Aaron Shurin : “The Work” : from Citizen : nominated for the 2013 Northern California Book Award in Poetry
HEARTS DESIRE READING SERIESThursday, May 16, 8PM @ 2141 Broadway in Oaklandwhen we welcomeGARRETT CAPLESD. SCOT MILLER& GIOVANNI SINGLETONPrevious HEARTS DESIRE readings are archived at :
Deleuze and Guattari Summer Reading Group | The Public School
“If you free it with too violent an action, if you blow apart the strata without taking precautions, then instead of drawing the plane you will be killed, plunged into a black hole, or even dragged toward catastrophe. Staying stratified—organized, signified, subjected— is not the worst that can happen; the worst that can happen is if you throw the strata into demented or suicidal collapse, which brings them back down on us heavier than ever.
connect-up brain tubes for conversive flow : starting May 22nd 5:30pm we will plan the trajectory of our traversal across the plane of schizoanalytic texts
Michael Cross -> "Becoming-Subject" in Myung Mi Kim's Dura
In fact, Kim insists that phenomena tend toward illegibility, and, as such, every act of attention, every effort of communication, stages the fact that “Parts agree disagree in single action.” With this in mind, the page morphs into a pixilated field “of particles hooked one to another,” and the effort of writing—“Letters a carving a chipping”—evolves into a physical struggle to interface with the “infinitesimally divisible” moment. As such, “listening” tracks legibility before it slips into predetermined scales of value in which “net worth,” “progress in learning,” and “signets to authenticity and foremost authority” struggle against the poet’s “provisional translation” of the forms of extension and experience. Rather than serve as an instrument “giving precision to ideas of size, distance, direction, and location,” the book is an instrument of imminence, a wax tablet provisionally registering “The transition from the stability and absoluteness of the world’s contents to their dissolution into motions and relations.” Subsequently, Kim’s poetry rests at the confluence of advent and entropy. Relation and repulsion comport, bonds hold only to register, and writing is the record of its listening as it performs the task of dissolution and critique. Or as Kim has it in “Pollen Fossil Record,” this is “The meaning of becoming a historical subject.”
While the poem listens-to/as/with-becoming, it remains a thing of parts, an “aggregate,” and as such depends on the interplay of its components to release something for the reader, to allow her to participate in the experience of becoming-subject (in terms of becoming-sovereign: both autonomous and subservient). Kim has a penchant for isolating the florescence of discrete moments (“white light after breath (circling the mouth)”), drawing our attention to the details of the fold, rehearsing her insistence on “Form as interplay of mobile elements, actuated by the ensemble of movements developed within it.”
Agambiny
another cool find from yesterday : a letterpressed (!!!) edition (one of those 70s publications they exported to Italian letterpress-power-houses) of Auden’s prefaced and selected poems of the great English lyricist Thomas Campion
from a little City Lights print I picked up yesterday of H.D.’s “Notes on Thought & Vision”
