[New-Poetry] Talking Points -- SHOCKLEY and FOSTER

[Anny Ballardini]

for those who cannot attend it would be interesting to listen to a recording or find a page with some excerpts or the same papers, thanks!
  From: amy king 
  Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:29 PM


  Evie Shockley and Tonya Foster discuss Juliana Spahr's and Stephenie Young's Chicago Review essay, "Numbers Trouble," at Delirious Hem
  [http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2008/02/dim-sum-tonya-foster-evie-shockley.html ] --- 

  Excerpts:

  …I am arguing that avant-garde poetics need not be defined in opposition to either a discernable engagement with politics in the work or an interest in audience(s). Where did this avant-garde poetry/political poetry divide come from anyway? What motivated the surrealists? What motivated Dada? The high modernists? The Beats? The Language poets? Or should I be asking what distinguishes these politically motivated aesthetic movements from the New Negro Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Nuyorican arts movement? And how does the most obvious answer to this last question relate to the notion of “a more radical feminism” and the intervention it could make in the world (of poetry)?



  ….I love Retallack’s concept of “pragmatically hybrid poetry communities” both because it seems grounded in immediate action and because it suggests the importance of seeking and forming alliances that don’t rely upon a mandated (false) unity around every possible issue of politics and aesthetics that might be raised.
   
  …Can we accept and act on the idea that “transform[ing] the circumstances or conditions of others” may deeply involve transforming who we are and how we occupy the world (of poetry)?

  ---From “Dim Sum: Tonya Foster & Evie Shockley — Braiding: ConVERSations: To, Against, For” 
  [ http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2008/02/dim-sum-tonya-foster-evie-shockley.html ] 

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