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Addison Street Poetry Walk
THE ADDISON STREET ANTHOLOGY BERKELEY'S POETRY WALK EDITED BY ROBERT HASS AND JESSICA FISHER HEYDAY BOOKS BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction I NORTH SIDE of ADDISON STREET, from SHATTUCK to MILVIA Untitled, Ohlone song 18 Untitled, Yana song 20 Untitied, anonymous Chinese immigrant 22 Copa de oro (The California Poppy), Ina Coolbrith 24 Triolet, Jack London 26 The Black Vulture, George Sterling 28 Carmel Point, Robinson Jeffers 30 Lovers, Witter Bynner 32 Drinking Alone with the Moon, Li Po, translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu 34 Time Out, Genevieve Taggard 36 Moment, Hildegarde Flanner 38 Andree Rexroth, Kenneth Rexroth 40 Summer, the Sacramento, Muriel Rukeyser 42 Reason, Josephine Miles 44 There Are Many Pathways to the Garden, Philip Lamantia 46 Winter Ploughing, William Everson 48 The Structure of Rime II, Robert Duncan 50 A Textbook of Poetry, 21, Jack Spicer 52 Cups #5, Robin Blaser 54 Pre-Teen Trot, Helen Adam , 56 A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, Allen Ginsberg 58 The Plum Blossom Poem, Gary Snyder 60 Song, Michael McClure 62 Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher, Barbara Guest 64 from Cold Mountain Poems, Han Shan, translated by Gary Snyder 66 Untitled, Larry Eigner 68 from Notebook, Denise Levertov 70 Untitied, Osip Mandelstam, translated by Robert Tracy 72 Dying In, Peter Dale Scott 74 The Night Piece, Thorn Gunn 76 from The Tempest, William Shakespeare 78 Prologue to Epicoene, Ben Jonson 80 from Our Town, Thornton Wilder 82 Epilogue to The Good Woman of Szechwan, Bertolt Brecht, translated by Eric Bentley 84 from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide I When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange 86 from Hydriotaphia, Tony Kushner 88 Spring Harvest of Snow Peas, Maxine Hong Kingston 90 Untitled, Sappho, translated by Jim Powell 92 The Child on the Shore, Ursula K. -
April 2005 Updrafts
Chaparral from the California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc. serving Californiaupdr poets for over 60 yearsaftsVolume 66, No. 3 • April, 2005 President Ted Kooser is Pulitzer Prize Winner James Shuman, PSJ 2005 has been a busy year for Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. On April 7, the Pulitzer commit- First Vice President tee announced that his Delights & Shadows had won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. And, Jeremy Shuman, PSJ later in the week, he accepted appointment to serve a second term as Poet Laureate. Second Vice President While many previous Poets Laureate have also Katharine Wilson, RF Winners of the Pulitzer Prize receive a $10,000 award. Third Vice President been winners of the Pulitzer, not since 1947 has the Pegasus Buchanan, Tw prize been won by the sitting laureate. In that year, A professor of English at the University of Ne- braska-Lincoln, Kooser’s award-winning book, De- Fourth Vice President Robert Lowell won— and at the time the position Eric Donald, Or was known as the Consultant in Poetry to the Li- lights & Shadows, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2004. Treasurer brary of Congress. It was not until 1986 that the po- Ursula Gibson, Tw sition became known as the Poet Laureate Consult- “I’m thrilled by this,” Kooser said shortly after Recording Secretary ant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. the announcement. “ It’s something every poet dreams Lee Collins, Tw The 89th annual prizes in Journalism, Letters, of. There are so many gifted poets in this country, Corresponding Secretary Drama and Music were announced by Columbia Uni- and so many marvelous collections published each Dorothy Marshall, Tw versity. -
George Oppen Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7f59p2k1 No online items George Oppen Papers Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Copyright 2005 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 [email protected] URL: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/index.html George Oppen Papers MSS 0016 1 Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: George Oppen Papers Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0016 Physical Description: 15 Linear feet(34 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 map case folder) Date (inclusive): 1958-1984 Abstract: Literary papers of George Oppen (1908-1984), objectivist poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969. Materials range in date from 1958-1984 and include correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts for all the poems contained in Oppen's nine published books, drafts and fragments of unpublished poems, typescripts of published and unpublished essays, and interviews, translations, and reviews of Oppen's work. Scope and Content of Collection Literary papers of George Oppen (1908-1984), objectivist poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969. Materials range in date from 1958-1984 and include manuscripts and typescripts for all the poems contained in Oppen's nine published books, drafts and fragments of unpublished poems, typescripts of published and unpublished essays, transcripts of Oppen's verse, and copies of reviews of Oppen's work. Of special interest are loose leaf pages of notes, and Oppen's personal daybooks, all of which help to reveal his thinking about diverse subjects. -
Lorine Niedecker's Personal Library of Books: A
LORINE NIEDECKER’S PERSONAL LIBRARY OF BOOKS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY Margot Peters Adams, Brooks. The Law of Civilization and Decay. New York: Vintage Books, 1955. Adéma, Marcel. Apollinaire, trans, Denise Folliot. London: Heineman, 1954. Aldington, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). Heliodora and Other Poems. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1924. Aldington, Richard, ed. The Religion of Beauty: Selections from the Aesthetes. London: Heineman, 1950. Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. New York: Random House, 1950. Allen, Donald M., ed. The New American Poetry: 1945-1960. New York: Grove Press, 1960. Allen, Glover Morrill. Birds and Their Attributes. New York: Dover, 1962. Alvarez, A. The School of Donne. New York: Mentor, 1967. Anderson, Charles R. Emily Dickinson’s Poetry: Stairway of Surprise. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960. Anderson, Sherwood. Six Mid-American Chants. Photos by Art Sinsabaugh. Highlands, N.C.: Jargon Press, 1964. Arnett, Willard E. Santayana and the Sense of Beauty. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1957. Arnold, Matthew. Passages from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold, ed. William E. Buckler, New York: New York University Press, 1963. Saint Augustine. The Confessions. New York: Pocket Books, n.d. Aurelius, Marcus (Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus). Meditations. London: Dent, 1948. Bacon, Francis. Essays and the New Atlantis, ed. Gordon S. Haight. New York: Van Nostrand, 1942. Basho. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa. Baltimore: Penguin, 1966. 1 Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil. New York: New Directions, 1958. Beard, Charles A. & Mary R. Beard. The Rise of American Civilization. New York: Macmillan, 1939. Bell, Margaret. Margaret Fuller: A Biography. -
Rhetoric of Silence in American Studies Retoryka Ciszy - Perspektywa Amerykanistyczna 7 (4) 2020 EDITORS: KATARZYNA MOLEK-KOZAKOWSKA, KLARA SZMAŃKO
ISSN: 2392-3113 Rhetoric of Silence in American Studies Retoryka ciszy - perspektywa amerykanistyczna 7 (4) 2020 EDITORS: KATARZYNA MOLEK-KOZAKOWSKA, KLARA SZMAŃKO JACEK PARTYKA UNIVERSITY OF BIAŁYSTOK https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6138 [email protected] Charles Reznikoff and the Rhetoric of Witnessing through Silence Charles Reznikoff i retoryka dawania świadectwa poprzez ciszę Abstract The article considers the poetry of Objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff as informed by the frequent use of rhetoric of silence. The analysis is two-fold: fi rst, it explains the two theoretical key terms, sincerity and objectifi cation, as distinct features of the Objectivist verse, which are crucial in the thematic framework of the analysis, and, second, it gives examples of the practical use thereof by Reznikoff, who is viewed as the poet-witness. Artykuł omawia poezję Charlesa Reznikoffa, amerykańskiego obiektywisty, w świetle zastosowania w niej retoryki ciszy. Analiza jest dwutorowa: po pierwsze, objaśnia znaczenie dwóch ujętych teoretycznie elementarnych składników poezji obiektywistycznej – rzetelności i obiektywizacji – jako niezbędnych w kontekście poruszanej problematyki; po drugie, przedstawia kilka analiz wybranych wierszy Reznikoffa, który określany jest jako poeta-świadek. Key words rhetoric of silence, Charles Reznikoff, Objectivists, sincerity, objectifi cation, witnessing, silence retoryka ciszy, Charles Reznikoff, rzetelność, obiektywizacja, bycie świadkiem, cisza License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international (CC BY 4.0). The content of the license is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Received: July 6, 2020 | Accepted: November 10, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2020.4.8 Res Rhetorica, ISSN 2392-3113, 7 (4) 2020, p. -
George Oppen and Lyn Hejinian
6O I rnr HUMANITIES REVIEW SPR]NG 201I pETER NrcHoLLs NUMERousNEss AND rrs Drscor{TENTS I 6l dates her interest in Oppen back to 1968, and it's clear from this material that she returned to a concentrated study of his work in the early nineties.2 The lecture, Numerousness and Its called originally'O s Affirmation'and subsequently retitled 'The Numerousi remains unpublished, but in 1998 Hejinian produced two other essays, 'Barbarism'and'Rea- Discontents: George Oppen sonl which also take Oppen as a major point of reference for her own meditations on philosophical and phenomenological conceptions of community or'numer- and Lyn Hejinian ousnessi to use Oppen's term.3 His work continues to act as a primary touchstone for Hejinian, as was clear at the 2002 Modernist Studies Association conference in Madison when she gave a paper titled'George Oppen and the Space of Appear- ancei Peter Nicholls , New York Uruversrty ln recent years, Hejinian's fascination with Oppen's work has focussed in- striking feature of Lyn Hejinian's recent work has creasingly on his long serial poem'Of Being Numerous'(she gave a whole course been her development of a series of terms which at the University of lowa based around this text in 1997). This was the title poem permeates both her poetic and critical writings: of the volume which brought Oppen the Pulitzer prize in 1969 and it remains, for words such as'incipiencei 'borderi 'reasoni dilemmai tontexti most readers, his best The Hmeities neview known work.'Of Being Numerousi which builds upon an ear, 'aporial and bccurrence' are deployed to create a termino- Volume g, lssue I lier poem called A Language of New York', has many interrelated concerns: in forty logical matrix in which ideas from theorists such as Hannah Spring 20 I I pp rjo-83 short sections it ranges over life in the contemporary metropolis. -
Charles Reznikoff Papers
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0s2004ng No online items Charles Reznikoff Papers Finding aid prepared by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California, 92093-0175 858-534-2533 [email protected] Copyright 2005 Charles Reznikoff Papers MSS 0009 1 Descriptive Summary Title: Charles Reznikoff Papers Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0009 Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California, 92093-0175 Languages: English Physical Description: 9.7 Linear feet(26 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder) Date (inclusive): 1912-1976 Abstract: The papers of a distinguished American literary figure. Reznikoff was a prolific writer of poetry, prose, essays, and chronicler of Judaism and the American Jewish experience. He worked both as an editor and contributing author on The Menorah Journal and Family Chronicle, and was in close association with such noted writers as Ezra Pound, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams. The correspondence, which provides documentation of the literary community of 40s, 50s, and 60s America, as well as providing insights into Reznikoff's personal life, includes letters from Robert Creeley, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, George Oppen, John Perlman, Willilam Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky. Also included are the various exchanges between Reznikoff and his numerous publishers. The bulk of the collection consists of Reznikoff's writings, ranging from original source materials up to finished typescripts, and includes thousands of pages of revisions. Most of the materials in the collection date from the 1940's to the early 1970's. The 1989 addition to the Reznikoff papers consists primarily of letters written by Reznikoff to his wife Marie Syrkin between 1928 and 1939. -
The Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetic Speaker in the Works of Robert Lowell, Frank O’Hara, and George Oppen
“THE OCCASION OF THESE RUSES”: THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN POETIC SPEAKER IN THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOWELL, FRANK O’HARA, AND GEORGE OPPEN A dissertation submitted by Matthew C. Nelson In partial fulfillment for the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In English TUFTS UNIVERSITY May 2016 ADVISER: VIRGINIA JACKSON Abstract This dissertation argues for a new history of mid-twentieth-century American poetry shaped by the emergence of the figure of the poetic speaker as a default mode of reading. Now a central fiction of lyric reading, the figure of the poetic speaker developed gradually and unevenly over the course of the twentieth century. While the field of historical poetics draws attention to alternative, non-lyric modes of address, this dissertation examines how three poets writing in this period adapted the normative fiction of the poetic speaker in order to explore new modes of address. By choosing three mid-century poets who are rarely studied beside one another, this dissertation resists the aesthetic factionalism that structures most historical models of this period. My first chapter, “Robert Lowell’s Crisis of Reading: The Confessional Subject as the Culmination of the Romantic Tradition of Poetry,” examines the origins of M.L. Rosenthal’s phrase “confessional poetry” and analyzes how that the autobiographical effect of Robert Lowell’s poetry emerges from a strange, collage-like construction of multiple texts and non- autobiographical subjects. My second chapter reads Frank O’Hara’s poetry as a form of intentionally averted communication that treats the act of writing as a surrogate for the poet’s true object of desire. -
Poem on the Page: a Collection of Broadsides
Granary Books and Jeff Maser, Bookseller are pleased to announce Poem on the Page: A Collection of Broadsides Robert Creeley. For Benny and Sabina. 15 1/8 x 15 1/8 inches. Photograph by Ann Charters. Portents 18. Portents, 1970. BROADSIDES PROLIFERATED during the small press and mimeograph era as a logical offshoot of poets assuming control of their means of publication. When technology evolved from typewriter, stencil, and mimeo machine to moveable type and sophisticated printing, broadsides provided a site for innovation with design and materials that might not be appropriate for an entire pamphlet or book; thus, they occupy a very specific place within literary and print culture. Poem on the Page: A Collection of Broadsides includes approximately 500 broadsides from a diverse range of poets, printers, designers, and publishers. It is a unique document of a particular aspect of the small press movement as well as a valuable resource for research into the intersection of poetry and printing. See below for a list of some of the poets, writers, printers, typographers, and publishers included in the collection. Selected Highlights from the Collection Lewis MacAdams. A Birthday Greeting. 11 x 17 Antonin Artaud. Indian Culture. 16 x 24 inches. inches. This is no. 90, from an unstated edition, Translated from the French by Clayton Eshleman signed. N.p., n.d. and Bernard Bador with art work by Nancy Spero. This is no. 65 from an edition of 150 numbered and signed by Eshleman and Spero. OtherWind Press, n.d. Lyn Hejinian. The Guard. 9 1/4 x 18 inches. -
Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth
Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature Brandeis Series in American Jewish History,Culture, and Life Jonathan D. Sarna, Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor Leon A. Jick, The Americanization of the Synagogue, – Sylvia Barack Fishman, editor, Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction Gerald Tulchinsky, Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community Shalom Goldman, editor, Hebrew and the Bible in America: The First Two Centuries Marshall Sklare, Observing America’s Jews Reena Sigman Friedman, These Are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, – Alan Silverstein, Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, – Jack Wertheimer, editor, The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed Sylvia Barack Fishman, A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community Diane Matza, editor, Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy Joyce Antler, editor, Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture Jack Wertheimer, A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America Beth S. Wenger and Jeffrey Shandler, editors, Encounters with the “Holy Land”: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture David Kaufman, Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-Center” in American Jewish History Roberta Rosenberg Farber and Chaim I. Waxman,editors, Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader Murray Friedman and Albert D. Chernin, editors, A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews Stephen J. Whitfield, In Search of American Jewish Culture Naomi W.Cohen, Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership Barbara Kessel, Suddenly Jewish: Jews Raised as Gentiles Jonathan N. Barron and Eric Murphy Selinger, editors, Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections Steven T.Rosenthal, Irreconcilable Differences: The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel Pamela S. -
Survival's Thin, Thin Radiance: George Oppen's Post
Eric Hoffman “Survival’s Thin, Thin Radiance”: George Oppen’s Post-War Poetics In 1958, the year the Oppens' exile in Mexico came to end, George Oppen’s wife Mary began seeing a therapist due to ongoing depression resulting from what she describes as marital strain.1 Oppen also attended and during one session told the therapist of a dream he'd had of going through his father's papers after his father's death, and finding a file marked 'How to prevent Rust in Copper.' He doubted that his father, however “frivolous” he may have found him, would believe that copper rusts. For some reason, Oppen found this dream quite funny and, upon waking, began to laugh hysterically. “When he told the doctor the dream,” Mary recalls, “laughing again at its ridiculousness, the doctor stopped him, 'You were dreaming that you don't want to rust,' he said. On the way home George stopped and bought a pad of paper and some pencils and started to write” (MAL, 202). Oppen sometimes recalls this story a bit differently, noting that he did not immediately set out to write after hearing the therapist's interpretation. In a letter from 1966 he describes how he was driving somewhere the following morning, and found myself swerving the car from one side of the road to the other - - - - deliberately - - and howling with laughter, actually swaying from side to side on the seat, howling with laughter and swerving the car from side to side of an empty road - -. And it was one of those startlingly witty dreams; I was laughing at a small thing in the dream, and one which was not really very funny. -
ENGL 3852 Topics in Poetics W. Scott Howard 'After' Objectivism English
ENGL 3852 Topics in Poetics W. Scott Howard ‘After’ Objectivism English & Literary Arts Winter Quarter, 2018 [email protected] T & Th 10:00 – 11:50 https://portfolio.du.edu/showard Sie Complex 1110 SH 387-E / 303-871-2887 Description: This course concerns selected works by William Carlos Williams, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, William Bronk, Susan Howe, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Fred Moten, and Lucy Ives, which we will study within and against the so-called Objectivist tradition, following their paths into artistic, cultural, and philosophical / theoretical / political contexts (c. 1931-present). Assignments will include a variety of individual and collaborative works blending creativity, research, and critique. Books: William Bronk. Life Supports: New and Collected Poems . Jersey City: Talisman, 1997. Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Surge: Drafts 96-114 . Cromer, UK: Salt, 2013. [Dana Gioia, ed. Twentieth-Century American Poetics . Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004.] Selected PDFs. Susan Howe. Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives . New York: New Directions, 2014. Lucy Ives. Orange Roses . Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2013. Fred Moten. The Little Edges . Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2014. Lorine Niedecker. Collected Works . Berkeley: University of California, 2002. George Oppen. Selected Poems . New York: New Directions, 2003. William Carlos Williams. Paterson . New York: New Directions, 1992. Invitations: Three Écrits @ 40% (5-7 pages each) Two Assemblages @ 20% (2-3 pages each) One Research Project* @ 40% (10-12 pages or the equivalent, depending upon media) * One Project involving research. Open topic, media, form and style. The project should engage in some way with your selection of materials from our studies, and should also address contexts and works beyond that scope.