tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post4992501787612193014..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Shaking the Pumpkin (2): Some Event PiecesJerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-35561563736217845692008-12-06T13:57:00.000-08:002008-12-06T13:57:00.000-08:00Just thinking of Jerry this afternoon. I posted t...Just thinking of Jerry this afternoon. I posted the following to the Poetry Archive at emule this morning:<BR/><BR/>A Poem on the Edge of Jerry Rothenberg <BR/><BR/><BR/>A poem <BR/>On the edge of Jerry Rothenberg <BR/><BR/>His conversation <BR/>Always inclusive <BR/>His poetics <BR/>Always open <BR/>To something <BR/>Else <BR/>to <BR/>Jackson MacLow… <BR/>Took Pound’s Cantos apart <BR/>Put the pieces of words back together <BR/>In the hall <BR/>Like a John Cage <BR/>Symphony <BR/>And/or <BR/>A. R. Ammons <BR/>Made poetry <BR/>A walk in the words <BR/>Where the spring comes up <BR/>Current beneath the feet <BR/>Surprise to the woods themselves <BR/><BR/><BR/>He said something about <BR/>Archie <BR/>Years ago <BR/>Made him part of our <BR/>Meaning his and my <BR/>Universes shared <BR/>Like a cup of coffee <BR/>Among friends <BR/>In the living room <BR/>Among friends <BR/><BR/>While we <BR/>Meaning she and I and our guests <BR/>And our children read his poetry <BR/>MacLow <BR/>In five voices <BR/>In our living room <BR/>At her sculpture exhibit <BR/>Everybody came <BR/>From our lives <BR/>Aleatory <BR/>Was my word <BR/>His method not method <BR/>A path leading away <BR/>From the beaten path <BR/>Let me be open <BR/>To poetry open to life to us <BR/>Meaning you and me and him and her and…Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12276494531008290424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-38858441336159576532008-11-19T14:00:00.000-08:002008-11-19T14:00:00.000-08:00I appreciate seeing these again. I can't say stron...I appreciate seeing these again. I can't say strongly enough how influential and important to me that "Shaking the Pumpkin" was, when I was reading it while in music school, in the late 70s. It strongly influenced some of the work I was doing with recorded text-sound poetry in the Electronic Music Studio at UM in Ann Arbor, as well as on WCBN-FM Ann Arbor at the same time. Safe to say I've worn through two copies since then. <BR/><BR/>It continues to be important, I think, for any poet who is interested in something more rooted than LangPo, and more grounded in all of life than the usual mainstream post-Confessional lyric. I still go back to it, and it still resonates.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.com