Our Daily Bleed...
Our Daily Bleed...
Let us have madness openly. – Kenneth Patchen, "Let Us Have Madness"
0 men Of my generation.
Let us follow
The footsteps of this slaughtered age:
See it trail across Time's dim land
Into the closed house of eternity
With the noise that dying has,
With the face that dead things wear –
nor ever say
We wanted more; we looked to find
An open door, an utter deed of love,
Transforming day's evil darkness;
but We found extended hell & fog Upon the earth,
& within the head
A rotting bog of lean huge graves.
What has been separated from the mother, — Kenneth Patchen, excerpt from "The Cloth of the Tempest"
Must again be joined; for we were born of spirit,
& to spirit all mortal things return,
As it is necessary in the method of the earth.
So sings the parable of singleness.
My comforter does not conceal his face;
I have seen appearances that were not marshalled
By sleep.
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Let us have madness openly.
0 men Of my generation.
Let us follow
The footsteps of this slaughtered age:
See it trail across Time's dim land
Into the closed house of eternity
With the noise that dying has,
With the face that dead things wear –
nor ever say
We wanted more; we looked to find
An open door, an utter deed of love,
Transforming day's evil darkness;
but We found extended hell and fog Upon the earth,
and within the head
A rotting bog of lean huge graves.– Kenneth Patchen, "Let Us Have Madness"
I am the joy of the desiring fleshThe days of my living
are summer days
The nights of my glory
outshine the blazing wavecaps of the heavens
at their floodtide
Mine is the confident hand shaping this world.
---Kenneth Patchen
13. Heine 16. Jane Austen 17. Ford Madox Ford [MCR] 22. Rexroth 26. Henry Miller [BB] 
I dig for my death http://www.satya.com/images/before.htm |
"I am the world crier, and this is my dangerous career . . . I am the one to call your bluff, and this is my climate." http://www.satya.com/images/before.htm |
— Charles Mingus, From Beneath the Underdog [p.330]
Kenneth Patchen -- poet, novelist, painter, graphic designer, early participant in San Francisco Anarchist Group -- dies, Palo Alto, California. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Patchen/
1972 -- Tribute for Kenneth Patchen held at City Lights Poets Theater. http://www.connectotel.com/patchen/
3000 --
I am the joy of the desiring fleshThe days of my living
are summer days
The nights of my glory
outshine the blazing wavecaps of the heavens
at their floodtide
Mine is the confident hand shaping this world.
---Kenneth Patchen
 HAVE YOU KILLED FOR YOUR MAN TODAY?
Of better things than die To the scaly music of war. The different men, who are dead, Yours is the health of the pig which roots up In your hands, the cities, in my world, the marching
 http://www.connectotel.com/patchen/ http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hreh0001/patchen.html
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3000 --
"It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw — blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white & vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, & in which we don't figure at all." Patchen's a real artist, you'd dig him, doctor. "I believe in truth" he said, "I believe that every good thought I have, all men shall have. I believe that the perfect shape of everything has been prepared.""
"Not long before I worked with a poet named Patchen. He was wearing his scarlet jacket & sitting on a stool on a little stage in a theatre you walk upstairs to down on 14th street. We improvised behind him while he read his poems, which I read ahead of time "It's dark out, Jack" — this was one of his poems —
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Charles Alexander
- A Book of Hours
- sections 7-16 of arc of light/dark matter
Antler
- Poems from A Second Before It Bursts
Avelino de Araujo
- Kaldron Survey * 
Michael Basinski
- The Wild Elephant *
- Venedian Beseechers *
Carol Berge
- poems from The Unexpected
Jake Berry
- Sections 2 and 7 from Species of Abandoned Light
- the first and last pages of Brambu Drezi, Book Two *
John Brandi
- poems from Shadow Play
Charles Cantalupo
- from Anima/l Wo/man and Other Spirits
Michael Castro
-The Man Who Looked Into Coltrane's Horn
Wanda Coleman
- poems from American Sonnets
Klaus Peter Dencker
- beginning of Kaldron Survey *
Stephen Dignazio
- poems from QU AT RA IN
Rose Drachler
- Burrowing In, Digging Out []
Mark DuCharme
- Infringement
Paul Dutton
- so'nets
- Se aldo The Prose Tattoo in Group Efforts.
George Economou
- Philodemos translated by George Economou []
- Landed Natures []
Larry Eigner
- Air The Trees []
Barbara Einzig
- What Follows Evening
- Robinson Crusoe; A New Fiction []
Theodore Enslin
- 3 sequences from The House of the Golden Windows
- The Weather Within []
Philip Foss
- poems from The Excesses The Caprices
william l. fox
- 2 sequences from silence & license
Keiko Matsui Gibson
- How Do You Like America & Other Poems []
Robert Grenier
- 10 pages from r h y m m s *
- for Larry Eigner * []
- GREETING and POND I * []
Bob Grumman
- MATHEMAKU 6 -12 *
Bob Harrison
- poems from Darien
Caren Heft
- openings from Turtle Bones - Book Art *
Michael Heller
- Accidental Center []
- from Knowledge
- from In The Builded Place
Scott Helmes
- visual poems from Poems 1972 - 1977 *
Dick Higgins
- Metadramas
Jack Hirschman
- from Xibalba Arcane to the brave fighters in Chiapas
Maggie Jaffe
- from How The West Was One
Kajino Kyuyo
- Three Visual Poems *
Karl Kempton
- 5 pages from Rune 4: Fabelz And Kriterz Off The Mother's Tung *
Myung Mi Kim
- The Bounty
Alison Knowles
- from Bread & Water *
- Frijoles Canyon
A. Kruchonykh
- selected Visual poems, 1917 - 1921 *
Harris Lenowitz
- GEMATRIA 27 with Jerome Rothenberg
d.a.levy
- miniatures *
- The Tibetan Stroboscope *
- Selections from North American Book of the Dead
for more, go to d.a.levy home page
Jackson Mac Low
- 9 Light Poems
- I, II, IX, and X from Words nd Ends from Ez
Michael McClure
- Selections from Ghost Tantras.
- An Anthology of the Poetry of Michael McClure as selected by the Author
Contains poems from nearly all McClure's books, and an excerpt from his play, The Beard
For more, go to Michael McClure Home Page
Charles McClain
- Two Poems.
Gregg McGhee
- 5 Poems
David Meltzer
- The Art / The Veil (with graphics) []
- The Art / The Veil (text only) []
- Bark: A Polemic []
- A Rent Tract for Lew Welch
Philadelpho Menezes
- "Clichetes" *
Susan Mernit
- from Tree Climbing
Paul Metcalf
- Willie's Throw
John Montoya
- 5 pages of little people, scrolled *
Joe Napora
- Bloom / Blood []
Susan Smith Nash
- Candles by Starlight -- A Selection of Work
- Liquid Babylon []
Denise Newman
- 2 segments of On The Other Hand
bpNichol
- from Translating Translating Apollinaire
- from Sharp Facts Variations on TTA 26 *
- TTA 29 Continued with New Voices.
- from Art Facts; a book of contexts *
- For more, go to bpNichol Home Page
Toby Olson
- poems from Home
- Aesthetics []
Maureen Owen
- The No-Travel Journals []
- A Brass Choir Approaches the Burial Ground []
- from Zombie Notes
- from Imaginary Income
- from AE: Amelia Earhart
Rochelle Owens
- Poems - NOT BE ESSENCE THAT CANNOT BE [] & selections from I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter
- "Part 3: Fire Clay" from The Joe 82 Creation Poems
Clemente Padin
- Selections from Visual Poems *
- 4 Ways To Say NO! Mail Art by Clemente Padin. *
Kenneth Patchen
- Kaldron Survey. *
Carl Lynden Peters
- Seven Poems from PM AD
Paul Pines
- AFTER HOURS: 10 Jazz Poems
Harry Polkinhorn
- five poems
Carl Rakosi
- Hygieia, of Perspective
Rochelle Ratner
- Pretext Series
- Hide and Seek * []
Sherry Reniker
- 10 poems from GeoFrictions
Janet Rodney
- Cities (Alashka, Part 1) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- Road In (Alashka, Part 2) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- White/Out (Alashka, Part 3) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- The Forest (Alashka, Part 4) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- City of the Long Spring from ORPHYDICE
- Chameleon's Cadmium (with graphics) []
- Chameleon's Cadmium (without graphics) []
- from Crystals
Marilyn R. Rosenberg
- Shadowland *
- Scalembric *
- Stories of the Everyday Book Mobile. *
(book art from Kaldron Survey)
Jerome Rothenberg
- from Poland/1931
- "The Holy Words of Tristan Tzara" from ABULAFIA'S CIRCLES
- GEMATRIA 27 with Harris Lenowitz
Michael Rothenberg
- Vows and Entertainment
Alain Satié
- Kaldron Survey. *
Christy Sheffield Sanford
- The Rockgarden of Love *
- Ocean Movement Study (Rhythms) *
Barry Silesky
- 4 poems from The New Tenants
Hugh Steinberg
- While the Thunder Lasted I Felt Like God
Arthur Sze
- The Silk Road
- Streamers
John Taggart
- Slow Song for Mark Rothko and Inside Out
Nathaniel Tarn
- Cities (Alashka, Part 1) with Janet Rodney []+
- Road In (Alashka, Part 2) with Janet Rodney []+
- White/Out (Alashka, Part 3) with Janet Rodney []+
- The Forest (Alashka, Part 4) with Janet Rodney []+
- The Great Odor of Summer
thalia
- Kaldron Survey *
Tod Thilleman
- Wave Run
John Tritica
- Residence in the High Desert
Amy Trussell
- 4 Poems
David UU
- Poems from Chopped Liver
Edgardo Antonio Vigo
- Memorial, with samples, to this major (and predictably unrecognized) Argentine literary and artistic polymath, presented bilingually with Fabio Doctorovch's Postypogrphika site in Argentina.
Texto Español a Postypographika.
Marc Weber
- 48 Small Poems []
Don Wellman
- Two Poems from Fields
Yamanaka Ryojiro
- visual poems from Nothing Limits *
Karl Young
- Three, Hiroshima
- To Dream Kalapuya []
- Selections from Clouds Over Fortjade *
- Selections from The Prose Tattoo Selected Scores of The Four Horsemen Performance Group Scores for performance pieces from one of the best ensembles ever. Some are presented simply as examples of scoring techniques. Some make visual poems in their own right.
- A Telephone Book Sampler A Sampling of poetry from three issues of Telephone Book Magazine, edited by Maureen Owen.
On-Line Home of North America's longest running visual poetry magazine's, hosted by Light and Dust.
Rochelle Owens Pages
Poetry by Rochelle Owens
Criticism from 1975 Margins Symposium on Rochelle Owens by Jane Augustine, George Economou, Jackson Mac Low, Toby Olson;
and Further Considerations by Susan Smith Nash, Maureen Owen, Rochelle Ratner, and Barry Silesky.
Whose Border?
La Frontera ¿De Quién?
Gerald Janecek
- from ZAUM: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism
"Kruchonykh in Tifflis." Detailed study of Kruchonykh's work between 1917 and 1921.
Gerald Janecek
- A Report on Transfursim
Essay on late Soviet Samizdat artists continuing in the Futurist and Zaum line. Special emphasis on Ry Nikonova, Sergei Segei, and Boris Konstriktor.
Renato Barilli
- Beyond the Threshold of the Letter
Concluding chapter from Barilli's Voyage to the End of the Word, a classic study of Italian Avant-Garde poetry of the 70s and 80s. Includes brief survey of efforts by Italian poets.
Philadelpho Menezes
- Introduction and Conclusion to Poetics and Visuality
Frame for Menezes' most important critical work. Questions many assumptions regarding visual poetry, particularly in Latin America.
Enzo Minarelli
- Polypoetry.
This short article lies at the center of Minarelli's multimedia poetry. Multimedia is, in this context, a sort of familiar shorthand for what you'll find discussed here.
Clemente Padin
- Art and People: Latin American Art in Our Time. []
This book, published here for the first time, is probably Padin's most important critical work, and perhaps the most comprehensive overview of new art forms in Latin America written to date.
Clemente Padin
- Aspiration to Freedom
Memorial to the Argentine polymath artist, Edgardo Antonio Vigo.
Texto Español a Postypographika.
Bob Grumman
- "MNMLST POETRY"
As usual, Bob Grumman's attention to detail remains unsurpassed. Although written as a popular introduction to one of the many directions in contemporary visual poetry, this essay is worth reading by anyone sincerely interested in literary art as a whole.
Harry Polkinhorn
- Seeing Power []
The first part of this book consists of an extended meditation on key figures in European and Euro-American art - including an on-going examination of critical methodology. The second half offers critiques of individual works by contemporary American poets.
Karl Young
- Notation and the Art of Reading.
Young's most important essay, discussing the interrelation of book production and poetry in several cultures as it related to poetry in the U.S. in the early 80s.
This is a link to Fabio Doctorvich's Postypographika site. A site well worth checking out for its other entries, including a number of people who also appear at Light and Dust.
Karl Young
- Two Representative Works of the last Decade; A Working Present for Jackson Mac Low on His 75th Birthday
Study of Mac Low's Open Secrets CD and Words nd Ends from Ez, in context of his opus.
Karl Young
- The Visual Poetry of bpNichol; a Brief Sketch.
Overview, with copious examples.
- A Multi-Voiced Memorial for Meridel Le Sueur
Commentery by Karl Young, Linda Montano, Pauline Oliveros, Joe Napora, and Barbara Mor.
- Two Approaches to John Taggert's Slow Song for Mark Rothko and Inside Out: essays by Rochelle Ratner and Karl Young from the John Taggart issue of Paper Air magazine.
Pat Nolan
- A Review of Maureen Owen's Imaginary Income
Light and Dust Books Karl Young, Editor and Publisher
Grist On-Line Publishing Cyanobacteria Room Temperature
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lighthom.htm
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