To See
Keywords: To See
Text: Sam Fuller's The Big Red One
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 12890

Writing
Keywords: Writing
Text: Tom Mandel: "[W]riting was the only thing I found difficult, really difficult; that was my reason to write."
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 12958

Memory / To Read
Keywords: Memory / To Read
Text: Unread 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"
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 12970

Poetry / To Read
Keywords: Poetry / To Read
Text: Ron 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."
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 12982

Poetry / To Read / Artifacts
Keywords: Poetry / To Read / Artifacts
Text: authors of "list poems" -- Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, Jack Collom
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 12994

Juxtaposition
Keywords: Juxtaposition
Text: Donna 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 
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 13006

Editing / Poetry / Work
Keywords: Editing / Poetry / Work
Text: Barrett 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"
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 13018

Poetry / Promiscuity / Language / Other
Keywords: Poetry / Promiscuity / Language / Other
Text: Barrett 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"
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 13030

Poetry / To Read
Keywords: Poetry / To Read
Text: Barrett 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"
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 13042

Emotions / Empathy
Keywords: Emotions / Empathy
Text: Wittgenstein 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
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 13054

Poetry
Keywords: Poetry
Text: Ted 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.")
Date: 10/13/07
ID: 13066