tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-385310272024-03-13T11:42:08.511-07:00Me~Tronomepoetry & poeticsLarry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.comBlogger449125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-7602214222461179482017-03-08T11:04:00.001-08:002017-03-08T11:08:07.568-08:00I have some work in this new anthology. Half of proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. Buy your copy today!<div id="u51458-2">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Resist Much / Obey Little</span></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">Inaugural Poems to the Resistance</span></em></strong></div>
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I'm excited that some of my poetry is included in this new anthology recently published by the <a href="http://poets.myshopify.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Academy of American Poets.</span></a> Pick up a copy today. Featuring over 200 new, previously unpublished poems this book has heft (and includes poems by John Ashbery, Rita Dove, United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and many others.)Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-63471742953084789442015-10-16T09:39:00.002-07:002015-10-16T09:39:52.610-07:00"Pool Chatter" now available.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />I'm proud of this latest book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/larry-sawyer/pool-chatter/paperback/product-22176218.html?ppn=1">Pool Chatter</a>, which includes some of my writing on poetry and poetics and musings on being a poet in a big-shouldered city. (ISBN: 9781329143937)<br /><br />"Astute and convincing... A quick-witted take on recent events in American poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed this (and wished it were longer). A contemplative page-turner." -Jenny Macallister via Lulu.comLarry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-17736310610606780582014-12-07T13:50:00.003-08:002014-12-07T14:03:27.693-08:00...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have a new poem in <em>Boston Review</em>, <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/larry-sawyer-cold-hand-draws-covers-over-moon">"A Cold Hand Draws the Covers Over the Moon."</a>Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-2636480626534470432014-05-18T11:00:00.004-07:002014-08-21T08:53:25.450-07:00The only LIVE poetry radio in America.... Other Voices: Poetry & Politics with Larry Sawyer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I've started broadcasting via AM radio and couldn't be more excited about the show.<br />
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WHAT IS IT? <strong>...OTHER VOICES: poetry and politics with Larry Sawyer, streaming live at Q4 Radio.<br /><br />ACCESS THE FIRST THREE INSTALLMENTS HERE: </strong><a href="https://archive.org/download/OtherVoices/140510-hour-15-q4radioOtherVoices.mp3"><strong>Program 1 (click here to listen)</strong></a><br />
<a href="https://archive.org/download/OtherVoices/140517-Hour-15-OtherVoices.mp3"><strong>Program 2 (click here to listen)</strong></a><br />
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Speaking of Bestiaries: "This abundance of animal images was not to the liking of some; St. Bernard of Clairvoux, writing in his Apology around 1127, says: "'What profit is there in those ridiculous monsters, in that marvelous and deformed comeliness, that comely deformity? To what purpose are those unclean apes, those fierce lions, those monstrous centaurs, those half men, those striped tigers, those fighting knights, those hunters winding their horns? Many bodies are seen under one head, or again many heads to one body. Here is a four-footed beast with a serpent’s tail; there a fish with a beast’s head. Here again the fore-part of a horse trails half a goat behind it, or a horned beast bears the hind quarters of a horse. In short, so many and marvelous are the varieties of shapes on every hand that we are tempted to read in the marble than in our books, and to spend the whole day wondering at these things rather than meditating the law of God. For God’s sake, if men are not ashamed of these follies, why at least do they not shrink from the expense?'"
I'm now working on my own and enjoying rhyme. It feels pretty good to write slowly and go where the rhyme takes me. Looking up I realize I spent the whole day "wondering at these things."<br />
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I’ve been blogging recently for the Best American Poetry site. Click the titles to have a look at my posts <a href="http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/08/on-the-american-grotesque-by-larry-sawyer.html">On the American Grotesque</a>, <a href="http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/08/a-supermarket-on-facebook-and-free-union-by-breton-by-larry-sawyer.html">Ginsberg & Breton</a>, <a href="http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/08/cinematic-qualities-in-the-poetry-of-emily-dickinson-and-edwin-denby-by-larry-sawyer.html">the poetry of Dickinson & Denby</a>, <a href="http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/08/chicago-artists-resource-interview-with-larry-sawyer-on-the-chicago-school-of-poetics.html">and being interviewed by Chicago Artists Resource</a>.Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-90537565093110095142013-09-16T12:40:00.000-07:002013-09-16T12:52:43.336-07:00milkmag.org lives!
Yes, milkmag.org may be the most esoteric of all the milk magazines online but we were the first. Since 1999, <a href="http://www.milkmag.org">milk magazine </a>has published a wide variety of poetry, fiction, and visual art.
In 1999, there was no other milk magazine online or in print but now there are milk magazines in France, Japan, and Australia but we are still going strong. You may notice the format has changed a bit. Using Word Press allows readers to like, forward, or Tweet a page, and we plan to publish content on politics, music, film, and whatever else our contributors feel like writing about, in addition to poetry. Thanks for checking in to have a look.
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Larry’s poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you’re afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is!<br />
—<strong>Andrei Codrescu</strong>, author of <em>So Recently Rent a World</em> (Coffee House Press)<br />
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Larry Sawyer’s <em>Vertigo Diary</em> speaks from a three-fold poetics of self-consciousness, critique and humor so that we chuckle at and choke on our collective shortcomings. This book contains so many thrilling moments of high altitude lyricism that are skillfully balanced by an urbane desire to “progress beyond the / Need to fill our silences with such idiot carcasses.” In the end, Sawyer’s woozy and exquisite poems are shadow messages from the other side of ourselves, messages that unshackle language and let it loose in a dynamic field of play. When I hear these messages, I feel a rare sense of freedom; that is, “To their telegrams I respond / with a ponderous liberty.”<br />
—<strong>Nathan Hoks</strong>, author of <em>The Narrow Circle</em> (Penguin)<br />
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The secret love-child of Frank O'Hara and Paul Éluard, <em>Vertigo Diary</em> is a swirling romp into the city—through the mundane to the Pentagon to the not-so-probable. Sawyer's latest maps a world filled with beauty and longing, where the political, pop culture, and literary history meet in “our own private Pompeii.”<br />
—<strong>Megan Kaminski</strong>, author of <em>Desiring Map</em> (Coconut Books)<br />
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Larry Sawyer’s <em>Vertigo Diary</em> is a fine 21st century example of the poetry of the American Urban Sublime. More Ben Katchor’s Julius Knipl than Nelson Algren’s Frankie Machine, the author serves up a “moment salad” of incidentals in our day world and his sharp ear gets the real news down sans air quotes. Humane and wry, the book reads like the serial composition playing in my head—you just can’t tell what is awaiting you past the next period, comma or enjambment. Dialectic bebop.<br />
—<strong>Joel Lewis</strong>, author of <em>Surrender When Leaving Coach</em> (Hanging Loose Press)<br />
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In <em>Vertigo Diary</em>, Larry Sawyer gives us poems that are rich in idiosyncratic imagery and elusive, quotable metaphor (“Why was each moment such a miniature Troy?”). Sawyer’s exuberant sensibility has led him to confident lyric expression whose finest moments are beyond context.<br />
—<strong>Tony Towle</strong>, author of <em>Winter Journey</em> (Hanging Loose Press)<br />
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<strong>Larry Sawyer</strong> has curated the Myopic Books Poetry Reading Series in Chicago since 2005. With Lina ramona Vitkauskas he also edits <em>milk magazine.</em> Sawyer is also the co-director of The Chicago School of Poetics (<a href="http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com/">www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com</a>). His poetry and literary reviews have appeared in publications including<em> Action Yes, The Argotist</em> (UK), <em>The Boston Review, The Chicago Tribune, Coconut, Court Green, Esque, Exquisite Corpse, Forklift Ohio, Jacket</em> (Australia), <em>The Miami Sun Post, MiPoesias, The National Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Prague Literary Review, Rain Taxi, Shampoo, Skanky Possum, Tabacaria</em> (Portugal), <em>Van Gogh’s Ear</em> (France), <em>Vanitas, Verse Daily, Vlak</em> (Czech Republic), and elsewhere.<br />
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<br />Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-49573501845746502722013-01-03T10:11:00.002-08:002013-01-03T13:03:13.858-08:002012: Not the End of the World<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5OIUf_jW10QmgkxPTUE2k_UT8BVP-iCGEKNzxN1JA5RsDv5sSaHwfcTrZyrcof4CGgGE0FSw_xnZ0fgyb6b1HXBGfEybC4pZQ3jm6I5fXhBZGUWd22rwrG0PlpPY5r2oxSsomfQ/s1600/chicago_illinois_vintage_postcard_invitation-r7b87288139e84a0995329b4e4455f02a_8dnd0_8byvr_512%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><br /><img border="0" eea="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5OIUf_jW10QmgkxPTUE2k_UT8BVP-iCGEKNzxN1JA5RsDv5sSaHwfcTrZyrcof4CGgGE0FSw_xnZ0fgyb6b1HXBGfEybC4pZQ3jm6I5fXhBZGUWd22rwrG0PlpPY5r2oxSsomfQ/s320/chicago_illinois_vintage_postcard_invitation-r7b87288139e84a0995329b4e4455f02a_8dnd0_8byvr_512%5B1%5D.jpg" width="320" /></a> 2012 is now kicking rocks and what a year for poetry in Chicago it was. As my year as “best” poet in Chicago ends (according to the <em>Reader</em>), I wish the new hopeful all the very best. Of course, there can be no “best” poet, no matter the locale, and I am just thankful that a few more readers took notice of my work. In addition, it was a huge honor to be invited to my alma mater, Wright State University, to read my poetry for Gary Pacernick and his assembled graduate students in Ohio. I traveled, read, and generally stood in awe of the number of poets in existence in Chicago and nationwide and was even able to avoid any use of the word <em>yolo</em>. <br />
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Poetry is in no danger. There is certainly no dearth of poetry in the United States but with so much sometimes the experience of <em>being</em> a poet writing in times like these is truly daunting. The Chicago School of Poetics offered its first master class in 2012, with poet Ron Silliman, who commented later “This is what a school truly should be – think of Black Mountain College – beyond all the boundaries & borders.” Stay tuned for additional announcements about upcoming master class instructors. <br />
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Although the apocalypse was not an option, the Myopic Poetry Series saw a full year with the poets Vyt Bakaitis, Kimberly Lyons, Elizabeth Robinson, Toby Altman, Joel Lewis, the Russian poets Dina Gatina, Lev Oborin, Alla Gorbunova, and Ksenia Marennikova, and also Christopher Hund, Jared Stanley, Catherine Theis, Debrah Morkun, Don Share, Mark Goldstein, Camille Martin, Philip Good, David Trinidad, Jen Karmin, and Bernadette Mayer to name just a few. I was also able to book Quraysh Ali Lansana and John Yau for 2013. I’m going into my eighth year as curator and I’m still as excited to host, as well as attend as a member of the audience. I was pleased to write an entry on Chicago poets and fiction writers for Ploughshares magazine and generally worked to near collapse on another manuscript that will be published by BlazeVox in 2013. (About which Andrei Codrescu writes “Larry's poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you're afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is!”)<br />
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I still believe Chicago is <em>the</em> nexus for poetry in the U.S., and it’s a happy exhaustion I’m feeling but I must be forgetting something. <br />
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From branch to branch to branch the binturong lurches <br />
Between Vietnamese White Pine, even the Democracy Tree, but probably not ordinary birches. Deforestation is making his home uninhabitable. <br />
Swinging between the lines of my poem this animal <br />
Who calls the Pen-tailed Tree Shrew neighbor works harder than the entire U.S. Department of Labor just to survive. <br />
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I really love this cover drawing by Gary Sullivan. Thanks, Gary.Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-20426828525159119812012-04-11T11:58:00.003-07:002012-04-11T12:03:01.926-07:00Visit and donate now:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVv3PYWJnyOcV8UJahtTIxeYAFOqk6t3PzUiz-Dy0jWs6i7EtuVyBmPGwAIdCmGIj3LgHfRP3Ywjvhi8faQEwy4WyH09aq6tyAcvx6ql7VJl-6BEQlNy8CswAymSrzhlWmDyK8A/s1600/cropped-100TPfCNEW3%255B1%255D.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 67px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVv3PYWJnyOcV8UJahtTIxeYAFOqk6t3PzUiz-Dy0jWs6i7EtuVyBmPGwAIdCmGIj3LgHfRP3Ywjvhi8faQEwy4WyH09aq6tyAcvx6ql7VJl-6BEQlNy8CswAymSrzhlWmDyK8A/s320/cropped-100TPfCNEW3%255B1%255D.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730220453279223330" /></a><br /><br />Be sure to pay a visit to the 100,000 Poets for Change <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/377638302/100-thousand-poets-for-change-headquarters-event">Kickstarter page (click here) </a>!Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-80762845391746739642012-03-18T08:57:00.002-07:002012-03-18T09:00:40.611-07:00Karmin, Trinidad, Mayer, Good - Tonight at Myopic Books Chicago<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjRdTUCgG90Dli9hIg9Xo6dlyXg8IqpjpCYNW6JsZ_i2OQoQdJd9raWSjU57n7G47s8jWfzrSLUmMirLJJOJ0X7XkNFVjQyWIl-WV4FtGd3IH2S7_A8230hUki1cOoVXsYfQO2g/s1600/l.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjRdTUCgG90Dli9hIg9Xo6dlyXg8IqpjpCYNW6JsZ_i2OQoQdJd9raWSjU57n7G47s8jWfzrSLUmMirLJJOJ0X7XkNFVjQyWIl-WV4FtGd3IH2S7_A8230hUki1cOoVXsYfQO2g/s320/l.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5721267566318327810" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />TONIGHT, Sunday, March 18 at Myopic Books, 7pm<br /><br /><br />JENNIFER KARMIN has published, performed, exhibited, taught, and experimented with language across the U.S., Japan, and Kenya. She curates the Red Rover Series and is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, community centers, and on city streets. Her poems are widely published in anthologies and journals, like A Sing Economy, Come Together: Imagine Peace, Not A Muse, The City Visible, and in journals such as, Court Green, Everyday Genius, Fact-Simile, and The Brooklyn Rail.<br /><br />Originally from Los Angeles, DAVID TRINIDAD has been called "a master of the postmodern pop-culture sublime." His work is also associated with the innovative formalism of the New York School. Alice Notley has written, "There is an unwavering light in all of Trinidad's work that turns individual words into objects, new facts." His most recent books are Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011), The Late Show (2007), and By Myself (with D.A. Powell, 2009), all published by Turtle Point Press. His poems have appeared in such periodicals as The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harper's, The Paris Review, and Tin House. Trinidad teaches at Columbia College Chicago and co-edits the journal Court Green.<br /><br />BERNADETTE MAYER’s poetry has been praised by John Ashbery as “magnificent.” Brenda Coultas calls her a master of “devastating wit.” Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, including Midwinter Day, Sonnets, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, and Poetry State Forest. Recently published are her works Studying Hunger Journals and Ethics of Sleep. A former director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery and co-editor of the conceptual magazine 0 to 9 with Vito Acconci, Mayer has been a key figure on the New York poetry scene for decades.<br /><br />PHILIP GOOD is the author of Untitled Writings from a Member of the Blank Generation (Trembling Pillow Press, 2011). He is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts and co-edited with Bill Denoyelles, the last of the mimeograph poetry magazines, Blue Smoke. He has given poetry readings all across America and abroad. He now lives in a former shtetl next to the Tsatsawassa and Kinderhook creeks with Bernadette Mayer.<br /><br /><br />Myopic Books Poetry Series curator: <span style="font-weight:bold;">Larry Sawyer</span>/Myopic Books/1564 N. Milwaukee Ave Chicago, IL 60622<br /><br />Conveniently located near the Damen Blue Line CTA stop.Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-83139382403979005952011-12-22T06:10:00.000-08:002011-12-22T06:29:22.869-08:00CSoP Weekly Salon: Two Sessions Only $100<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9ZtfSJ_WyWcRkoCr33jOdox0z8_PZnSXe22QasZ9lSUoekwRdQmIuhORo-03xApiUR92hucn7uSBGZT4_J7XP07Pnnk1mt32s87Ff143Ys-I5AeZql2-zupOrolDG2jgguHqXw/s1600/Chicago-School-logo-130px_reasonably_small.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 148px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW9ZtfSJ_WyWcRkoCr33jOdox0z8_PZnSXe22QasZ9lSUoekwRdQmIuhORo-03xApiUR92hucn7uSBGZT4_J7XP07Pnnk1mt32s87Ff143Ys-I5AeZql2-zupOrolDG2jgguHqXw/s320/Chicago-School-logo-130px_reasonably_small.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688955959978641218" /></a><br /><br /><br />The Chicago School of Poetics offers classes with video, audio, plus note and video sharing all happening in real time. We also have the ability to record online classes and replay them. Gotham Writers’ Workshop's online classes, by comparison, merely offer students the capability to comment in writing on one another’s work.<br /><br />In addition to online classes, our <a href="http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com/weekly-salon/"><span style="font-style:italic;">Weekly Salon (click the link)</span></a>, for example, is relatively cheap: $50 apiece. Students can purchase as many workshops as they would like. 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Seeing David Meltzer, Ron Silliman, Duriel Harris, and Bill Berkson read at Myopic were some of the best moments of my writing life. Sometimes it blurs together a bit because so many poets have read at Myopic Books in the past few years but now I would like to know. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Who would you like to see read at Myopic Books?</span><br />
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Some of the poets who have read at Myopic Books over the past 6 years: <br />
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Aaron Fagin, Abraham Smith, Adam Fieled, AD Jameson, Allyssa Wolf, Amy De'Ath, Andy Fitch, Arpine Grenier, Barry Schwabsky, Bernadette Mayer, Ben Doller, Bill Allegrezza, Bill Berkson, BJ Love, Brandon Downing, Bruce Covey, Carlos Soto-Román, Carol Novack, Carolyn Guinzio, Carrie Etter, Carrie Olivia Adams, Catherine Wagner, Charles Ries, Charlie Newman, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Chris Glomski, Chris Green, Christian Hawkey, Chuck Stebelton, Cole Swensen, Connor Stratman, Crag Hill, Dan Godston, Dana Ward, Daniel Borzutzky, Daniel Nester, Dave Awl, David Meltzer, David Trinidad, Debrah Morkun, Diane Wakoski, Donna Stonecipher, Duriel Harris, Ed Roberson, Edmund Berrigan, Eileen Myles, Ela Kotkowska, Elizabeth Harper, Erika Jo Brown, Erika Mikkalo, Erin Teegarden, Farrah Field, Francesco Levato, Gabriel Gudding, Garin Cycholl, Garrett Brown, Gary Sullivan, Gina Myers, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Ish Klein, James Bellflower, James Shea, James Yeary, Jason Bredle, Jason Pickleman, Jen Tynes, Jennifer Karmin, Jenny Boully, Jeremy Davies, Jerome Rothenberg, Jesse Seldess, Jessica Savitz, Jill Magi, Joel Craig, Joel Duncan, Joel Felix, Johan Jönson, Johannes Göransson, John Beer, John Gallaher, John Keene, John Tipton, John Wilkinson, Jon Cotner, Jon Thompson, Joshua Adams, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Judith Goldman, K. Silem Mohammad, Karyna McGlynn, Katy Lederer, Kerri Sonnenberg, Kevin Coval, Kim Gek Lin Short, Kostas Anagnopoulos, Krista Franklin, Kristin Dykstra, Kristina Jipson, Kristy Bowen, Kristy Odelius, Larry Sawyer, Latasha Nevada Diggs, Laura Carter, Lea Graham, Lewis Freedman, Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Linh Dinh, Lisa Fishman, Lisa Janssen, Liz Marino, Luis Valadez, Luis Valadez, MacGregor Card, Mark Tardi, Mark Wallace, Marvin Tate, Matvei Yankelevich, Maxine Chernoff, Megan Volpert, Melissa Severin, Michael Robbins, Michael Robins, Michael Rothenberg, Mirela Tanta, Monika Rinck, Nate Slawson, Nathalie Stephens, Nathan Hoks, Nico Vassilakis, Nina Corwin, Oni Buchanan, Patrick Culliton, Patrick Durgin, Paul Hoover, Philip Good, Philip Jenks, Ralph Hamilton, Ray Hsu, Reb Livingston, Robert Archambeau, Robert Fernandez, Roberto Harrison, Roger Bonair-Agard, Ron Silliman, Sandra Doller, Sarah Riggs, Seth Landman, Simon Pettet, Simone Muench, Stella Radulescu, Stephanie Anderson, Steve Halle, Thax Douglas, Tim Kinsella, Tim Yu, Todd Heldt, Tom Orange, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Tony Trigilio, Tyehimba Jess, Uljana Wolf, Wayne Miller, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Zach Harris <br />
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Contact: 773.862.4882 / Larry Sawyer, curatorLarry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-56966074178352418552011-10-20T09:32:00.000-07:002011-10-20T09:53:56.960-07:00Dylan Thomas: Wild Child<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtRCnAGWolxwTP4b0hOo_z6T4lkFpcYPnslnNvWoMWKVjAU7fZ31qcVm9Ula2iecqSr-Lhs07das76eg52KApnHmcK7Z2jSAhW38AJ-8coHmoLKuVfh7F4gp14wED_goTpSzUv6w/s1600/1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtRCnAGWolxwTP4b0hOo_z6T4lkFpcYPnslnNvWoMWKVjAU7fZ31qcVm9Ula2iecqSr-Lhs07das76eg52KApnHmcK7Z2jSAhW38AJ-8coHmoLKuVfh7F4gp14wED_goTpSzUv6w/s320/1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665613709357803394" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I was recently marveling over this poem by Dylan Thomas, "Who are you who is born in the next room..." (published in 1945) from a series of pattern poems called <span style="font-style:italic;">Vision and Prayer</span> because of what it does or enacts so successfully and in doing so transcends its arbitrary form. I don’t have the entire series in front of me, so it may be that this particular shape has some relevance that isn’t obvious when it’s viewed out of context because apparently these shapes form a series. What seems most interesting to me is how this writing works so well to set a scene and create a poetic equation with an ending that comes as somewhat of a surprise in a visceral way with such depth of metaphor, while it almost completely resists its own rhyme scheme. It provides an almost perfect balance between meaning and form that still manages to raise interesting questions because of certain effects. I’m drawn at the outset to the two somewhat cavernous caesuras. The first comes after “In the birth.” It seems appropriate that the poet creates this gap in the line after the word birth (where the reader nearly falls in), and the second occurs after the word “alone.” Both caesuras offer a perfect physical illustration of what is being described because the reader is forced to involuntarily pause after these words, which not only gives them emphasis but reemphasizes in a very graphic way the visual provided a few lines earlier with “I can hear the womb opening.” <br /><br />From the poem’s opening there is a double meaning established because dramatic tension is established succinctly in the first three words. The intentional ambiguity almost has the reader questioning himself or this might also be Thomas asking the question of himself. <br /><br />Dualities cascade throughout it. In the idea that Jesus was man and god. The two physically separated rooms exist showing the reader separate from what goes on in the other room and mention of a “wall thin as a wren’s bone” seems to underscore a difference between what the speaker perceives as the natural and unnatural world. “Wren bone” is also an anagram of “new borne.” Other imagery underscores an idea that this event on some level is holy but again, a duality within the structures finds the reader noticing a shift of perspective in the mirror image of the poem that begins as the lines reach a midpoint and then recede in the second half. The poem’s structure mimics what is described, i.e., the poem itself is turning or shifting. These lines could be read in multiple ways “In the birth/bloody room/unknown to the …” or “In the birth bloody/room unknown to the…” <br /><br />The poem, although only 71 words, does start with a vision and end with a sort of prayer but is Thomas describing his own thoughts on his own life that started with a similar birth but resulted in the many physical, mental and domestic problems which plagued him for years? Or is this a meditation on our relation to the natural world and the unnatural, as represented in the poem, is the overlay of religiosity that is placed upon us that begins at birth. Thomas encapsulates a prime moment, birth, which serves as a hinge between these two “worlds” i.e., the natural and the world of civilization and all the socialization that civilization entails.<br /><br /><br />As the wall is a part of the natural world or natural order, the infant is not, yet anyway, and the point is emphasized internally as the rhyme scheme pairs “wild” and “child” together as a final example of the mysterious duality that ripples throughout what might have been a poem that Thomas wrote in one sitting in a very short amount of time. <br /><br />The visual pattern creates interesting parallels that otherwise might not have existed had the poem been left aligned in a ragged block. The final interesting afterthought is that the form provides the reader with an object to be stared at, which it gives it an element of spectacle. Because of its symmetry the object simultaneously resembles a box, a shape of some sort like a pyramid reflected in water, a crucifix, the human form with arms outspread, and finally and obviously a diamond. Sixteenth Century alchemist Agrippa also include this shape and its opposite, which would look like a jagged hourglass, in his “Of the Proportion, Measure, and Harmony of Man’s Body,” which included diagrams of geometric shapes aligned with the human form. These two shapes comprise the ebb and flow of the alternating patterns in the book.<br /><br />By starting with such an unanswerable question, by including such vivid imagery (e.g., heart print), and ending with such a violent twist the poem registers like a minor earthquake and we stare down into its dark abyss and wonder what it meant to the author, as well as what it might mean to everyone facing the riddle of human existence.Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38531027.post-28466681833592752092011-10-11T11:48:00.000-07:002011-10-11T13:41:37.631-07:00Announcing The Chicago School of Poetics at www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKOiGmJglSo0KMiUYoge1g9Suzw8ciKtrSpDYXOeNyLQ6VPX5ZW-YQJ91PSTuSxqPQ63d-IWuSwVkJUovPLL7jX_UPb4r8hb_i9ljaPalJphqQ5w7mSP5bKtlu_fCl6bXFRUV-A/s1600/Chicago-School-logo-lg.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKOiGmJglSo0KMiUYoge1g9Suzw8ciKtrSpDYXOeNyLQ6VPX5ZW-YQJ91PSTuSxqPQ63d-IWuSwVkJUovPLL7jX_UPb4r8hb_i9ljaPalJphqQ5w7mSP5bKtlu_fCl6bXFRUV-A/s320/Chicago-School-logo-lg.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662313292722657714" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Chicago School of Poetics</span></a> site is now up (rollover and click it) and ready for inspection. Thanks, Poetry Foundation, for mentioning it on<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/10/introducing-the-chicago-school-of-poetics "> Harriet</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Face-to-face classes will be held at the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E Washington St., Pedway East</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">online classes require only some basic computer system requirements</span> for the 8-week long classes. You’ll need a computer with:<br />• Macintosh, Windows, or Linux operating systems.<br />• A microphone (most have one built in) for voice conferencing.<br />• A web cam for video conferencing.<br />• An internet connection (preferably high-speed, like cable or DSL).<br />and that’s it! <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sign-up is quick and easy</span> via PayPal.<br /><br /><br />Rollover and click on each of the following to read more:<br /><br />• <a href=" http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com/poetics-level-1-online/"> Poetics: Level I</a><br /><br />• <a href=" http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com/erasure-to-automatism/"> Erasure to Automatism</a><br /><br />• <a href="http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com/the-poetry-of-cubism/"> The Poetry of Cubism</a> and discovering your <br /><br />• <a href="http://www.chicagoschoolofpoetics.com/personal-archeology/"> Personal Archeology.</a><br /><br />Register today. Class size is limited for maximum instruction.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpLGitsTiuOI8RmChxz18AQVYRVh8wWPMYWUPwRFOP64e57JS73mqcjT1aikYZ6xxtkdgqxiF8cysJgso_mr7BgblERKzQWROMROQjyqlK6JHg3Bg6dto3mOjIPIvXRcWFFIbzg/s1600/Chicago-Cultural-Center1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpLGitsTiuOI8RmChxz18AQVYRVh8wWPMYWUPwRFOP64e57JS73mqcjT1aikYZ6xxtkdgqxiF8cysJgso_mr7BgblERKzQWROMROQjyqlK6JHg3Bg6dto3mOjIPIvXRcWFFIbzg/s320/Chicago-Cultural-Center1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662306867888661202" /></a>Larry Sawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711noreply@blogger.com0