Dark Art, I-XII James Meetze Manor House Monographs, 2013 ISBN: 9780985909536
Category: Essays
Hazel White: “Sonnet to Dead Reckoning”
On August 28, Hazel White performed this work at the For-Site Foundation event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, in response to Nathan Lynch’s sculpture installation, “Dead Reckoning,” in the BAN7 exhibition. (Images courtesy of Nathan Lynch.)
John Liles reviews Karen Lepri’s Incidents of Scattering
“Of heat and work—stoppage, Earth in its Orbit” (Incidents of Scattering, 30) On October 10th, 1858, George Phillips Bond would be the first human to photograph a comet. That same year, Robert Virchow proclaims, standing upon the shoulders of those…
Donald Revell: “A Family of Mountaineers: Barbara Guest’s Exceptionalism”
A Family of Mountaineers: Barbara Guest’s Exceptionalism He was particularly indignant against the almost universal use of the word idea in the sense of notion or opinion, when it is clear that idea can only signify something of which an…
Norma Cole: On Distraction
This essay was adapted from a talk given at Saint Mary’s College, 12 March 2014 “I was hesitant to take the case, having my mind already on another case.” Norma Cole, “Mars” (Mars, Listening Chamber Press, 1994)
Chicago Lit Scene: Matter
Review by Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Chicago Correspondent What’s The Matter Here? Why do you come to poetry readings? Why are you here tonight? Are you hoping poetry will save you from the self-help gurus? Are you eyeballing the exits? Are…
G.C. Waldrep: “Poetry as Non-Diegetic Speech”
This paper was originally presented at AWP 2014 as part of Karla Kelsey’s “Poetry as Sound’s Potential” panel. I want to speak this morning about the soundscape occupied or invoked by the poem, as reading praxis, and the level of…
Ewa Chrusciel: “Are her verses alive? How to translate the semblance of felt life.”
Norman Davies, a historian, the author of Europe, said that translation is like a melody of an original played on a different instrument or in a different key. “Bach’s Air on a G string. which was written for a violin,…
Bay Area Lit Scene: speCt! presents
Review by Casey McAlduff Who: Brandon Downing, Elaine Kahn and Ben Mirov What: speCt! presents When: January 31, 2014 Where: speCt! Studio, 4401 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609 Websites: www.spectbooks.com Contact: Peter Burghardt, Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel…
Tyrone Williams: “Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora”
This paper was given at the Celebrating African American Literature conference at Penn State, October 26, 2013.