the poet says, the poet does

"A word on Academies; poetry has been attacked by an ignorant & frightened bunch of bores who don´t understand how it´s made, & the trouble with these creeps is they wouldn´t know Poetry if it came up and buggered them in broad daylight."

Allen Ginsberg, "Notes for Howl and Other Poems", 1959.

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"Cada palavra tem sua história, sua biografia, sua etimologia. Seu uso deflagra uma constelação de sub-significados e sentidos que, em cada idioma particular, tem certo desenho próprio e intransferível. A palavra é, essencialmente, política. Portanto, ética. Daí, talvez, a dificuldade de transformar a literatura, a poesia, em mercadoria."

Paulo Leminski, "Arte in-útil, arte livre?" in Anseios Crípticos, 1986.

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"Tradition is an aspect of what anyone is now thinking - not what someone once thought. We make with what we have, and in this way anything is worth looking at. A tradition becomes inept when it blocks the necessary conclusion; it says we have felt nothing, it implies others have felt more."

Robert Creeley, "To Define" in The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley, 1989.

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"Poetry is having nothing to say and saying it; we possess nothing."

John Cage, "Introduction to Themes & Variations", 1982.

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"I love getting the body into my writing, especially to subvert ideas like `pure thought´."

Rosmarie Waldrop, "Interview-conversation with Joan Retallack"

Poet, be like

Tilda Swinton in Derek Jarman´s "The Last of England"



or like Aoi Miyazaki in Shinji Aoyama´s "Eureka"

Três poetas líricos / Three lyric poets: Safo de Lesbos - Beatriz de Diá - Joanna Newsom

Safo de Lesbos (630 BC - 570 BC)


Once you lay upon my bosom,
While the long blue-silver moonlight
Walked the plain, with that pure passion
All your own.


Now the moon is gone, the Pleiads
Gone, the dead of night is going;
Slips the hour, and on my bed
I lie alone.


fr. 47 V
............................... E Eros sacode-me
as entranhas, como o vento de sobre o monte nos carvalhos caindo.


fr. 130 V

Eros de novo a mim, o soltamembros, agita,
doceamargo indomável animal.

Ó Átis: a ti, em mim, fez-se odioso
pensar - e para Andrômeda voas.



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BEATRIZ DE DIÁ (fim do século XII - meados do século XIII)

(performance moderna do poema "A chantar m’er de so q’ieu non volria" da Condessa de Diá)

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JOANNA NEWSOM (n./b. 1982)

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Portrait of the artist as a young girl

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AND HERE AS ONE
OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
POETS OF THE 1990s.
POETRY as
Writing / Sound / Performance
as you like it, as we need it.

Poesia brasileira / Brazilian poetry

Recebi esta semana meu exemplar da antologia de poesia brasileira, editada por Horácio Costa e Charles A. Perrone e publicada nos Estados Unidos pela Tigertail.

Horácio Costa selecionou os poetas, e incluiu um dos meus poemas do livro Carta aos anfíbios (2005), com tradução de Charles Perrone.

São 15 poetas, dos quais gostaria de destacar os cearenses Diego Vinhas e Eduardo Jorge, assim como o carioca Franklin Alves Dassie.

Good company on Christopher Street Day

(Frank O´Hara)


(Pier Paolo Pasolini)


(Allen Ginsberg)


(Roberto Piva)


(Severo Sarduy)


(Federico García Lorca)


(Roland Barthes)

Antonin Artaud

Bas Jan Ader

Bruce Andrews

“Rewriting the social body – as a body-to-body transaction: to write into operation a ´reading body` which is more & more self-avowedly social. Lay bare the device, spurn the facts as not self-evident. A V-effect, to combat the obvious; to stand out = to rebel; counter-embodiment, with our ´paper bullets of the brain.` All this points to a look at language as medium – in two respects: first, as a sign system; second, as discourse or ideology.“ - Bruce Andrews

Augusto de Campos e Angélica Freitas

Click, mon semblable, on the setarrow abajo para ou/ver & lisseen oh! tipo de August of Fields que m´interessa more & more




Y aqui, mon frére, um poema, yeah a poem, ein Gedicht von Angélica Freitas, roubado das eletrônicas pápápáginas do blog do jornal caRioca The Globe.



poeta



1.



eu não sou poeta



poetas se afogam

em lagos, dylan

disse



se os lagos

cuspissem

livros



seria o bastante

para deixar

disso



2.



se os patos

nadassem

sobre o

cadáver



nada



3.



com pedras

no bolso

do casaco



pesa



4.



com patos

com pedras

com pêsames

com pena



poeta

Sound and image for the eyears of your minty mind

"Ciel inamputable" (1969), sound-text-composition by Ilmar Laaban (Tallinn, Estonia)





"Anthem" (1987), video by Bill Viola (New York, USA)