Posts tagged Poetry

I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.
John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings, 1949
Page 22 from Jen Bervin’s Nets (2004) [more info. about her]

Page 22 from Jen Bervin’s Nets (2004) [more info. about her]

“The central device of Trumbo’s novel is the body of the protagonist, a young American soldier who, incredibly, has lost his face and both arms and legs during combat. Unable to see, speak, hear, smell, or act, he is fully conscious, but seemingly completely without agency. As he struggles to come to terms with his personal tragedy, he strains to communicate with the outside world. The entire book was written without commas, though all other punctuation conforms to established conventions.”

Antonia Hirsch, Komma (after Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun), 2010

“In those pieces inspired by a William Burroughs poem, I used the words Right & Wrong and they ended up conjuring up Shamanic hymns and lyrics, endlessly. By mixing them visually, the binary opposition between these two words is no longer one. Everything becomes Right, or everything becomes Wrong, or nothing has ever been Right and nothing is quite Wrong.” [also, have a look at text(e)~fil(e)s series and eurasia] Pascal Dombis, RightRong, Lenticular mounted on alu-dibon, 2008-10

“In those pieces inspired by a William Burroughs poem, I used the words Right & Wrong and they ended up conjuring up Shamanic hymns and lyrics, endlessly. By mixing them visually, the binary opposition between these two words is no longer one. Everything becomes Right, or everything becomes Wrong, or nothing has ever been Right and nothing is quite Wrong.”

[also, have a look at text(e)~fil(e)s series and eurasia]

Pascal Dombis, RightRong, Lenticular mounted on alu-dibon, 2008-10

Janet Holmes, THE MS OF M Y KIN (Shearsman, 2009), an erasure of Dickinson’s Civil War poems [+] 1861.4 (198-209). More pages here.

Janet Holmes, THE MS OF M Y KIN (Shearsman, 2009), an erasure of Dickinson’s Civil War poems [+] 1861.4 (198-209). More pages here.

Selections from Travis MacDonald’s The O Mission Repo [vol 2] (+; +) MacDonald’s new chapbook of O Mission erasures “Sight and Sigh” here.

Selections from Travis MacDonald’s The O Mission Repo [vol 2] (+; +) MacDonald’s new chapbook of O Mission erasures “Sight and Sigh” here.