Born in Buffalo, New York in 1950, Michael Basinski is an American poet, critic, and theorist. Much of his poetry participates in the traditions of visual and sound poetry. He is the curator emeritus of The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries at The State University of New York in Buffalo.
https://jimleftwichongoingresearch.blogspot.com/2023/04/some-prose-by-michael-basinski.html
The Re-Appearing Pheasant
An Encounter of American and Italian Poets and Critics
New York, November 11-12-13, 2022
Convened by
Luigi Ballerini
Presented by
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University
Stefano Albertini, Director
In Cooperation with
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Fabio Finotti, Director
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Ghazal Mosadeq. ebook: An Enquiry into Wanting / Inchiesta sul mancare. 2020 [11-02-2021 .en / .it]
gammm.org/2021/02/11/an-inquiry-into-wanting-ghazal-mosadeq/
Bilingual edition. Italian translation by Andrea Raos.
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“Multilingual Criticism”
with
Robin Myers, trans. “Disappropriation for Beginners”2
Carlos Soto Roman “On the Colectivo Frank Ocean”
Lindsay Turner, trans. “The Third Eyelid”
Ghazal Mosadeq, “On Multilingual Critique”
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As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking modern artists and intellectuals to construct conflicting responses: some embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice’s labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, while others aspire to modernize by “killing the moonlight” of Venice, in the Futurists’ notorious phrase.
Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture—from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover—Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. Whether seduced or repulsed by literary clichés of Venetian decadence, post-Romantic artists found a motive for innovation in Venice. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new.
Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, Scappettone charts an elusive “extraterritorial” modernism that compels us to redraft the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16432-0/killing-the-moonlight
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da Charles Bernstein:
S/N: NewWorldPoetics — pdf of issue 4 now available _ see the post here:
http://jacket2.org/commentary/sn-newworldpoetics-pdf-issue-4-now-available
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Fraud’s phantoms: Czernin and Schmatz
In the early summer of 1986, two young Austrian poets, Franz Josef Czernin and Ferdinand Schmatz, had the idea to write poems that closely resembled the poems they found most typical and at the same time most deplorable in contemporary poetry volumes, for example the work of Rainer Kunze, Günther Kunert, and Sarah Kirsch. At first they had the idea to call the poet Irene Schwaighofer (silent court), a poet born in a little town in upper Austria, who, familiar through schooling with the tenets of modernism, would need no time to forge her own distinctive style and upon being published would proceed to win many prizes and much praise. However, Czernin and Schmatz felt this process would take too long and in order to shorten the “difficult and boring” process, decided to … [ read the whole text here ]
