Grand Piano

My scavengings from the Collective Autobiography project
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To SeeSam Fuller's The Big Red One10/13/0712890
WritingTom Mandel: "[W]riting was the only thing I found difficult, really difficult; that was my reason to write."10/13/0712958
Memory / To ReadUnread dramas on the theme of memory--
Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Eugene O'Neill's "A Long Day's Journey into Night"
10/13/0712970
Poetry / To ReadRon Silliman "Ketjak" (Rae Armantrout writes: "I could hear the form as it began to unfold and I knew I'd never heard anything like that before")

Barrett Watten "Opera--Works" (Armantrout again: "I read it over many times ... I knew some of those poems almost by heart."
10/13/0712982
Poetry / To Read / Artifactsauthors of "list poems" -- Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, Jack Collom10/13/0712994
JuxtapositionDonna Haraway: "Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true"

quoted by Lyn Hejinian
10/13/0713006
Editing / Poetry / WorkBarrett Watten: "I have always felt editorial and production work to be an ethical imperative for a writer, a necessity of labor and art. Walt Whitman precedes me in this belief. He may be called the first worker poet"10/13/0713018
Poetry / Promiscuity / Language / OtherBarrett Watten: "Maybe that's what the Language school was really all about -- a promiscuous encounter with the other"

although Watten describes this as an "unlikely theory"
10/13/0713030
Poetry / To ReadBarrett Watten's "Total Syntax" (book of criticism) UIC LIbrary: PN45 .W356 1984

"the use of a total syntax is to make a statement that is a work of art"
10/13/0713042
Emotions / EmpathyWittgenstein on the "problem of other minds": "Just try--in a real case--to doubt someone else's fear or pain."

see Grand Piano Vol 3, p. 105
10/13/0713054
PoetryTed Pearson: "While poetry is, in theory, available to anyone, it is demonstrably not for everyone."

(Also: "Yet, for any who choose to engage it, it comprises a remarkable diversity of discursive communities and practices.")
10/13/0713066