David PraterAshbery Mode: my poem for John Ashbery anthologized (at last)!
"whanging in the absence of wind"https://daveydreamnation.com/blogging/ashbery-mode-john-ashbery-poem-anthologized/
slowforwardnioques, frisbees e altre deviazioni / differx. 2021
un cenno ai frisbees, di Giulia Niccolai, è anche nel microsaggio che ho dedicato a Carlo Bordini nel n. 76 del “verri” (giugno 2021).
in quella sede ma anche altrove cerco — come sempre — di spostare la riflessione nella direzione del post che si vede qui di seguito:
https://slowforward.net/2021/06/22/una-nota-di-jean-marie-gleize-a-margine-di-una-recente-lettura-al-cipm/
quando si parla di postpoésie ci si può innanzitutto porre all’esterno del rigido circo dei generi letterari; e inoltre risulta del tutto legittimo parlare di qualcosa che implica e assume non soltanto altri abiti, forme, inflessioni, dimensioni, profili, ma infine identità: altri nomi. e idiomi. (si può e forse si deve dire che la dimensione idiomatica qui sopravanza tutte le altre).
quali sono questi altri nomi? questi oggetti verbali non identificati?
(non dico “nuovi”, dico “altri”). (anche se in Italia tutto sembra voler manifestarsi come nuovo, perché perfino la DC ha fatto in tempo a morire ma le forme dell’assertività letteraria ancora reggono).
epiphanies (James Joyce 1900-1904), tender buttons (Gertrude Stein 1914), tropismes (Nathalie Sarraute 1939), notes (Marcel Duchamp, pubbl. post. 1980), nioques (Francis Ponge 1983, Jean-Marie Gleize), proêmes (Ponge), textes pour rien (Samuel Beckett), antéfixes o dépôts de savoir & de technique (Denis Roche), descrizioni in atto (Roberto Roversi), verbotetture (Arrigo Lora Totino 1966), bricolages (Renato Pedio), domande a risposta multipla (John Ashbery; e cfr. Alejandro Zambra, nel nostro secolo), mobiles o boomerangs (Michel Butor), visas (Vittorio Reta), postkarten (Edoardo Sanguineti 1978), sentences (Robert Grenier 1978), subtotals (Gregory Burnham), films (Corrado Costa), schizografie (Gian Paolo Roffi), drafts (Rachel Blau DuPlessis), esercizi ed epigrammi (Elio Pagliarani), frisbees (Giulia Niccolai), anachronismes (Christophe Tarkos), remarques (Nathalie Quintane), ricognizioni (Riccardo Cavallo), anatre di ghiaccio (Mariano Bàino), lettere nere (Andrea Raos), linee (Florinda Fusco), ossidiane e endoglosse e microtensori e “installances” (Marco Giovenale 2001, 2004, 2010, 2010), tracce (Gherardo Bortolotti 2005), prati (Andrea Inglese), diphasic rumors (Jon Leon 2008), united automations (Roberto Cavallera 2012), paragrafi (Michele Zaffarano 2014), incidents (Luc Bénazet 2018), sentences (Cia Rinne 2019), defixiones (Daniele Poletti), avventure minime (Alessandro Broggi), développements (Jérôme Game), conglomerati (Andrea Zanzotto), saturazioni (Simona Menicocci), nughette (Leonardo Canella), sinapsi (Marilina Ciaco), dottrine (Pasquale Polidori), disordini (Fiammetta Cirilli), spostamenti (Carlo Sperduti), spore (Antonio F. Perozzi). E aggiungerei le frecce di Milli Graffi.
senza contare le infinite modalità (perlopiù elencative) messe su pagina da Perec (le cartoline e le passeggiate raccolte nell’Infra-ordinaire, o le stringhe di Je me souviens). durante una conversazione, tempo fa Luigi Magno ha suggerito di pensare alle stesse cancellature di Isgrò come a dispositivi di questo tipo, oltretutto in forma di ponte fra la scrittura e l’arte. per tacere, in tal senso, delle innumerevoli soluzioni disseminate nel tempo da Emilio Villa: “cause”, “variazioni”, “madrigali”, “attributi”, “phrenodiae”, “méditations courtes”, “videogrammi”, “options”, “letanie”, “sibille”, “trous”, “labirinti”, “tarocchi”, … (tutte forme disperse come, già nel 1949, “i sassi nel Tevere”).
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Megan Marie HartAnd the air pours in with piano notes
In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John,
I’ve brought these and these”—that is,
A few Beethovens, some, Brahmses,
A few choice Poulenc notes. . .
#WeatherStormASongOrPoem #HashtagGames
Megan Marie Hart – “Fear of Death” from The Nantucket Songs by Ned Rorem
the plywood years / john ashbery
Here in the open, love lies apart,
singing to its beads. How reflective is that?
Don’t be such a goose, love said.
They’ll tinsel you.
They came after me and in the end I was a sot.
They said on TV it didn’t matter.
One fallen ice cube is left. The others go in.
So it was on your conscience the hangover happened?
You don’t want to call.
Others than you are surfeited.
Bobby Burns said a rose is like no other,
neither is a lintel a blood-red reef.
They came and sat on the pier next to me.
I had piqued their curiosity
just like in the old days.
One spoke to a kitten. They shrugged.
I hadn’t had the mirror experience in the hangar
yet. Those were all days tumbling over me like water,
like a scented caress. Then a bumble bee
gladdens earth with its silver sound.
We lived under tarpaper and ebony slats,
dragging one’s feet across the floor.
Oh if you’re going to then do it
advised the eggbeater. Time got left out of the equation.
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‘Paris Review’, issue n. 188 (Spring 2009)
TrendyWebAltarFrom A Wave, the 1984 collection of #poems by #JohnAshbery:
INTRODUCTION
To be a writer and write things
You must have experiences you can write about.
Just living won’t do. I have a theory
About masterpieces, how to make them
At very little expense, and they’re every
Bit as good as the others. You can
Use the same materials of the dream, at last.
It’s a kind of game with no losers and only one
Winner—you. First, pain gets
Flashed back through the story and the story
Comes out backwards and woof-side up. This is
No one’s story! At least they think that
For a time and the story is architecture
Now, and then history of a diversified kind.
A vacant episode during which the bricks got
Repointed and browner. And it ends up
Nobody’s, there is nothing for any of us
Except that fretful vacillating around the central
Question that brings us closer,
For better and worse, for all this time.
INTRODUCTION
To be a writer and write things
You must have experiences you can write about.
Just living won’t do. I have a theory
About masterpieces, how to make them
At very little expense, and they’re every
Bit as good as the others. You can
Use the same materials of the dream, at last.
It’s a kind of game with no losers and only one
Winner—you. First, pain gets
Flashed back through the story and the story
Comes out backwards and woof-side up. This is
No one’s story! At least they think that
For a time and the story is architecture
Now, and then history of a diversified kind.
A vacant episode during which the bricks got
Repointed and browner. And it ends up
Nobody’s, there is nothing for any of us
Except that fretful vacillating around the central
Question that brings us closer,
For better and worse, for all this time.
🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷
Andrew ShieldsThey are private and always will be.
The One Thing That Can Save America
John Ashbery
#Poetry #JohnAshbery #America #TheOneThingThatCanSaveAmerica #SelfPortraitInAConvexMirror #Literature
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/101694/the-one-thing-that-can-save-america
Waywords Studio𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘇𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘆 -
Ashbery's approachable diction belies its stubbornness against understanding. Occasional cultural witticisms are buried in obscure private references which leave readers bewildered. Not a good entry point for this writer!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #breezeway #johnashbery #poetry
Review: "Breezeway" by John Ashbery -
𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘇𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘆 -
Report: Friendly-enough old man writes poetry to himself; no one really gets it, but that's uncool to admit.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #3words #johnashbery #breezeway #poetry
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘇𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘆
Another great poet for April! I've read a few individual works by Ashbery, but this will be my first collection of his. Looking forward to it!
