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February 4-5 EILEEN MYLES > + Feb. 4 poetry reading


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December 14-15 FRED MOTEN > + Dec. 14 poetry reading


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December 15-16 ANN LAUTERBACH > + Dec. 15, 8pm poetry reading

May 12-13 ANNE WALDMAN > + May 12 Poetry Reading, 8pm, Maison de la poésie de Paris : Anne Waldman & Patrick Beurard-Valdoye


2013 CALENDAR

FINAL SYMPOSIUM Dec. 11-12 COLE SWENSEN > + Dec 11 Poetry Reading, 8pm, Maison de la poésie de Paris : Cole Swensen & Nicolas Pesquès

Sept. 26-27 CLARK COOLIDGE> + Sept. 26, 8 pm Poetry/Music Reading, CLARK COOLIDGE & THURSTON MOORE, Maison de la poésie de Paris

April 11-12 MARJORIE WELISH > + April 11, 7:30 pm Poetry Reading MARJORIE WELISH & JACQUES ROUBAUD, Galerie éof, Paris


2012 CALENDAR

December 13 & 14 LISA ROBERTSON> Thursday December 13 7:30pm poetry reading with Lisa Robertson, Anne Parian and Pascal Poyet, galerie éof, Paris.

September 27 & 28 REDELL OLSEN

May 29 & 30 PETER GIZZI

March 22 & 23 CHARLES BERNSTEIN


2011 CALENDAR

September 29-30 VANESSA PLACE at Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée

June 30 July 1 CAROLINE BERGVALL at Université Paris Est Créteil

June 15 DAVID ANTIN at Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée


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Friday, June 3, 2011

"What kind of a professional was Socrates?"

From Talking at the Boundaries (1976), backcover:

"I see my talking pieces as philosophical inquiries to which I try to bring the resources of language, not only my own language, but natural language in its natural setting, or one of its natural settings--talk. I've been a poet, critic, linguist, and engineer, and though this knowledge informs the book, it is not the work of a professional, of which there are by now too many that have proved too useless. What kind of a professional was Socrates?"

"Talking at the Boundaries asks questions about life, about art, about the nature of experience and how it is apprehended. All of the pieces in it began--like most talk--as improvisations on particular occasions in particular places. They were recorded and transcribed with more or less modifications to make this book. But as an improvisation is not in 'prose,' which is an image of the authority of 'right thinking' conveyed primarily through 'right printing'--justified margins, conventional punctuation, and regularized spelling--this book has been printed without recourse to such appeals. I do not recognize my wife's name by its spelling on a page and write it as I see fit when the occasion arises. In this I console myself that Shakespeare's father's name is recorded in eighty-three different spellings and that he himself spelled it four different ways in his own will."

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