Showing posts with label Hospitalogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hospitalogy. Show all posts

Sunday, November 21, 2010

from Hospitalogy (in-progress)


Border Crossings


Best Western, Eugene OR, Nov 11, 2010



dear

x or y,


id imagine

this ekphrastic


apology as shared

best western


oil wants.


(low impressionism

with a hi-fi feeling:


resolute nose /

gay skin grafts to


swaths of bloom

like my xes bodys


inner wish is

a west banks


pre-occupied

constitution, its page


has.


as of yet no

either/or


(charter for a

forest


of senses, design-

nation ephemeral)


ive allways been

a femme tuckd


performing jim

lehrer never


re-assigned, some

times whitmans


civil soldiers felld

gives one hope.


like yr wish


for strategic gunfire

on this lurching cog,


for a desird maiming

in-sured


to be one

by erasure


or an-other,

to be that held who


not in the frame.


a dis-membering /

a surgical proposition


theres mauve here, some spit,

off white, why not re-cover


in xis arms

to speak visible?


this line is yr potential

for now the here


opens as a fixd

complex.


an armory pro-duces

lasers that retro-fit


only parts like hands

to paint with,


hewn road in black-

green, a boring scene


of aversion

where ad place-


meant is fore-grounded.


but a high yield _____

those who listen


to the torsional

birth of certainties


inside that tissue

sequencer, fortune


cookie, hammard

wedge, a thousand


incessant blows driven

darwin wrote of


will have us passd all this

then, before the dock


jammed up with damaged

strykers & rats


reservd for want of work

in need of want,


no a no name

thing, a life


as elliptical

as a motel body


Thursday, October 28, 2010

Hospitalogy / Illness / Wellness


Thanks much to Amber DiPietra, who I've written on in relation to her work below, for posting a blurb about my hospital poem practice, those poems of mine that have wound up in Hospitalogy. Hospitalogy was at one point part of my new book Occultations, but the thing kept growing as I kept having to see doctors or get to the hospital, and so eventually it turned in to its own book(s). Good timing too, as a) I'm wrapping up what I have edited now as book to be gotten off my desk (I'm cured!), and b) I'd been hoping to link to DiPietra's website/non-profit community "Write to Connect." Write to Connect is a meeting place for artists interested in and/or participating in practices relating to "illness and wellness." This, plus (relatedly) mutual friend and also fantastic poet Eleni Stecopolous's "The Poetics of Healing" blog, which I've put up as link on the blogroll to the right. 

I'll soon be writing on Stecopolous's new, beautiful, game-changing Armies of Compassion (Palm Press, 2010), which includes a radical re-write of one of my favorite chapbooks of all time, Eleni's  Autoimmunology. The chap can still be found online (I think?) thru Deep Oakland. Mine is one of two review-essays I'm due to write over the next several months, the other being CA Conrad's new Wave edition of The Book of Frank. Daunting coupla months! 

The three of us--Eleni, Amber, and myself--along with most other members of Nonsite Collective, as people who've experienced or are passionate about narrating the problematics of "disability," we have a great deal in common regarding outlook on illness & ecology as relates to wider politics and practices, plus some really productive underlap too. So hopefully as I begin to write on Armies I won't butcher the work too much. In the meantime, highly recommended. Just as I'd recommended DiPietra's work in my earlier post. Both have taught me tons in such a small amount of time... 

 

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Oganizing 101 in the Bay Area, Labor Day Weekend



NYU - adjunct profs, research & teaching assistants go to Central Booking, NYC

UPDATE:

Taken from the comments field of this post, from Sara Larsen, one of the organizers of the event. Go to the link here, & keep the organizing conversations going! Thanks, Sara.  Message in full:

david,

thanks so much for this post!

i just wanted to let everyone know that the talks from the Labor Day event are up at
our blog www.labday2010.blogspot.com

there was alot of discussion about how to move forward, both with the multiple conversations about poetry and labor in general, as well as concrete, collective actions going forward. 

i want to invite as many writers who are interested to please join the conversation and/or collective actions/projects that may emerge.

meantime, 
with love,

sara


LABOR & POETRY, OR: THE POETICS OF ORGANIZING. Please let me know how this shook out if you attended this important Bay Area Event. Taken from Thom Donovan's blog Wild Horses of Fire, you can find these and more fleshed out details (entire press release). Poem in honor of forging this connection to come in another post. For now, a pre-written one, later in honor of, with the attached condition that I act on it in some way pertaining to supporting our global on-life-support labor movement:

Writing Work


to Tim Shaner & Kristen Gallagher


If dis-ability is work

Then I'm writing

On the clock, no

Compensino. Never


Didn't have a job

So this is my job 

At present it stands

To reason—



a) I have a hole in my mouth (2nd mouth)

  that says "no over time" (2nd word conceded)

  24/7 and I sleep a little during it.


b) I have a creditor on my back who calls

    at ridiculous hours. There's a machine that keeps pro-

    noun sing my name "Wow-lack" and so 


c) When they say if you're you

    keep listening I don't and this

    takes work.


 d) There's a premium on alienation

    in the poetry ghetto. I'm used

    to it but also 


    binding arbitration 

    and that one year the EFCA

    wasn't a congressional watering-

    down-hole. So I keep asking:


    will this do? lateral pro-motion

    from kitchen to desk over-looking

    a baseball diamond, where at night

    older kids go to skateboard and fuck



I am very excited to see reports from this gathering in the Bay Area, which features poets/writers discussing labor practices, histories, and conditions. 

Labor Day Event Details
Agenda for Sunday, September 5, 1:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street, Oakland

1:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Welcome

Group I
Pam Lu
 (text read by Erika Staiti)
Steve Farmer
Jason Morris
Lauren Levin
Brandon Brown
 


(15 minute break)

Group II
Rodrigo Toscano (text read by Suzanne Stein)
Cedar Sigo
Chris Daniels (deputized by Pam Lu)
Dana Teen Lomax

Open Discussion

Break -- 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

4:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Group III
Laura Moriarty
David Brazil

Andrew Joron

Vanessa Place
 


15 minute break


Group IV
Sara Larsen
George Albon (deputized by Stacy Szymaszek, text read by volunteer)
Samantha Giles (deputized by CA Conrad)
Kevin Killian

Open Discussion
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