Werner Herzog en Errol Morris over lezen
Filmmakers en vrienden Werner Herzog en Errol Morris kwamen samen tijdens het Toronto International Film Festival en praatten over vriendschap, filmmaken, en in deze clip, lezen.
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Roman: The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney
Poëzie even zat? Ik ging laatst maar weer eens een roman lezen, na er veel over gehoord te hebben en inderdaad The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney (debut roman van Christopher Higgs, Sator Press) is een zeer aan te bevelen werk. Een meta-roman die de meta-roman belachelijk maakt. Een verhaal over het zoeken naar een verhaal en over het zoeken naar de auteur van het verhaal. Een roman als losse maar toch samenhangende verzameling teksten. En los van de vele spelletjes zijsporen en nieuwe beginnen, zit het ook vol met zeer virtuoos geschreven proza. Pagina 243:
Do you read upside down on the couch with your feet in the air and chocolate milk there by your side? Can you say the Czech alphabet backwards while juggling eggs over a thirty story balcony? Have you ever hotwired a car in downtown Berlin with a safety pin, a screwdriver, and a metal emory board, with the heat encroaching? Are you the sort of person who folds while holding a royal flush just to give the other person a win? Would you ever purposefully misappropriate syntax? Would you orchestrate everything down to the color of the dishtowels, teacups, and magnets? Have you ever not paid your taxes? Do you ever obsess over numbers? Ever set your alarm clock to an even number? What kind of deodorant do you wear? Is it masculine? Can you name a city in France you haven’t been? Are there places in the north of Spain that you have never seen? Have you ever planted a tree? Have you ever forgotten a friend’s birthday? Ever been caught in a lie and forgot what version of the truth you previously spilled? Have you ever raced across the countryside on a horse in complete rhythm? Ever challenged an anteater to a duel? Ever made your loved one go running? Ever parked on the wrong side of the road? When was the last time you bought a lottery ticket? Watched television? Bought clothes from a thrift store, a shopping mall, or on eBay? Would you even recognize the secret password when it mattered most? Would you leave town? Would you try to dig a tunnel to Japan?
Sorry I Haven’t Posted
Een meta-blog die posts verzamelt (van andere blogs), waarin wordt verontschuldigd voor het gebrek aan regelmatige posts.
Steve McCaffery over Steve McCaffery
De Canadese visuele en toondichter Steve McCaffery schreef een nawoord voor het net verschenen Verse and Worse Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 (red. Darren Wershler).
Georges Perec has always provided me with an inspirational model for writing and publishing: diversify, make each publication entirely different from the former. (As such, a publication such as Ron Silliman’s The Alphabet is utterly alien to my sensibility.) My friend bp [nichols] constantly harangued me to gather together my former, current and future poetic writings into a single work: The Abstract Ruin and to make it “Panel III” of Carnival. This I have never done. However, I concur with him on one important credo: that those discrete units we call “poems” gathered into those larger units we call “books” and sometimes partitioned into “decades” are false discontinuities in that indescribable and unpredictable ontological praxis known as writing. I certainly do not think that any writing (be it Charles Olson’s or Christine de Pisan’s) divides rationally or purposefully into decades and such artificial chronologizing impedes as much as it facilitates a pleasurable (or otherwise) encounter.
The Paris Review: alle interviews ooit
Vind hier het archief van alle interviews ooit gepubliceerd in The Paris Review. Van de jaren 50 tot heden. Ted Berrigan interviewt Jack Kerouac, en nog een aantal willekeurige namen: Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Paul Auster, Orhan Pamuk, Anne Carson, T.S. Eliot, Faulkner, de lijst is bijna onuitputtelijk. Een fragment uit het 1997 vraaggesprek met Hunter Thompson:
INTERVIEWER
Almost without exception writers we’ve interviewed over the years admit they cannot write under the influence of booze or drugs—or at the least what they’ve done has to be rewritten in the cool of the day. What’s your comment about this?
THOMPSON
They lie. Or maybe you’ve been interviewing a very narrow spectrum of writers. It’s like saying, “Almost without exception women we’ve interviewed over the years swear that they never indulge in sodomy”—without saying that you did all your interviews in a nunnery. Did you interview Coleridge? Did you interview Poe? Or Scott Fitzgerald? Or Mark Twain? Or Fred Exley? Did Faulkner tell you that what he was drinking all the time was really iced tea, not whiskey? Please. Who the fuck do you think wrote the Book of Revelation? A bunch of stone-sober clerics?
Teleportal Readings
Zie bijvoorbeeld de eerste voordracht, van Dean Young waarin denkbeeldige boeken door het beeld zweven.
De nieuwe Benders
'Wat koop ik voor jouw donkerwilde machten, Willem' heet de nieuwe dichtbundel van Martijn Benders.
Hoe het kan dat één ongeordende, doorgaande stroom gedichten, op het oog zonder plan of doel, opbouw of richting geschreven, zo kan fascineren is lastig
uit te leggen.
Abe de Vries, De Contrabas
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