Comments on: DURA

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:36:11 +0000

Why is Brigit Pegeen Kelly's Yale prize book so scarce?

By: Ken Chen

Ken Chen — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:19:48 +0000

Cathy!
I’m glad you’ve posted about this. One of the things we’ve been trying to do at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop has been to bring attention to writers that the general readership might not have otherwise heard of. As you and I have discussed, I’ve been trying to bring in writers with more avant-garde sensibilities (or at least writers that might not normally be thought of as Asian American, not that these two classifications are synonymous), such as you, Myung and Tan, John Yau, Shanxing Wang, Brenda Shaugnessy, Tao Lin, and others. I hope these readings start to expose more people to their work.
Stephen – in my intro, I referred to you as one of the most intelligent young literature professors in the country!
To slip off my organization-suit a second, what struck me when hearing Myung reading from DURA was its similarities to Inger Christensen’s IT and it occurred to me that, while most works of experimental poetics seek to unsettle language at the expense of diluting subject matter, IT and DURA both avail themselves of both a highly traditional but dispersed form (cosmography–cf., genesis, etc.) that is at once intrinsically world-full while also lacking in the obligation to focus on the world, say, in the way that a conventional anecdotal narrative poem would. In other words, DURA is a poem at once narratively opaque but still being “about” an engagement with the world.
Blah!

By: Barbara Jane Reyes

Barbara Jane Reyes — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:55:20 +0000

I think Walter Lew’s anthology Premonitions has been out of print. I’d love to see that again.

By: Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:52:49 +0000

Stephen Hong Sohn you trouble-maker!!!
Hey everyone, get your copy of DURA here: http://www.nightboat.org

By: Martha

Martha — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:37:27 +0000

Jack Gilbert’s older books are out of print and incredibly expensive and it’s a horrible shame.

By: Stephen Hong Sohn

Stephen Hong Sohn — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:06:48 +0000

I would love it if there was a reissue of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe! Let’s find a way =).

By: Don Share

Don Share — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:11:16 +0000

Paul, try this: http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/jubilate/

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:55:39 +0000

Is there any reasonable way to get a hold of Christopher Smart’s “Jubilate Agno”?
I’m tempted to steal my library’s copy–but I’m worried that that will just make this gem more esoteric–
Though everyone seems to have read “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey”–
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For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
…
Maybe it’s hidden in a readily available Collected–I’ll feel happy, and kind of dumb for not having noticed it, to know–

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:13:42 +0000

It’s fixed! I’m a luddite.

By: Carol Peters

Carol Peters — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:38:42 +0000

All the links are broken.