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oggi, allo studio campo boario: “il paradiso e le sue rappresentazioni” (catalogo) + “chi ti ha portato?” (libro collettivo)

romeartweek.com/it/eventi/?id=3648&ida=862

una prosa di mg da “causa-effetto. (testi senza relazione)”, in ‘l’immaginazione’ n. 325

poi non lo so, sarà stato il gelato, vista la stagione, o che erano finite le pillole, delle 24 ore, saranno state le 24 ore, o il vuoto allo stomaco, il jet lag, o la vegetazione, più probabilmente sarà stata la salita, poi la scalinata, o al contrario, quando poi scendendo, quando o dove, non è stato chiaro, lo scantinato, e risalendo al tetto, il senso di vuoto ai gomiti cioè stare senza balaustra, o sarà stato lo stomaco, il mal di piedi, il sudore asciugato addosso, nel vento su, freddo e più del previsto, altrimenti può essere stato lo scompenso politico, il giardino, magari le troppe creme, le paste, le uova, l’inquinamento, l’ortica, il pesce passato di data, un’occorrenza statistica, un qualcosa che cadeva, una decisione delle cellule, girare in cerchio troppo a lungo, l’azione prolungata del farmaco, somatizzare una faccia, l’ennesimo film in cui inquadrano i minacciati, un colpo di frusta da fermi, cetacei coi loro ultrasuoni, la cia, l’altezza sopra il livello del mare, il mal di mare, un’eccessiva confidenza, una coincidenza, l’artrosi  uno sforzo, un ragno nascosto, bianco, l’aspirina, la polpa di granchio, il caldo, il sole, le tasse, il bagno dopo mangiato, un movimento fatto male, non lo so

 

in “l’immaginazione”, n. 325, sett.-ott. 2021
https://www.mannieditori.it/rivista/limmaginazione-325

l’eccellenza letteraria. christian bök, per esempio

Per esempio, esistono autori così (anche se, va detto, di autori così ne esiste uno solo) e nonostante ciò in Italia i bloggherini si interrogano sulla instapoetry o fanno le classifiche, e le foto ai cani. Così va.

Suvvia, seguite slowforward, vi dice qualcosa di diverso:

Christian Bök is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he is the author of Eunoia — a bestseller, which has gone on to win the Griffin Poetry Prize. Bök is an avant-garde poet of global renown, earning his repute as one of the original founders of the literary movement called Conceptualism (a poetic school made famous, in part, by the activities of the poet, Kenneth Goldsmith, the proprietor of UbuWeb). Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has earned many accolades for his virtuoso recitals of ‘sound-poems’ (particularly Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters) — and during his career he has performed his poetry at more than 650 venues around the world. Bök is on the verge of finishing his current project, entitled The Xenotext (a work that requires him to engineer a bacterium so that its DNA might become not only a durable archive that stores a poem for eternity, but also an operant machine that writes a poem in response). Bök has displayed examples of his artworks at dozens of galleries, including The Power Plant in Toronto, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. He resides, as an artist, in Melbourne.

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etel adnan with charles bernstein

from The Brooklyn Rail

Join legendary poets and artists Etel Adnan and Charles Bernstein for a broadcast conversation that was also included as a feature conversation in the Rail’s February 2021 issue.

Learn more: https://brooklynrail.org/events/2021/02/23/etel-adnan-with-charles-bernstein

Read the interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2021/02/art/ETEL-ADNAN-with-Charles-Bernstein

Poet, essayist, and painter Etel Adnan was born on February 24, 1925, in Beirut, Lebanon. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, as well as at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University. She has written more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including Time (Nightboat Books, 2019), translated by Sarah Riggs and winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, Surge (Nightboat Books, 2018), and Night (Nightboat Books, 2016). Her poetry collection Sea and Fog (Nightboat, 2012) won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the California Book Award. She is also the recipient of a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award and in 2014 was named a member of the Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honors.

Charles Bernstein is a poet and a scholar. He is a foundational member and leading practitioner of Language poetry. Between 1978-1981, with fellow poet Bruce Andrews, he published L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, which became a forum for writing that blurred, confused, and denied the boundary between poetry and critical writing about poetry. Since the 1970s Bernstein has published dozens of books, including poetry and essay collections, pamphlets, translations, collaborations, and libretti. His poetry has been widely anthologized and translated, and it has appeared in over 500 magazines and periodicals. His most recent book is Near/Miss, from the University of Chicago Press.

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nuovo libro di silvia tripodi: “le bocche” (zacinto edizioni, collana ‘manufatti poetici’)

Disgiungendo all’infinito le proprie mani
Si interrompe la produzione di calore
Il dispiegamento della forza lavoro
Quando uno muore
A volte
I palmi delle sue mani vengono congiunti
Allo stesso tempo essi sono disgiunti all’infinito
Perché non producono calore
I fori rimangono l’evidenza della vita del soggetto
Dell’individuo
Appaiono per quello che.

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Silvia Tripodi (Sant’Agata di Militello 1974) vive a Palermo. Nel 2014 ha vinto il Premio Lorenzo Montano (sezione poesia inedita) e nel 2015 la prima edizione del Premio Elio Pagliarani con la silloge Voglio colpire una cosa (Zona, 2016); è presente nell’antologia La parola informe (Marco Saya, 2018) e in Nuove poesie italiane 2018 (Elliot). I suoi libri più recenti sono Punu (collana «Lacustrine», Arcipelago Itaca, 2018), La più recente fine di un racconto (collana «ChapBooks», Tic, 2020) ed Ellora (collana «Syn scritture di ricerca», ikonaLíber, 2020).

biblionedizioni.it/prodotto/le-bocche/
Zacinto edizioni
Anno: 2021
Pagine: 36
ISBN: 978-88-31323-11-6

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manifesto per le “idrologie” / emilio villa, giorgio cegna, silvio craia. 1970

in occasione della mostra @ Il Centro, Napoli, 16 febbraio 1970

manifesto attualmente in mostra @ Biblioteca Mozzi Borgetti, Macerata, nel contesto di “Crepita la carta. Libri e vertigini di Emilio Villa” (https://slowforward.net/2021/09/11/9-ottobre-macerata-crepita-la-carta-libri-e-vertigini-di-emilio-villa/)

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mark young’s new selected poetry book

Songs to Come for the Salamander; Selected Poems 2013-2021: selected & introduced by Thomas Fink  has just been co-published by Sandy Press & Meritage Press.

Mark Young 
Songs to Come for the Salamander; Selected Poems 2013-2021:
selected & introduced by Thomas Fink

Sandy Press & Meritage Press, 2021
396 pages
ISBN: 978-1-7368160-4-2
Available through Amazon

Chosen by Thomas Fink from the 29 books of text poetry by Mark Young published since 2013, Songs to Come for the Salamander is a companion piece to the 2008 Pelican Dreaming, also selected & edited by Thomas Fink, & the 600-page 2013 The Codicils, which Young describes as nine books in one. It again highlights the variety, sly humor, & concern for social & political issues that the author is internationally known for. Many of his regular tropes — “A line from . . .,” “Today the Postwo/man,” & geographies are included, but they are only a small part of this delightful sampling from the 2500 or so poems from Young that have appeared in the nine years this selection covers.

“Some readers might assume that particular, highly pessimistic generalizations in Young’s poems are actually Mark Young presenting his sense of doom. The little ditty “democracy” registers the claim that “no-one// knows the/ words to” the “song” (the concept of democracy) even though “every-/ one sings” it, and “since violence is learned” tells us that “tolerance is no/ longer available, is replaced by trauma.” Although nothing in the poems—not even such affirmations of aesthetic transport as “Constant Craving,” which speaks of music “that acts as/ axis to steady everything around”—makes one identify the poet as a bright-eyed optimist, various moments in the work display too much respect for the complexity of cause and effect, limitations of human perception, the transience of trends, and sudden appearances of the unexpected to place sustained credence in large generalizations and foregone conclusions.”

— from the Introduction by Thomas Fink.

Recent books by Mark Young from Sandy Press:
The Sasquatch Walks Among Us
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