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playlist 30 august

Artist. Track. Cd title. Label

Words
andrea brady. wild fire part 5. archive of the now.
ann lauterbach. from Opening Day. live at the ear. PENNsound
anne brechin. larkins aubade. the wolf.
glenis redmond. burying. monumental.
jesse glass. my gallery of 4 photographs. compilation.
john tuschen. bombs and snacks; montparnasse. then and now.
joshua clover. poem. american poets in the 21st century. wesleyan U press
maja ratkje. acid. voice. rune grammofon
marge piercy. the token woman; right to life. louder. leapfrog audiobooks
mark nowak. hoyt lakes shut down 12 7 2000. american poets in the 21st century. wesleyan U press
matthew caley. sleepwalking for beginners. the wolf.
minton sparks. peeping tom. sin sick.
richard kostelanetz. from openings and closings. openings and closings.
robert creeley. the world. poetry ctr of NYC. PENNsound
ron silliman. from OZ. live at the ear. PENNsound

Music
aashish khan and zakir hussain. raag mishra bhairavi. golden strings of the sarode. moment
homayun sakhi. raga madhuvanti. art of the afghan rubab. smithsonian

sliding into anagrams

Agriculture argue plant
Grain discuss vegetable
Cereal Talk Celery:
Creeley Retallack

You needle code mite
Thou eyelet program charged-atom
Ye creel pascal ion:
Creeley Scalapino

Truck suspender conspiracy
Mack belt brotherhood
Cloak strap alliance:
Retallack Scalapino

playlist 23 august

Artist. Track. Cd title. Label

andrea brady. Wildfire, parts 2 and 3. archive of the now.

anne sexton. making a living. anne sexton reads. caedmon

bob holman. poetry by number. in with the out crowd. mouth almighty

bruce andrews. Valentines; primum mobile. SUNY Buffalo 2001. PENNsound

gertrude stein. portrait of henri matisse. gertrude stein reads. caedmon

glenis redmond. a simple act. monumental. cdbaby.com

karen volkman. no noise subtracts it. american poets in the 21st century. wesleyan u

leslie scalapino. delay rose. close listening. PENNsound

rusty russell. milk moon; by the river. jungle of roses. poetrypoetry.com

tom raworth. death to a star. no hard feelings. corbett vs dempsey

urknee and bjurton. arc. free gin and tonic poets.

Music

jan garbarek. selections from Rites. ECM

leticia castaneda. selections from On the verge of redundance. CIP

stewart dempster. Didjeridervish. In the great abbey of clement VI. new albion

PennSound poetry podcast

PENNSound offers an extensive and growing online audio archive of poets reading their own works. Some 8,000 audio files are available and several thousand await production. Listen to Al Filreis’s latest podcast episode, “PENNsound pedagogy,” which discusses the reasons for setting up this audio archive and how educators can use it. For example, how can a teacher help students make a connection between Emily Dickinson and a contemporary poet like Rae Armantrout?

Book review: American Poets in the 21st Century

American Poets in the 21^st Century: The New Poetics
Edited by Claudia Rankine & Lisa Sewell
Wesleyan U Press, 2007. 400 p.
Includes audio CD

I snapped up a copy of this book as soon as I heard about it.

The audio CD would be useful on my Wordsalad radio program, and the text would bring me up to date on a number of poets doing exciting work. The sounds of these authors’ voices are a welcome addition to the program.

Lisa Sewell writes in the introduction that this collection is among those beginning to chart and situate the progress of this current generation, focusing on 13 poets whose work provides an introduction to the breadth and vitality of the field: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young.

Each of these writers is evolving a distinct poetic that in some way revises, extends, and/or counters the traditions of the previous century, Sewell writes.

Each chapter includes a selection of one writer’s poems, a brief artist’s statement, and a critical essay that provides a historical context as well as an analysis of the ways the specific work alters and extends the understanding of what the new American poetries can look, feel, and sound like. In addition to the recordings of each poet reading some of his or her work, additional audio files are available online for listening and download.

The line between innovation and tradition, between experiment and expression, is no longer clear or easy to draw, Sewell writes. Innovative, materialistic poetic practices have been absorbed by both the lyric mainstream and the multicultural poetries of identity politics. Writers on either side of the ostensible divide employ interruption, parataxis, narrative discontinuity, and alinearity to produce fragmentation and disjunction.

While many of these poets claim a space for lyric interiority and “emotive effect,” she writes, almost all treat the speaking subject as provisional, expressing doubts about a lyric poetry that dramatizes the self’s fixed relationship to the world.

playlist 16 august

Artist. Track. Cd title. label

Words:
alan davies. shared sentences. live at the ear 1994. penn sound

anne sexton. letter written on a ferry; jesus cooks. anne sexton reads. caedmon

bruce andrews. i knew the signs by their tents. live at the ear 1994. penn sound

frank burton. on the town. collected words: the poetry album.

glenis redmond. She; Z. monumental.

jesse glass. honoring it (for john cage and joan retallack). compilation.

john most. thirteen. persephone. aqp collective

joshua clover. year zero. american poets in the 21st century. wesleyan U

karen volkman. i never wish to sing again. american poets in the 21st century. wesleyan U

leslie scalapino. from ‘the forest is in the euphrates’; it’s go in /quiet illuminated grass. close listening. penn sound

mike daily. anthrax. alarm the novel.

stacy doris. from Knot. american poets in the 21st century. wesleyan U

Music
alan lamb. primal image (excerpt). a storm of drones. asphodel
bernhard gunter. untitled 1/ 96. night passage demixed. dorobo
lustmord. fragmented. night passage demixed. dorobo
michael stearns. reky into dark territory. a storm of drones. asphodel
steve roach. merciful eye. a storm of drones. asphodel

Recommended reading

Music words

Musicage: Cage muses on words, art, music. Joan Retallack. 1996. Wesleyan U Press.

John Cage (ex)plain(ed). Richard Kostelantez. 1996. Schirmer/Prentice Hall.

Experimental music: Cage and beyond. Michael Nyman. 2001. Cambridge U Press.

playlist 9 august

Words
artist. title. album. label
allen ginsberg. howl III. kronos quartet: Howl USA.

andrea gibson. i do. when the bough breaks.

anne sexton. the ambition bird. anne sexton reads. caedmon

carol novack. what to do with the babies. compilation.

frank burton. javelin. collected words: the poetry album.

jesse glass. dead hand blues. compilation. ahadada books

john most. Eleven; twelve. persephone. aqp collective

leslie scalapino. Can’t is night. close listening. penn sound

lyn hejinian. from The Guard. woodland pattern 1985. penn sound

mark levine. Willow; work song. american poets in the 21st century.

mike daily. cut to a commercial. alarm the novel.

minton sparks. when you coming home girl? this dress.

stacy doris. from Conference. american poets in the 21st century.

Music
brian eno & david byrne. mea culpa; regiment. my life in the bush of ghosts. sire
david darling. darkwood IV dawn. darkwood. ecm
gavin bryars. invention of tradition. invention of tradition.

playlist 2 august

Words
anne sexton. to a friend whose work has come to triumph; doors doors doors. voice of the poet.

barbara decesare. whatever it takes; elegy. adrift.

corinna bain. open letter. New high score: Best of NYC urbana.

frank ohara. all that gas; poem (that’s not a cross look). voice of the poet.

jean feraca. crossing the great divide. compilation.

john most. Three; seven. persephone. aqp collective

mark nowak. from capitalization. american poets in the 21st century.

minton sparks. bird in a cage. this dress.

peter gizzi. revival. american poets in the 21st century.

richard kostelanetz. openings and closings (excerpt). openings and closings.

sekou tha misfit. every girl. afrodeezyackz.

taalam acey. living come alive. underground heavy.

tracie morris. a little. american poets in the 21st century.

Music
alan licht. freaky friday. a new york minute. XI
j.s. bach / mm rostropovich. cello suite n 2 BWV 1008. js bach cello suites. EMI classics
steve roach, byron metcalf. the lair. serpents lair.