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UbuWeb Top Ten for Feb by Christian Wiman
1. Christopher Logue – “This is the final statement…” (1934-35) [MP3 link](From Aspen 7)
2. John Tavener – For Rene Magritte [MP3 link] (From Aspen 7)
3. Ed Dorn – from Gunslinger, Book 4 [MP3 link] (From Giorno Poetry Systems – Totally Corrupt )
4. UbuWeb Podcast – Women of the Avant Garde Part 2 [MP3 link] (Ubu Podcast Page)
5. Indonesian Ketjack
6. Laurie Anderson – Difficult Listening Hour (from The Kitchen Presents Two Moon July [1986] )
7. Ian Hamilton Finlay – Fisherman’s Cross (Finlay’s page on Ubu)
8. Works by Alexander Scriabin (From Aspen 2)
9. John Baldessari: Some Stories (1990)
10. Susan Sontag – The Aesthetics of Silence From Aspen 5 + 6)
Christian Wiman is the editor of Poetry. His new book of poems, Every Riven
Thing, will be published in November by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
UbuWeb can be found at http://ubu.com
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 by Kenneth Goldsmith.
Comments (3)
Great! More audio files for dull gym hours.
Monkey exorcists by the hundreds! I’ll be chewing up the Sontag with apres-diner, um (glances around) apples and pipes. Thanx 4 the linx – good to get around a bit away from one’s own beaten trax.
P
Thanks SO much. Some of the most interesting thought pieces offered hereabouts in months.
The Sontag piece is a gem. Her rare ability to “think.” And a potent reminder of what Bergman was doing in ‘The Silence’ — both manipulation, and the reach for what is beynd language. What the spirit wants to hold and say and cannot. Also useful and memorable to me is, this quote :” the efficacious art work leaves silence in its wake.” This puts the lie to works that babble and leave babble in their wake. what a huge difference.
Again, many thanks for these.
margo