Vow to Poetry

by Anne Waldman

Overview

A trumpet call from our most iconoclastic poet that tears down the walls of prescribed creative processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566891127
Publisher:	Coffee House Press
Publication date:	06/01/2001
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	377
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Anne Waldman is an internationally renowned poet, performer, and Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action and the author of over forty books, including In the Room of Never Grieve and Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos.

Table of Contents

	Author's Note	15
	Prelude: "My Long and Only Afterlife"	17
	Feminafesto	21
	My Life a List	25
	Oppositional Poetics	51
	That Light Is Sandino	53
	Managua Sketches	55
	Seeing What Happens (Interview with Joyce Jenkins)	59
	Kali Yuga Poetics: A Manifesto	65
	"Take Me to Your Poets!"	81
	Loom Down the Thorough Narrow	89
	Hermeneutical (Light to Read By)	101
	Vow to Poetry (Conversation with Randy Roark)	107
	Sikelianos's Delphic Idea: Site & Poetic Legacy	137
	Hags, Nuns, & Magpie Scholars	149
	The Outrider Legacy (Interview with Mark DuCharme)	157
	Poetry as Siddhi	171
	Noosphere & the Six Realms	185
	"I Is Another": Dissipative Structures	193
	Excerpt from The Talisman Interview (Interview with Edward Foster)	215
	Warring God Charnel Ground	229
	Deviant Identities	239
	Minstrel Bard	255
	Last Days, Hours	259
	Burroughs: "Hurry Up. It's Time."	265
	Go-Between Between	269
	Grasping the Broom More Tightly Now (Interview with Eric Lorberer)	281
	Creative Writing Life [Reading / Writing / Performing] Experiments	297
	Alphabetic Tesserae	307
	Epic & Performance	311
	"Surprise Each Other": The Art of Collaboration (Interview with Lisa Birman)	319
	Spare Us Your Epiphanies	329
	Marriage Marriage: A Sentence Sentence	333
	Muse	337
	My Life a Book	341
	Acknowledgments	345
	Selected Bibliography & Resources	349
	Sites	353
	Index	355

Editorial Reviews

Like her epic Iovis, which incorporates 12 languages, Anne Waldman's Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews & Manifestos draws on intersections of the foreign with the familiar, crossed with Waldman's "skewed associational mathematics" and Buddhist present-moment sensibilities. The Post-Beat luminary and activist, co-founder of the Saint Mark's Poetry Project and (with Allen Ginsberg) the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute opens the book with her visit to Hanoi in 2000; it's followed by Feminafesto ("I never promised domestic bliss") and a Socratic Rap with Questions & Answers from 1976. The book's nonchronological, associative tumble varies genre (poetry is included in various pieces), form, subject (Colorado's Amendment 2 criminalizing homosexual sex; Buddhist poetics; her last days with Ginsberg) or ambiguity thereof, and references Keats, Stein, Schuyler, Pound, Hejinian and on and on. "Language... arrives, it manifests, it is a relationship," she declares, describing her own work and providing a how-to of sorts for writers of all stations and affiliations. (July) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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