VANITAS : a journal of poetry, writings by artists, criticism, and essays. During its decade of intervention in the public realm, VANITAS came out quasi-annually, serving as a forum for international voices with an emphasis on coming to grips with current world situations. Each issue contained writings by artists whose primary modes were non-literary and featured the work of a visual artist. [www.vanitasmagazine.net]
For the seventh and final issue of VANITAS, we examine the idea of The Self. The work featured in issue 7 tests just how far the self can be stretched, partially as an exercise in self-expression, partially in search of what used to be called experience. Self, not so much in personae as in faces, in the sense the Mods used the term — referring to someone with style, perhaps within a culture of style, but an individual expression of that culture, or perhaps someone who can seemingly invent her own style, just standing there.
This issue features new work by Bruce Andrews, Mary Jo Bang, Anselm Berrigan, Steve Dickison, Danielle Dutton, Tonya Foster, John Godfrey, Robert Hunter, Paolo Javier, Ann Lauterbach, Kimberly Lyons, Dan Machlin, Gerard Malanga, Judith Malina, Filip Marinovich, Harry Matthews, Michael McClure, Anna Moschovakis, Stephen Motika, Jennifer Moxley, Michael Palmer, Aram Saroyan, Lewis Warsh, and many more. Featuring artwork by Diana Michener, Carol Szymanski, Gerard Malanga, Rudy Burckhardt, and Vivien Bittencourt.
4 comments:
This is very thoughtful. For the reader (this reader) to muse over.
'To at last begin to speak without not thinking' You do it time and time again. That perfect curtain close and yes; without the not thinking, I must learn this.
I must learn it too. Though if I ever do, it will undoubtedly be well too late.
(In that respect, the closing admonition has a bit of the ring of "do as I say, not as I do".)
But I suppose poets have always been permitted to get away with not living up to their own didactic admonitions. Perhaps the degree of license they are afforded in that regard derives from the fact people feel a bit sorry for them, they seem to find it so very difficult simply to summon up a bit of common sense and get on with it -- ?
that's a tall order for the
the sun to deliver,
"speak without not thinking"
"Ah sunflower weary of time"
but then Einstein said he refused
to believe that God was playing
dice with the universe
The dice are in our hands.
Odds 11-10 against.
-- ancient Chinese saying
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