A Tribute to Leslie Scalapino (Day 4 of 4)

(Photo by Thomas J. White)

Leslie Scalapino 1944 - 2010

We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing.

"not anticipating, as in happiness -- running out -- before is happy, something occurring does not change that then. experiencing being happy is in the present, that it will be. (Is in the future then, at the same time.)" LS, Zither & Autobiography

Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We invited those who knew her and/or her work to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her/her writing as tribute. What follows here and in three previous posts is what came. We are grateful to know that her writing will live on in the world, in us, and will continue to be written and spoken about. We thank everyone who responded. We thank Tom White. We thank Tracy Grinnell. Most of all, of course, we thank Leslie.

eds Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Cathy Wagner


Day 4:

Eileen Myles "from a conversation with Stacy Szymaszek"

"Messing up linear time": Sarah Rosenthal excerpts her interview with Scalapino (originally published here)

Three poems for Leslie by Julian T. Brolaski

Stephen Ratcliffe: Remembering (Reading) Leslie Scalapino: Selected Letters

“Simultaneous Multi-Local Mass-Body Rhythm in Leslie Scalapino’s way” : Rodrigo Toscano (Leslie's impact on his life & writing)

Laura Elrick: Leslie Scalapino and The Anti-Production Room

"No Self": Judith Roitman explicates connections between Leslie Scalapino's writing and the Buddhist teachings of Nāgārjuna

Brenda Iijima: "Leslie's books are survival pods"

Adam Strauss: "words mean occurrence—occurrence means splits no hands can handle"

A collaboration between Frances Presley and Elizabeth James: "Leslie had opened up...the possibility of simultaneous collaboration"

"which is real, and the poem is trying to inhabit that": E. Tracy Grinnell and Leslie Scalapino in conversation for the Belladonna* Elders Series

From "Eco-Logic in Writing": Leslie Scalapino, in an excerpt from How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (a new, expanded edition is forthcoming from Litmus Press)

Dana Teen Lomax "'the difficulty' (the necessity)"

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Excerpts from "The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom" on PEEP/SHOW.

Poets in Need

Leslie Scalapino Scholarship at Reed College

A Tribute to Leslie Scalapino (Day 3 of 4)

Leslie Scalapino 1944 - 2010

We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing.

The attitude that the writing is invalidated by it being experience has its corollary–in the objection to there being in writing ‘thought’ which is at one in the same as ‘occurrence.’ Is that occurrence.” LS in The public world/syntactically impermanence

Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We invited those who knew her and/or her work to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her/her writing as tribute. What follows here and over the course of the week is what came. We are grateful to know that her writing will live on in the world, in us, and will continue to be written and spoken about. We thank everyone who responded. We thank Tom White. We thank Tracy Grinnell. Most of all, of course, we thank Leslie.

eds Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Cathy Wagner

Day 3:

"a small memory": Martha Ronk

Joyelle McSweeney on Dahlia's Iris

Richard Price, "Boxed"

Linda Russo's "Homage to O: a Book by Leslie Scalapino"

"10 or so questions about It's go in horizontal": Elizabeth Bryant in conversation with Leslie Scalapino,with poems by Scalapino in the special issue of Dusie in which the conversation first appeared

Marthe Reed on Scalapino's "fiercely compassionate attention"

Pierre Joris remembers Leslie

"Priories": Elizabeth Treadwell

Celia Bland "The Meter-Dash: Punctuation and Poetics in Crowd and Not Evening or Light"

"Leslie Loved Invasion of the Body Snatchers": Laura Hinton

Heidi Lynn Staples' "My 'that they were at the beach': a tribute poem"

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Laura Hinton and Tom White on Leslie Scalapino at Chant de la Sirene

“Letters to Poets: Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman,” Jacket 31. October 2006.

HOW2 Special Feature on Leslie Scalapino — Coordinated by Laura Hinton

Mountain top collaborative tribute poem

A Tribute to Leslie Scalapino (Day 2 of 4)

(Photo by Erica Kaufman)

Leslie Scalapino 1944 - 2010

We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing.

"In making a connection, I'm not proposing that one's language, sounds, conceptual shapes alter events outside. Rather, writing can note that one's/their sounds and conceptual shapes are events -- that are also along with events in the outside. A poem may place these together. As such one's conceptions alter oneself and being, and alter their and one being outside. The individual (and any individual instance) occurs as reading. As: while, alongside, and being (reading is an act)." -- LS, "Eco-logic in Writing" in EcoLanguage Reader (Brenda Iijima, ed)

Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We invited those who knew her and/or her work to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her/her writing as tribute. What follows here and over the course of the week is what came. We are grateful to know that her writing will live on in the world, in us, and will continue to be written and spoken about. We thank everyone who responded. We thank Tom White. We thank Tracy Grinnell. Most of all, of course, we thank Leslie.

eds Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Cathy Wagner


Day 2:

"that latent potential in each word to explode and crack its own surfaces": Jena Osman on her correspondence with Scalapino

Michael Rerick essays "Delay Series" (from way)

Rachel Zucker* voices homage

Lynn Behrendt "To play a nasal cello/its slice of sonic coins"

Ruth Lepson edits Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino in collaboration and conversation

Megan Kaminski found herself liberated

Jennifer Styperk "I love your shoes."

Jodi Chilson "And skimming over ZITHER & Autobiography again, now, I discover"

Deborah Poe "...so-called today flows into tomorrow..." (Please note: we regret that the version of this poem previously posted was incorrectly formatted. We have now posted a corrected version. Many apologies to Deborah! ~ Elizabeth, Cathy, and Cara)

"Oneself cannot be anywhere": K. Lorraine Graham

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Lyn Hejinian remembers Leslie Scalapino

Ron Silliman's birthday tribute to Leslie

Charles Bernstein's memorial, read at Poetry Project

"Disbelief," a memoir/essay by Leslie Scalapino on her relationship to Language writing/writers.

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* Rachel Zucker is the author of six books and the mother of three sons. [Other writers' bios are included at the end of their contributions.]

A Tribute to Leslie Scalapino (Day 1 of 4)

Leslie Scalapino 1944 -2010

We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing.

“… ‘horizontal’ is a way of seeing everything flowing, existing at different times in parallel simultaneous spaces–not permanent, but not ever passing either.” --LS in conversation w/Elizabeth Bryant, Dusie #8

Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We invited those who knew her and/or her work to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her/her writing as tribute. What follows here and over the course of the week is what came. We are grateful to know that her writing will live on in the world, in us, and will continue to be written and spoken about. We thank everyone who responded. We thank Tom White. We thank Tracy Grinnell. Most of all, of course, we thank Leslie.

eds Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant, Cathy Wagner

Day 1:
Philip Jenks remembers "a force of good"

Rae Armantrout "Many people claim to oppose hierarchies. Leslie Scalapino…came closer to actually doing so than anyone I have known."

"That the person, her, was herself a form": Anne Gorrick

Emily Critchley essays Scalapino's "alternative ways of seeing"

"pushing the limits of how we mean and what we mean and what we say and how we say": Sarah Anne Cox celebrates Leslie

"does it help to review events as stance": Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Kristi Maxwell essays way

Susan Bee recalls “this introverted and luminous being”










(Painting by Susan Bee)

“not representing the event but getting at something inner and outer as spatial occurrence sculptural kinetic that’s an event itself”: Michael Cross talking with Leslie Scalapino (originally appeared in Aufgabe)

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A few additional links of note (new ones to be posted each day):

Michael Cross’s review of two recent books by Leslie Scalapino at Jacket

"In Memoriam: Leslie Scalapino": a tribute organized by Carol Watts at the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London. Includes contributions from Fanny Howe, Tim Atkins, Robert Grenier, Rob Holloway, Lisa Samuels, Caroline Bergvall, Peter Middleton, Barry Schwabsky, Steven Ratcliffe and Carol Watts.

Three books by Scalapino are forthcoming or out:
* a new prose work, The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihredals Zoom NOW OUT from Post-Apollo Press
* a book of two plays published in one volume, Flow-Winged Crocodile and A Pair / Actions Are Erased / Appear, NOW OUT from Chax Press
* a revised and expanded collection of her essays and plays, How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (originally published by Potes & Poets) forthcoming from Litmus Press this fall