immanent occasions

  Mayröcker and Glück, An Exercise in Nobel Prize Poetics Some poems embody perception in the act of discovery. Consider the poetry of Charles Olson. I find that quality in these lines by F...

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My reading at the New Orleans Poetry Festival, 2020 https://www.nolapoetry.com/2020-videos?combine=Wellman The first verse is a mock version of a famous poem about a contagious hospital. The l...

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English Language Bibliography for Antonio Gamoneda, Donald Wellman, translator Books in translation from Spanish to English Antonio Gamoneda. Description of the Lie: a translation of Descri...

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The overlay of music and meaning in the translation of poetry: a close reading of poetry by Antonio Gamoneda, Paul Celan, Cesar Vallejo, and Néstor Perlongher Donald Wellman, proposed10/7/20...

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Or I'm unable to outgrow the 1980s Donald Wellman In my just published Crossing Mexico, I articulate multiple perspectives: Mayan, mixed race and others, not least of all my own as an Anglo-...

https://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2019/11/meditation-on-judith-butler-2019.html

From the Conclusion to Expressivity in Modern Poetry My work presents an exposition of the ways in which transgressive, postmodern art and literature, in questioning pictorial space, assoc...

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Back Cover. Logique de la Sensation.. Figuration At some point in the present I begin with matter of recent origin and reach back to an elsewhere. Marginal jottings produce observ...

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One day, we will have some good conversation and meet in  a little café in Bass Harbor. Here are some thoughts in advance of that date. Language that doesn’t congeal squeals, I wrote in my n...

https://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2019/05/interruptions-thefragmentary-aesthetic.html

Fourteen lines on each page, that’s sonnet length. Little rhyme or syllogism employed. No tidy conclusions. Each line as long as it needs to be. Most discontinuous with one another but not ne...

https://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2018/12/lyn-hejinian-unfollowing.html

Few poems rely so entirely on perception as those of Kate Colby. Her “Shaker /caked with salt” (12) requires no explanation. Colby avoids a generalizing gestures, “humidity” in the next...

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As I read this book of poems, I am moved by a delicate surrealism that records fleeting moments of birdsong and  lost souls that flounder in the wakes of inflatable boats. These transitory p...

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Manhattan Journal: A Lost Text Recovered I am engrossed by the scaly yellow-brick, art-deco facades of midtown and contemplate the numerous wooden rooftop water tanks. These pages will review ...

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A NIGHT IN MADRID On a day in a February, shortly after the coincidence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day, the holy and the insane, I attended a performance of Street Scene with book by ...

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EDITING COHERENCE IN 1981: DESIRE IN THE SHADOW OF FIRST-GENERATION LANGUAGE-CENTERED POETRY. Coherence was the first number of O.ARS, a self-described “gathering of experiments in writi...

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MEANING AND METHOD Among poets associated with Black Mountain College, Joel Oppenheimer is especially plain-spoken. Judging from his attention to the details of ordinary life, he seems to have...

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CONTRADICTORY SENTENCES form series of indeterminate length. Energy arises in bending the line. Abrupt carriage returns. Word substitutions. Staging motivates scaled unfoldings. �...

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Derek Walcott, 1930- 2017 Of how many can it be said that he or she broke ground and what does it signify? A metaphor drawn from the ceremonies of construction or is something more subtl...

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The expressed, it is claimed, resides solely in the expression – a frightened face like that of a young girl who has heard a bunny rabbit scream. Implied is a world and conceptual person who i...

https://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2017/03/new-ramblings-what-is-philosophy-and.html

I am a poet who reads. I am now making the final edits of my manuscript Expressivity in Modern Poetry. Central to this volume is a poetics in which normative notions of the real are challen...

https://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2016/02/programmatic-notice-concerning-my.html

My subject is Mark Wallace’s Notes from the Center on Public Policy (Altered Scale 2014), but I begin with some reflections of Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book (U. Cal., 2011). I must also note...

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“Cows nostrils are blue,” the thought came out of nowhere or maybe from a typo while translating a discrete phrase in a line from the poetry of Roberto Echavarren. I claim authorship, ho...

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MY WOODS, MY FOREST, MY GROVE OF RIB BONES Now that I’ve reread again the funereal Moby Dick, and pondered its display of gallows’ humor, I ask is it but a catalog of wry, unfound...

https://immanentoccasions.blogspot.com/2016/08/after-reflecting-on-lowells-stone.html

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=984_1466666115 ] Proud women La Señora de Soledad tiene una cara alba On her altar of gold, in her gown of gold Black and white medallions of...

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The vegetable dreams; its life is sleep. In it reality and dream are one, as in fantasy, for it dreams itself. And also because it sleeps permanently and what it dreams is what is. The plant is ...

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We gather today and examine a reading from Maximus IV, V, VI. Please note there are no page numbers to this edition, complicating the matter of indexing and requiring a scrupulous degree of atte...

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