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December 1, 2010
December 2010 Advent Calendar de Animals, Glittery Trinkets & World Peace!
October 27, 2010
Leslie Scalapino’s play: Flow (Winged Crocodile) / The Trains
Belladonna* Collaborative Presents:
Flow (Winged Crocodile) / The Trains
A Play by Leslie Scalapino
Directed by Fiona Templeton,
with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver and Julie Troost.
Dance by Molissa Fenley.
Music by Joan Jeanrenaud.
Projected drawings by Eve Biddle.
Technical director Ray Roy III.
Flow (Winged Crocodile) / The Trains by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is part Crocodile, part Michelin Man, and part charging Rhino. Performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site.
Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) was the author of thirty books of poetry, poem-plays, essays, and fiction.
Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street; New York, NY
Admission: $6
“Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.” --Philip Whalen
Flow (Winged Crocodile) / The Trains
A Play by Leslie Scalapino
Directed by Fiona Templeton,
with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver and Julie Troost.
Dance by Molissa Fenley.
Music by Joan Jeanrenaud.
Projected drawings by Eve Biddle.
Technical director Ray Roy III.
Flow (Winged Crocodile) / The Trains by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is part Crocodile, part Michelin Man, and part charging Rhino. Performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site.
Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010) was the author of thirty books of poetry, poem-plays, essays, and fiction.
Location: Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street; New York, NY
Admission: $6
“Scalapino makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.” --Philip Whalen
September 9, 2010
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
September 6, 2010
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.]
September 5, 2010
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
June 8, 2010
Call for posts: Tribute to Leslie Scalapino
"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)
“… ‘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
Leslie Scalapino's writing placed inside/outside events together with/in spacetime. Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing. We invite you to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her work for a special issue of Delirious Hem, http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/.
We are especially interested in critical appreciations and analyses (in any style or format) of passages from Leslie Scalapino's work. The Barbara Guest Memory Bank, http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal//bg_memorybank/bg_memory.html, edited by Lauren Shufran for the Summer 2007 issue of How2, might serve as a model, as might the Alice Notley Constellation (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprcevents/alicenotley.html) edited by Carol Watts. Poems, images, personal memorials, and short essays are also welcome.
Since 2006, Delirious Hem has been devoted to writing by and about experimental women poets. Topics have included features on Kundiman, Lucille Clifton, Kari Edwards, the Dusie kollectiv adventskalender, Gurlesque, and the "Numbers Trouble" controversy. Contributors have included Anne Boyer, Bernadette Mayer, Amy King, Alison Roh Park, Evie Shockley, Lee Ann Brown, Hoa Nguyen, Gloria Anzaldua, Jennifer Bartlett, Vanessa Place, Tara Betts, T.A. Noonan, Sharon Mesmer, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sarah Vap, Rachel Levitsky, Mairead Byrne, Marcella Durand, Myung Mi Kim, and many others.
Deadline: Aug 1
We hope you will contribute.
Very best,
Cara Benson (cbenson67 [at] yahoo [dot] com)
Elizabeth Bryant (miss.elizabeth.bryant [at] gmail [dot] com)
Cathy Wagner (cathwagner [at] gmail [dot] com)
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