Listenings
New poem up on the admiration wall, a short one. I was reading & listening to a little Coolidge when I wrote the draft below--mostly poems in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry and excerpts online. Unfortunately, I had no idea where to begin with him the last time I was at the library and picked up Polaroid, which was for me, at this point, unreadable. Once I have some money or access to a good library again, I'll have to pick up different books.
My other current enthusiasm is David Antin. I made a several hour marathon yesterday of his recorded talks at Penn Sound. I didn't mean to. I just got sucked into the vortex. I came to him via the Norton too, and though he's impressive on paper, the recordings are something else entirely. Has there really never been a CD release of his work? All Google turned up was a smattering of university holdings. Am I missing something?
Antin's genre blurring/bursting is particularly exciting to me. As he was talking about an installation piece he did (during the Whitney talk), my mind was off in a hundred different directions about what was possible beyond the poem-journal-book-reading-rinse-repeat-die model. Much more to come on that, but not in this post. I'd be here for hours if I got started.
