akp
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Introduction | wrote "Museum of Thrown Objects", & chapbooks "bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps" (Fact-Simile Press), "Here Come the Groovies" (collabs w/Joe Cooper), & "between here & the telescopes" (collabs w/Elizabeth Guthrie). He coedits Livestock Editions, a small press that publishes poetry. |
| Interests | Song from your home town > Digital space as theoretical location of inquiry? "A place for mostly wordless associations, perhaps." An extension of poetic investigations thru serial poem (Spicerian) non-narrative, thematically linked sequence. Repetition & variation. Medium as enacting particle, the "purely photogenic":: Blurring: holding multiple moments simultaneously. Abstraction: natural gradation of decay & unifying othernesses. Texture: wabi sabi: Japanese (Buddhist?) notion of beauty in natural impermanence. The play of photographic medium (media) upon itself. Photographs of photographs (digital from analogue). Filter & frame: dream persons of memories, family histories. "I" contains multitudes. "Fitz & Dizzyspells." "Be a camera, kid." (Joan Thiel) between/in/and/as : (these words come between): self-other, word-world-representation, frame-subject. Dialogic frames of 'image capture'. Capture? I mean 'release'. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Annie Hall, The Graduate, The Apartment, Clue, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, dir. by Wes Anderson, dir. by Akira Kurosawa, dir. by Orson Welles, dir. by Luis Bunuel, the old black and white thing. |
| Favorite music | Harry Smith's American Anthology of Folk Music |
| Favorite books | The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, The Collected Books of Jack Spicer, About Now: Collected Poems of Joanne Kyger, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara, Night Scenes by Lisa Jarnot, Notes on the Possibilities of Attractions of Existence by Anselm Hollo, Gasoline by Gregory Corso, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, The Holy Forest by Robin Blaser, The Selected Poems of Paul Blackburn, In the American Tree (ed. Ron Silliman), The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson, "A" & "ANEW: Collected Shorter Poems" by Louis Zukofsky, Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa, Franny & Zooey by JD Salinger, A Bernadette Mayer Reader, Paradiso Diaspora & Borrowed Love Poems by John Yau, On the Road, Dharma Bums, & Visions of Cody by Keroauc, Insuring the Wiccer Man by Jared Hayes & Joe Cooper |