei continenti alfabetici – assumono una diversa configurazione in quello che pensiamo essere un buon rilievo cartografico delle scritture, così si può dire che le teorie stesse, scogliere intere di definizioni, rupi di criticism, possono compattarsi, franare, emergere, collidere (non nella realtà-realtà, fortuna vuole; sì nella più concreta realtà dei segni che ci costruiamo, a proposito della realtà-realtà).

A questo proposito – con io meno critico che autoriale – vorrei suggerire (o dire che vedo, vedrei, penso di vedere) proprio un conflittuale compattamento.

In questi tempi vedo, osservo – e suggerisco – il darsi di una imperfetta ma forse non infelice unione tra categorie o schegge di generi che, considerate poi singolarmente, possono anche non aver ricevuto di fatto una organizzazione e definizione condivisa, ed essere al limite in movimento, addirittura “all’avanguardia”, o perfino di là da venire, in sostanza inespresse. E tuttavia, ancora non espresse e allineate dai critici in elenco, unirsi. Si uniscono. O possono esser passibili di presentazione di gruppo.

Allora ne assommo / accorpo / unisco – o vedo unite – cinque, ora:


– new sentence (Silliman)

– prosa in prosa (Gleize)

– googlism, flarf (Mohammad)

– scrittura concettuale (Goldsmith)

 loose writing

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UbuWeb: visual poetry

INTRODUCTION TO UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY

UBUWEB began as an online repository for concrete and visual poetry
scanned from aging anthologies and re-imagined as back-lit
transmissions from a potential future. As the archive has progressed,
the concentration on visual poetry has waned in favour of an
reconnoitering of diverse avant-gardes.

UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY exposes little-seen exemplars of historical
praxis and models of contemporary insight to a wider audience. This
section includes anthologies, ephemeral publications, criticism and
sporadic journals dedicated to visual poetry. Due to the elusive and
ephemeral nature of concrete and visual poetry publications, there is
a perceived lack of innovation in the genre. Without exposure to
radical practice, artistic precedent and innovative models, concrete
poets too often fall back upon familiar tropes and unchallenging
forms.

UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY is not presented under the rubric of historical
coverage or indexical completeness, but rather as a document of
isloate moments of what Haroldo de Campos argued was a “notion of
literature not as craftsmanship but […] as an industrial prcoess”
where the poem is a “prototype” rather than the “typical handiwork of
artistic artistry.”

— derek beaulieu, curator

http://ubu.com/vp/index.html