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Vow to Poetry

Vow to Poetry is a trumpet call from our most iconoclastic poet that tears down the walls of prescribed creative processes. This stimulating mix of autobiography, interviews, and essays reveals a life possessed by the muse. You've seen the "safe" versions, now comes this unconventional, irreverent, transgressive volume.

Anne Waldman ran the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York for over a decade. She is the co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches and directs the Master of Fine Arts program in Writing and Poetics.

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Author's Note, 13

Prelude: "My Long & Only Afterlife", 15

Feminafesto, 19

My Life a List, 23

Oppositional Poetics, 48

That Light Is Sandino, 49

Managua Sketches, 51

Seeing What Happens (Interview with Joyce Jenkins) , 54

Kali Yuga Poetics: A Manifesto, 60

"Take Me to Your Poets!", 74

Loom Down the Thorough Narrow, 81

Hermeneutical (Light to Read By), 91

Vow to Poetry (Conversation with Randy Roark), 96

Sikelianos's Delphic Idea: Site & Poetic Legacy, 123

Hags, Nuns, & Magpie Scholars, 135

The Outrider Legacy (Interview with Mark DuCharme), 142

Poetry as Siddhi, 155

Noösphere & the Six Realms, 167

I Is Another: Dissipative Structures, 173

The Talisman Interview (Interview with Edward Foster), 192

Warring God Charnel Ground, 205

Deviant Identities, 213

Minstrel Bard, 228

Last Days, Hours, 230

Burroughs: Hurry Up. It's Time, 235

Go-Between Between, 238

Grasping the Broom More Tightly Now (Interview with Eric Lorberer), 247

Creative Writing Life [Reading/Writing/Performance] Experiments, 247

Alphabetic Tesserae, 262

Epic & Performance, 266

"Surprise Each Other": The Art of Collaboration (Interview with Lisa Birman), 272

Spare Us Your Epiphanies, 280

Marriage Marriage: A Sentence Sentence, 283

Muse, 286

My Life a Book, 289

Acknowledgements, 292

Selected Bibliography, 295

Oppositional Poetics

"wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?"-Hölderlin from "Bread & Wine"

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  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 377
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781566891127
  • Genres
  • poetry, criticism
  • Release date
  • 2001