Blade of glass

I admit what

I emit 

what is

inimical to me

shapes the crystal

my grain of sand

has be

-come

George Quasha - "Ta'wil or How to Read"

Ta'wil or How to Read

Wisdom

Wisdom

was not nor was never
written or read in the havens
but rather in the wise domes of
the familial few who put their heads
to gather each glimmering shimmering
thing their fingers tangled

D A Levy - A Biography

D A Levy - A Biography by Ed Sanders 

JAB10 -- feature articles on Levy  

Charles Olson - "Polis is This"

Charles Olson - "Polis is This" (documentary)

Ed Sanders - "Investigative Poetry"

Ed Sanders - "Investigative Poetry" (pdf) 

 

There is no end

to Gnosis :

The hunger 

for DATA

Paul Blackburn -- "Statement"

Paul Blackburn - A brief statement on poetics, &al.

" . . .

Personally, I affirm two things:
                                                           the possibility of warmth & contact
                                                                       in the human relationship :
as juxtaposed against the materialistic pig of a technological world,
where relationships are only   ‘useful’   i.e., exploited, either
         psychologically or materially.

                                                                 2⁰, the possibility of   s  o  n  g
within that world: which is like saying ‘yes’ to sunlight.

   On the matter of song:   I believe there must be a return toward the
musical structure of poetry, just as there must be, for certain people at
least, a return to warmth within a relationship.

However impractical that may seem in a society controlled in some of its
most intimate aspects by monstrous, which are totally irresponsible,
corporations, organized for the greatest gain of the most profit: and whose
natural growth, like that of any organism, is toward monopoly,
                     self-support, self-completion, self-
                                                                                           perpetuation,
                     and eventually self-competition and self-destruction.

       In a world that is so quickly losing its individuals, it can only be the
individuals who persist, who can work any change of direction, i.e. control
the machines, or destroy them.

                                                  . . . )

Hugh Seidman -- interview (2006)

Hugh Seidman, in epistolary conversation with Molly Nason, 2006

" . . .  I suppose that if you subscribe to the “masterpiece theatre” view of art, then it is a sin against nature to publish the “inferior” or “unfinished” work of a dead poet (or of anyone). On the other hand if you believe that art is an ongoing and ever-evolving process of engagement with the universe at large, then certainly there will be highs and lows in that process, and one polarity is not necessarily to be favored over the other. Or, perhaps one falls somewhere in between these two views? And didn’t Valery say that a poem is never done but only abandoned? . . . "

Robert Duncan -- "Occult"

"Compose a poetry with the meaning entirely
OCCULT -- that is
With the meaning contained not as a jewel contained in a box, but
As the inside of a box
Is contained in the box ."

from The HD Book