[New-Poetry] Nat'l Book Critics Nominations

[Anny Ballardini]

my momentary product:

Nam June Paik (1932-2006)

http://www.ubu.com/film/paik.html

01: Nam June Paik – Zen For Films (1962-64)

 

 

uncorrupted metaphysical screen

white on black

rectangle inside a rectangle

immobile

the screen is a screen

the screen reproduced 

on the same screen

 

Derek Jarman’s Blue is spoken

you can see his life unfolding

his visual voice leading

the nostalgic thickness of cobalt blue

 

Nam June Paik’s lack of soundtrack

freezes in 

expectation

an imploded Zen

 

_but Zen can't be exploded_ 

or forced

Zen is Zen

 

Kitasono Katue’s Monotonous Space

breaks its fixed pattern with other colors

monotonous offers an emotional quality

 

Paik’s soundless stillness is stoic

even brilliant rhetoric 

from regret to a callback of neglect

lack of glee tight in its lack of weight

white etched in black

stuck in eternal glitch caught in the net

a tent clinging in vortical twirls

blinding glitter blurring lines

a nit without whirr

in nature a twig

in ether 

a white 

static 

wing 

 

 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anny Ballardini 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Nat'l Book Critics Nominations


  Here's my Bob!
  Talking of being bored, I know this is fluxus I know this is Nam June Paik, I know tha tI know and then I even know better and I might try to write something impressive on it, still, if you have the possiblity click here:
  http://www.ubu.com/film/paik.html
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Bob Grumman 
    To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
    Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:10 PM
    Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Nat'l Book Critics Nominations


    I thought I'd post a yawn to the NBCC poetry nominations to help reassure Anny, who's worried about us, that at least some of us are still around and the same as ever.

    --Bob

    JforJames at aol.com wrote: 
      http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/

      Poetry nods to the international scene include books by poet Tadeusz Rozewicz (New Poems, Archipelago), with other finalists including Mary Jo Bang (Elegy, Graywolf) and Michael O’Brien (Sleeping and Waking, Flood). 

      Poetry
      Mary Jo Bang, Elegy, Graywolf
      Matthea Harvey, Modern Life, Graywolf
      Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking, Flood
      Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, Flood
      Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago


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