MetaFilter posts tagged with poetry and avantgarde

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kenko — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:45:29 -0800

Primiti Too Taa is an animated excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. You can see the whole text, and hear the whole thing as voiced by Schwitters or many others, including a text-to-speech program and the author of Eunoia. The various performances are quite different; Christian Bök takes it extremely quickly, Jaap Blonk's 1986 version is very soft, and Adrian Khactu is more speechlike. Kun Jia's "Simultaneous Ursonate" is surprisingly musical.

Vis(ual)po(etry)

Kattullus — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:28:31 -0800

Vispo is a site dedicated to visual poetry, both static and animated, run by Jim Andrews (though there's also a sound section). Among my favorites are bpNichol's First Screening (made in Hypercard), poem game Arteroids, the works of Ana Maria Uribe, Oppen Do Down (warning: audio starts immediately), Enigma M, strings and a selection of typographic works by Clemente Padin

A series of sacrifices in which the victims are words.

Hypocrite_Lecteur — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:02:35 -0800

Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. There's a lot to choose from, but here are three of my favorites: Lyn Hejinian's A Thought Is The Bride of What Thinking Susan Howe's The Western Borders N.H. Pritchard's EECCHHOOEESS

Asemic Writing

Kattullus — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:07:29 -0800

Asemic is a magazine of asemic writing, which is writing without semantic content. The editor is Australian Tim Gaze, who's made the asemic books Aussie Runes and The Oxygen of Truth, volumes 1 and 2. "Only words lie; asemic texts cannot lie." Kiini Ibura Salaam writes about his reaction to asemic writing. Asemic Calligraphy by Emma Viguier.

Sean Bonney's Translations of Baudelaire

Kattullus — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:37:52 -0800

Sean Bonney's translations of Baudelaire are unconventional. Instead of following the form of the French originals they are semi-concrete typewriter poetry. In a review of the book, everyone's cup of tea, onedit magazine says that they are "certainly the best translations of Baudelaire in English ever written." Which might explain why they published 35 of them in their latest issue. You can listen to Bonney read his translations here [mp3]

PST TTL

Kattullus — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:00:57 -0800

MNMLST POETRY is an essay by Bob Grumman about a strand of poetry that he claims is "unacclaimed but flourishing". Here are poems in this vein by Aram Saroyan (2), jwcurry, LeRoy Gorman, bpNichol, Michael Basinski, John M. Bennett, Karl Young, John Martone, Ian Hamilton Finlay and finally some mathemaku by Bob Grumman, the essay's author.

Carnival

Kattullus — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:01:46 -0800

Carnival by Steve McCaffery (wikipedia entry). One of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets. Their late 70's, early 80's magazine can be found archived here and makes for interesting reading. However, I suggest you start off by looking at the two beautiful panels that comprise Carnival. They're both visual art and poetry. There's also a terrible pun hidden in one of them if you can find it. But if you hunger for more, here's an interesting critique by Marjorie Perloff [note: The Carnival panels are too big for any screen, but they can be shrunk by hitting "map"]