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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Kerouac - On The Road to Desolation
Narrated by Andrew O'Hagan, the 1998 tv documentary on Jack Kerouac - Kerouac: On The Road to Desolation features on-screen appearances by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady, Tom Clark, Ann Douglas, Joyce Johnson, John Sampas (Jack's brother-in-law), John Suiter...
Friday, March 29, 2013
Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 119
[Harry Smith - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg - Copyright The Estate of Allen Ginsberg - Caption reads: "Harry Smith at kitchen table 437 East 12th Street. Apt 22, he lived in tiny quiet room off to the side of the kitchen, suffered compression fracture of knee, bumped by car on First Avenue corner - so stayed on nine months before moving to Cooperstown for half a year - still drank two bottles of beer in his room, taped ambient sounds of New York Lower Manhattan with a Sony Pro Walkman microphone wrapped in towel on outside window, ledge kitchen and front room. Night, June 16, 1988. Another stay for several weeks before we both moved to Boulder, Naropa for the summer. There he settled down."]
Harry Smith's monumental and eccentric archives, (tape-recordings, papers, books - but also, "a great range of (miscellaneous) objects, such as tarot cards, gourds, pop-up books, folk crafts, toys...egg-shells mounted on stands..(etc, etc).." - not to mention, his fabled string-figure collection and "an entire box of paper airplanes" collected from the streets of New York City) - long-time languishing, when we last heard, at the Anthology Film Archives), has now been acquired by the Getty Research Institute, it was officially announced this week.
For select Smith postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project see here, here and here.
Jerry Aronson's definitive documentary portrait, The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg is profiled here (on Network Q) with an interview with Aronson (and a surprise walk-on by Allen!) and significant clips from Aronson's eight hours (eight hours!) of footage. Our earlier postings about Jerry and this essential source/ primary video-documentation may be found here and here.
Some of the out-takes from the 1994 Network Q presentation have also been made available - including this ("Allen Ginsberg on Right-Wing Gay Obsession") - Allen (speaking as the credits roll): "The theo-politicians [sic], (along with Jesse Helms and their political arm) seem to be obsessively preoccupied with gay matters, and that indicates some kind of over-concern (as if it's like a personal problem for them), and that indicates a kind of perverse interest, tending toward S & M, I would say, the desire to humiliate gay people seems to be characteristic of the theo-politicians, (that (need)) to be on the top side of the gay equation, to be putting down and humiliating and forcing the gay people to their knees in front of them - which is an old familiar erotic pattern - they're probably not aware that they're playing that role."
David Biespiel further addresses Allen role as an arbiter of cultural sanity here
Walter Salles' On The Road (see our earlier posts - here, here and here) has finally made it to widespread American distribution. Mick LaSalle reviews it for the San Francisco Chronicle - "a movie that, like the book, is episodic and has dips in energy but has more than its share of glory and illumination", he declares. Ann Hornaday, in the Washington Post, disagrees - "Salles' On The Road takes Kerouac's breathless Beat Generation prose-poetry - created in a Benzedrine rush in front of a typewriter loaded with a 120-foot scroll of teletype paper - and reduces into the conventional elements of plot, character and setting, resulting in an episodic picaresque that all but obliterates the crazy, brazen, axis-shifting energy of the original work." A more typical "middle-ground" can be seen in Tom Long's review for the Detroit News - "It's not a wreck of a movie; it's not a sleek race car either. But there's heat to be felt here." - Colin Covert, in the Minneapolis Star Tribune - "There's probably no substitute for reading On The Road's incandescent prose. But this filmed interpretation is a very fine version all on its own" - and Ty Burr, in the Boston Globe - "Against all odds, (On The Road is), a surprising and effective movie".
Adam Mazmanian in the Washington Times singles out Tom Sturridge (Carlo Marx a.k.a. Allen) as "the only actor who gives expression to the spontaneous feel of the book".
More reviews (plenty more reviews) here on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie-review site.
"Like (Marcel) Proust, be an old tea-head of time", Jack famously wrote, in his 1959 "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose" (see here). This week (the anniversary year of Proust - on the centennial of the publication of Swann's Way) Viking-Penguin releases a dual-language edition of The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust [sic] ("the most complete volume of Proust's poetry ever assembled" - "Few of the poems collected here under the editorship of Harold Augenbraum, founder of the Proust Society of America, have been published in book form or translated into English until now"). The Daily Beast reproduces "Pederasty" (Proust's first poem!) and has more on the volume here.
Jean-Marc Barr (who plays Kerouac in the recent film adaptation of Big Sur) summons up the Proust-Kerouac connection - and more, in this interview with the Beat Museum's Niya Suddarth, shot earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. For a glimpse of (the trailer of) the Big Sur movie, incidentally, see here.
[Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg, 1959 - a still from Robert Frank & Al Leslie's movie, "Pull My Daisy"]
And March 25 was the anniversary of the "Howl" bust ("520 copies... seized by U.S. Customs agents on charges of obscenity"). Quite a week!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Spontaneous Poetics - 55 (Edward Carpenter 2)
[Edward Carpenter (1824-1929)]
AG: A poem (by Edward Carpenter) that I've always liked is "From Turin to Paris" [in Towards Democracy] He's riding in the train from Italy to Paris and it's a long detailed description of the entire train trip. I got turned on to that kind of travel-detail poetry by a book that Kenneth Patchen lent me called "Voyage Trans-Siberian" ["The Prose of the Trans-Siberian" in Ron Padgett's translation] by Blaise Cendrars (which was translated by John Dos Passos in the (19)20's, actually - an odd combination). It's a travel diary poem, a poem travel diary, which is a whole genre which I've used a lot. I published a book called Iron Horse, which is the account of a 40-hour train trip (from) Oakland to Chicago (and then from) Chicago to New York by bus. Yeah?
Student: I've seen that book. Why did you do it with that kind of 3-D, kind of...
AG: I didn't do that. That was printed up in Canada by a bunch of real hip printers [the Coach House Press] (who) made a very beautiful job out of it. Actually, if you flip the pages of the book, the train moves and recedes, comes up and goes in the distance.
Student: What was the name of that book that you just mentioned, I mean, the name of the poet?
AG: Oh, ok. Blaise Cendrars - C-E-N-D-R-A-R-S. "Voyage Trans-Siberian". Trans-Siberian Voyage. God knows where you find it now. [in 1993, University of California Press published Ron Padgett's translation of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems]
Student: There's a Selected Works of Cendrars out in New Directions.
AG: Yeah.
Student: I think that poem's in it.
AG: Ah! Then also one of the St Marks' (Poetry Project) mimeo presses [Adventures In Poetry] has printed up a whole book called Kodak by (Blaise) Cendrars, translated by Ron Padgett, which I've put in the library. If you want to taste Cendrars. It's like little Kodak snapshots - Kodak. Around-the-world Kodak snapshots (again, travel poems). Check that out in relaton to this or what I've been talking about (the Cendrars' "Trans-Siberian", or travel photography)
[Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961]
The reason I find (Edward) Carpenter interesting is that it's this 19th Century version of later 20th Century Imagism, or Surrealist Imagism. It's got roots (its) in (Walt) Whitman and then it gets more condensed and exact when you get up to the Surrealists and later to the American Objectivists. Here it's more prosy, but full of detail. It's the weirdness of the detail that comes up.
[Allen begins reading Edward Carpenter's "From Turin to Paris", beginning with Part 1 in its entirety - "Tireless, hour after hour, over mountains, plains and/ rivers/ The express train rushes on..." through to "And still the train rushes on, and the fields fly past/ and the vineyards"] - Part 2 is a landscape description. Part 3, more landscape description, ending, speaking of the train, "It flies - rolls like a terror-stricken thing down the great/slopes into the darkness - and night falls in the valleys".
Student: Is Carpenter British by birth or American?
AG: He was British. Carpenter was British by birth. Part 4 [Allen continues with the poem, reading part 4 in its entirety - "Here too then also, and without fail, as everywhere/else/ The same old human face looking forth.."..."And the inhabitants of opposite hemispheres exchange/glances with one another for a moment" - and the concluding section, section 5 - "The night wears on - and yet the same steady on/ward speed..."..."The rising of the sun, for a new day - the great red/ ball so bold rising unblemished on all the heartache and/suffering, the plans, the schemes, the hopes, the desires, the/despairs of millions. -/ And the glitter and the roar already and/ the life of Paris."] - There's really nice little vignettes here and there. Odd but genuine Whitmanic afflatus, that Whitmanic universal.
Student: You spoke about.. you used the word "prosy" in a somewhat negative way. Would you say something more about that (that happens to be my offense!)
AG: "Somewhat" - not "too". I didn't mean it too negative. I forgot, how did I use it?
Student: You were saying it was somewhat, his description was somewhat, prosy.
AG: Yeah, a little bit. There's a lot of generalization in it.By "prosy"- I used it wrongly, I meant it isn't real crystal-clear sharp, line by line by line (like (William Carlos) Williams, or, more or less so, like (Charles) Reznikoff). There's a lot of philosophy introduced (though the philosophy seems to be based on some kind of direct perception that's pretty fundamental - of the rising of the dawn and the moving of the planets and "the despair of millions") - There's some sort of genuineness about it. I think that was the (sense of the) word that I used in relation to (the) general - "afflatus" (like in lifting a spirit, or expansion of spirit, like in Whitman, by whom he was influenced)
Student: There's something about the rhythm that isn't.. I mean.. I was wondering whether you were saying something about the rhythm being a little more prosy.
AG: No, no. It's actually quite an elevated poetic rhythm. It's not as realistic as Reznikoff or Williams. The breath impulse is romantic(al) like in Whitman. It's still a hang-over of the divine abstraction of (Percy Bysshe) Shelley and Hart Crane, sort of. Yeah?
Student: When was it written?
AG: I guess around 1890, 1900, 1910 maybe? I think this book was published in 1908, so this is probably late 19th Century. I don't know when it was first writ.
Student: When was he first around?
AG: Well, let's see...somewhere in the (18)90's, I think. Late (18)80's or (18)90's. When did Whitman die?
Student: 1891
AG: So this is probably 1885? when he went to see Whitman [1877 and 1884] - 1880 perhaps? [Toward Democracy was published in 1883] Yeah?
Student: One thing I noticed was that he put in his descriptions of someone.. what he.. he described what he felt that they were thinking of someone else, like the Chinaman..
AG [quoting Carpenter] - "(T)he dainty-handed Chinaman"
Student: ..yeah, who mentally, I forget exactly what it was, but he judged people as he walked by, and the old woman who raised her eyebrows at certain things.
AG: Yeah
Student: That didn't seem very...
AG: Yeah, except that he is very expressive about his own judgment, and he generalizes, and that's a little different than, a good deal different from, Reznikoff, from a later 20th Century method, where it gets harder and harder, more and more objective. That was like the surgical mind of (Ezra) Pound or (William Carlos) Williams influencing everybody to cut out everything but what you could actually see. Except there's a way of including your own subjective judgments simply by realizing that they are your own subjective judgments and putting them in the poems just like objects, just like trains, hard-ons, angers. And they're just facts too. "To be in anger you good may do but no good if...
Student: ..the anger's in you".
AG: Yeah. Something like that. It's a phrase by (William) Blake - "To be in anger you good may do, but no good if the anger's in you". It's something like that.[The actual quote, from "Auguries of Innocence" - "To be in a Passion you good may do/But no good if a Passion is in you"] - The question of realizing, or being mindful of, your subjectivity, or not being mindful, being lost in it and thinking it's the whole world, rather than seeing your own subjective rush, or detailed noticing, or cry, or feeling, as one object among many objects in the entire panoramic spectacle.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Spontaneous Poetics - 54 (Edward Carpenter 1)
[Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) c. 1875]
AG: (Now) we're on Edward Carpenter - where was I? - Edward Carpenter in relation to (Charles) Reznikoff again. (Let me read you) a Reznikoff poem by Edward Carpenter:
"A Scene in London" [from Towards Democracy (1912)] - "Both of them deaf, and close on 80 years old, she, stone blind and he nearly so, side by side crouching over a fire in a little London hovel, six shillings a week. Their joints knotted with rheumatism. Their faces all day long mute like statues of all; passing expression. No cloud flying by, no gleam of sunshine there, lips closed and silent. But for that, now and then taking his pipe out of his mouth, he puts his face close to her ear and yells just a word into it, and she nods her blind head and gives a raucous screech in answer." - The similarity of noticing and of detail between the style of Reznikoff and the style cultivated by (Walt) Whitman and his friends, is interesting. What it goes to show is that there is some common ground of humane particulars - humane eyeball - that can tell a little vignette story that sums up a lifetime, (usually in dark, unnoticed corners). There's a little longer poem, a description of St James' Park in London [also in Towards Democracy]. These are interesting. It's like time-capsules. There weren't many modernist writers of poetry in those days. Most of the poetry was very idealistic and had very little everyday detail, prosaic detail, in a sense. This reminds me a little of poems of my own in a period right after "Howl" - "Transcription of Organ Music" and "Sather Gate Illumination", which are like sketching detail in a park, in a subway, in a room, in a garden - "St. James' Park" - "An island ringed with surf, a cool green shade and tiny enchanted spot of trees and flowers and fountains, the ocean raging around it. The roar of London interminably stretching, interminably sounding. Great waves of human life breaking. Millions of drops together. Torrents of vehicles pouring. Businessmen marching. Gangs of workmen, soldiers, loafers, street hawkers. Shopkeepers running out of their shops to look at their own windows. A woman seized with birth pangs on a doorstep. Ragamuffins and children swirling by. At ease in rapids of fashion. The everlasting tide ebbing a little at night, rising again in the day, with fierce continuous roaring, yet infringing not on the little island. Here only a little spray. A dull and distant reverberation. In the soft shade a pleasant drowsy air. The willows hanging their branches to the water. The drake preening his feathers in the sun or swimming among the flags by the pondside regardless of Nelson peering over the treetops from his column, taking no note of the great clock face of Westminster. Only a little spray, broken water, drop by drop, one by one, or here and there in twos, specimens, items out of the deep. The bakersman, working fifteen hours a day, leaves his handcart in a convenient spot outside and puts in a quiet quarter of an hour here with a novel. The old woman, her thumb gathered and disabled by incessant work on crepe now, as a matter of course, thrown out of employ, goes along moaning and muttering to herself. The prissy old gentleman who's made his money out of the moving warehouse also goes along. The footman on an errand walks leisurely by. The French nurse plays with the little English children. The rather elegant lady meets her man by appointment at one of the garden sheets. They study Bradshaw together in an undertone, revolving plans. The middle-aged widower comes along, thin, so thin, dressed all in black, seeing nothing, hearing nothing, sitting down for a moment then up again, resting only in constant movement. The tramp, with dead expressionless face, the man who is not wanted, to whom everyone says "No" comes along and throws himself down listlessly under the trees. Only a little spray, broken water. The summer sun falls peaceful on the grass. The tide of traffic rises a little during the day and ebbs again at night but the great roaring bates not, breaks the surf of human life forever on this shore." - That's a funny mixture. You've got the Whitmanic roar of London, a little bit of (William) Blake roar of London, a little bit of (William) Wordsworth's Westminster Bridge, London silence, and then more modern, almost 20th century clear consciousness, humorous description of fantastical detail.
Student: Like (Charles) Dickens.
AG: Yeah. Of course, in prose, it's always been there. It's just that when that prose detail begins to enter poetry in the 20th century, (it makes) interesting poetry, as far as the eyeball, as far as common sense. Yeah, it's in prose all along (and, actually, it's in (Robert) Browning - there's quite a bit of everyday matter in Browning).
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
March 26 - Gregory Corso's Birthday
[Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso - "A Modest Portrait" - Tangier, Morocco, Spring 1961 - Photograph by Allen Ginsberg, Copyright Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gregory Corso - "Alchemical Poem" - Alchemical Spring (Volume 9 of
the unspeakable visions of the individual), 1979, Copyright Arthur & Kit Knight); Gregory Corso, Boulder, Colorado, circa 1978 - Photograph by Cynthia MacAdams, Copyright Cyntha MacAdams; "Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou Spirit of Delight (Portrait of Keats and Shelley)"- Gregory Corso, c.1994, (31 1/2" x 35"), oil on canvas board; (originally collection of Allen Ginsberg);Untitled Drawing - Gregory Corso, 1991 (courtesy flickr (Paul Rickert, Rare Book Room); "Child Saturn's Flower Is Up", drawing by Gregory Corso (from the sequence of limited-edition prints, "The Saturn Family"), 1981, first published by the Parchment Gallery]
Gregory Corso's birthday today.For further (extensive) Gregory postings see our quaintly-named Happy Birthday of Death posting here (that was the title of Gregory's 1960 New Directions book, by the way), included in it is a useful Corso videography, which includes Francois Bernardi's film, Original Beats (Corso and (Herbert) Huncke, in the early '90's, at the Chelsea Hotel and in downtown New York). Additional out-takes from that movie are available here (see also below)
Not Forgetting Gregory Corso, a post from May 2011 includes links to vintage audio Corso (including audio of his free-wheeling 1975 Naropa classes). For transcripts see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. For arguementative cantankerous Gregory see here, here, here - and (unforgettably) here.
Here's Gregory's lucid observations on his friend, Jack Kerouac
Here's Francos Kuipers recollections of Gregory and Ah Roma.
Here's Ed Sanders' Woodstock Journal Portfolio
We wanted to focus this year (just a little) on the visual artist, Gregory. Check out this unique series of prints, commissioned and published in 1981 - "The Saturn Family" .
Here's an original (undated) collage
Not Forgetting Gregory Corso, a post from May 2011 includes links to vintage audio Corso (including audio of his free-wheeling 1975 Naropa classes). For transcripts see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. For arguementative cantankerous Gregory see here, here, here - and (unforgettably) here.
Here's Gregory's lucid observations on his friend, Jack Kerouac
Here's Francos Kuipers recollections of Gregory and Ah Roma.
Here's Ed Sanders' Woodstock Journal Portfolio
We wanted to focus this year (just a little) on the visual artist, Gregory. Check out this unique series of prints, commissioned and published in 1981 - "The Saturn Family" .
Here's an original (undated) collage
Happy Birthday, Gregory!
Monday, March 25, 2013
Written In My Dream...
Allen Ginsberg reads his poem, "Written In My Dream by William Carlos Williams" (included in the collection White Shroud - Poems 1980-1985) in September 1993 at the University of Vienna. Video text animation is by Niklaus Lesnik. The poem also appears on Holy Soul Jelly Roll (recently re-released by Ginsberg Recordings) - Volume 4: Ashes & Blues.
"I hear voices". There was, of course, the hallucinatory voice of Blake in '47, providing him, among other things, with his Blake melodies - Allen discusses that incident here.
Kubla Khan? "Channeling"? Surrealist experimentation? - and/or, perhaps, more recently, Jack Spicer's poetics of a "Martian" dictation - but this is clearly something different, a whole poem served up in toto, verbatim, to Allen, in a dream, from his mentor, Doctor Williams - dream advice, dream counsel, dream admonition - "No need/ to dress/ it up/ as beauty./ No need/ to distort/ what's not/ standard/ to be/ understandable".
Useful tips.
Listen to another version of the poem here
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Ferlinghetti's 94th Birthday
Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 94 today - Happy Birthday, Lawrence! - Chris Felver's full-length documentary, Ferlinghetti - A Rebirth of Wonder is currently going the rounds and is undoubtedly a must-see. Last year's landmark art-show - Cross-Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art) was a singular event, a major retrospective. Lawrence is interviewed about that (and about other matters) here.
Here's previous birthday-posts on the Ginsberg blog - a links-rich posting from last year, and a salutation from 2011 (including a link to him speaking on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the City Lights bookstore) - also 2010's birthday-posting (which includes vintage notes from Kenneth Rexroth on Ferlinghetti).
His City Lights page (ah! City Lights, what an extraordinary achievement!) is here.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Allen Ginsberg - Allen's Haiku 2
Last week's postings of Allen's haiku (from "(21) Haiku composed in the backyard cottage at 1624 Milvia Street, Berkeley, 1955, while reading R.H.Blyth's 4 volumes, Haiku" met with sufficiently enthusiastic response to embolden us to post more - these, more recent experiments from 1973 and 1975 (published in 1978's Mostly Sitting Haiku):
Mountain wind slow as breath,/mist drifts over pines -/ I've sat twenty days on this same pillow!
Meditation hall silent/ bird slammed into window/ sat brooding half an hour/ Saw Buddha then.
Fog rolling down/ the nountain/ the tram lift towers/above leafless aspen/Clouds part and blue sky shows.
A mountain outside/a room inside/a skull above/Snow on the mountain/flowers in the room/thoughts in the skull.
Snow mountain fields/ seen thru transparent wings/ of a fly on the windowpane.
Use breath as Manjusri/ Sword instantly cutting/ down thought after thought/heaviness of sleep dream/ fantasy, breath after breath/ outward.
(Graffiti in Teton Village) - "If you voted for Nixon/You won't shit here/Cause your asshole's in/ Washington."
(from Chogyam Trungpa's Crazy Wisdom Lectures - Observations Mixed With Trungpa Quotes) - "In the realm of Great Bliss" / Bark,/Bow Wow!
"No hope No fear"/ Pens rustle on paper -/ Steinbeck is coughing.
"Discipline, real Discipline"/ Yellow carnations open/under flood lamps in the tent.
"Talk stand shit"/ eat sleep -/ Flies walking on my nose.
"Good at the beginning.."/ tears roll down/ my palsied right cheek.
"You're not going to get your money back"/ Everybody laughing - / "Any questions?"
"Willing to be Fool?"/ Night moths/ circle the tent pole.
"Emptiness, no need for policy-maker.."/ Secretaries lean together/ at the tent wall.
"What do we mean by Craziness?"/ Dogs bark to each other/ across the meadow at night.
Against brown grass/ the hole in a black truck tire/ swings slowly between trees.
Sunlight mixed with dust/ rises behind a truck/ on the dirt road.
Rows of sitting heads -/ blue windows, car/parked silent on grass.
(from Cabin In The Rockies)
Sitting on a stump with half cup of tea,/ sun down behind mountains -/ Nothing to do.
Not a word! Not a word!/ Flies do all my talking for me -/ and the wind says something else.
Fly on my nose/ I'm not the Buddha/ There's no enlightenment here.
Against red bark truck/ A fly's shadow/ lights on the shadow of a pine bough.
White sun up behind pines,/ a moth flutters past/ the brown wood pile.
An hour after dawn/ I haven't thought of Buddha once yet!/ - walking back into the retreat house.
(Walking into King Sooper after Two-Week Retreat) - A thin red-faced pimpled boy/ stands alone minutes/looking into the ice cream bin.
(Park Avenue, Paterson - 2 a.m.) - A red sweater/ crumpled on lawn grass/ under bright streetlights -/ across the street from Louis' hospital.
The withered purple roses droop/ on their green dry-leafed stalks/ father dying Cancered in the bedroom.
and, five from 1976:
I thought my mother was dead and/lamented her/surrounded by billions of mothers/ cows grass-blades and girlfriends' eyes.
Buddha died and/ left behind a/ big emptiness.
Candle-light blue banners incense,/ aching knee, hungry mouth -/ any minute the gong - potatoes &/ sour cream!
Sunlight on the red zafu/ clank of forks and plates -/ I used to sit like this years ago.
Did you ever see yourself/a breathing skull/looking out the eyes?
Here's a recording of Allen reading - more haiku
For related syllabic experiments - see, (amongst other works), "136 Syllables At Rocky Mountain Dharma Center" and "American Sentences".
Friday, March 22, 2013
Friday Weekly Round-Up - 118
An early draft of a segment of Allen's classic written-under-the-influence-of-LSD poem, Wales Visitation, goes up for auction next month in London at Bonhams auction house, part of the Roy Davids Collection, alongside countless other "poetical manuscripts and portraits of poets" (there's also, for sale, a rare shot of the poet taken with veteran English poet, Basil Bunting - the sale price for that is between £350 and £400). The manuscript is expected to fetch something between £800 and £1,000 (between (approximately) $1200 and $1500).
Wales Visitation - American viewers will remember this classic rendition of it, in 1968, on the William Buckley Firing Line show
Hannah Gamble over on the Poetry Foundation's Harriet site has been doing some useful compiling in anticipation of the forthcoming Collected Poems by Philip Lamantia (yes, that long-awaited collection will be coming out from the University of California this summer) - including a trenchant note from Allen, from 1963 in Poetry magazine (see the direct link). Our postings on Lamantia can be usefully read here and here.
We wrote here last week of Ronald Collins (and David Skover's) new book, Mania. Footage of last week's Strand Bookstore event celebrating the book (consisting of Collins reading from the opening pages and then sitting down with Kerouac scholar and New York Times journalist, John Leland to discuss Beat culture and its profound First Amendment impact, followed by a brief Q-and-A with the audience) may be found here. Collins is also interviewed by Gene Policinski here.
Moran Haynal's Haggadah - at the Janusz Korczak Academy in Munich, Germany. Another (perhaps?) unlikely Ginsberg sighting?
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Spontaneous Poetics - 53 (Revisiting Reznikoff - 3)
[Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) - photograph courtesy New Directions]
AG: I do want to get back to (Charles) Reznikoff because, okay, we had a little haiku, and then we had a little sharp fast transcription noticings. Fast transcription. (Guy) de Maupassant. I think de Maupassant got this turn-on from (Gustav) Flaubert. Flaubert told him that if a guy was jumping out the window, he should be able to write a verbal sketch of the way that he fell out of the window (and) the way his shirt was ballooning into the air before he hit the ground, be that fast in noticing the particular detail of the situation that you could transcribe and put (it) in language.
(William Carlos) Williams instructions in the "Preface" to "Kora in Hell" for how to choose detail, or where do you go to get the exact flash, physical flash, eyeball flash, or the exact detail, the "minute particular" (to use (William) Blake's phrase), that you can describe that will conjure up the whole situation, that will conjure up the whole scene - Williams suggested that you choose that aspect, of a tree, say, which makes that tree different from all other trees. Choose that. Like, [Allen points to one of the students], over there, from where I'm standing, you got a thin face and white-frame plastic eyeglasses, (or pink plastic eyeglasses), so there's a little detail that brings your face out a little, or makes it different from other faces. So everybody's got a little particularity, (or every tree, or every object, has some particularity). If you were sketching, physically making sketches, like pictorial sketches, a horned tree with two horns at the top, you'd get the two horny branches at the top and then just fill out the mass, but it would be those two horns that characterize the tree (Williams (actually) has a poem about trees like that - does anybody know it? - "I must tell you.." - oh, I'm afraid it'll take too much time to find but there's a little poem by Williams describing a tree with two horns at the top, that begins "I must tell you.." ..you can check it out in the Collected Earlier Poems)
Back to Reznikoff. Now, more narrative. What I was trying to do was (to) suggest the basic principles of picking out detail, as Williams prescribed them - also, out of his study of "le mot juste", (the) precise word, (a) concept of the French prose-writers Flaubert (and) de Maupassant, which the Imagists drew on, actually. Historically, they did read these people and were interested in their practice of accuracy - not so much to be accurate, as (it is) to be there, so you see what's there. It's not a question of being macho-accurate, it's a question of being completely present in the space where you are, so you see what's in front of you, rather than day-dreaming. So, in this sense, the study of poetics is the study of mindfulness.
(It's) related to Buddhist meditation, which is why the haiku grows out of Zen meditation practice (and it is appropriate that, as American consciousness began to realize itself, that the poetry around the turn of the century would check out the precision of focus of Buddhist poetics, through the haiku, or through (Ezra) Pound's examination of traditional Chinese poetic method - as picture language, (in "The Chinese Written Character As A Medium For Poetry" - an essay, "The Chinese Written Character As A Medium For Poetry" - which he composed from the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa, re-published by City Lights - a very good study of language as pictures, using Chinese as an example of a picture-language, distinct from the abstract or American-English European languages, which are sounds, but (which) don't have any pictorial content in the writing).
Alright, getting back to text examples. Well, something that's totally family-like:
"In high school she liked Latin and the balances of algebra./ Her mother had died years before and her father married again./ The new wife was solicitous for her husband. "A workingman/ - has he the means for this education of a girl?/ They took her out of school and got her a job as a bookkeeper./ A student at one of the universities whom she had met in high/school, began to call./ She herself had been reading, but evenings are too short,/besides, her reading was haphazard./ They talked of books that he knew and what was good in his/ lectures. Her stepmother and father said, "It will be years/ before he'll finish his studies and make a living. When/he'll be ready to marry, you'll be too old, He's wasting/ your time"./ It was useless talking to her, but they spoke to him and he/ stopped calling./ A salesman, professionally good-humored, introduced him-/self to her/ father. A good match, they all said. Besides,/ home was uncomfortable with a nagging stepmother."
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Student: Who was that?
AG: We're back to (Charles) Reznikoff now.
Student: That sounded like a Henry James novel
AG: Yes. Yeah. That's the amazing thing, that these take in whole cycles of change.
Student: That's from Testimony?
AG: No, this is all from the Poems, 1920.
Student: Allen, how's that different from prose now?
AG: Well, the question is, how does it differ from prose? It doesn't differ from prose, but how does poetry differ from prose? Big question. I was talking with someone last night, D [unidentified], who's here, who said "How does this differ from prose? Isn't this just prose?", and I said, "Yeah. Now enjoy it!". Once he realized that it was ok that it was prose, then it didn't bother him anymore, and he could listen to it, but until he got satisfied that the terminology, "poem" (had) stopped nagging him, he couldn't actually hear what was on the page. Once I said "Okay, it's not poetry, it's prose", then he could hear what was on the page and began enjoying it.
This differs from prose, I think in the sense that... well (Jack) Kerouac's prose is prose-poetry, (Arthur) Rimbaud's poetry is prose-poetry (in Season in Hell and Illuminations), (James) Joyce's Finnegan's Wake is prose-poetry, or poetry, certain (William) Burroughs is as dense as any Rimbaud or prose-poetry. (Louis-Ferdinand) Celine' s prose in Journey to the End of the Night, or later books, (like) Guignol's Band, approaches the intensity, rhythmic variability and excitableness and imagistic precision of poetry. In the 20th Century, there was a notorious break-down of the distinction, especially in Gertrude Stein, beginning with Gertrude Stein, when both poetry and prose began converging on the mind itself as subject-matter. Then the distinction between prose and poetry broke down, because the forms that were suggested by observing mind functioning were interchangeable - poetry or prose. In other words, if the form in the prose or in the poem was a transcription of the jumps of mind, from little haiku, to long short-stories, to giant novels (like Finnegan's Wake, or The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein), if the form was modeled basically on the notion of the movement of the mind, and jumps from thought-form to thought-form, and gaps in-between thought-forms, and the recurred cycles of thought-forms, then the difference between haiku and epic is eclipsed, as between prose and poetry. Because you have a whole epic in these little stories, a whole novel, as you said, a whole Henry James novel, in these stories.
The little thing I noticed when I started reading this (Reznikoff piece) was, "In high school she liked Latin and the balances of algebra ". Now that's very curious, interesting, precise language. She liked "the balances of algebra"? - For a schmucky high-school girl who marries a salesman, his intelligent noticing of her aesthetic intelligence is extraordinary, and there is a very high level of intelligence dealt with here. "In high school she liked Latin and the balances of algebra" - that's very elegant (although it sounds like this grubby Jewish cat talking about a family problem, but it's really there as high poetry, sort of). You were saying?
Student: Yeah. Anne (Waldman) was telling us that Pound said that poetry should be "at least as well-written as prose".
AG: Yeah. Meaning, it is (should be) as straightforward . Well, there are distinctions we could make. It depends on how you want to make your disinctions, how you want to define it now. I would say, because of concentration of thought, concentration of history into so short a scope, condensing entire novels and cycles of generations in half a page,that makes it, by virtue of condensation (poetry). You could say it's poetry if poetry involves condensation (either of language, or of idea, or of history) into short notation space. Because of mindfulness and attention to language, it's poetry, because, although it sounds prosaic, he's actually being very mindful and attentive to a language that sounds like somebody telling a family story with (the) exact, precise, flavor of an old(er) generation's grandma's granny-wisdom story-telling, or like any grandfather's speech, condensing whole family cycles, taking decades and decades and karmas, taking decades to work themselves out into half a page, like old people do before the deathbed. Like my father telling me a story, which I think I've repeated several times [Allen re-tells this story in the poem, "Don't Grow Old", section III, prior to "Father Death Blues"] , that when he was young he lived on Boyd Street in Newark and in the backyard were bushes and green trees and a big empty lot, and he never knew what was behind the empty lot, and when he got older, he took a walk around the block, and he found out what it was - it was a glue-factory! Because I'd heard Reznikoff, I suddenly realized (that) as being the same genre of exact detail and telescoping in a few paragraphs, or a few lines, a complete samsaric history, samsaric suffering history and suffering illusion history.
Student: Allen?
AG: Yeah
Student: (Walt) Whitman would seem to be the beginning of the breakdown between prose and poetry.
AG: Yeah, in America, Whitman. But then before him you've got (Herman) Melville's Moby Dick, which is a high-singing prose too.
Student: Was (Arthur) Rimbaud aware of Whitman?
AG: I don't think so. I don't know if Whitman was translated by then. 1890's, he was known in England, so, I don't think he was. [turning back to Reznikoff's poems] - I want to get a couple more of these in . So I'll see if I can find the most poignant - Oh, before we get into that, there's another fantastic short photograph-movie:
"Scared dogs looking backwards with patient eyes/ at windows, stooping old women, wrapped in shawls,/ old men, wrinkled as knuckles, on the stoops./ A bitch, backbone and ribs showing in the sinuous back/ sniffed for food, her swollen udder nearly rubbing along the pavement." - That's like the "fish hissing on the stove" - "her swollen udder nearly rubbing along the pavement."
"Once a toothless woman opened her door,/ chewing a slice of bacon that hung from her mouth like a tongue" - That takes the cake for absolute horrific realism. His comment on this:
"This is where I walked night after night/ This is where I walked away many years" - In that universe, I guess. In that suburb. This is called "Sunday Walks In the Suburbs". It's one of a series. I'll repeat that little section - "Once a toothless woman opened her door,/ chewing a slice of bacon that hung from her mouth like a tongue" - it's like Kafka. It's an apparition out of Kafka of actual, total, reality. So is this prose or poetry? Because of the photographic accuracy, but spareness, of detail, the whole, somehow, is more than the sum of its parts here - of the slice of bacon, the toothless woman, a door, chewing a slice of bacon, she's still chewing it. It's a little bit there like that little haiku about the old guy on the winter night chewing his brush with his remaining tooth ["Night/ biting the frozen brush/with a remaining tooth" (Buson) -sic] - But this is such a horrible picture that you know it's poetry.
Student: Allen? Is he doing the (William Carlos) Williams kind of meter also?
AG: No, he didn't seem to be so interested in the arrangement of lines on the page according to breath, according to syllable, according to balance. He was more accurately interested, I think, in diction. That is, in a diction and syntax that was an accurate reflection of his own home speech, or family speech.
Student: Don't you think that's characteristic of writers who change languages? Wasn't Melville originally Polish? or (Joseph) Conrad originally Polish?
AG: Conrad, yes.
Student: His language is pretty exact too.
AG: Yeah. Reznikoff was brought up in another language...Reznikoff came from a mixed-language family, and this is very clearly slightly affected by Yiddish, like "the balances of algebra" - it's a very Jewish-American Lower East Side talk.
"He showed me the album. "But this?" I asked, surprised at/ such beauty./ I knew his sister, her face somewhat the picture's - coarsened./ "My mother before her marriage"./ Coming in, I had met/ her shrivelled face and round shoulders./ Now, after the day's work, his father at cards with friends/ still outshouted the shop's wheels....." - So he's got a whole cycle change from "But this?" I asked, surprised at/ such beauty" - I had met her coming in - "her shrivelled face and round shoulders". And then her husband, still yelling loud, conditioned by the shop's wheels.
Well, let's see. I got some really good ones here. Okay, this is a whole long (piece). It's called "The Burden"
"The shop in which he worked was on the tenth floor. After six/ o'clock he heard the neighboring shops closing, the/ windows and iron shutters closed./ At last there was only a light here and there./ These, too. were gone/ He was alone./ He went to the stairs./Suppose he leaned over the railing./ What was to hold him back from plunging down the stairwell?/ Upon the railway platform a low railing was fencing off a drop/ to the street - a man could step over.." (that's very Jewish, "a man could step over") ... "When the train came to the bridge and the housetops sank and/ sank, his heart began to pound and he caught his breath:/ he had but to throw himself through the open window or walk/ to the train platform, no one would suspect, and jerk/ back the little gate./ He would have to ride so to and from work. His home was on/ the third floor, the shop on the tenth. He would have to/ pass windows and the stairwell always."
"He was afraid to go through the grocery store, where his/ father was still talking to customers. He went through the/ tenement hallway into the room where they ate and slept/ in the back of the store./ His little brothers and sisters were asleep along the big bed/ He/ took the book which he had bought at a pushcart to read/ just a page or two more by the dimmed gaslight./ His father stood over him ad punched his head twice,/ whispering in Yiddish "Where have you been lost all day, you louse that feeds on me, I need you to deliver orders."/ In the dawn he carried milk and rolls to the doors of customers./ At seven he was in his chum's room. "I'll stay here with/ you till I get a job."/ He worked for a printer. When he was twenty-one he set up a/ press in a basement. It was harder to pay off than he had/ thought./ He fell behind in his installments. If they took the press away,/ he would have to work for someone else all over again/ Rosh Ha Shonoh he went to his father's house. They had been/ speaking to each other again for years./ Once a friend had turned a poem of his into Hebrew. It was/ printed in a Hebrew magazine. He showed it to his father/ and his father showed it around to the neighbors./ After dinner his father said, "Business has been good, thank/ God. I have saved over a thousand dollars this year. How/ have you been doing?"/ "Well". "But I hear you need money, that you're trying to/ borrow some?" "Yes". His father paused./"I hope you get it" - Well, the thing is it cuts through to actual life. You know that's really family and who can write really family ? Who gets that close to the nose? Who gets that close to actuality, among any poet, ancient or modern? There's very few that get that cold void as well ( "Come in, she said, as gently as she could and smiled" - which covers the void too).
"Passing the shop after school, he would look up at the sign/and go on, glad that his own life had to do with books./ Now at night when he saw the grey in his parents' hair and/ heard their talk of that day's worries and the next;/ lack of orders, if orders, lack of workers, if workers, lack of/goods, if there were workers and goods, lack of orders/ again,/ for the tenth time he said, "I'm going in with you: there's more/ money in business"./ His father answered, "Since when do you care about money?/ You don't know what kind of a life you're going into -/ but you have always had your own way./ He went out selling: in the morning he read the Arrival of /Buyers in The Times; he packed half a dozen samples into/ a box and went from office to office./ Others like himself, sometimes a crowd, were waiting to thrust/ their cards through a partition opening./ When he ate, vexations were forgotten for a while. A quarter/ past eleven was the time to go down the steps to Holz's/ lunch counter/ He would mount one of the stools. The food, steaming/ fragrance, just brought from the kitchen, would be/ dumped into the trays of the steam-table/ Hamburger steak, mashed potatoes, onions and gravy, or a/ knackwurst and sauerkraut; after that, a pudding with a/ square of sugar and butter sliding from the top and red/ fruit juice dripping over the saucer./ He was growing fat."
Student: Allen? Are there any recordings of Reznikoff reading his own poetry?
AG: Yeah. Reznikoff was invited yearly to the St Marks Poetry Project by Anne Waldman in the last few years, and I think there are at least two tapes of his readings at St Marks, casssette tapes of him reading. I went to both of them and it reduced me to tears to hear him. Because it was so elemental. No fancy-business. No ambition. No poetry. Just actuality (but actuality so reduced to such clear terms that it was moving, completely emotionally moving and yet totally objective. Yeah?
Student: How would you describe the difference between this poetry of Reznikoff and his later stuff, like Testimony?
AG: Well, later books, which we have in the library, Testimony and Holocaust. He was, as I said, a law clerk, and so Testimony was.. he was interested in this family story - family, every day, quotidian decade cycles. He picked out from 19th Century legal testimony, suits and counter-suits and law-suits having to do with people losing their hair in the machine press (etc). He picked out horrible stories, or poignant stories, and documents, little documents, and he isolated them in lines and he told them (unadorned), just picked them out, one or two paragraphs of testimony in legal trials. (In) Holocaust, he researched through all the Nuremberg trials and excerpted tiny vignette stories of these kind of details from lives and deaths in the concentration camps. So it's one of the most strikingly accurate presentations of that apocalyptic situation that exists in literary record. He's done the work for you if you want to know what went on there.
"In a month they would be married./ He sang a song to himself in which her name was the only/ word/ His mother was waiting up for him. She said, "I was told today/ that her mother died an epileptic,/ and her brother is an idiot in a home somewhere
.Why didn't/ she tell you?"/ He thought of hugging her narrow shoulders, comforting her;/ of noting their children's quirks and screeches fearfully -/ how the moonlight had been glittering in her eyes."
Here's for all poets:
"At night, after the day's work, he wrote. Year after year he/ had written, but the right words were still not all there,/ the right rhythms not always used. He corrected the old/ and added new/ While away on a business trip he died. His children playing/ about the house, left home by the widow out to work,/ found the manuscript so carefully written and rewritten./ The paper was good to scribble on. Then they tore it into bits./ At night the mother came home and swept it out." - That's Reznikoff's situation, actually.
"When at forty he went to America, the family was glad to be/ rid of him.." [Allen's reading is interrupted by a banging and whistling outside the classroom] - "The poet was reading a poem from an old Jewish patriarch./ Outside the children marched up and down./ A police whistle blew on the corner." [Allen resumes the poem] -"When at forty he went to America, the family was glad to be/ rid of him, envious and quarrelsome. All but him had/ married and were well-to-do./ The smallpox when a child had left him ugly. Because it had/ also left him sickly, he had been humored in not going to/ school, and so he could not read or cypher./ To strengthen him he had been apprenticed to a blacksmith./ When he walked he kept hitching up his shoulders and/ throwing out his hands./ He spoke indistinctly and so foolishly that when understood/ his hearers could not help smiling . Sure they did not/ understand, he would repeat what he had said until tears/ were in his eyes./ In New York he stayed with a pushcart pedlar. The pedlar had/ a daughter who had worked her way through high school/ and was in college./ The blacksmith's arm became infected and he could not work./ He stayed at home waiting for his arm to heal, silently/ watching as she moved about the house or did her lessons./ She tried not to mind his eyes always on her./ At last she insisted that he move away. So he had to take/ lodgings elsewhere./ After supper he would stand in front of the house in which she/lived, hoping that she would come out on an errand./ The boys playing in the street discovered him and searched/ the gutters for peach pits and apple cores/ to throw over their shoulders at him as they passed, intent/ upon the sky./ He would chase them in his jerky way."
"As he read, his mother sat down beside him. "Read me a little"./"You wouldn't understand, Ma". What do you care? Read me/ a little"/ When I was a little girl I wanted to study so much but who could?/ My father used to cry when I talked to him about it,/ buthe cried because he couldn't afford to educate the boys -/ even./ As he read, she listened gravely; then went back to her/ ironing./ The gaslight shone on her round, ruddy face and the white/ cotton sheets that she spread and ironed;/from the shelf the alarm-clock ticked and ticked rapidly."squabbles
The Lawyer - This is Reznikoff himself, I think.
"A man made cloaks of material furnished. The man from whom/ the cloaks were made refused them: defects in the/ material. But the material was yours. But the defects were/ shown by white strings in the selvage; your cutter should/ have avoided them./ A woman fell downstairs; no light in the hallway. There was!/ but boys stole the electric bulbs. The janitor was told; he/ should have lit the gas."/ Water from the chop-suey joint upstairs came through the/ ceiling upon our silk. The water fell on a table where it/ damaged nothing; they took their silk, gone out of style,/ and dabbled in it in the water. The silks were on the table to/ be cut./ Our union takes steam-shovel engineers only, but their union/ takes all kinds; they want to put us out of business. One/ of our men was on a job; they call out the locomotive/ engineers and make the boss - / Why was he spending his life in such?"
(One more):
"When the club met in her home, embarrassed, she asked them/ not to begin; her father wanted to speak to them./ The members whispered to each other, "Who is her father?"/ "I thank you , young men and women", he said, "for the/ honor of your visit. I suppose you would like to hear/ some of my poems". And he began to chant."
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It's a myth that we only use ten percent of our brains (leaving ninety percent of potential genius untapped),[1] and it is also not accurate to say that people are either left- (logical) or right- (creative) brain dominant.[2] So, your goal when studying is really to make the most of the brainpower you have available. Fortunately, by preparing and focusing, making the most of your study time, and supporting your brain health, you can increase your chances of acing that upcoming test.
Studying More Effectively
1Pay attention in class. Good study habits begin before you even leave the classroom. Listen attentively to what the teacher has to say on the subject. Ask questions, and answer the teacher's questions. Pay close attention for cues (or direct statements) from the teacher about what is most important to know, and take notes especially on these topics.[3]
2Utilize all resources made available to you. Read the assigned chapter in the textbook, and read over any notes, handouts, or other materials given to you. If there is a review or study session offered by the teacher, go to it. Give yourself the best chance for success. You'd be surprised by the number of people who do poorly on tests because they don't read the book.
3Pick apart the textbook. Don't just read the assignment mindlessly — actively engage with it. Pick out the important words (sometimes they're in bold), look them up if needed, and write your own definition for them. Carefully examine introductions, conclusions, review sections, and recap questions you find in textbook chapters.
4Put information into your own words. As with writing down your own definitions for key terms in the textbook chapter, it's best to put all the critical information in your own words. Keep a notebook and pen near you, and write out the key points you are studying. If you have someone else's notes, rewrite them yourself; it's even best to rewrite your own classroom notes. This is a proven trick to help your brain engage more in the material.[4]
5Process, then summarize the information. Our brains engage the material we're studying at multiple levels at once. While we consciously take in and try to comprehend the material we're studying, unconscious layers of our brain are working behind the scenes to organize and make sense of the material. Stop every so often so that you can take advantage of this behind-the-scenes work you're doing without realizing it.[5]
- Concentrate intently on your study materials for a reasonable period of time (a half-hour, for instance), then take a step back, pull out a sheet of paper, and try to summarize what you've just learned in your own words. You may be amazed at how much of the material you actually recall and understand. You can also try summarizing the entire study session the day after.
6Put the information into practice. Associate what you're learning in theory with a more practical or tangible example. If you are studying history, for instance, try to make a story related to the subject. Or visit a museum, battlefield, etc. associated with it.
- If you're reading about how to do a simple science experiment, try doing the actual experiment.
- Create games, songs, images, or other types of mnemonic devices to help you associate and recall the information.[6]
Maintaining Focus
1Don't delay in getting started. Start studying as soon as you can after school. The minute you come in the door, get everything together that you need and begin your study session. Not only will the information be fresher in your mind right after school, you'll also head off potential distractions before they have a chance to affect you.
2Organize your study space. Maybe you think you can study just as well with a messy desk as you can with a neat one. In reality, though, having only the things you need right where you need them eliminates distractions and makes your study time more efficient.[7]
- Place your pencils, notebook, folders, textbook, calculator, and any other important study materials within easy reach so you don't lose focus while reaching or looking for them.
3Eliminate distractions. Choose a quiet, isolated spot for your study space. Ask not to be disturbed. Play soothing music or put on noise-canceling headphones to block out distracting sounds if necessary. Keep common distractions like cell phones tucked away and/or out of reach, and silenced or shut off.[8]
4Relax. Before you begin studying, and during your study session, take a moment to gather yourself and reduce your stress level. Do some deep breathing exercises, meditate or pray, listen to some soothing music, or do whatever else helps you to relax. Excess stress will cause you to lose focus.
5Take breaks. Generally speaking, do not spend more than an hour studying without having a break, because your brain gets tired and can't give full attention to the subject. Make them quick breaks — just a couple minutes — so that you don't lose your momentum. Just give yourself enough time to take a drink, stretch out a bit, use the bathroom, do a quick calming exercise, or something similar.[9]
Strengthening Your Brain
1Keep your brain active to strengthen it. The human brain operates by making neural connections. When we put our brains to use regularly, new connections are made and existing ones are strengthened; when we don't, connections become dormant or decayed. Keeping your brain actively engaged will help it function at its peak now and throughout your life.[10]
- Try new things. Create. Debate. Ruminate. Daydream. Keep your brain working and it will work better when you need it for studying.
2Challenge your mind with puzzles, games, and activities. If you want to build muscle, you have to keep increasing the amount of weight you're lifting. If you want to build brainpower, you have to keep challenging your mind. While some of the claims made by "brain training" apps and programs are dubious, challenging your mind with puzzles, games, new activities, and difficult subjects can help enhance mental performance.[11]
- Actively acquire information instead of passively receiving it. This is the difference between taking a cooking class and watching a cooking show, or attending a political candidate forum and checking your news feed.
3Exercise regularly for body and brain health. Your brain is part of your body, so it makes sense that the healthier you are overall, the healthier your brain will be. Regular exercise creates greater efficiency in oxygen and nutrient supplies to the brain, and can enhance your mood and immune system, among other benefits.
- Maximize the brain benefits when your exercise — when out walking, focus intently on the surrounding environment and try to mentally recreate it when you get back home.[12]
4Eat a healthy diet for brain benefits. The human brain requires an incredible amount of energy (in relation to size) in order to function, and this requires fuel.[13] Just like regular exercise, a healthy diet is good for your brain and the rest of your body. While there are plenty of claims about specific "brain foods," focus on eating lots of fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains, and limit refined sugars, unhealthy fats, and processed foods.
- Don't study with either an empty stomach or a fully loaded one. Either scenario can be distracting. Have a light (and healthy) meal or snack instead.
5Play a musical instrument. While the popular understanding is that the left side of the human brain controls logical thinking and the right side provides our creativity, the reality is far more complex.[14] However, it is true that activities that spur both creativity and logical details simultaneously will invigorate more parts of your brain at once.
- Playing a musical instrument is one of the most obvious — and enjoyable — ways to stimulate both the creative and logical aspects of your brainpower. To play effectively, you have to have precise timing and fine motor movements, but at the same time be able to improvise and think ahead.[15]
- While the science behind many supposed left- or right-brain boosting activities is limited at best, doing things like juggling, playing board games, or attempting simple activities with your non-dominant hand will certainly give you a mental workout.[16]
Community Q&A
QuestionHow can I increase my remembering power and memory storage?Community AnswerUnderstand what you reading. It's an automatic process, you store it when you understand it. Stop trying so hard to remember and things will settle more.
QuestionHow can I prepare for an English exam?Community AnswerDon't cram anything. Just do a reading with full concentration on each topic and summarize it in your own way. This will be helpful.
QuestionHow can I stop thinking while studying?Community AnswerConcentrate on what you're doing and remember where you are. Try to take breaks, washing your face can also help. Do some exercise and that will help you concentrate.
QuestionWhen I take breaks I get distracted and out of the studying mood. What can I do?Community AnswerIt sounds as if the breaks you are taking are too long. Try taking breaks that last only a few minutes. Do jumping jacks or some other physical exercise, or grab a snack you can eat in 2-3 minutes. Then get right back to studying.
QuestionHow can I not be attracted by something while studying?Community AnswerDistractions are a part of life. Always deal with them like old friends who understand you and say "I'll see you after a while". A focused mind never distracts from its path.
QuestionWhat can I do if I am half tired while studying?Community AnswerGive yourself regular breaks every 45 minutes to an hour. Get up, stretch, do light exercise (run in place, jumping jacks, push-ups) to increase blood flow and oxygenate the brain.
QuestionDoes studying use short-term or long-term memory?Community AnswerIt uses both (all memory starts out as short-term and then either disappears or gets encoded in long-term memory), but it's encoding in long-term memory that you're going for when you study. When you memorize or deeply learn things, they become part of your long-term memory.
QuestionHow can I study if I feel sleepy at the beginning of my study time?Community AnswerTry moving around a bit if you can. DO some jumping jacks or run in place. You could also try drinking some cold water.
QuestionWhat can I do if I only have one hour to study?Community AnswerStudy what you've already read or just go over what is right in front of you and do your best.
QuestionWhen waking up in the morning, should I start studying before a bath or after it?Community AnswerYou should probably bathe first, as you want to have uninterrupted time to study.
How do I study for my social studies exam efficiently?
- Chuck your phone and other gadgets while studying. Get rid of all distractions!
- Learn the concept, and then start using it.
- Don't study when you feel too sleepy.
- Think positively.
- Be organized.
- Do not be too hard on yourself. If you didn't do well on a test, just try to do better next time!
- Set realistic and achievable goals.
- Try recalling the key points just before you sleep.
- Don't study at the last moment. Keep on track, and do not procrastinate.
- Drink water periodically. And wash you face with cold water during your breaks. Or perhaps take a shower to relax and increase your concentration levels.
- Studying in a neat and tidy area will honestly help you. Gather all the study materials and organize them conveniently so that you don't have to get up again and again, making you tired or bored and distracting you.
- Listen to music with earphones or headphones to make you relax when you study, then you will feel studying is not really boring.
- ↑ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/12/02/248089436/the-truth-about-the-left-brain-right-brain-relationship
- ↑ https://psychcentral.com/lib/top-10-most-effective-study-habits/
- ↑ https://psychcentral.com/lib/top-10-most-effective-study-habits/
- ↑ http://calnewport.com/blog/2015/02/24/deep-habits-work-with-your-whole-brain/
- ↑ https://psychcentral.com/lib/top-10-most-effective-study-habits/
- ↑ https://psychcentral.com/lib/top-10-most-effective-study-habits/
- ↑ https://psychcentral.com/lib/top-10-most-effective-study-habits
- ↑ https://psychcentral.com/lib/top-10-most-effective-study-habits/
- ↑ http://www.thebestbrainpossible.com/how-to-use-100-of-your-brain/
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/08/06/how-you-can-make-your-brain-smarter-every-day/#6a2ed1631b3d
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/08/06/how-you-can-make-your-brain-smarter-every-day/#6a2ed1631b3d
- ↑ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/
- ↑ http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060269
- ↑ https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2008/10/02/musicians-use-both-sides-of-their-brains-more-frequently-than-average-people-65577/
- ↑ https://litemind.com/boost-brain-power/
Article SummaryX
Using your whole brain while studying is all about removing distractions and clearing your mind to be as efficient as possible. Work in a tidy, quiet room so you can focus on your work. Turn your phone off or leave it in another room. Before you start studying, try doing some deep breathing or meditation to relax your mind. Instead of just reading over pages and pages of information, summarize what you learn in your own words to help involve more of your brain. If you feel like getting creative, condense your notes into a story, rhyme, or series of images. Turning your notes into a different form will engage the creative part of your brain and help you remember the important information. For more tips, including how to improve your brain function when you're not studying, read on!
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Free Trade Zone
Georgia has earned its position as a dominant commercial center. Same is also known with its contemporary, changing and entrepreneurial business culture. Same is also strategically placed at the crossroads of trade and commerce between East and West zones. Georgia is splendidly located to access markets of Central Asia and the Middle East, Europe, as well as CIS countries. Its time zone allows it to connect to all market from America to Asia with equal benefit. Being on the bridge between Europe and Asia, the economy of Georgia is highly unified with international markets. Owing to the DCFTA with EU, Georgia appreciates direct access to nearly one billion markets.
Businesses operating within Georgian-free industrial zones enjoy brisk and genuine incorporation procedures. They also enjoy tax-free trade opportunities. Free zone envisaged by tax code of Georgia where the business-friendly regulations and favorable tax and customs system apply. Georgian charter does not impose control regarding foreign ownership of companies. Therefore, any legal and natural person, resident or foreigner, is allowed to register a company in Georgia.
One can enjoy the under-mentioned benefits by having registered company in free trade zone:
- Tax Incentives;
- Simplified procedures;
- Payments may be carried out in any currency;
- Exemption from majority of licenses/permits;
- Autonomy from the local self-government bodies.
There are different free zones in Georgia which are:
- Poti Free Zone
- Kutaisi Free Zone
- Tbilisi Free Zone
Kutaisi Free Zone:
Kutaisi is one of the largest cities of Georgia and Kutaisi free zone is located within the city, investors who choose to invest their benefit from special investment regime. More than 20,000 employees work in Kutaisi free zone and the employments and employees are expected to increase.
One can presume the under-mentioned tax benefits:-
- 100% permanent exemption from Corporate Profit, Dividend, Property taxes and VAT;
- 100% permanent exemption from import/export of all cargo, including raw materials, equipment & machinery, prefabricated goods;
- 100% capital and profit repatriation;
- Double taxation with many countries ;
- Free Trade regime with the CIS countries and Turkey;
Tbilisi Free Zone:
Tbilisi being the capital of the republic of Georgia, has been attempted a lot to create good foreign financial investments. Tbilisi has been declared the only industrial free zone of East Georgia. It is located in Glani, 17 km away from the city. It covers 17 hectares of area. This has been created to welcome all investors from technology, trading and services, ware housing and logistics. The companies who are based in Tbilisi free zone will benefit from operational and tax advantage.
One can presume the under-mentioned tax benefits:-
- Income of a Free Industrial Zone Enterprise is exempt from the Corporate Income Tax;
- Interest and Dividend paid by a Free Industrial Zone Enterprise is not taxed and is not included in the taxable income base of the receiver;
- Trade between the Free Industrial Zone Enterprises are exempted from the VAT;
- Free Industrial Zone Enterprises have no obligation to administer personal income tax of the employees;
- Free Industrial Zone Enterprises are not liable to asses and pay Reverse Charge VAT (RCVAT);
- Export is exempted from VAT with the entitlement to tax credit;
- Property, including land, located in a Free Industrial Zone is exempted from property tax;
- Trade between a Free Industrial Zone Enterprise and a Georgian company is taxed at 4% of the invoice value.
Registration of a company in free zones:
The free zones in Georgia are very popular from the investments perspective. There are a lot of foreign companies same are under process to bring the FDI in Georgia free trade zone. Because of tax incentives and other benefits, other companies are also planning to enter into Georgia.
The process of setting up a company in free zone took place once the application is filed by the company. The processes of a company formation in a free zone in Georgia are done by submitting the appropriate applications. Corporate has to submit other important information along with the application same includes:
- Identification data of applicant;
- Design plans of companies in free zones.
The whole process for opening of a company in Georgia free trade zone does not take more than 2 days. Individuals also need to submit few more documents to the national agency for registration. Once all information submitted then company get the registration.
Now next question comes that how to register a company in a free trade zone. So in reply to the raised question is that same company must be registered with the National Agency of Public Registry of the Ministry of Justice. One need to submit the application form along with other signed documents and same (i.e. documents) are as follows:
- Name and type of company;
- Address;
- Goals;
- Date of starting business and date of termination;
- Details regarding the founder of the company;
- Documents of naming each member of supervisory board and management board.
Conditions for the Registration:
Under registration process, some important conditions are there which one has to abide by to get registration process completed. Same will be issued by the ministry of justice on the basis of the same company get registered in free zones. In addition to the same company has to go for yearly license approval which is again a mandatory thing.
The process of formation of a company in free zones is exactly the same as a company gets registration in Georgia. Once a company is registered same becomes operative the day company get the incorporation form. To register/ form a company, some other documents (detail mentioned below) need to be submitted:
- The charter of company;
- A proof from Information Centre of Ministry of Internal affairs etc.;
- A registration fee must be submitted as prescribed by authority.
After all this the company will receive a confirmation number and particulars related to the registration process.


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The Business of The Social Network
Writing in Forbes, John Tamny says:
Due to Thiel's delayed consumption of $500,000, billions of dollars of wealth are and will be created thanks to his relative parsimony. In that case, when readers hear economists say the rich should hand over their money to the government so that it can be spent, they should remember the wealth wrought by Facebook's rise and how very stimulative the hoarding ways of the rich actually are.
The film can also be seen as an (again, unconscious) vision of how much entrepreneurs can accomplish without regulatory authorities impeding their progress. Early in the film, Zuckerberg runs afoul of the local political class -- the Harvard bureaucracy -- who are offended when he invents a website that allows users to rate one another's attractiveness. Sorkin frames this episode as one of privacy invasion and crass misogyny (in reality, Zuckerberg's site included images of both sexes; in the movie, it's only women who are held up for inspection) and is clearly on the side of a Harvard committee that meets specifically to scold Zuckerberg.
But Zuckerberg dismisses the feckless finger-wagging of these clueless twerps, and the audience will too. On this and many other occasions, he is the smartest guy in the room. No one ever said business is about playing nice.
An even better scene later in the movie finds Zuckerberg's business rivals, the Winklevoss twins, who have up to this point prided themselves on a code of self-reliance, abandoning their principles and begging for intervention at the office of then-Harvard president Larry Summers. Summers -- who is as rude as Zuckerberg in the film -- gives them the brush-off, telling them that their disputes aren't worthy of his time and that they should fight their own battles.
Sorkin may not realize this, but if his beloved liberal president and associated business-harassers and job-killers of The West Wing had such a hands-off attitude toward the corporations they see as evil, the creation of wealth and jobs in this country would be as fast-paced and exciting as The Social Network.


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I thought I would add a Fixxture Voices thread to compliment our Fixxture Faces thread.
Most of us, at one time or another in our lives, have been in front of a microphone. This is the thread where you can share your voice with your Fixxture friends by posting a sound file here. You will need to upload the file to a web server. If you do not have a web server then PM me and I'll offer up to 4 Meg of web server space.
I came across this recording the other day and figured "what the hell, I'll go ahead and share it".
Steve Singing
Setting the scene...
I was in this singing group at my church when I was a teenager. We had become fairly popular to the point where the service we sang at was always packed. We decided to put on a concert. It was August of 1980 and I was only 15 but here I am in front of about 400 people doing a solo. You can tell I'm nervous as hell but that's OK. 25 years later - I can look back and laugh, and I invite you to laugh along with me
Backing me up are Bob Burnham on acoustic guitar and background vocals
Julie McGlaughlin on background vocals
Dave Corbello and Tracy Schneider on flute


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Major retailer Target has hired a prominent outsider to be its new CIO in the wake of the ouster of Beth Jacob, who resigned two months ago after a major credit card breach by sophisticated cyberthieves.
Bob DeRodes, 63, held similar positions at Home Depot, Delta Air Lines, Citibank and First Data. He also founded DeRodes Enterprises LLC, a company that consults on information technology and business operations, including for several U.S. government agencies in Washington, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
In a statement, chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel told the paper that "establishing a clear path forward for Target following the data breach has been my top priority. I believe Target has a tremendous opportunity to take the lessons learned from this incident and enhance our overall approach to data security and information technology."
While DeRodes will be the CIO, he won't have primary responsibility for data breach protection. The article said the retailer will "fill the newly-created position of chief information security officer, a job focused more squarely on thwarting cyberattacks."
But the article questions which position will have more impact: the CIO or the chief information security officer. It said, "Data security experts differed on the importance of DeRodes' hire. Anton Chuvakin, a security research director at Gartner Inc., called the chief information security officer position a more critical one for Target at the current time."
According to the Wall Street Journal, "Target said in January that, beginning in November, hackers had stolen 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers, and addresses and telephone numbers of up to 70 million customers. It later said that at least 12 million shoppers had both their credit card and some personal information stolen."
Larry Dignan, editor in chief at ZDNet.com, reported, "Target outlined the following moves since the data breach:
- Enhancing monitoring and logging with more rules, alerts and centralized feeds.
- Point-of-sale systems that whitelist applications.
- New network firewall rules and a governance process.
- Limiting vendor access.
- Reset 445,000 Target employee and contractor passwords.
Target added that it will give its REDcards chip-and-pin technology in early 2015 and will work with Mastercard to reissue cards. Chip enabled payment systems will also be available by then."
Dignan reported in March, "So far, the tab for Target's data breach has mostly been covered by insurance. The costs for the fourth quarter were $61 million, but $44 million was covered by insurance."
At the blog CIO Engage, George V. Hulme wrote, "According to data in the Kantar Retail ShopperScape report, 33% said they shopped at a Target store this January, a 22% fall from the same period a year ago. A story in Supermarket News reports: "'The overall trend in Target's past four-week shopper penetration has been on a downward trajectory for the past several years. The retailer's confirmation of a major breach of its guests' payment information proved a critical moment in exacerbating that decline.'"
He added, "With a minimum of 40 million customer credit card records compromised and up to another 70 million records including addresses and phone numbers compromised, the costs endured by Target and the insurance company are sure to rise. Last year Ponemon published its annual report on the cost of a data breach, and pegged the average U.S. cost to be approximately $188 per record. That cost includes all IT investigation-related costs, customer churn (something Target is experiencing now), credit monitoring and notifications, regulatory costs and so on."
The Washington Post reported, also in March, that number is likely to grow higher. "Target said the data breach had helped pull down its fourth-quarter profit by 46 percent," the company said.
The retailer is working with D.C.-based consulting firm Promontory Financial Group to evaluate its security processes, technology and talent, it said. It's also upgrading its store cards and payment systems to a more secure technology, the Post reported.
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