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'Gradually the World'
A review of Burt Kimmelman's new and selected poems
Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982–2013
Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982–2013
I was unfamiliar with the poetry of Burt Kimmelman when Jacket2 asked me to take up the assignment of writing about Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982–2013. Reading, rereading, pondering the volume — which is a life — has been an education for me in poetry's use as engagement with writing as a means of being in the world. Why, after all, is anyone writing? Of necessity, I suppose, to figure out how to survive in — even appreciate — being alive temporarily in a world. Kimmelman's poems surely serve that function for him and his readers. Here is a seriously committed poet who has felt through, thought through, and written into what and how a poem is — for a poem and for a life. In his important interview with Thomas Fink in Jacket in late 2010, Kimmelman cites John Taggart's assessment of his work: that his poems "evince a quality infrequently encountered in contemporary American poetry: modesty, an attentive and forthright modesty. As such they are unassailable. They cannot be tarnished by our times' endemic disease, the irony disease."[1] That's exactly right: Kimmelman's poems are intelligent, admirably well wrought, almost classically so. They reflect straightforwardly usually tiny moments of lived experience, but never without care and pressure for the writing moment, a moment of working in and through words — yet they are, as Taggart points out, modest in their claims and tone. It's as if each poem were shaking hands warmly with life, each careful word making no claims whatever for any larger meaning or understanding, and reaching out to hold hands with the reader too, in the embrace of the words of the poems.
Although Kimmelman is impressively well read and astute about poems, poetry, culture, and art in general, his modesty seems genuine and deeply felt. He wants to be generous, true to the tradition in which he writes, truthful in his own productions, without posturing or imposing anything. Sounds simple enough, and is — on first reading — unspectacular enough. But ongoing reading (slowly, a difficult mode of reading these days) brings out this quality of modesty more strongly — and more and more impressively as one goes on. Because it turns out it isn't easy simply to be a person in a world, and to write simply, quietly, and elegantly out of that. Kimmelman manages to do it.
However, Taggart's comment about modesty and irony has another dimension. A serious and intense engagement with poetry now, it seems to me, may well confront the question of irony not necessarily as an attitude, a coolness, let's say, or an avoidance mechanism — which irony generally is — but rather as a genuine sense of linguistic doubt. That is, what does a word say, where does it come from, what is — a word having been written — its implication? A lot of the difficulty of contemporary poetry stems from this felt sense of any word's having been captured, maybe defeated, by the world's various social pressures — if not from outside then from inside — as one's constructed self. Irony that comes from this pressure may not be the opposite of sincerity or engagement: it may be a more contemporary form of sincerity. Kimmelman's sense of language doesn't directly reference this, though he must be aware of it. See "Poem for Jackson Mac Low" (162), which is a straightforward personal narrative about walking to attend Mac Low's memorial. No one could have been more sincere in his work than Jackson, yet is his self-consciously un-self-centered writing ironic or unironic in its word-by-word distancing techniques?
There's something particularly interesting about a "new and selected" that you don't find in the original volumes. Every selection of poems is a new articulation of the work, much more than a mere repackaging. So, for instance, a poem that opens a volume or closes it has a particular meaning and flavor coming from that strategic placement. Any poet thinks about such placement; Kimmelman probably more than most, being so clearly thoughtful and careful in his writing. But this factor is completely altered in a new and selected, where the poems are ordered in more or less chronological batches, often missing poems between that might have had their functions in off-setting poems to their left and right, so to speak. So that the poems will inevitably read less for their aesthetic juxtapositions than for their sense of being a recording of a life. In such a selection you notice (particularly in Kimmelman's work, where there is clear and coherent subject matter) the occupations, preoccupations, shapes of a life over time. Kimmelman writes about art and artworks; he writes about his family, his daughter Jane from birth to adolescence, his aging mother, his deceased brother, his wife; he writes about seeing, hearing, being in places as sun rises and sets, flowers bloom and fall. It appears from this volume — for this reader at least — that Kimmelman's verse is getting clearer, simpler, more distilled, as it goes along the continuum of time.
The book opens with "New Poems 2011–2013." These are mostly small, precise, understated works whose modesty can't hide their shimmer:
After Rain, October
Purple asters fall
on the walk after
rain — wet leaves, too, have
dropped, bereft of home,
stuck to stone, to dirt.
This poem seems easy enough, but note the perfect five-syllable lines, the rhyme, the heft of "stone," "home," "dirt." There's a lot here that doesn't need or want any further explanation.
Not so for the earlier work. After the initial suite of newest poems, we go back in time to the earliest work, "Poems 1982–1992," which has many ekphrastic poems, reflections on visual artworks (Kimmelman, from New York, can easily spend time at major galleries and museum shows). I find this work far less engaging and more ponderous — difficult for me, since (as is the case with most of these poems) I don't know the works being written about. This section ends with the birth of the poet's daughter in several careful, sweet poems that skirt the edge of sentimentality, more or less successfully I think. (The urge to write conventional epiphanic poems without sliding into sentimentality is a problem — and a gift — Kimmelman is quite aware of, as expressed in the Jacket interview). Still, though: a tightrope act, sometimes more dangerous than one would want. (Although, on second thought, why not be sentimental? If you are sentimental knowingly, is this still sentimental? Or is it ironic?)
Among many others, Kimmelman reads Corman, Bronk, Oppen, and Heidegger — salient sources for his poems. In his piece on Oppen and Heidegger, he writes, "Oppen and Heidegger depend on tautological thinking, literally the contemplation of what is self-evident, and so for Oppen the things within the realized world become supremely relevant."[2] In Oppen's work — as in Kimmelman's — there is a terseness and a careful, respectful, almost courteous stance in relation to the world and the word that, for the poet, makes the world and one's ability to stand in it. I find this notion of "tautological thinking" new and essential in understanding both Heidegger and Oppen, and Kimmelman. Things just are. There they are. They actually appear, shining. One stands in relation to them. There's no interpretation, no commentary, no theorizing necessary — or, in fact, possible. Yet language, which is thought, can't help confronting the fact and in such confrontation deeply entering it, appreciating it. This Zen-like approach to poetry or life (a kind of amazement that there is anything here at all) is what Heidegger, in his rather tortured but transcending way of expression, gropes toward, and what Oppen at his best reflects in the clarity of his words. As does Kimmelman.
1. Burt Kimmelman, "Burt Kimmelman in Conversation with Thomas Fink, 2010," Jacket 40 (late 2010).
2. Burt Kimmelman, "George Oppen and Martin Heidegger: The Philosophy and Poetry of Gelassenheit, and the Language of Faith," Jacket 37 (late 2009).
Let 'em eat kitsch
A review of Thomas Fink's 'Joyride'
Ceci n'est pas un article à propos de schtick (except perhaps as René Magritte might have it be). Thomas Fink's glorious new book of poems presents us often with the joy of Yinglish, but in whole it is all about the magical present, and this is no coincidence. Is it inspired schtick — Yiddishkeit's bestowal upon us all — or might we simply take his new volume as especially inspired high comedy, which approves of serendipity? I don't think so, not that Fink doesn't possess a joltingly wicked sense of humor (also to be found in his earlier books, yet with even more verve here in Joyride). I grant that Yinglish Strophes, a series of poems extending across a number of collections of Fink's verse, might be read as schtick by casual readers. He includes a number of new "strophes" of this kind in Joyride.
Here are a few lines from one of them, which will be weirdly familiar to some of us from our youths, I suspect, who retain memories of some alter cocker holding forth: "I fell again and // again I fell. More the / reading I keep, the / more examples of serious is finded." A more poignant poem in this series begins (its first line here does not cue us as to what's to come), "How long been here // this place? Died well, / died good from that / hospital mother. That // was a day and a half yesterday."
Fink does savor the delicious wrenchings of American syntax and pronunciation by people such as his own Eastern European Jewish ancestors. And how not? A New York Jew (Alfred Kazin's masterful memoir of this name helps us to navigate Fink's warp-speed lines, yet only up to a point), Fink has inherited the jouissance of both the written and oral discourse of his world. This world is a great deal wider and more complex than that of his Jewish upbringing, however. So it is lucky for us that he has provided this guidebook in which neither Kazin nor Leo Rosten (nor the two together) could account for the soaring flights of language in its purest, indeed subliminal, form, arranged in Joyride into a number of ongoing series. Aside from Yinglish Strophes, there are new entries from Dusk Bowl Intimacies, Jigsaw Hubbub, Hay(na)ku Exfoliation, Goad, and Home Cooked Diamond; and Fink has interspersed a number of freestanding lyrics among these sequences.
But if you try to grasp the poems by attending to their gorgeous exteriors you'll have fallen into a trap — not one set by Fink but rather simply the trap of language. An overly liberal reading of his painting reproduced on the front cover of this joyous new book is that we can see the various shapes, forms, waves, and/or occurrences of the biological or simply the material world, which are held within their asymmetrical orders by some deeper order of the sort that would have allowed Einstein in his later years a good night's sleep. Make no mistake about it: Fink's world is not one in disarray. Fink is a master at working within constraints that make themselves disappear and then, just when they do, appear again. (Mazel Tov!)
There are the explicit constraints, such as we see in his series of poems whose respective forms are governed by rules. For instance, the poems in the Dusk Bowl Intimacies section of the book consist of a paragraph each and then, reminiscent to me of the bob-and-wheel structure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a subsequent set of short verse lines, the number of which match the number of sentences in the paragraph above them. These short lines are arranged according to a form developed by the poet Eileen Tabios, which she calls the "hay(na)ku," her form adapted from the haiku. (Caveat lector: there's a lot more to all this than what I'm saying here, so you may wish to get in touch with her, or with Fink — or maybe check out this website by J. Zimmerman.)
Whatever the constraint or form, the poems in Joyride showcase the canny hearing of which Fink is capable and reveal what I'll call his etymological desire — which, given his penchant for the pun and within the happenstance of any given moment, results in strange, often funny, and beautiful (mis)statements. Reading these, one may be led to wonder at the ultimate constraint: natural, historically evolved language (rather than, for instance, an artificial language such as in mathematics). Like the alluringly odd shapes and brash colors in his painting, Fink luxuriates in both the debris and the founding elements of expression. (A computer scientist I know works on the ninety-eight percent of genetic material that he once called "garbage" — evolution's or nature's mistakes? — although recently we may be seeing that some use is to be made of that portion of the spectrum.)
Either way, Fink knows language from the inside out — rather different from a poet who is seduced by language's shimmering surfaces. And here's another thing: While we are language beings — i.e., humans and uniquely so — we are also cultural beings (the two one, of course). So a phrase like "Stronger than dearth" (in "Jigsaw Hubbub 10") can mean "stronger than death" as in the avenging angel or Jesus Christ Superstar, or "stronger than dirt" as in Mr. Clean.
Now, would someone please tell me which signification takes precedence here (from "Goad 20"):
Your mother is very loud — of you: "He's been banged
from Bahrain to Brisbane, Sweetie." For you, schmuck,
conversation's been a trans
ition between climaxes. Vol
ubly laconic & transactional,
except when you know it'll
except when you know it'll
tag you as cal ous galoot.
Fink not only loves the detritus of culture; he bathes in it, singing in his tub the comic-book aphorisms of daily life. His antennae take in the memes and the castoffs — maybe better to say they suck everything in — and then the machine of constraint misreads the culture in surprising and illuminating ways, ways in which we all speak; and what we hear ourselves say must be what we'd encounter if we had just come out of general anesthesia, though we've not yet retrieved our presumptions about the world through which we process what we see and hear. Thus we get, for example, "Hay(na)ku Exfoliation 15," in which a "red sign / keeps beasts, / even pensive ones, / out of the / circulation area […]."
"It's amazing that you found me here of all unknown places," Fink exclaims (in "Dusk Bowl Intimacies 27"). "Sometimes," he continues, "love does its homework diligently. Can you fill that void with bonds? Heat of the random crystallized." Here's one more, from "Home Cooked Diamond 3":
brooding. I
seek worries,
monitor ing every
one. Stoned on crisis.
"So — I love you; do
you have my cat?" You
should stop tolerating.
Let 'em eat kitsch.
The joyride Fink takes us on is the exhilarating surfing of the nonlinear waves of the moment-to-moment we ought to pause, once in a while, to marvel at. Joyride is not pure joy, however. In any case it's not kitsch, or cheap thrills, and rather gives fleeting, possibly chimerical glimpses of language's dark matter. I think this book is the milestone marking the full attainment of the poetics Fink has been developing for years. The poems are brilliant and masterful in their execution.
'Let Her Speak'
The (not-so) quiet revolution of the reproductive, performative, and civic body
Let Her Speak: Transcript of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's June 25, 2013, Filibuster of the Texas State Senate
Let Her Speak: Transcript of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's June 25, 2013, Filibuster of the Texas State Senate
In American politics, as well as arts and letters, the mind-body schism of Western dualism (dialectical materialism) rages on between "rational" or cerebral thought and syncretic understanding, normative and "non-normative" bodies and subjects (female, non-Caucasian, gay, trans, queer), and the rights of individual, collective, and state bodies. Injunctions against female self-representation in private and public (to say nothing of the right to labor or own property) dates back to the Greek polis, where women were considered domestic slaves. Loss of power in so-called representative democracies, according to Hannah Arendt, is a matter of stakeholding and usury wherein what is promised (representation: literally, ownership over one's body) is withheld, while what is extorted or given (human capital, surplus value) serves to keep the elite in power. Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic:
In all republics with representative governments, power resides in the people. That means that the people empower certain individuals to represent them, to act in their name. When we talk about loss of power, that signifies that the people have withdrawn their consent from what their representatives, the empowered elected officials, do. Those who have been empowered naturally feel powerful; even when the people withdraw the basis of that power, the feeling of power remains. That is the situation in America.
Like children, women are conditioned to be seen and not heard, as objects, and, if heard, not to make language or meaning, but to parrot preauthorized scripts rather than respond to or reject male authority, let alone create discursive, symbolic systems apart from men. For structural injustice to be corrected, there must first exist fluid epistemologies, what Shoshana Feldman calls in The Scandal of the Speaking Body, a text yoking philosophy, linguistics, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the juridical importance of the speech act (the taboo of a woman saying "I") as a signifying agent in public discourse.
Overconceptualized sexism in academic feminisms, postfeminist declarations that despite unequal pay, labor exploitation, and violence and sexual commodification, women's rights have been won, and reiterated, performed male imaginaries in pop culture are all tendencies that preserve the Cartesian split between mind and body. As conceptualized in Susan Bordo's work, this continuing split is a cultural indictment of late capitalism, evolutionary theory, racism, sexism, homophobia, adoption rights, and the impact of contemporary media. The ontological debt women face as objects of patriarchal, feudal, and now commodifed market exchange is that of all subjects rendered ontologically void, a priori, by a dominant power: defined only by exchange- or use-value (child-bearing, sexual objectification, underpaid or unpaid labor) rather than particularized selves, and punished for attempts at signification and dissent. As Karl Jaspers said: "We are guilty of being alive … For we could survive only by keeping our mouths shut."[1]
On June 25, 2013, Texas senator Wendy Davis filibustered the Texas State Senate to prevent the passage of a law intended to severely restrict access to abortion in Texas: the abortion bill Davis fought restricts abortions after twenty weeks of pregnancy and puts in place regulations so strict that only a handful of clinics in Texas could continue to perform abortions. Republican leaders have said the people's filibuster was a form of "mob rule," and argue it won't happen again, believing that the bulk of Texans support anti-abortion laws and will show their opposition to Davis at the polls. At the filibuster, law enforcers confiscated tampons, glitter, confetti, and bottles and jars "suspected to contain" paint and feces from those trying to sit in the senate gallery: protesters staged sit-ins, sang, chanted, and chained themselves to the railing in the senate gallery as senators discussed the measure.
Davis's filibuster lasted eleven hours (the bill was reintroduced and passed later that summer). In Let Her Speak, a complete transcript of the filibuster, Counterpath presents a document that indexes American history: the struggle of minorities, women, and immigrants to achieve civil liberties and opportunities for education, citizenship, state services, and legal protection against labor, housing, and other forms of discrimination. Let Her Speak includes testimonies from a variety of Texas constituents speaking out against HB 16 and HB 60 (the latter restricting access to abortion services, and which makes the treatment of ectopic pregnancies, reported as emergency abortions, difficult and expensive), and a lengthy exchange between Davis and Republican Texas senator Bob Deuell. Online descriptions of the filibuster, such as that at RHrealitycheck, go into explicit detail about the performance, including mention of Davis' adherence, in running shoes and back brace, to the strict filibuster rules in Texas prohibiting eating or drinking in the Senate chamber and forbidding the member to sit, lean, or use a desk or chair in any way or take a restroom break. (These conditions are stipulated within an already exclusionary clause denying filibusters to a range of constituents with mobility and medical limitations, such wheelchair users and persons with hypoglycemia).
The publication of Let Her Speak fuels the question of what it means to "speak" rather than being spoken through, by false ideology, bourgeois consciousness, or lyric possession, and is based on sobering facts. Since budget amendments were passed in the Texas house in an effort to attack Planned Parenthood, sixty-two million has been drained from family planning, moving all Title 5 and Title 10 money to other allocations, a long-term plan to siphon money for family planning from community clinics to county and city health departments. Abortion statistics from 2012 reflect a total of 825,564 abortions performed (self-reported data from central health agencies of forty-five states). The Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood's research arm) reported a total of 1,212,400 based on data from direct surveys of abortionists, and of the roughly 60,000 abortions performed this year in the US, 562 of them were of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.[2]
While any correlation drawn between the number of abortions performed legally or illegally and the availability of family planning resources and birth control is tenuous (even with access to birth control, most methods are not 100 percent effective), Davis's protest underscores the reproductive right to sex education and birth control as well as legal, safe abortion (of any unwanted pregnancy). Reproductive choice is a human rights issue rather than a gendered gambit: Davis's filibuster exposes the rhetoric accusing low-income women of using abortion as a form of birth control as occluding questions of access and affordability, rather than irresponsibility. The filibuster also debunks the idea that abortion and female pregnancy are 'merely' domestic issues, 'problems' that should be dealt with privately, if at all.
To be granted permission or to demand the right to speak, as Senator Davis did, cements the fact that for women and all subjects, speech acts effect symbolic representation (including "art," however confessionalist or essentialist), acts that often detail stories of trauma and oppression. The rhetoric of the animal liberation movement protests the death and exploitation of animals for consumption, apparel, scientific research, and entertainment: animals, not having personhood, are to date denied protection under law, and need a human voice to argue for the end to their suffering as sentient beings. Conversely, the entire structure of representative democracy is based on the political expediency of a representative speaking on behalf of a constituent, or a paid attorney, on behalf of his client: as regards democratic subjects, or female adults, this system of representation can hinder, not help, and also systemically disable the process of self-representation and authorization. In the so-called criminal justice system, crimes can be exonerated or sentences lightened with a well-paid attorney and congressional bribing of judges: in electoral politics, not only are the actual needs and desires of constituents unmet and tax and union monies spent padding congressional pockets, but the right of women to seek redress against crimes and lawlessness publicly is undermined by social stigma (whistle-blowing) and by law: the amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing equal rights for women, equivalent to French President Jacques Chirac's Observatoire de la Parité, is not yet implemented, to our nation's shame, having failed to receive the requisite number of ratifications since being introduced in 1923.
Publishing filibuster transcription engages with the same marketing dilemmas as publishers of multimedia or non-mainstream genres. Let Her Speak asks us to examine narratives of the female reproductive body and its policing by the state after the traumas of unwanted pregnancy, poverty, death from back-alley abortions, and gender-based discrimination are repressed in public and literary culture and the voices of women without access to education or political power bastardized or ignored as inaesthetic. Thinking through the anxiety of genre and canonicity as symptoms of masculinist history, the political and legal issues surrounding authorship, representation, and copyright are also herein roused: Wendy Davis is not the author of Let Her Speak; the transcript, belonging to the public domain, was compiled by workers via Amazon Mechanical Turk.
The full video of the filibuster is on the Texas State Senate website, and the material is public (no copyright or permissions issues). "Anyone can make a transcription of the video, and we know of at least one other person who has," said Counterpatheditor Julie Carr. "We did not contact Wendy Davis for permission in advance of making the transcription since it is public material." According to Carr, the idea for the book came about shortly after the actual filibuster. "We had been watching it online and were hit by the importance of the event and of course by the dramatic courage, strength, and force of the filibuster as a performance," said Carr. "Of course this is a huge human rights issue — very important to focus on at this time in our history, as reproductive rights are being attacked all over the country. The work (meaning the filibuster itself as well as the transcript and the reenactments) is a political intervention — and one we hope has a continued life."[3]
The transcript was read aloud over eight hours by over thirty participants at Counterpath headquarters in Denver; there have been many other full readings of the transcript around the country. Counterpath editor Tim Roberts said: "We'd done one small transcription project (of Mark Sanford's apology after his "Appalachian" affair) a few years ago, but the idea for this came up a day or so after the filibuster actually happened in June of last year (and before it was clear that Davis would ride this wave of popularity that seems to have happened). It was during the transcription process that it became clear that we would want to have marathon readings, and that it would be great to invite others to have readings as well."[4]
Let Her Speak is also to be distinguished not only from memoir, auto-fiction, and ethnographic novel, but also from literary texts that repurpose language and public documents for political ends (e.g. Timothy Donnelly's "The Dream of a Poetry of Defense," a metapoetic fiat lux composed of words taken from successive pages of Shelley's "A Defence of Poetry" and randomly from the 9/11 Commission Report, sec. 13.5, "Organizing America's Defenses in the United States"). Christopher Higgs marked the book on the 2013 National Book Award longlist at HTML Giant, calling it "An important work of conceptual/performance art and an important work of radical political action against the war on women."
Higgs's response to the text as art reengages with Walter Benjamin's argument: fascism aestheticizes politics, to which Communism responds by politicizing art. Today, late capitalism responds by making a commodified spectacle of apolitical pop art, most commonly seen in the framing of political resistance as performance art, or tragedy, brutality, or self-annihilation as a purchasable (or free, in social media) fetish. If aesthetics cannot exist without ethics, nor ethics without aesthetics, then the question of how to classify Let Her Speak pales beside the question of whether art is in fact dead anyway, after Duchamp (the exquisite corpses of the author, literature, and the living word), or according to Hegel, to say nothing of the death-knells on lyric poetry pronounced by Adorno after Auschwitz.
Poetry has since the Greeks been a purposeful act, pedagogically and historically, as ars memoria (or momento mori) to transmit rather than interpret or reinvent culture: traditions of reciting or copying a sacred or cultural ur-text frame the metapoetic act of witness, spectatorship, or, in times of war, solidarity or compassion (Greek for "to suffer with"). Anthologies such as Carolyn Forché's Against Forgetting protest the wiped slate of history in the name of neoliberal or Fukuyamian post-history, as well as the cross-cultural significance of the act of witness. The poets in that anthology hail from five continents: Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, Charles Simic, and HD from the US, as well as poets from Africa (Wole Soyinka and Dennis Brutus), Asia (Bei Dao and Duoduo), the Middle East (Ali Ahmad Sa'id and Yehuda Amichai), and Latin America (Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo). The postconceptual theorization of speech acts (the sentence as juridical ruling and measure of thought) and the act of witness (faux-objectivity and observation bias of a flawed mirror) is complicated by structuralism and Lacanian theory: by assigning guilt, one exonerates oneself. And yet, if suffering remains mute (unrepresented, unlegislated, unredeemed) it ceases to "matter" (be taken into account or seen): the reality is that the women most affected by anti-abortion legislature are low-income, whose short, brutish lives are as "absolute" (concrete and particular) and thus erasable as the absolutist value judgment a representative democracy and conceptual poets (militating against any authoritative or universalist subject or reading) rail against.
Let Her Speak is distinguishable from literary transcriptions "framed" as conceptual art (e.g. Kenneth Goldsmith's Traffic): these poets reify documents or public broadcasts, from radio weather reports to The New York Times. Conceptual poets aren't the first cultural pundits to frame the quotidian as "art" (or declare, as did Arendt, evil banal): Seinfeld was notoriously a show "about nothing"; Frank O'Hara and the New York School poets, culminating in the architectonic, neosurrealism of John Ashbery, made an aesthetic out of incorporating free and indirect discourse and juxtaposing high art with the detritus of the commonplace.
Other conceptual poets have made a lifework out of transcribing historically epic events, such as Robert Fitterman's Holocaust Museum (Veer Books, 2011), composed of sets of captions from photographs in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; Charles Reznikoff's Testimony and Holocaust; and Heimrad Bäcker's Transcript. Vanessa Place's Tragodia trilogy is a contemporary text that reappropriates court documents, forcing the reader to examine the role of witness and the act of testimony as a poetic conceit with its roots in legalistic (patriarchial) law, transgression, and the meting out of guilt, punishment, and death: "War is a discourse, genocide is rhetoric with a body count. Transcript does not make a memorial that risks becoming a monument. But it does reuse and reframe, and in so doing, regurgitates the awful glut and smutch of language that, with the corpses it produces, is history's compost."[5]
Self-identifying as a wife and middle-class woman, in Let Her Speak, is Paula: "The proposed legislation is an assault on poor women, probably most often poor women of color … I can't even begin to imagine how this feels to a young African American or Latino woman who is hearing this from old white legislators … who despite their partisan leanings, have taken an oath to represent us, all of us, and vote our will, not theirs."[6] Aesthetic questions pertaining to dadism and the dream of verisimilitude aside, a documentary poetics that purports to witness the experience of the abject other instead aestheticizing violence and suffering can be as ethically suspect as the labor exploitations and sleight-of-hand, tax-payer-funded drone wars without constituent consent in a so-called representative democracy. Whether sworn to uphold the law of man, or God, the decisions of an electoral college, University trustees, Supreme Court judges, and cultural elite are shaped not only by identitarian "biases" but also, when power is corrupted, nepotistic underhandedness and the reflexive safeguarding of hegemonic and institutionalized (white, male, monied) perspective.
As documentary poet Claudia Rankine said in a Poetry Daily interview, "As a black person, I am interested in keeping blackness a present and active part of the world because it is a present and active part of the world. As poets we keep the field reflective by acknowledging who we are in the world — by coming clean with that. This is all the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets were asking for: to understand that language is constructed around certain investments, certain sets of privileges. If you read Juliana Spahr's work, it is clear she is conscious of being a white woman in America. As a reader, you know she is aggressively thinking about what this allows her. She makes statements from her perspective and her understanding of what it means to be her. I think that is the most honest place a writer can begin from … simply I am here; here has a history."[7]
Contemporary poets Mark Nowak, Juliana Spahr, Francesco Levato, Philip Metres, and Martha Collins are among those also writing, publishing, and speaking publicly on the history of documentary poetry, the long poem, and topics ranging from labor and LGBT politics to Appalachia and Chernobyl. In a Poetry Foundation article, Nowak describes documentary poetics as "not so much a movement as a modality within poetry whose range I see along a continuum from the first person autoethnographic mode of inscription to a more objective third person documentarian tendency (with practitioners located at points all across that continuum). Documentary poetics, it should be said, has no founder, no contested inception, no signature spokespersons claiming its cultural capital … Documentary poetry tends to pack a lefter-than-liberal, social-Democratic to Marxist political history (grounded largely in WPA-era poems ranging from Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead to Langston Hughes's "Johannesburg mines" and photo-documentary texts such as Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices)."[8] Noting poets outside the US such as Martin Earl, Ernesto Cardenal, Alfred Temba Qabula, Nancy Morejón, and Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nowak also notes that the documentarian tendency can lend itself more readily to visual culture (film, photography) than the language arts. The question of whether political demonstrations can be considered performance art, and the many fissures of documentary, historical revisionism, and political poetics, call into question the legislative and apotropaic power of appellate and propositional speech acts (appositive "statements" of "fact" and intention, and the new sentence of conceptual poetry versus the lyric line), and suggest a healthy irresolution to these questions, aesthetically: the new "fissure," so to speak (like the elliptical poets or a resolution to the antimonies between bipartisan parties or Marxist/capitalist systems), rather than an expansion of the capacious boundaries between fact and myth, testimony and art, text and event.
If finding an outside to capitalism (the collective desire of anarchist movements, from Occupy to Freeganism to post-language aesthetics) is the only means of achieving autonomy from market-driven aesthetics, flattering or serving technocracy through marketing (procedural) as well as product mimesis, occupying not just ideological but literal space outside a state/corporate/university context is the goal of contemporary art, as well: for unheard voices of resistance to find, as Nowak says, room "outside of AWP and art galleries and instead locate itself (or organize its potential location) on factory floors, in union halls, at political rallies, in collaboration with institutions and organizations working to shift the Draconian policies under which conservative school boards, Tea Partiers, and neoliberal politicians of the world (unite!?!) seek to police the rest of us."[9]
The hemorrhaging of state and federal funds from family planning, health, and social services for low-income women and children to pad Congressional pockets, pay off Wall Street debts, and fund the pharma-medical and industrial-military complexes is one that can be addressed only when political activists such as Davis are not only in office (the 2014 gubernatorial race between Davis and her chief GOP opponent, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott, is under way) but in well-salaried positions, with benefits, of legislative authority, hiring (and firing) capacity, and control. In overturning and righting any gross inequity or human rights atrocity or scandal, numbers and statistics (e.g. the Vida Count) must precede language.
As Edward Sharp-Paul notes, Davis' eleven-hour filibuster "requires us to radically expand our definition of art" as well as audience response, voyeurism, and expurgated conscience as a function of durational art's spectatorship (in pop or high culture). "Firstly, it's a bloodsport: When reading about or observing such a performance, our first thought is for the performer. Oh, they'll suffer. Can they do it? Will they make it? … This is a role more often played by athletes in contemporary society: the avatar, exploring the outer limits of human possibility, planting a flag on our behalf. It feels good to see someone put themselves through the purging fire, and for that person not to be you. If there's a toe-tapping tune to go with it, all the better."[10] Abramovic: "I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness… not just the performer, but the one looking at it."[11] Collapsing boundaries between the recitation of history and the event horizon (the ghosts of a once-emancipatory modernism clanking their chains), Let Her Speak is a "made thing" as bounded performance and transcribed text that is, in the end, less a commentary on the relationship between reality and representation, or transcription and art, and, but, rather being and event. The publication of this historic artifact cordons off for our examination, and re-reading, the messy, context-bounded process of learning how (or legislating for "permission"), to speak, in time.
1. Karl Jaspers, Questions of German Guilt, 2nd ed. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000), 66.
2. Guttmacher Institute, 2013.
3. Julie Carr, personal email, January 12, 2014.
4. Tim Roberts, personal email, January 14, 2014.
5. Vanessa Place, "Transcript," BOMB 111 (Spring 2010).
6. Let Her Speak: Transcript of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's June 25, 2013, Filibuster of the Texas State Senate (Denver: Counterpath, 2013), 115.
7. Claudia Rankine, interview with Jennifer Flescher and Robert N. Caspar, Jubilat 12, reproduced by Poetry Daily.
8. Mark Nowak, "Documentary Poetics," Harriet, April 17, 2010.
10. Edward Sharp-Paul, "Origin Stories: A Brief History Of Duration Art," Junkee,April 10, 2013.
Against apocalypse
A review of Ron Silliman's 'Revelator'
Somewhere along the way, Ron Silliman and his fellow L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets earned the reputation for being heartless. In the absence of lines like "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" and without understanding the historical contexts to which L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E responds, it can be hard for the uninitiated to identify emotional elements. After all, a poetry movement concerned with human rights, poverty, and opposition to violence can't be entirely without sentiment.
Although he hits as heavy with theory as his peers (cf. The New Sentence), Ron Silliman's work, like Lyn Hejinian's (My Life), is saturated with first-person narrative, love, and nostalgia, notably in works like Ketjak (1978), "Albany" (1981), and The Alphabet (2008). Revelator fits within this strand of "slant" personal narrative.
A "revelator" is someone who reveals — in traditional uses, someone who reveals the word of God, specifically "John the Revelator," who recorded the Book of Revelations. Due to the social context of his poetry, we can assume that Silliman is neither God nor God's transcriptionist, but (as Gillian Welch's revelator isn't Blind Willie Johnson's) something else, perhaps Ron himself, pictured on the front cover of the book reading Ketjak with a 1970s revelatory spirit, or perhaps, as Welch puts it, Time.
The jacket copy positions Revelator as "a poem of globalization and post-global poetics" that "addresses the problem that there are only two global systems: the biosphere and capital, while every response to these global systems is invariably local." On the first page we get a hint of the political arena and the speaker's desire for a total, but seemingly out of reach, reform:
… "Outsource Bush"
Against which, insource what? Who
will do it? … (9)
And again shortly after, the speaker's personal response to the dire political situation of Bush's presidency, again with an underlying sense of the total failure of the system:
… at Monticello I
very nearly wept, to imagine
just once the president as
the smartest, most questioning, most
rigorous of all … (13)
Amid Silliman's panoply of motifs (bird-watching, taking the dog for a walk, aging) the cultural context of a global system where the "center cannot hold" emerges in descriptions of the war in Afghanistan, Fox News, Chipotle burritos, McMansions, and other contemporary economic and political references. The speaker's mind, a tight fabric of many threads in close proximity, lets alternating images warp and weft, a concern for labor and markets freely woven with more personal thoughts: "peel cellophane / from a new tea carton / no indication where it's grown / (Argentina!) no record no ____ / sense of the map" (32–33). Like Joyce and Zukofsky, Silliman uses the dense narrative to record himself as he records a specific moment in time and comments on its (sometimes overwhelming) social and political problems.
Again referring to the jacket for entry points, David Melnick calls the writing "friendly" while Roger Gilbert says it's "fun," and C. D. Wright goes along with the gag, using the term "witty." I've never had a very good sense of humor, but I don't find Revelator to be so carefree; I do find it to be warm, sympathetic, and humane. Consider the following passage, where at least four narrative threads converge:
for days the networks discover
new amateur videos, waves far
greater than one can imagine,
on the beach bathers not
even thinking to run, buses
floating through streets of debris
Banda Aceh, this week's geography
of the public imagination, Phuket's
stream of tourists washed away,
bulldozers scooping corpses, our newscaster
alone in an empty village,
only the battered mosque remains,
where are the people, how
does this outer life, apocalypse
reported, penetrate my dreams, three
men on the street walking
discussing who will reach 60
when, the way as teens
we spoke of 20, not
even seeing the homeless woman
asleep beneath the newspaper racks
at Mission & Fourth, fifth
of bourbon warms, warns, passed
between three beneath the bridge
day is done, day is
the ever-present challenge, wake
or not, the painter Jess
simply stays asleep. … (20–21)
The speaker watches the coverage of the 2004 tsunami; men who may or may not be the speaker and his friends discuss aging; a woman is homeless in a heavily traveled district of San Francisco but no one cares or even notices; three people of undetermined status share bourbon under a bridge; death; Jess, Robert Duncan's partner, who died "of natural causes" (but not, as those in the South Asian tsunami, "of nature"). This passage has many motifs that appear elsewhere in Revelator: TV coverage of international disasters; the sense that the speaker is aging; an awareness of (and perhaps guilt about) extreme socioeconomic disparity; the threat of death; strong mental ties to the process of writing and to the literary community. The revelator is haunted by scenes of unnatural death, and often — in scenes where TV coverage speaks of American wars — personally haunted by his tacit responsibility for them. On the microscale, he's aware of his own death and the mortality of his personal community. None of this seems particularly "fun" (Gilbert), but it does reflect a "desire to pull everything in" (Wright) and to let it flow forth in an open-mouthed tangle of record and revelation.
Time, which eats its own children, wants to pull everything in, and Silliman's revelator fights back with the same weapon. From the most dear and personal to the anonymous televised global community, we are all mortal, and we all "rage against the dying of the light" quixotically: "I scream, you / scream, we all scream for / that which is unnamable, unquenchable, / inconsolable (deep in one's chest / surrounding the heart) art is / a mode of stalking, balk / at any configuration, at what's / inescapably omitted" (12–13). Silliman's artistic desire to pull everything in, to mark it, to keep it against the threat of global and personal apocalypse, makes this a work of what Martin Hägglund calls "chronolibido": "Poetry engages the desire for a mortal life that can always be lost."[1] Silliman writes:
Dear Krishna, it's 6:11 A.M.
upstairs a faucet turns briefly
Lilly is grown now, Alan's
hair thins at last, Melissa's
perfect smile still shines but
no sign of Lulu, time
erodes what's dear, what's near
is past too soon to
grasp fully the consequence, dawn
threatens a new day constantly
sun as vicious as dusk
or rather simply uncaring, birds
disinterested in the infant's corpse,
it's language that introduces emotion
or the other way round (23)
The revelatorhas multiple levels. He warns of the violence of global markets, war, environmental collapse, and socioeconomic inequality. He warns of personal apocalypses: deaths among his personal communities, marks of aging, and his own demise. These are godless revelations: we're already in the apocalypse; there is no afterwards. "Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It's the jumping off point for a work that, if Ron Silliman were to live long enough, would take him three centuries to complete" (book jacket). We know Silliman cannot write the whole universe — but his intense desire to take a snapshot of our mortal lives, to "pull everything in," provides a haunting, dense, breathless battle against Time "coming to take its breath away."[2]
1. Martin Hägglund, Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), 2.
2. Jacques Derrida, The Work of Mourning (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 143.
'A grand collage'
A review of 'A Jerome Rothenberg Reader'
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader
Published by Black Widow Press as part of their Modern Poets Series, Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader interweaves poems with prose work in a grand collage,[1] proffering a vivid map through the intellectual and procedural frameworks of Rothenberg's oeuvre. Eye of Witness traces a cogent, compelling narrative of an extraordinary and extraordinarily large, diverse body of work, synthesizing for us the poet's mind at work across sixty years of poetic endeavor.
A feast and a surfeit, this collection, edited by Heriberto Yépez and Rothenberg in collaboration, tracks Rothenberg's work along with the evolution of the poet's sense of his project. Eye of Witness's braided timeline, layering old with new, first insights and later renewals and revisions, conveys to us a poet-navigator, always looking to the future, his boat drawn with him, a vessel deep-loaded with the riches of the past, provoking for us the experience of the fabulous within the mundane ground of the living world. Eye of Witnesschallenges the reader to question how might we, beautiful and terrible as we are, live in this beautiful and terrifying world — how does language return us to it and it to us? Affirming the potency of the other-than-human world to human understanding and experience, Rothenberg asserts "the poet's work may, like the shaman's, make its encounter foremost within language — may start with language and use that as a vehicle with which to drive toward meaning, toward a (re)uniting with the world'" (Rothenberg citing Eliade, 171).
In his introduction, Heriberto Yépez provides valuable insights into the long and complex evolution of Rothenberg's poetics, tracking the move Rothenberg makes from Deep Imagist to shaman-as-poet, to trickster as generative mythos, and ultimately, to the figure of witness, this long process invested in what Yépez terms "a call for the simultaneous renewal of cultural forms and a reconfiguration of consciousness, a matter of making new cultural and spiritual constellations available" (19). Yépez further asserts: "Rothenberg's witness is the marker of a new kind of poet — its pre-face — in which two apparently opposite drives coexist: an acknowledgment of poetry as a perpetual and radical change of form — and thus the willingness to not retain any-thing — and a desire to construct a total poetics, or — to use a recent word of Rothenberg's — an omnipoetics: to say in every form possible what cannot possibly be said" (23). Indeed it is the witness to which this book owes its title, a witness who "still belongs to the oneiric dreamworld but is plagued by the human capacity for cruelty" (22). This collection of Rothenberg's work vividly illustrates, across a multiplicity of genera and forms, the revelations of the dreamworld, what it teaches us about the human capacities for beauty and horror, and the collateral wonders and terrors our human capacities provoke.
While Yépez tracks a journey or evolution, Rothenberg's intention in the collection is to "assert a wholeness in the work" (24); both of these insights are manifest in the gathering. Rothenberg and Yépez weave newer poetry with older prose, and vice versa, as well as layering into the mix performance pieces, plays, sound work, translations, variations, and extensions. The proses themselves are diverse, including letters, manifestos, lectures, a response to Harold Bloom's critical apparatus, prefaces and postfaces from Rothenberg's books, et cetera. Throughout the collection, Rothenberg asserts the collaborative/collective nature of poetry, "an exploration of what our poetry could be — what we could make it to be — as an art of sound and gesture" (26). Rothenberg positions his translations and total translations, his variations, texts for performance, and his plays, as integral to his "pursuit of a kind of transcultural or global poetics, rooted in place but capable of crossing borders and languages to become a virtual omnipoetics" (26). Rothenberg conceives (his) poetry as a collaborative venture with other poets and language workers, translation as a process resulting in new texts, in which "discovery at every point I meet the poem" (56) is operant. In keeping with that aesthetic and ethical modus operandi, Eye of Witness juxtaposes excerpts from 50 Caprichos After Goya withvariations on Octavio Paz's "Blanco," a translation of Picasso's "The Dream & Lie of Franco," and translations of two of Tzara's Dada poems ("A Book of Otherings"); or later, excerpts from a prepared talk on the poetics of the sacred, meditations on ethnopoetics, and an essay, "Primitive & Modern: Intersections & Analogies," with a discussion of the relation between poets and the trickster figure (included in "Poetics & Polemics 1: Toward an Ethnopoetics"). In "A Book of Extensions," translations from Seneca songs stand shoulder to shoulder with Rothenberg's collaborations with visual artists (Tom Phillips, Susan Bee), his photo-text collages, his play "Esther K Comes To America: 1931" a series of verbal translations of events and rituals, and excerpts from his collection That Dada Strain in which Dada and jazz both serve as instigations. Much like the anthologies for which Rothenberg is renowned, Eye of Witness is structured as assemblage and collage, lending to anthology the same attentions given to the making of poetry.
Organized into three "Galleries" and three "Poetics & Polemics" sections, as well as "A Book of Otherings," "A Book of Extensions," and "New Poems: Divagations & Autovariations," Eye of Witness takes its reader from early translations from German and Rothenberg's originatory work with Deep Image through his translations of Native American traditional texts and the formulation and extension of Ethnopoetics to his secular (re)encounters with Jewish mystical traditions and his European Jewish heritage, the aftermath of the Holocaust and the possibility for and requirements of a poetry post-Holocaust (the fundamental function of the poet as witness),[2] and into the vision of an omnipoetics in which the "challenge of a poetry & a counterpoetics is as much needed as ever":
the matter of the revolutions of the word & how they might exist today … the internet, the web, offers a new arena for visual, performative, & interactive modes, moving (sometimes at least) in multiple cultural directions. The number of such websites & displays is in fact enormous, so that watching the experimental work already triggered — the technical ease in its construction — there's a sense, isn't there, of a futurism that has come into its future … what I've more recently come to call an omnipoetics. (547–48)
What stands out to this reader? So much that I may only hint at the astonishing riches awaiting Eye of Witness'sreaders. For the world of familial and cultural origin — that vexed place of hunger and poverty, of otherness and oppression, of war and ruin, demons and executioners — an excerpt from "The Wedding" (Poland/1931):this music, this urgency, this terror.
we have lain awake in thy soft arms forever
thy feathers have been balm to us
thy pillows capture us like sickly wombs & guard us
let us sail through thy fierce weddings poland
let us tread thy markets where thy sausages grow ripe & full
let us bite thy peppercorns let thy oxen's dung be sugar to thy dying jews
o poland o sweet resourceful restless poland
o poland of the saints unbuttoned poland repeating endlessly the triple names of mary
poland poland poland poland poland
have we not tired of thee poland no for thy cheeses
shall never tire us nor the honey of thy goats
thy grooms shall work ferociously upon their looming brides
shall bring forth executioners
shall stand like kings inside thy doorways
shall throw their arms around thy lintels poland
& begin to crow (215)
Or Rothenberg's "Cokboy," a punning, musical, and satiric mashup of the disparate elements of the American mythos: a wandering Jewish mystic in the American wilderness (the "wild" west), speaking with a Yiddish accent in nonsense vocables and plain English among a heterodox company, including the Baal Shem (later reborn as a beaver, Rothenberg's Seneca totem lineage), cowboys like "the financially crazed Buffalo Bill," Custer, and Barry Goldwater ("a little christian schmuck"), Native Americans, "Polacks," the Cuna nele, prospectors, Anglo Saxons, and Lao Tzu all in kabbalistic time "like Moses in the Rockies," until like any storyteller, Rothenberg winds down his tale into silence from within which we ponder this "America disaster":
I will fight my way past you who guard the sacred border
last frontier village of my dreams
with shootouts tyrannies
(he cries) who had escaped the law
or brought it with him
how vass I lost tzu get here
was luckless
on a mountain & kept from
true entry to the west true paradise
like Moses in the Rockies who stares at California spooky in the jewish light
of horns atop my head great orange freeways of the mind
America disaster
America disaster
America disaster
America disaster
where he can watch the sun go down
in desert
Cokboy asleep (they ask)
only his beard has left him
like his own his grandfather's
ghost of Ishi was waiting on the crest
looked like a jew
but silent
was silent in America
guess I got nothing left to say (242)[3]
Or Rothenberg's polemic of a visionary and revolutionary poetics posited against Harold Bloom's privileging of repression over freedom, challenging that critic's "Scene of Instruction, which is necessarily also a scene of authority and priority" in which "the true poem is the critic's mind" and all poetry reducible to "the inescapable anxieties of competition" (405, 402, all quoting Bloom), a system of "mis-reading [and] deception" (405) in defense of a canon "European … post-Enlightenment & English" (406). To which Rothenberg incisively and rigorously responds:
But we know, after all, who threatens us. We know who reminds us of how 'heavy' our 'inheritance' is; who tells us not to deign to be good readers of our own poems or to think that we can write at all 'after the deluge'; who enters in Milton's Shadow — & 'not the Romantic return of the repressed Milton' but the Puritan Milton of repression. And we know who proposes the discontinuities between poets & rejects those who might know their lineage too well. We know who thinks that he 'can block a new voice from entering the Poet's Paradise' or who would presume 'to help decide a question that is ultimately of sad importance: 'Who shall live?''(416)
Rothenberg asserts that it is not Blake's "Devourer" (here Bloom) but Blake's "Prolific," the poet of "the unqualified 'freedom' of the Romantics & their successors" (403), "the forwardness that has again & again defined an avant-garde over the last two centuries" (406). Rothenberg asserts, "The game, in short, is up … [and Bloom doomed to his own summation of the Cherub's fate]: 'He cannot strangle the imagination, for nothing can do that, and he in any case is too weak to strangle anything'" (416).
Or the astonishing beauty and terror of "Fourteen Stations," Rothenberg's responses to Arie Galles's monumental charcoal drawings of aerial views of the Nazi concentration camps and the horrors they represent: "Fourteen Stations"/"Hey Yud Dalet." The poems are composed by means of a procedure using Gematria counts from "the Hebrew and/or Yiddish spelling of the camp names … keyed to the numerical values of Hebrew words and word combinations in the first five books of the Bible … not so much to mask feeling or meaning as allow it to emerge" (433):
The First Station: Auschwitz-Birkenau[4]
now the serpent:
I will bring back
their taskmasters
crazy & mad
will meet them
deep in the valley
& be subdued
separated in life
uncircumcised, needy
shoes stowed away
how naked they come
my fathers
my fathers
angry & trembling
the serpents
you have destroyed
their faces remembered
small in your eyes,
shut down, soiled
see a light
take shape in the pit,
someone killed
torn in pieces
a terror, a god,
go down deeper (434-4)
Or this total translation from the oral to the page as concrete poetry, work done in collaboration with Richard Johnny John: "Songs From The Society of The Mystic Animals" of the Seneca (323).
As vivid as this translation is, his performance of it is something else entirely, returning to it music and rhythm, the breath of the body, and the sound of the rattle: both the visual and performed versions transforming our understandings of poetry.
And finally, I offer the reader, from "A Poem of Miracles," this "Coda," dedicated to Diane Rothenberg:
A miracle
the unseen
overtaking us
the larger world
in darkness
darker than the mystery
of birth
the miracle resides
in what we see
& touch so good
to be here
& to bow to you
my dearest friend
in darkness
as the poet said (575)[5]
Here, what has always glowed so warmly in the heterodox and radically revolutionary work of Rothenberg, is a deep humanity and love.
For the reader who has yet to encounter Jerome Rothenberg's work, Eye of Witness offers a wide-ranging entre into his rich and omnifarious oeuvre, a vital space of revelation for lovers of language and poetry. For the reader already familiar with Rothenberg's phenomenal endeavors, Eye of Witness affords synthesis and a retrospective view of his writing's evolution, delivering a clear sense of the wholeness of that diverse, multiform work and its generative impulses and sources, the work of one of the great minds and poets of our time, perhaps of all time. An homage to an extraordinary language worker, a poet dedicated to the renewal of language and of our encounter with the world, Eye of Witness is itself an extraordinary document and an essential companion for poets and critics seeking an understanding not only of Rothenberg's work but of the progress of visionary language work from ancient times to the present as it has unfolded via recuperation, discovery, and (re)invention from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, a poetry Baedekker for us all. Kol ha kavod, Jerome Rothenberg and Heriberto Yépez!
1. Rothenberg's term for "the life of poetry."
2. "I am a witness like everyone else to [the world, the present, as it comes and goes], and all the experiments [the poems] for me … are steps toward the recovery/discovery of a language for that witnessing" (391).
3. Listen to PennSound recordings of Rothenberg reading part 1 and part 2 of "Cokboy."
4. Listen to a PennSound recording of Rothenberg reading "The First Station."
5. Listen to a PennSound recording of Rothenberg reading "A Poem of Miracles."


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March 1973 April 1973 May 1973 June 1973 July 1973 August 1973 September 1973 October 1973 November 1973 December 1973 January 1974 February 1974
Popular trailers for movies released in August 1973
Total trailers found: 105
Enter the Dragon Trailer (1973)
17 August 1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
14 and Under Trailer (1973)
16 August 1973
This episodic film is a close relative of Wolf Hartwig's schoolgirl report movies, made by the same people, in a similar style, around similar topics.
American Graffiti Trailer (1973)
01 August 1973
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Jesus Christ Superstar Trailer (1973)
15 August 1973
Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the rock opera of the same name, based on the last weeks before the crucifixion of Jesus.
Big Guns Trailer (1973)
23 August 1973
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.
White Lightning Trailer (1973)
06 August 1973
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
Heavy Traffic Trailer (1973)
08 August 1973
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
Bang the Drum Slowly Trailer (1973)
26 August 1973
The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates.
Electra Glide in Blue Trailer (1973)
18 August 1973
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit.
The Four Charlots Musketeers 2 Trailer (1973)
29 August 1973
This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers.
The Neptune Factor Trailer (1973)
03 August 1973
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
Massage Parlor Murders Trailer (1973)
31 August 1973
A vicious serial killer is stalking the streets of New York City, murdering Times Square massage girls in a variety of brutal ways.
Sex-Crime Coast: School of Piranha Trailer (1973)
15 August 1973
Pinku from 1973.
Cops and Robbers Trailer (1973)
17 August 1973
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
Female Teacher: Private Life Trailer (1973)
25 August 1973
Pinku from 1973.
Maurie Trailer (1973)
01 August 1973
When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
Anastasia mio fratello ovvero il presunto capo dell'Anonima Assassini Trailer (1973)
13 August 1973
Erotic Journey: Love Affair in Hong Kong Trailer (1973)
04 August 1973
Having begun a passionate affair with one of her husband's colleagues, bored housewife Akiko follows him to Hong Kong when he is transferred.
Ricco the Mean Machine Trailer (1973)
27 August 1973
Fresh out of the joint, young Ricco is eager to get home to see his family. He was cut loose a year early for good behavior, but it certainly wasn't good behavior that got him in the big house in the first place.
Detroit 9000 Trailer (1973)
01 August 1973
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
Teenage Intimacies Trailer (1973)
10 August 1973
This Softsex-comedy points out what people are doing everything so when they feel unobserved in their closed doors.
Special Killers Trailer (1973)
11 August 1973
Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds beside the victim.
The Violent Professionals Trailer (1973)
22 August 1973
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.
The Last Chance Trailer (1973)
13 August 1973
The film is based on a true story. Jakus, managing director of a scooter-factory suddenly resigns, since he disagrees with his superiors in the ministry on several points.
Mona Lisa Trailer (1973)
21 August 1973
An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.
Jugnu Trailer (1973)
29 August 1973
The year 1973 turned out to be one of the most remarkable years in Dharmendra's cinematic history.He proved that he had greater efficiency,electrifying charisma and a more effective star-power than the then fading superstar Rajesh Khanna by knocking him out from the number one spot.
Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow Trailer (1973)
30 August 1973
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare Trailer (1973)
11 August 1973
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status.
Le cercle noir Trailer (1973)
08 August 1973
Detective Lou Torrey (Charles Bronson) investigates a mafia plot to murder all it's enemies.
Sex Report From a Female Private Detective: Housewife Prostitution Trailer (1973)
15 August 1973
Pinku from 1973.
Line Up and Lay Down Trailer (1973)
29 August 1973
70s Eurotrash sex comedy
No, The Case Is Happily Resolved Trailer (1973)
01 August 1973
While fishing at a quiet lake, a man witnesses a murder. Although confronted by the killer he manages to escape.
Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore Trailer (1973)
29 August 1973
Chabelo and Pepito vs. the Monsters Trailer (1973)
02 August 1973
Chabelo and Pepito are cousins and belong to a group of scouts. When hiking a farmer warns of the danger of a cave where a cursed treasure.
Gordon's War Trailer (1973)
09 August 1973
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose.
The Winsome Widow Trailer (1973)
12 August 1973
After the death of the Savior for a rich husband, car accident, the beautiful wife Catherine is preparing to collect the enormous legacy but because the deceased has not made a will and when he was alive was sterile, his wife's legacy will benefit only if, within three hundred days established by law, will give birth to a son.
Le Concierge Trailer (1973)
23 August 1973
Roses and Green Peppers Trailer (1973)
23 August 1973
Teresa hopes that her social climbing ambitions will be fulfilled by her young son, Jacy. When he learns that his mother has started an affair, Jacy leaves home and embarks on a series of short-term liaisons with several women.
The Castle of Mummies of Guanajuato Trailer (1973)
30 August 1973
A trio of masked Mexican wrestlers take on a mad scientist, killer dwarfs, and a horde of re-animated mummies in Guanajuato.
Hulihin si Tiagong Akyat Trailer (1973)
15 August 1973
Tiagong Akyat was one of the most famous outlaws in Philippine history. He terrorized Manila and the nearby provinces in the 1920s.
Las Venganzas de Beto Sánchez Trailer (1973)
23 August 1973
After watching his father passed away at a hospital, a man takes revenge on all the people guilty to his eyes: his grade school teacher, his childhood friend and other characters.
Ah! Si mon moine voulait... Trailer (1973)
16 August 1973
The Shadow Line Trailer (1973)
29 August 1973
Story of a young, inexperienced ship captain named Marlow, who struggles in solitude during the voyage with disease, insubordinate crew and vagaries of weather.
The Mansion of Madness Trailer (1973)
10 August 1973
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf Trailer (1973)
01 August 1973
Little Richie Bridgestone (whose parents are divorced) goes to spend the weekend with his father at his secluded mountain cabin, and witnesses his father being attacked by 'a creature' that the boy recognizes as a werewolf.
One Day More or Less Trailer (1973)
11 August 1973
Baradla Géza, war criminal, returns after 25 years, with his ex-accomplice, Obrád Simon, to the village where he burned houses with people inside and executed partisans.
Sticks and Bones Trailer (1973)
17 August 1973
A young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends.
Swap Meet at the Love Shack Trailer (1973)
30 August 1973
The film Liebesmarkt featuring a cute blonde Ingrid Steeger, not only became a cult actress stupidity of German youth who watched only American cinema.
Na Cha and the Seven Devils Trailer (1973)
31 August 1973
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The Martial Hero Trailer (1973)
25 August 1973
Martial Arts Hero movie that seems to be lost.
Le Blues Entre les Dents Trailer (1973)
29 August 1973
Love Thy Neighbour Trailer (1973)
26 August 1973
Eddy Booth and his wife Joan live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds Joan and Barbie are best friends, having much in common.
Battle of the Amazons Trailer (1973)
11 August 1973
A tribe of vicious female warriors terrorizes the countryside, and especially the males, until one day the men and some local villagers decide to fight back.
The Naked Ape Trailer (1973)
01 August 1973
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do.
A Doll's House Trailer (1973)
16 August 1973
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. A modern version of Ibsen's play.
Tiffany Jones Trailer (1973)
16 August 1973
Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein.
Semidokyumento henshitsu-sha Trailer (1973)
01 August 1973
Pinku from 1973.
La ragazza fuoristrada Trailer (1973)
11 August 1973
An Italian photojournalist falls madly in love with a young black women he meets while on assignment in Egypt.
Sexy Playgirls Trailer (1973)
23 August 1973
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USDA Systems Modernization: Management and Oversight Improvements Are Needed
GAO-11-586: Published: Jul 20, 2011. Publicly Released: Jul 20, 2011.
The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) is responsible for administering billions of dollars annually in program benefits to farmers and ranchers. Since 2004, FSA has been planning to modernize its information technology (IT) systems that process these benefits with the Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agricultural Systems (MIDAS) program. GAO was asked...
Horse Welfare: Action Needed to Address Unintended Consequences from Cessation of Domestic Slaughter
GAO-11-228: Published: Jun 22, 2011. Publicly Released: Jun 22, 2011.
Since fiscal year 2006, Congress has annually prohibited the use of federal funds to inspect horses destined for food, effectively prohibiting domestic slaughter. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responsible for overseeing the welfare of horses transported for slaughter. Congress directed GAO to examine horse welfare since cessation of domestic slaughter in 2007. GAO examined (1) the e...
Rural Housing Service: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Farm Labor Housing Program Management and Oversight
GAO-11-329: Published: Mar 30, 2011. Publicly Released: Mar 30, 2011.
Congress created the Farm Labor Housing (FLH) Loan and Grant Program in the early 1960s to support the development of affordable housing for farm workers. In 2010, Congress appropriated $19.7 million for this program, which is administered by the Rural Housing Service (RHS) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). GAO was asked to examine (1) demand for the FLH program; (2) RHS's processes fo...
Federal Food Safety Oversight: Food Safety Working Group Is a Positive First Step but Governmentwide Planning Is Needed to Address Fragmentation
GAO-11-289: Published: Mar 18, 2011. Publicly Released: Mar 18, 2011.
For more than a decade, GAO has reported on the fragmented nature of federal food safety oversight and how it results in inconsistent oversight, ineffective coordination, and inefficient use of resources. In 2007, GAO added this issue to its high-risk list. In March 2009, the President established the Food Safety Working Group (FSWG) to coordinate federal efforts and establish food safety goals to...