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First published by Spanner Editions in 1983, "Ideas on the culture
dreamed of" provides a glossary for the work
"Defamiliarising_____*" and develops the list of jazz dances used
as titles in "Gravity as a consequence of shape". The book is
composed of alphabetised entries on issues of perception, memory
and the vocabularies of physics, many of which were included in the
initial chapbook publications of "Gravity..." Pulling together
broad-ranging research in bitesized definitions of the project's
key terms, such as collage, chreod, acuity, plasma, quasars, red
shift and singularity, the text complements and enhances the
reading of "Gravity as a consequence of shape", as well as
"Defamiliarising____*" and other works underway when that project
was initiated.
"The first interview here with Allen Fisher dates from 1973. I took
the decision to collect old interviews rather than make an all-new
book. I am fascinated by the idea of a very long base line, records
of one person's views over 30 years, change as part of the object
recorded. Drawing on the creative input of Eric Mottram, Adrian
Clarke, and Victoria Sheppard (among others) made the book more
robust and embracing." (Andrew Duncan)
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Leans (Paperback)
Allen Fisher
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Leans is the condition experienced by a jet pilot as he leaves the
Earth's gravity. The book brings together four chapter-books and
the remaining poetry that completes the poet's twenty-three-year
project Gravity as a consequence of shape started in 1982. The
earlier two volumes were Gravity and Entanglement, published in
2004 and 2005. The work includes brief and clear descriptions of
scientific vocabulary along with poetry that demonstrates
enjambment and transformations of poetry derived from collage
practice or a practice that uses more than occasion to inform the
work all at once in the same place. The poetry continues and
extends the poet's concern for how we know anything and what
vocabulary humans use to describe it. The texts therefore draw on
unusual as well as straightforward words to achieve a rich range
from blend to disruption. This encourages the reader's confidence
but also provides many instances of surprise.
The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one
of the U.S.'s best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major
themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by his
poetry. The book is intended for both scholars looking for informed
critical insight into Bernstein's work as well as for students to
examine his work. The scholarship covers many of his major pieces
and genres, like sound, stage, and poetry. The authors write about
his main themes and influences and give insight into some of the
major poetry ideas currently being debated in the U.S., such as the
nature and future of experimental poetry, the influences on
contemporary poetry, the politics of poetry, and wide variety of
techniques currently being used. This book is valuable to
individuals interested in poetry and libraries trying to stay
abreast of the most important recent literary criticism/currents.
Gravity presents the first five books of poems from the sequence
Gravity as a consequence of shape, started in 1982 and scheduled
for completion in 2005. Gravity includes the books Brixton
Fractals, Breadboard, Civic Crime, Dispossession & Cure, and
Fizz. The sequence is an inversion of empirical demands. Each
untitled poem has been relabelled with a jazz dance from a list of
dances, from African Boog to Zip. The design of the overall work
uses the model of a crushed cylinder, the process of a crumbling
wall and a variety of contingent energies, interrupted narratives
demonstrating crowd-outs, descriptions of shifts in focal
consciousness, fleeting interruptions that damage continuities and
expectations with named actors; Burglar, Badger, Fireman,
Mathematician. These narratives are supported by decoherent syntax,
moving positions that question strident notions of coherence and
over-determined incoherences. This is a syntax that sometimes
avoids and sometimes embraces tried stanza structures through the
use of unreliable sentences and designed forms that exercise
deliberate breaks from golden mean or idealised exactness. The
poems rely on inconsistency leading to prepared and unexpected
transformations that link or rhyme into following or previous
poems. One preparation involved labelling a cylinder with stanza
indications to provide sonority, bending the cylinder in upon
itself and producing new damaged sonorities from the crushed
indications. This transformed geometry energises the process of
aesthetic productions in each reader's involvement. One activity
transforms words by sound, another by meaning and another by
inversion or critique of its proposals. One unrealised proposal is
to demonstrate truth. Another is to confirm a lack of reliance upon
expectation. The subjects bridge biotechnology and quantum physics
through a system of urban gardening and leaking streets. The
proposals demand civility and are preposterous.
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