Before Starting Over

Selected Writings and Interviews 1994-2005

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Before Starting Over is an informal chronicle of several important developments in English-language poetry during the nineties and the turn of the century, most importantly Asian American poetry, digital poetics, and the changing face of poetry’s “experimental” wing. There is nothing pious about the approach: one chapter is a distillation of conversations and controversies that occurred on the internet via the author’s blog, Free Space Comix, while another is largely composed of playful and polemical “poetics” statements geared toward a popular – i.e. non-elitist or -insider – audience. Consquently, nothing is taken for granted, whether it be the efficacy of a central literary Tradition, or the primacy of the “marginal” or aesthetic “lineages” that are valorized in smaller writing communities identifying with either the “avant-garde” or ethnic minorities (or both). Included are several book reviews by the author that attempt to create a language for discussing the most “difficult” poetry of the past fifteen years energetically and engagingly, in a manner that is neither sugared up nor requiring a doctoral degree to decipher. Several interviews discuss strands of “digital poetics” that were not discussed in the author’s Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, especially notions of “hacktivism,” internet publishing and the poetics of the anti-war blog Circulars. All in all, the experience of reading Before Starting Over is in which the reader is invited to disagree, to argue, but most of all to feel as passionate, troubled yet optimistic about poetry as the author, one of the more active and intelligent (uh huh) poets and critics to mobilize both the internet and journalistic print publications to examine and champion emerging strands in writing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-15
Mått:152 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Salt Publishing
ISBN:9781844710881

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Reportage, journalistik och krönikor inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Brian Kim Stefans was born in Rutherfrod, New Jersey in 1969. He has published several books of poetry, including Free Space Comix (Roof, 1998), Gulf (Object Editions, 1998) and Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos, 2000). Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, a book of experimental writings that both explored and described the nexus between digital technology and poetry, appeared from Atelos in 2003. He is an internationally recognized digital artist and has run the website arras.net, devoted to new media poetry and poetics, since 1998.

Innehållsförteckning

PREFACES “Poet-Critic” I. SIX REVIEWS Tan Lin, BlipSoak01Christian Bök, EunoiaKevin Davies, Comp.Bruce Andrews, Paradise & Method; Lyn Hejinian, The Language of InquiryAlice Notley, DisobedienceW. S. Graham, New Collected Poems II. ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY VoiceboxIn Search of Lost Time: Walter K. Lew’s Excerpts from Dikte/DicteeOn the Introduction to The Open BoatRemote Parsee: An Alternative Grammar to North Asian American PoetryIII. A POETICS OF VIRTUOSITY A Poetics of Virtuosity IV. REFLECTIONS IN A GLASS HOUSE After Language PoetryVeronica Forrest-ThomsonFence LetterEzra PoundOpen Letter to Brendan LorberFrank O’HaraBruce Andrews, I Don’t Have Any Paper So Shut Up (Or, Social Romanticism)A Poem for TyrosWhen Lilacs Last in the DoorJeff Derksen, DwellTim Davis, DailiesJennifer Moxley, Wrong LifeSuzanne Dathe of Grenoble, France – Can We Win? (On Carol Mirakove’s Poetry)Steve McCaffery, Three Books V. SILLIMAN COMMENTARIES Blogs, by Marianne MooreSilliman Commentaries VI. DIGITAL POETICS Interview with Sylvia Egger Statement for Orono, MaineIowa Review Web InterviewStatement for SloughtBrooklyn Rail InterviewTowards a Poetics for CircularsInterview of Albanian Arts Magazine VII. LITTLE REVIEWS Jeff Derksen, Transnational Muscle CarsBill Luoma, Works & DaysStacy Doris, ConferenceDan Farrell, Last InstanceRenee Gladman, JuiceKenneth Goldsmith, DayJessica Grim, FrayPamela Lu, Pamela: A NovelChristophe Tarkos, Ma Langue est Poétique: Selected WorkRodrigo Toscano, PartisansJose Garcia Villa, The Anchored Angel: Selected WritingsDarren Wershler-Henry, The Tapeworm FoundryHarryette Mullen, Muse & DrudgeSusan Wheeler, Source CodesJoel Kuszai (editor), poetics@Caroline Bergvall, Goan Atom