Started a new blog. http://perunaselvaoscura.tumblr.com A Project blog. Somewhat similar to my old http://diaryofa36thyear.blogspot.com. But a little more complex. In this age of tumblr and reblogging I can kind of get the scrapbook feel that the paper version of Diary of a 36th Year had.
The Diary blog was written literally by taking piece/fragments of my written diary and collaging them together. I have mostly forgone the written diary except for notes while reading. So that is not the project. The project is a sort of attempt to pull out some sort of prose narrative. I talk about poetry I'm reading, poetry readings in a obscure he/she way, a vague "he" coming out of having a real "he" in my life! And since I crashed one of the Public School meetings on the bible, I am interested in continuing and using the very interesting biblical aspects/ as well as readings from a book on the history of yoga I recently started reading. To combine religion/spirituality with poetry concerns, with personal life, and finally dreams, which I finally started to be able to remember again after having a month with nowhere to be (first time in 10 years I've had that much time off at once!). And I will probably be mixing in some Linguistics/TESOL aspects from my classes.
I got the idea while reading Book 2 of Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book, Nights and Days, which is what I originally wanted to call it, but it was taken. Duncan talks a good deal about Dante, (not to mention a good deal about everything), so it seemed to fit. The Nights and Days section is a poetic meandering around the theme so far of night, with lots of exposition on stars, but it is really more the form and style of writing in this section, more than the content, that really inspired me. The idea of leaving jokey funny facebook posts behind, and writing in a poetic voice entirely — seems very appealing to me right now. Maybe too many people are witty these days, it is no longer appealing to me to be so. Combined with my new age in my new decade and my desire to be a teacher, which has somehow led to another level of interest in my writing. And I'm also started to view the prevalence of "witty" in some ways as connected to capitalism, when you are doing that you are selling something people want. I want to sell something I want.
But Inspiration #2 came about rather simultaneously as reading Book 2 of The H.D. Book, which came about through reading about how Kate Zambreno was writing a blog about wives of writers who wanted to be writers but never became writers, and how that blog ultimately became her book Heroines, and that inspired me to make a blog that could be a book, and could be a prose book. Trying to trick myself into prose through a device (but its so still poetry, but thats ok).
It is also organized by day. Day 1, Day 2 etc. But these are not real days since I'm about to become very busy with the semester. I'm thinking of them as biblical days. A logical end of course would be 365 days, but that seems a bit too much for a book, plus with the rebloggings, it would just be huge.
Thinking to research Dante a little bit more and those cute little circles of hell. Research the organization, etc. and see if I can do something with that...
Perhaps, yes. Wikipedia says that the Comedy is made up of 14,233 lines that are divided into three canticas (Ital. pl. cantiche)—Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise)—each consisting of 33 cantos (Ital. pl. canti). Perhaps I will stop on the 99th day.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Yogis uniting for workers rights, Hyatt
I expected more yogis couldn't even find any at first. Joined the picket line for a minute. I want to start joining picket lines more often, very much a high! So much energy from the people. I asked do I need a sign to walk with you, and they're like no no here here, making room for us. I think I should wash my yoga mat that the homeless man used though -- he was kind of cute, he kept yelling out "I'm So Relaxed!" -- but there is some mysterious black stuff on the edges now.
I didn't know who Seane Corn was before but think she must be SO famous now.
Also thinking how interesting it is, how easy for some (those with money) to sell out to corporations, because they want the money. How to not sell out and stick to your values should be a component to all yoga teacher trainings, as is a little critical thinking maybe. Too much unthinking jockiness in the yoga world, trying to sell bliss because it is a selling point but not really teaching people the intellectual side of things, how can we have "union" -- yoga when the yoga being sold is so lopsided?
Friday, January 04, 2013
Favorite Netflix Streaming Movies Watched in 2012
Skyline
Downton Abbey: Season 1
Stranded
Faces in the Crowd
The Bothersome Man
Melancholia
The Scarf
Thor
Timecrimes
Archangel: Pt 1-3
Stargate Universe Seasons 1-2
Accident
Farewell My Concubine
YOGA: The Movie
Battlestar Galactica: Ssn 1
The Phantom of the Opera
Fish Story
Ashtanga, NY
Columbus Circle
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Reading/Performancey things I gave/did 2012
Much shorter list :(
January 22:
11th Annual Poets Theater Festival (Debt Play) - Counterpulse
June 4:
Greene/Hunter Poetry Reading - Bird & Beckett
June 16:
SPT PRESENTS: Endless Summer - CCA
July 28:
reading/going away party at zack's: with jess heaney, tom comitta, zack haber
October 17:
Live at 851: with Suzanne Scanlon, Jess Dutschmann, Ivy Johnson, Alexandra Naughton
Readings attended 2012
Evan Karp went to at least 134 poetry readings in 2012!
So I counted. I only went to 41, wait 42, forgot Quiet Lightning, wait 43 I forgot David Brazil, Eleni Stecopoulos, and CJ Martin at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library. OMG. Oh, he says "literary events" but anyway.
School seems to have slowed me down a lot. 42 altogether, only 9 between Sept-Dec.
2012 Readings Events
Alice Notley
Live at 851: Gabriel Blackwell, Joshua Mohr, Derek Fenner, Zack Haber
iduna: an opera in one act (didn't really see this but I went)
Manifest Reading and Workshop Series #12, Erika Staiti, Alana Siegel
SPD Lit Crawl Creature Features Micah Ballard, Julien Poirier, Rebecca Farivar, Ben Mirov, and Claire Becker.
Live at 851: Suzanne Scanlon, Carrie Hunter, Jess Dutschmann, Ivy Johnson, Alexandra Naughton
Live at 851: Book Launch: Jarett Kobek, M Kitchell, Elly Jonez, Lorian Long with special guest John Tottenham
CCA Reading! Thom Donovan, Suzanne Stein and Sara Larsen
San Francisco I'LL DROWN MY BOOK Launch
RE@DS: Kevin Killian & Andrew Kenower
The Other Fabulous Reading Series: Ben Mirov, Alana Siegel, Adam Fagin
Studio One kathryn pringle and Rebecca Farivar
C.J. Martin reading for Julia Drescher and erica lewis POETRY READING, Susan Gervitz's
David Brazil, Eleni Stecopoulos, and CJ Martin at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
Canessa Park Reading Series presents: Nicholas Leaskou, Jay Thomas & Delia Tramontina
Live at 851: Nick Sturm, Rachel Hyman, Diana Salier, Steve Orth, Tom Comitta, Amy Berkowitz, Rod Roland
San Francisco Book Launch for Kevin and Rob-Alley Cat Books
reading/going away party: jess heaney, carrie hunter, tom comitta, zack haber
Woolsey Heights presents Dodie Bellamy, Jason Jimenez and Francesca Lisette
Featherboard: kathryn l. pringle, Alli Warren and Brent Cunningham
Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics
Endless Summer SPT reading: Francesca Rosa, Erin Wilson, Micah Ballard, Joshua Clover, Juiliana Spahr, Taylor Brady, Michael Cross, Lara Durback, Melissa Eleftherion Carr, Suzanne Stein, Sara Larsen, Melissa Mack, Alli Warren, Alan Bernheimer, Kit Robinson, Loretta Clodfelter, David Buuck, Karla Milosevich, Cynthia Sailers, Carrie Hunter, Margaret Tedesco with Pam Martin, Del Ray Cross, Samantha Giles, Ron Palmer, Anne Lesley Selcer, Sara Wintz, Jill Stengel, Kevin Killian, Beverly Dahlen, Matthew Gordon, Sarah Rosenthal, Sean Negus
Bird & Beckett Books- Black - Kelder - Thibodeaux
Poetry at the Long Haul: Juliana Spahr, QR Hand Jr, Dereck Clemons
Quiet Lightning- Zack Haber, Karen Penley, Mariama Lockington, Aaron DiFranco, Valerie Chavez, Zoe Brezsny, Matthew Rogers, Max Tomlinson, Joe Case, Maureen Blennerhassett, Chris Carosi, Brian S. Hart, Cybele Zufolo, Samantha Rubenstein, Casey McAlduff
Amerarcana 2012 Release and Reading
Poetry at the Long Haul: Dan Thomas Glass, Megan Kaminksi, Sarah Rothberg, Janey Smith
Good Friday Poetry-Books and Bookshelves, Alana Siegel + George Quasha
Bowerbird Treasury: The Reading/ Reckoning
Sara Larsen, Rusty Morrison and Dennis Phillips reading at Canessa Gallery
Manifest Reading Series #6
Live at 851 Presents: Thomas Patrick Levy, Andrea Kneeland, Sarah Fran Wisby, Lindsey Boldt and Shruti Swamy.
RE@DS reading: Tom Comitta (Didn't really see this but I went)
2/11: House Reading - Durback, Thomas-Glass, and Young-Lauren & Tony's House
Live at 851: Lonely Christopher, Keely Hyslop, Janey Smith
Poetry at The Long Haul...Camille Roy, Lindsey Boldt, Steve Orth!
Manifest Reading Series #4
a reading and conversation with Tim Trace Peterson, j/j hastain and Monica/Nico Peck
a reading and conversation with kathryn l. pringle, Erin Moure and Andrea Rexilius
Wintz, Rankine (absent) & Bellamy
an evening with Cecilia Vicuna
an engagement with Sherwood Forest
11th annual Poets Theater festival
So I counted. I only went to 41, wait 42, forgot Quiet Lightning, wait 43 I forgot David Brazil, Eleni Stecopoulos, and CJ Martin at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library. OMG. Oh, he says "literary events" but anyway.
School seems to have slowed me down a lot. 42 altogether, only 9 between Sept-Dec.
2012 Readings Events
Alice Notley
Live at 851: Gabriel Blackwell, Joshua Mohr, Derek Fenner, Zack Haber
iduna: an opera in one act (didn't really see this but I went)
Manifest Reading and Workshop Series #12, Erika Staiti, Alana Siegel
SPD Lit Crawl Creature Features Micah Ballard, Julien Poirier, Rebecca Farivar, Ben Mirov, and Claire Becker.
Live at 851: Suzanne Scanlon, Carrie Hunter, Jess Dutschmann, Ivy Johnson, Alexandra Naughton
Live at 851: Book Launch: Jarett Kobek, M Kitchell, Elly Jonez, Lorian Long with special guest John Tottenham
CCA Reading! Thom Donovan, Suzanne Stein and Sara Larsen
San Francisco I'LL DROWN MY BOOK Launch
RE@DS: Kevin Killian & Andrew Kenower
The Other Fabulous Reading Series: Ben Mirov, Alana Siegel, Adam Fagin
Studio One kathryn pringle and Rebecca Farivar
C.J. Martin reading for Julia Drescher and erica lewis POETRY READING, Susan Gervitz's
David Brazil, Eleni Stecopoulos, and CJ Martin at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
Canessa Park Reading Series presents: Nicholas Leaskou, Jay Thomas & Delia Tramontina
Live at 851: Nick Sturm, Rachel Hyman, Diana Salier, Steve Orth, Tom Comitta, Amy Berkowitz, Rod Roland
San Francisco Book Launch for Kevin and Rob-Alley Cat Books
reading/going away party: jess heaney, carrie hunter, tom comitta, zack haber
Woolsey Heights presents Dodie Bellamy, Jason Jimenez and Francesca Lisette
Featherboard: kathryn l. pringle, Alli Warren and Brent Cunningham
Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics
Endless Summer SPT reading: Francesca Rosa, Erin Wilson, Micah Ballard, Joshua Clover, Juiliana Spahr, Taylor Brady, Michael Cross, Lara Durback, Melissa Eleftherion Carr, Suzanne Stein, Sara Larsen, Melissa Mack, Alli Warren, Alan Bernheimer, Kit Robinson, Loretta Clodfelter, David Buuck, Karla Milosevich, Cynthia Sailers, Carrie Hunter, Margaret Tedesco with Pam Martin, Del Ray Cross, Samantha Giles, Ron Palmer, Anne Lesley Selcer, Sara Wintz, Jill Stengel, Kevin Killian, Beverly Dahlen, Matthew Gordon, Sarah Rosenthal, Sean Negus
Bird & Beckett Books- Black - Kelder - Thibodeaux
Poetry at the Long Haul: Juliana Spahr, QR Hand Jr, Dereck Clemons
Quiet Lightning- Zack Haber, Karen Penley, Mariama Lockington, Aaron DiFranco, Valerie Chavez, Zoe Brezsny, Matthew Rogers, Max Tomlinson, Joe Case, Maureen Blennerhassett, Chris Carosi, Brian S. Hart, Cybele Zufolo, Samantha Rubenstein, Casey McAlduff
Amerarcana 2012 Release and Reading
Poetry at the Long Haul: Dan Thomas Glass, Megan Kaminksi, Sarah Rothberg, Janey Smith
Good Friday Poetry-Books and Bookshelves, Alana Siegel + George Quasha
Bowerbird Treasury: The Reading/ Reckoning
Sara Larsen, Rusty Morrison and Dennis Phillips reading at Canessa Gallery
Manifest Reading Series #6
Live at 851 Presents: Thomas Patrick Levy, Andrea Kneeland, Sarah Fran Wisby, Lindsey Boldt and Shruti Swamy.
RE@DS reading: Tom Comitta (Didn't really see this but I went)
2/11: House Reading - Durback, Thomas-Glass, and Young-Lauren & Tony's House
Live at 851: Lonely Christopher, Keely Hyslop, Janey Smith
Poetry at The Long Haul...Camille Roy, Lindsey Boldt, Steve Orth!
Manifest Reading Series #4
a reading and conversation with Tim Trace Peterson, j/j hastain and Monica/Nico Peck
a reading and conversation with kathryn l. pringle, Erin Moure and Andrea Rexilius
Wintz, Rankine (absent) & Bellamy
an evening with Cecilia Vicuna
an engagement with Sherwood Forest
11th annual Poets Theater festival
Favorite Books read in 2012 that I gave 5 stars to on Goodreads
Touch To Affliction
Stephens, Nathalie
A 22 and 23
Zukofsky, Louis
Nilling: Prose
Robertson, Lisa
Knot
Doris, Stacy
Two Books
Martin, C.J.
Sand
Phillips, Dennis
Hurdis Addo
Giles, Samantha
Chinese Notebook
Agrafiotis, Demosthenes
Undying Love, Or, Love Dies
Toufic, Jalal
To After That
Gladman, Renee
Infinite Variations
Nelligan, Marci
Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. the Joy of Cooking
Lin, Tan
The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures
Spicer, Jack
Song for His Disappeared Love/Canto a Su Amor Desaparecido
Zurita, Raul
Applies to Oranges
Thorson, Maureen
Schizophrene
Kapil, Bhanu
Event Factory
Gladman, Renee
To Carry You Being
Haber, Zack
To Carry You Being
Haber, Zack
Goodreads Reviews 2012
Half sex, half Buddhism, the way everything should be. Finally starting to read my 2011 ugly duckling presse subscription books. Writing deep in a surface way. I had the orange hardcover library edition. Cathars vs the Catholics. Collage of underlined lines. The book I want to be reading whenever I'm reading another book. I like how he seems to have this one thesis, and all his books, whether poetry, prose or a hybrid of the two, are really all about this one thing. I wrote some *really cool* stuff about this book in my spiral notebook, which I can't find. Thinking deeply about Devo. Great right after waking from a nap and not putting your glasses on. The way that the actual subject matter of the book very slowly dawned on me was really cool. I also liked the Muslim interpretation of "Silent Night, Deadly Night." I'm so depressed. I was confused and thought this was a zine listing Robert Duncan as author instead of editor, but then I realized it is an essay by him that begins with two poems as epigraphs to his essay. Entertaining. I totally don't remember taking this from your house, but I guess I did. I found it in my bag. "Everybody reads the first paragraph of The Wealth of Nations where he talks about how wonderful the division of labor is. But not many people get to the point hundred of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn them into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be." Want to read the whole thing just two at a time like this. That the question that despair asks has no answer.
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