If we are sick
And we are all sick
How do words care
For the sick?
We are dying to live
There is something
I am dying to tell you
When language ends
Don't call this cure
Call this method
Call this the necessary
Blocks we throw up
To know we are here
And not just a voice
That pain is just the beginning
Of what we will say
To each other a kind
Of poetry just without
The poem.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Tzak feature
George Life, editor of Tzak, has kindly posted a set of poems of mine composed over the past couple years.
Saturday, April 02, 2016
Tripwire 10: A Pestschrift for CA Conrad
An updated and extended version of my essay, “None
of us have rules, none of us have scripture”: CA Conrad’s Advanced
Elvis Course and the Politics of Spirit, appears in Tripwire
10 along with many other essays, remembrances, and tributes
to CA Conrad.
TRIPWIRE 10 * A Pestschrift for CAConrad, with an
interview, prose, poems, & a play by CAConrad, plus
TC Tolbert, Magdalena Zurawski, Frank Sherlock, Anne Boyer, Marianne Morris, Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, d/wolach &
Elizabeth Williamson, erica kaufman, Thom Donovan, along with work from
Danielle LaFrance, Juliana Spahr, Lila Matsumoto & Samantha Walton, Sarah
Hayden, Nibia Pastrana Santiago, Frances Kruk, Sheila Mannix, Jenifer K
Wofford, Alicia Cohen, Cesar Moro (trans. Esteban A. Quispe), Heriberto
YĆ©pez, ko ko thett, Steven Farmer, Nachoem Wjinberg (trans. David
Colmer), Ghayath Almadhoun (trans. Catherine Cobham),
Bert Stabler, Julian Francis Park on Claudia Rankine & Fred Moten, Tyrone
Williams on Jocelyn Saidenberg, erica kaufman on Frank Sherlock, Eric Sneathen
on Chris Nealon, William Rowe on Joshua Clover, Danny Hayward
on Lucy Beynon & Lisa Jeschke, David W. Pritchard on Marie Buck, Kristin Palm
on Wendy Walters, Linda Russo on Lorine Niedecker, James Sherry on Mei-Mei
Berssenbrugge, Laura Moriarty on Syd Staiti, Nich Malone on Towards. Some. Air.
(eds. De’Ath & Wah), & Ryan Gato on P. Inman. Cover by Yuh-Shioh Wong.
340 pages. April 2016. $15.
Friday, April 01, 2016
Interview with David Buuck in The Conversant
Thanks to Caleb Beckwith and The Conversant
for publishing this interview I conducted with David
Buuck!
I think also about unlearning as much as
deskilling, to let go of mastery as the threshold of the literary and let the
materials and questions lead the work. Kaia Sand & Jules Boykoff have
written about inexpertise as a method—“inexpert investigation”
is one way they phrase it—and I find their line of thinking about research and
poetics compelling. At the same time, it’s a delicate balance between forging
forms of politically committed work through methodologies of deskilled
inexpertise (‘rigorous amateurism’ I’ve called it elsewhere) and simply half-assing
a bunch of genres/media one has only half-studied & calling oneself a
cross-genre performance artist or whatever. And of course to then try to corral
everything into a book, when so much of the work exists off the page, either
at/on specific sites or in/as time-based performances, means that failure is
inherent in the book form. Could we unlearn the book?--David Buuck
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