Archivi categoria: experimental poetry

peter ganick’s “untitled poems for a wednesday evening” (luna bisonte prods, 2011)

Here is a different Peter Ganick, whose newest poems, resoundingly philosophical, metaphysical in their musicality, become more tangible, more directly shaped in a context more intellectually quotidian than that of previous work. Boundaries created for these Wednesday poems, appropriately titled for middle-of-the-week realities, allow humor, reflection, human feeling, to a greater degree than Ganick’s recent, prior poems. The mind within and beneath these pieces is infinitely shimmering, even as the poet’s signature sotto voce consistently asserts itself. The word evidence comes to mind as I experience surprise, delight, and full engagement in the life of Peter Ganick’s newest and very welcome volume.

-Sheila E. Murphy

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Spostamenti e ridefinizioni : il 26 luglio a Roma

COSA SI PROVA AD AVERE UN SUONO IN TESTA?

prima traccia:

Spostamenti e ridefinizioni

a cura di Elena Abbiatici e Valentina G. Levy

 

26 luglio – 8 agosto 2011

 

Opening 26 luglio – ore 19

presso NOWHERE

Piazza De Ricci 127, Roma

Artisti: Alessandro De Francesco, Alessandro Fornaci, Silvia Giambrone, Roberto Pugliese

“Le metafore sono una cosa pericolosa. Con le metafore è meglio non scherzare.
Da una sola metafora può nascere l’amore” — M. Kundera

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Sound Happenings
·         26 luglio – ore 20 di Alessandro Fornaci e Dam Cchoi.
·         8 agosto – ore 22 di Max Mattoni, guitarist & arranger.

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An Anthology of Chance Operations (1963)

A source-book of early Fluxus classics. A collection of scores, poetry, dance constructions, and other avant-garde work. Includes Henry Flynt’s first essay on concept art.

When the poet Chester Anderson, publisher of Beatitude, exited New York for California in 1959, he asked La Monte Young to edit Beatitude East, composed from the performance scores Young had collected in Berkeley and New York. In this he was aided by Jackson Mac Low, who had attended Cage’s composition course at the New School for Social Research and worked at the Living Theater with … <read more here>

Ben Porter’s “found poems”

Found Poems
by Bern Porter

Joel A. Lipman, pref.; David Byrne, fwd.; Mark Melnicove, afterword

Nightboat Books
2011 • 400 pp.
Poetry

$24.95 Paper, 978-0-9822645-9-1

On the eve of Bern Porter’s Centennial, his classic text, Found Poems, comes roaring back into print in a handsome new edition featuring two essays contextualizing his remarkable life and work. As Dick Higgins said, “Porter’s Found Poems have the same seminal position as Duchmap’s objets trouvées.” This book collects Porter’s strongest “Founds,” his combinations of mass-media images and text that he used to reflect American culture as in a funny-house mirror: twisted but true.

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BERN PORTER (1911–2004), studied physics at Colby and Brown, worked on the Manhattan Project, but embraced pacifism after the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. He published Henry Miller and ran a gallery in Northern California before returning to his native Maine, where he ran for governor (unsuccessfully), started a think tank for drop-outs, and created his classic series of “Founds,” collected in more than a dozen books. JOEL A. LIPMAN, artist and writer, is a professor at the University of Toledo. MARK MELNICOVE worked with Porter from 1979–1996 on performance and publication projects. He lives in Falmouth, Maine.