Another quick one while I'm away

Also recently made available through PennSound is Ted Berrigan's 1981 reading of the complete Sonnets at New Langton Arts in S.F. Though the recording has been available for quite some time, it has now been broken up into individual tracks, which makes it easier for the casual listener (or a serious one who is short of time) to work with.

Etc.

I don't have much to say about it, other than to point it out, but I'm really fascinated by the move Zukofsky makes towards the end of "A"-12, where he lists all the projects he never completed:

These are some things I wanted
To get into a poem,
Some unfinished work
I may never finish,
Some that will never be used anywhere

And after "getting it into the poem," in a manner of speaking, he gives it to his readers: "Anybody's welcome to it. / Take: a raft of stuff."

This strange and inclusive — and generous — move is predicated by, and extends, a stanza-long expression of fatigue that, despite lacking the crucial sense of disgust, resembles the similar one I mentioned yesterday in Deer Head Nation.

I don't seem to read books any more
Tho I suppose actually
I read them all the time.
I don't read the newspapers
Tho once a week I seem to spend a day on them —
As I did today —

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Also: after my too-brief discussion of Sianne Ngai's "Raw Matter: A Poetics of Disgust" yesterday, I linked to two of the texts she addresses: Kevin Davies' Pause Button and Deanna Ferguson's Rough Bush. Find 'em to your right.

Quick post

Time is tight for a few days, so I'll just present a couple of quick and interesting links, some of which are new, and others of which are not.

Jack Spicer reading The Holy Grail, extracted from the Vancouver Lecture of June 15, 1965. (It's nothing new, if you've already heard the lecture, but it's a convenient way to get to the poems themselves.)

Susan Howe's shows on Pacifica Radio in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Some flarf-esque translations of Rilke, by Brian Kim Stefans.

Kenneth Goldsmith singing philosophical and/or critical works over the music of others. "Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Roland Barthes," which sets the concluding section of Mythologies to an instrumental jam by the Allman Brothers, is the best.

A few of Stan Brakhage's lectures on film, from the very early 1970s.

Roundup

A lazy post. A list of things I've found on the internet and found interesting. I am sure that none of this counts as "news," and that, if men or women will die for lack of finding these, they've already found them.

"She'll be Coming 'Round" by James Sherry, at Nick Piombino's blog. (Scroll down a bit.)

Legion (II) by Craig Dworkin.

An interesting post by Mark Scroggins on the index. (It's the entry for June 5; scroll down if necessary.)

From UbuWeb's Anthology of Conceptual Writing:

— "Points for Motion" by Vito Acconci.
— "a an av es" by Alan Davies. (Also available at Eclipse.)
— "Denny Lile" by Richard Meltzer.
— "The first thousand numbers classified in alphabetical order" by Claude Closky.

Earlier versions of parts of The Transformation by Juliana Spahr:

— here.
— here.
— here.

[ADDENDUM: K. Silem Mohammad's remarks on competence and wit would have been on the earlier version of this list, but I hadn't read it yet.

Noah Webster's 1828 definition of the noun scary.]