Comments on: Being Here http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Incognito http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25304 Incognito Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:14:53 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25304 No, great to link so Spahr. More thoughts in process please, more entanglements and wonder and less polish. Though that seems to garner many thumbs down around here. No, great to link so Spahr. More thoughts in process please, more entanglements and wonder and less polish. Though that seems to garner many thumbs down around here.
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]]> By: csperez http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25303 csperez Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:03:43 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25303 to add: stephen vincent's poetry collection 'walking theory' is fab. bay area in the house! http://junctionpress.com/books/vincentwalkingtheory.html to add: stephen vincent’s poetry collection ‘walking theory’ is fab. bay area in the house!

http://junctionpress.com/books/vincentwalkingtheory.html
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]]> By: Joel Brouwer http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25301 Joel Brouwer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:21:55 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25301 Yar! That is it the very same. Thank you, Daniel! And duh, I should have known that, since I have reviews in that same issue of Lana Turner. Duh. Can't keep track of everything, I guess. The aforementioned Rukeyser shout-out, by the way, comes at the beginning of the epilogue. As Daniel already knows, it's quite remarkable to hear Juliana perform this piece in person. She reads with great fluency, but also with startling speed. The effect is I guess I'd say immersive. Sort of the way reading Stein out loud can become immersive. Yar! That is it the very same. Thank you, Daniel! And duh, I should have known that, since I have reviews in that same issue of Lana Turner. Duh. Can’t keep track of everything, I guess.

The aforementioned Rukeyser shout-out, by the way, comes at the beginning of the epilogue.

As Daniel already knows, it’s quite remarkable to hear Juliana perform this piece in person. She reads with great fluency, but also with startling speed. The effect is I guess I’d say immersive. Sort of the way reading Stein out loud can become immersive.
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]]> By: Daniel http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25300 Daniel Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:53:23 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25300 If the (great) Chillicothe poem is the same one Juliana Spahr read when I saw her in Chicago it can be found "here": http://lanaturnerjournal.com/article.php?article=juliana_spahr If the (great) Chillicothe poem is the same one Juliana Spahr read when I saw her in Chicago it can be found “here”:
http://lanaturnerjournal.com/article.php?article=juliana_spahr
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]]> By: Jill http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25298 Jill Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:06:14 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25298 One step ahead of you, Joel! One step ahead of you, Joel!
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]]> By: Joel Brouwer http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25296 Joel Brouwer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:03:07 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25296 Jill, I was totally going to mention Sebald and am so glad you did. That map is fantastic! Someone should do the same for Austerlitz. Jill, I was totally going to mention Sebald and am so glad you did. That map is fantastic! Someone should do the same for Austerlitz.
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]]> By: Jill http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25295 Jill Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:55:01 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25295 One of my favorite melancholy strollers (don't think of a sad baby-buggy trudging down the sidewalk! Don't!!) is W.G. Sebald. Here's a map of Sebald's walks through Rings of Saturn: http://barbarahui.net/litmap/ One of my favorite melancholy strollers (don’t think of a sad baby-buggy trudging down the sidewalk! Don’t!!) is W.G. Sebald. Here’s a map of Sebald’s walks through Rings of Saturn:

http://barbarahui.net/litmap/
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]]> By: Don Share http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25294 Don Share Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:54:51 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25294 Both gems, Joel. And since it's Samuel Johnson's 300th b'day, maybe we should add Boswell's <i>Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides</i>. I guess <i>The Ode Less Travelled</i> doesn't count... Both gems, Joel. And since it’s Samuel Johnson’s 300th b’day, maybe we should add Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.

I guess The Ode Less Travelled doesn’t count…
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]]> By: Joel Brouwer http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25293 Joel Brouwer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:49:16 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25293 Terrific, Don. I feel inexorably moved to mention two more of my favorite wanderweggers. Rebecca Solnit http://books.google.com/books?id=DT-yAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Rebecca+inauthor:Solnit&ei=eMezSvGxLovUNNHAuM4D Claudio Magris http://books.google.com/books?id=maJnAAAAMAAJ&q=claudio+magris&dq=claudio+magris&ei=8MezSouyKI6ENPqu5PsD Thrillers both. Terrific, Don. I feel inexorably moved to mention two more of my favorite wanderweggers.

Rebecca Solnit
http://books.google.com/books?id=DT-yAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Rebecca+inauthor:Solnit&ei=eMezSvGxLovUNNHAuM4D

Claudio Magris
http://books.google.com/books?id=maJnAAAAMAAJ&q=claudio+magris&dq=claudio+magris&ei=8MezSouyKI6ENPqu5PsD

Thrillers both.
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]]> By: Don Share http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25292 Don Share Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:21:27 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25292 The sage, said Dahlberg, is he who sits. The Hasids say it’s he who walks... Above by Peter Cole, from a feature forthcoming in the November issue of <i>Poetry</i> called, "The Poet Takes a Walk," featuring poets... well... walking through various landscapes. Another excerpt: "Walking is a way of remaining in place, or in a place, of leaving oneself to return to oneself, of upping the odds that surprise might flow through. Of giving one’s eyes something to do, so that the world within might be heard. During the years when walking was impossible, especially in this car-crowded city of hills and sprawl, when arthritic pain nailed me to my desk chair, the only way to feel that freshness was to walk through others’ lines and times, against the grain of my language. That was the pleasure of translation — of moving and being moved across a landscape into the foreign, and taking on form and sense as they shuttled between the eyes and ears and lips and tongue. Looking down the alleys of assonance, and into the crannies of consonance. There’s a glittering weed —or was that planted? — in any case, it’s shining. Let me bring that back with me, into an English weave. There’s a car bumper holding the sky. Now a breeze shifts over a knoll, rushing through a scrim of jasmine. Is that literature or is it life? How can I capture —no, create —no, capture —the pitch of that coolness and scent." Sorry for the plug, which was irresistable. Carry on. The sage, said Dahlberg, is he who sits. The Hasids say it’s he who walks…

Above by Peter Cole, from a feature forthcoming in the November issue of Poetry called, “The Poet Takes a Walk,” featuring poets… well… walking through various landscapes.

Another excerpt:

“Walking is a way of remaining in place, or in a place, of leaving oneself to return to oneself, of upping the odds that surprise might flow through. Of giving one’s eyes something to do, so that the world within might be heard.

During the years when walking was impossible, especially in this car-crowded city of hills and sprawl, when arthritic pain nailed me to my desk chair, the only way to feel that freshness was to walk through others’ lines and times, against the grain of my language. That was the pleasure of translation — of moving and being moved across a landscape into the foreign, and taking on form and sense as they shuttled between the eyes and ears and lips and tongue. Looking down the alleys of assonance, and into the crannies of consonance. There’s a glittering weed —or was that planted? — in any case, it’s shining. Let me bring that back with me, into an English weave. There’s a car bumper holding the sky. Now a breeze shifts over a knoll, rushing through a scrim of jasmine. Is that literature or is it life? How can I capture —no, create —no, capture —the pitch of that coolness and scent.”

Sorry for the plug, which was irresistable. Carry on.
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]]> By: Joel Brouwer http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25290 Joel Brouwer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:46:30 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25290 I know, right? But was it evil to link to that? I feel like I've outed somebody. But that's ridiculous, right? Right? I guess I'll just ask Juliana myself when I see her later today. I know, right? But was it evil to link to that? I feel like I’ve outed somebody. But that’s ridiculous, right?

Right?

I guess I’ll just ask Juliana myself when I see her later today.
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]]> By: Incognito http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25289 Incognito Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:20:09 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25289 Swoonrocket is a goldmine. Swoonrocket is a goldmine.
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]]> By: csperez http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25288 csperez Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:14:05 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25288 this will be vague also: but i love julianan spahr! her work rocks! c this will be vague also: but i love julianan spahr! her work rocks!

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]]> By: Travis Nichols http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25287 Travis Nichols Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:00:52 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25287 From <i>Edward Dorn: A World of Difference</i> by Tom Clark: “[Carl] Sauer, as Dorn knew, had recognized that creative writers—-from Herodotus down to W. H. Hudson, one of Dorn’s primary models of place-writing from the late 1950s on—-are often the best geographers.” From Edward Dorn: A World of Difference by Tom Clark: “[Carl] Sauer, as Dorn knew, had recognized that creative writers—-from Herodotus down to W. H. Hudson, one of Dorn’s primary models of place-writing from the late 1950s on—-are often the best geographers.”
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]]> By: Joel Brouwer http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25286 Joel Brouwer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:58:42 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25286 Wonky link, tho. Try this one: http://www.artopic.org/?p=223 Wonky link, tho. Try this one: http://www.artopic.org/?p=223
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]]> By: Joel Brouwer http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25285 Joel Brouwer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:56:22 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25285 Wow, John. How perfect is that! Wow, John. How perfect is that!
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]]> By: John Oliver Simon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/09/being-here/#comment-25284 John Oliver Simon Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:53:14 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=5135#comment-25284 On the border (one of many invisible fronteras dividing this sphere) between Berkeley and Oakland, there is an installation of nine eight-foot tall steel letters (artists: Steve Gillman and Katherine Keefer, URL: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=19660). On the Berkeley side, HERE. Onn the Oakland side (where there is no there there, Gertrude), THERE. On the border (one of many invisible fronteras dividing this sphere) between Berkeley and Oakland, there is an installation of nine eight-foot tall steel letters (artists: Steve Gillman and Katherine Keefer, URL: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=19660).

On the Berkeley side, HERE. Onn the Oakland side (where there is no there there, Gertrude), THERE.
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