Week 7: Fall Break:
No Class
Week 8: Oct 15:
His bent for soul bending language play is without equal.--New York Press [I]nstead
of 'sounding things', he “things' sounds, so that words and meanings
It's
hard to wrestle meaning from the shreds of language he tosses out. And
on paper,
Poems ~ Secondary ~ Quotes ~ General Schedule ~ Back to Week 6 ~ On to Week 9
Edwin
Torres:
Reserve Desk Audio: Holy Kid (CD) EPC: From Torres’ author page, link to on-line poems, including: 15 Minutes, Gigabyte Me, Mr. Hay’s Trippy Moebius, I: Quatro, No Fructose in Gooseland, Rooster in the Classroom, Butterfly Roadkill, Warzawa Infinite, & In Consideration of End UbuWeb
Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry
Torres:
Sensei Sunset: A Love Poem To The Alphabet. A
Gathering of Tribes Magazine
Core Reading: Interviews & Secondary: Read all of these: CopyShop:
Web: PPS: Nick Yasinski: The Form Identity Takes, Poetry & the Public Sphere Torres: ! ESTO ES MI PORTO-CULTI-PERPO¡ : A Lecture on Class for the St. Mark's Poetry Project Symposium (may also be reached from EPC) Torres: The Gentle Cacophony of Edwin Torres, interview by Wanda Phipps (no link on EPC)
Additional Sources: Web: EPC: Brenda Coultas, review of Fractured Humorous UbuWeb: Steve McCaffery “Sound Poetry - A Survey,” from Sound Poetry: A Catalogue, edited by Steve McCaffery and bpNichol. Toronto: Underwich Editions, 1978 Holy
Kid: An Interview with Edwin Torres
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