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series features poets, artists, and scholars whose work rethinks the
mission and practice of poetry/poetics in the age of media, globalization,
and multilingualism. It explores poetry's relations to a variety of
issues and disciplines, including art, architecture, digital media,
music, history, ethics, philosophy, anthropoloy, performance, linguistics,
education, and translation. It foregrounds poetics as a condition
for social, cultural, and historical imagination. |
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A
Talk by Rob Wilson
(UC Santa Cruz)
"Worlding California Poetics"
April 19, 2004, Monday, 4 PM
6020 HSSB, UCSB |
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| Wilson
has published poems and reviews in Bamboo Ridge journal since
1979, and in various other journals from Tinfish, Taxi,
Manoa, and Central Park to New Republic,
Ploughshares, Partisan Review and Poetry. He is
a western Connecticut native who was educated at the University of
California at Berkeley, where he was founding editor of the Berkeley
Poetry Review.
He is at work on two collections of poetry: Ananda
Air: American Pacific Lines of Flight; and Automat: Un/American
Poetics, and still plays basketball, pool, and meditates (and
prays), each day, in the great void of being and creative bliss.
As Jack Kerouac put it in Dharma Bums, "Equally holy,
equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha!"
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Poetry
Reading by Jeanne Heuving
May 17, 2004, Monday, 4 PM
6020 HSSB, UCSB |
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| Jeanne
Heuving is an associate professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences program, University of Washington, Bothell and on the graduate
faculty in the English Department, University of Washington, Seattle.
Her debut cross genre work, Incapacity, is literature, biography,
autobiography. Written at a time that has given rise to a plethora
of autobiographies and memoirs, Incapacity performas an act
of negativity, clearing and naming its space, its difficulty. She
has published widely on twentieth century poetry and poetics, including
the book Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne
Moore. She is presently at work on a critical project, The
Transmutation of Love in Twentieth Century Poetry, and has just
completed a new poetry manuscript, Concupiscence. She has
received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and
the Fulbright Foundation, and is on the editorial advisory board of
the electronic journal HOW2 and is a member of the Subtext Collective
in Seattle. |
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Jerome
Rothenberg
Poetry Reading and Talking
Intro. by Suzanne Jill Levine
Feburary 3, 2004, 4-6 PM, 6020 HSSB, UCSB |
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| Professor
of English and University of California Regents Professor at UCSD,
Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of poetry and
editor of seven major anthologies of traditional and contemporary
poetry, including Technicians of the Sacred (tribal and oral
poetry from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania), Shaking
the Pumpkin (traditional American Indian poetry), America
a Prophecy (a radical revision of the poetries of the North American
continent co-edited with George Quasha), Revolution of the Word
(American experimental poetry between the two world wars), A Big
Jewish Book (subtitled "Poems & Other Visions of the
Jews from Tribal Times to the Present"), and Poems for the
Millennium (two volumes, co-edited with Pierre Joris). He is
the co-founder of Ethnopoetics, a school of poetry and poetics that
promotes cross-cultural translation, multilingualism, and the ethics
of respect for the Other. (More
information) |
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Marjorie
Perloff
Screening the Page/Paging the Screen:
Digital Poetics and the Differential Text
Intro. by Porter Abbot
Feburary 24, 2004, 4-6 PM, 6020 HSSB, UCSB |
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| Sadie
Denham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University,
Marjorie Perloff has for decades been the most articulate advocate
for avant-garde and experimental poetry both in the U.S. and the world.
She is the author of more than twelve books, including The Poetics
of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, The Dance of the Intellect: Studies
in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde,
Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, Radical Artifice: Writing
Poetry in the Age of Media, and 21st-Century Modernism: The
"New" Poetics. Her new book, The Vienna Paradox,
will be published by New Directions in 2004. (More
information) |
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Charles
Bernstein
Making Audio Visible:
The Lessons of Visual Language for the Textualization of Sound
Intro. by William Warner
March 9, 2004, 4-6 PM, 6020 HSSB, UCSB |
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| Professor
of English at University of Pennsylvania, Charles Bernstein was the
Director of the Poetics Program and David Gray Chair of Poetry and
Letters at SUNY-Buffalo in 1991-2003. A renowned experimental poet
and cultural critic, he is the author of over twenty books of poetry
and criticism, including The Sophist, Content's Dream, A Poetics,
My Way, Republics of Reality, and With Strings. He is
also the editor of The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (with Bruce Andrews),
The Poetics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy, Close
Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, and Poetry Plastique
(with Jay Sanders). Since 1998, Bernstein has been the co-editor
(with Hank Lazer) of the Modern and Contemporary Poetics book series
from the University of Alabama Press. He is also the co-founder of
Electronic Poetry Center. (More
information) |
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