To begin ...

As the twentieth century fades out
the nineteenth begins
.......................................again
it is as if nothing happened
though those who lived it thought
that everything was happening
enough to name a world for & a time
to hold it in your hand
unlimited.......the last delusion
like the perfect mask of death

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg Rissman: Poems for the Millennium, volume 5: the Table of Contents (part two)


James Tilly Matthews, The Air-Loom Machine, c. 1810
[What follows is the second half of the table of contents for Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present, which has been announced for March publication by Black Widow Press.  The first half appeared in Poems and Poetics on February 2, & numerous excerpts from the book-in-progress have appeared there also from time to time.  The work as a whole functions de facto as the fifth volume of Poems for the Millennium.]

 

Gallery Three
A Book Of Extensions 

(Russian, 19th Century)
Bald Mountain Zaum

(American, 19th Century)
Shaker Sound Poem

Hildegard Of Bingen (German, 1098-1179) 
O Orzchis Ecclesia: An Antiphonal Hymn

(Central Europe, 15th/16th Century)
from The Voynich Manuscript

Dwight Mackintosh (American, 1906-1999)
Image and Unknown Script

Adolf Wölfli (Swiss/German, 1864-1930) 
Image and Text

Howard Finster (American, 1915-2001)
“Highway to Heaven” & “Guardian Angel”

Robert Walser (German, 1878-1956)
Microscripts

(Medieval Hebrew)
Masora Calligrams

Naftali Bacharach (Hebrew, 17th Century)
The 10 Sefirot as a Wheel of Light

John Clare (English, 1793-1864)
Untitled Letter (Vowelless Writing)

“Lord” Timothy Dexter (American, 1748-1806)
from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress

(2nd Century B.C. – 5th Century A.D.)                                                           
Coptic & Greek Magical Papyri

Nakhman Of Breslov (Ukraine/Yiddish, 1772-1810)
The Burnt Book

Antonin Artaud (French, 1896-1948)
Spell for Roger Blin

Kuo-An Shih-yuan, (Chinese version, 12th Century)  
The Ten Oxherding Pictures

George Herriman (American, 1880-1944)
from Krazy Kat

Ernst Herbeck (Austrian, 1920-1991)
Golden ABCs

(Shona, Zimbabwe, 20th Century)
African Praise Names: The Monkey, The Eland

Mikhl Likht (American/Yiddish, 1893-1953)
from Processions

Hannah Weiner (American, 1928-1997)
from A Clairvoyant Journal

Larry Eigner (American, 1927-1996)
from Air The Trees

Graham Reynolds, J.A. Lindon (English, 20th Century)
Four Palindromes

Lewis Carroll (English, 1832-1898)
10 Syllogisms

Eugene Field (American, 1850-1895)
from The Complete Tribune Primer

Félix Fénéon (French, 1861-1944)
from Faits Divers

(U.K., Contemporary)
from The Library of Unwritten Books

Anonymous (American, 20th Century)
Schizophrenic Definitions

James Tilly Matthews (English, 1770-1815), as transcribed by John Haslam
Air-Loom Machine

Sun Ra [Herman Poole Blount] (American, 1914-1993)
The Wisdom of Ra

Shea Zellweger (American, 1925-)
Objects Toward an Outsider Logic

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian, 1889–1951) 
from Philosophical Investigations

Graham Harman (American, 1968-)
On Vicarious Causation: A Latour Litany

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (2010)
The Voice Of The Dolphin

Gallery Four
A Book Of Performances 

Diogenes Of Sinope (Greek, 412 or 404 B.C.– 323 B.C.)
Six Event Pieces

(England, 1849)
A Christmas Play, Performed by the Derbyshire Mummers

(Quiché Maya, 15th Century A.D.)
Rabinal-Achí, Part Four

Harry Partch (American, 1901–1974)
Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California

W. [Willis] T. Goodwin (American, 1935-2007)
from Easter Sunrise Sermon, 1971

Gilbert Eastman (American Sign Language, 1934-2006)
Epic: Gallaudet Protest

Postludes/Codas 

Armand Schwerner
Tablet VIII

John Bloomberg-Rissman
In The House of the Hangman #1731

Jerome Rothenberg
from A Further Witness, for Anselm Hollo

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