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<h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, October 24, 2002</span></h2>

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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Contrasted with the CD that
comes with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse </i>anthology, <span class="SpellE">Arundo&#8217;s</span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Triumph of
the Damned </i>and Edwin Torres&#8217; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.fauxpress.com/b/to.htm"><span class="GramE">Please</span></a> </i>present
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Arundo consists of Actualist
poet, G.P. Skratz and multi-instrumentalist Andy Dinsmoor. Skratz sent me <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Triumph </i>to convince me that he was more
than merely popping &#8220;up in print from time to time&#8221; as I had <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2382185887">suggested</a>
in a &#8220;where are they now&#8221; discussion of Actualism. Given its 1999 production
date and homegrown packaging features &#8211; photocopied cover, the CD&#8217;s title
posted on a TDR CD-R disc via a mailing label &#8211; I&#8217;m not certain that I&#8217;m dissuaded
of the &#8220;from time to time&#8221; periodicity. But there is more than print to Skratz
alright. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Triumph </i>falls into the poems
set to a musical accompaniment vein, akin perhaps to Dwayne Morgan&#8217;s use of
bongos on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse </i>CD, or the
work there of Bob Holman, never quite going so far into song as Michele
Morgan&#8217;s jazz vocals. Dinsmoor ranges between guitar, recorder, sitar &amp;
tabla, with Skratz coming in on a couple of tracks on tamboura and two members
of The Serfs, Ed Holmes &amp; Bob Ernst, adding toy percussion, blues harp and
a backup vocal on a couple of pieces. Save for one collaboration by Skratz with
the late Darrell Gray and a translation from the poetry Hans <span class="SpellE">Arp</span>, the words &#8211; the back cover is careful not to call them
either lyrics or text &#8211; are all Skratz. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It would be easy enough to
dismiss <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Triumph </i>&#8211; nothing here
strives to be a breakthrough &#8211; but it is just too enjoyable for that. These
pieces for the most part work quite well. Skratz&#8217; droll wit rolls softly over
the soft raga backgrounds offered by Dinsmoor. Only the final piece on the CD,
the blues rock &#8220;<span class="SpellE">Doorwayman</span>,&#8221; comes across as more
energetic than arranged. A couple of the pieces seem too similar lyrically &#8211;
&#8220;Banana Ghazal&#8217;s&#8221; anomalous use of guitar &amp; &#8220;Banjo&#8217;s&#8221; equally anomalous use
of traditional Indian instruments don&#8217;t really paper over the redundant
strategies of the poems &#8211; but as a whole, this is an excellent way to take in
Skratz&#8217; poetry, including his work as both collaborator &amp; translator. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">is
an ambitious multimedia CD, one of three issued thus far by Faux Press (the
others are Wanda Phipps&#8217; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zither Mood </i>&amp;
Peter Ganick&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tend. field</i>). You put
it into your PC, not your CD player. Once you go past the opening screen (with
its own text, a much longer voiceover by Gina <span class="SpellE">Bonati</span>
&amp; title graphics), you arrive at an ideogram with links in each of its
strokes. Depending on where you click, you will be led to one of five series of
poems (&#8220;City,&#8221; &#8220;Boy,&#8221; &#8220;Remote,&#8221; Time,&#8221; and &#8220;Love&#8221;), a play in twelve parts
(plus a prologue &amp; epilogue) or section entitled &#8220;Media&#8221; that contains
documentation of eight Torres performances plus his bio. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Each section of the CD, each
set of poems, the play &amp; &#8220;Media,&#8221; has an opening screen, a logo with its
own set of links. Each set of poems as well as the media section also begins
with a voiced over text read by <span class="SpellE">Bonati</span>. For the play,
we get a little bit of music in a truncated marching band vein. Most though not
all of the poems seem to have their own sound tracks, a few of which can be
seen as readings of the text. If Alicia Sometimes&#8217; music seemed to play
against, rather than with, her own text on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soft Fuse </i>CD, Torres actively explores the entire range of
push-pull juxtapositions between sound and written language. Often these are
quite wonderful. Always, they&#8217;re playful &amp; optimistic, qualities totally
consistent with Torres&#8217; poetry. As writing, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please
</i>is at a higher level, or perhaps at a high level with greater consistency,
than any of the other CDs I&#8217;ve considered on <span class="GramE">the this</span>.
It&#8217;s a shame that there isn&#8217;t a collection gathered in a liner-note booklet &#8211;
as a book&#8217;s worth of work, they&#8217;re more straightforward pieces than the
typographic extravaganzas of his big Roof collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker</i>: the texts work just fine on
the screen even with the PC speakers shut down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Like almost any web- or
screen-centric work, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please </i>invites
bouncing around from link to link &#8211; while there is an order, the project seems
set up to undermine it. One doesn&#8217;t so much read as browse, homo <span class="SpellE">ludens</span> in total evidence. Overall, though, it can be as
engrossing as any front-to-back text imaginable. In fact, the one piece that
doesn&#8217;t fully work on the CD is the play, precisely because it requires the
participant to go sequentially. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is an old rule of
thumb with technology, one that I first learned watching Jackson Mac Low
struggle with tape machines some 30 years ago: something always goes wrong.
There are inevitably a few &#8220;<span class="SpellE">gotchas</span>&#8221; on the CD &#8211; the
apostrophe often shows up as an umlauted capital O, there is at least one link
that doesn&#8217;t go anywhere, opening a dialog box in vain search of a missing file
on the CD. &amp; the images are consistently too small throughout (a
consequence of another of my rules of thumb: QuickTime sucks). But these are
nits when taken in the context of the total project. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Overall <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please </i>pleases. It demonstrates the gazillion different ways Edwin
Torres&#8217; poetry (&amp; mind) can move simultaneously, always interesting, always
in the ballpark with something of value to add. He&#8217;s one of our great talents
&amp; we&#8217;re lucky to have every manifestation we can get of his work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Write about performance
poetry and very quickly you will find yourself the possessor of a flurry of CDs
that relate variously to this side of writing. In the past week, I&#8217;ve received
the CD that accompanies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.rattapallax.com/fusion.htm">Short Fuse: The Global Anthology
of New Fusion Poetry</a>,</i> a brand new multimedia CD from Edwin Torres
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Kimball&#8217;s Faux Press,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>and a slightly
older audio CD, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Triumph of the Damned,</i>
by Arundo, which consists of Actualist impresario G.P. Skratz and
instrumentalist Andy Dinsmoor (not to be confused with the Arundo Clarinet
Quartet). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The CD that accompanies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse </i>is, in some ways, the very
best part of this complex &amp; ambitious project*, offering 76:02 minutes of
work on the part of 34 contributors, ranging from Emily XYZ to Billy Collins,
Edwin Torres to Glyn Maxwell. With Bob Holman, Ian Ferrier, Fortner Anderson,
Charles Bernstein, Willie <span class="SpellE">Perdomo</span>, </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Richard Peabody</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Lucy English, Mat Fraser, Tug Dumbly, <span class="SpellE">Ulli</span> K. Ryder, Michele Morgan, Guillermo Castro, <span class="SpellE">Dawna</span> Rae Hicks, Barbara <span class="SpellE">Decesare</span>,
Heather <span class="SpellE">Hermant</span>, Alicia Sometimes, Sandra <span class="SpellE">Thibodeux</span>, Rob Gee, <span class="SpellE">Regie</span> <span class="SpellE">Cabico</span>, Todd Colby, Corey Frost, </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Todd Swift</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s Swifty Lazarus, Kim Houghton, Robin Davidson,
Irene <span class="SpellE">Suico</span> <span class="SpellE">Soriano</span>, Peter
Finch, Dwayne Morgan, Patrick Chapman, <span class="SpellE">Ryk</span> McIntyre
&amp; Ian <span class="SpellE">McBryde&#8217;s</span> The Still Company, this disc
presents these oral/aural poets in their best light and hints of the
extraordinary richness to be found throughout the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse </i>project. As a whole, the CD is great fun &amp; hangs
together remarkably well given how diverse this collection of writers <span class="GramE">prove</span> to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Trying to sort through this
cornucopia is an interesting project in itself. Twelve of the poets here use
music in the presentation of their work, ranging from mere background
accompaniment (Alicia Sometimes, Dwayne Morgan, Bob Holman) to complex
productions that transform their poems into something like the role normally
reserved for song lyrics (Edwin Torres, Michele Morgan, Ian Ferrier). This
latter strategy in particular raises once again the issues of performance on
the page versus aurally that I&#8217;ve discussed <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_10_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2383209267">previously</a>.
There is, I promise, almost no way for even the most inventive &amp; flamboyant
<span class="GramE">reader to translate this passage by Edwin Torres from the
page with even</span> a fraction of the flair that the poet&#8217;s own
Latin-flavored performance offers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">Peesacho</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">, NO macho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">Much cha-cha? NO mucho, P-<span class="SpellE">sycho</span>
NOT cha-cha / cha-CHA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">is</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"> the HER
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">of</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"> <span class="SpellE">PeeSAAAAAAAcho</span>...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Torres starts off the CD and
gives it the feeling of any pop music disc, leading with its hit single. &#8220;<span class="SpellE">Peesacho</span>&#8221; is an extraordinary piece, the single best
recording I&#8217;ve heard yet of Torres&#8217; own work**. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In fact, all of the pieces
on the CD that have the greatest impact use music: Torres&#8217; &#8220;<span class="SpellE">Peesacho</span>,&#8221;
<span class="SpellE">XYZ&#8217;s</span> Arabic ode to an al-Qaeda pilot, Bob Holman&#8217;s
wry &amp; ironic monolog, Michele Morgan&#8217;s jazz performance of a poem that can
be heard as a high-style homage to Beat poetry, or Ian Ferrier&#8217;s piece, with
its chorus right out of Dylan&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nashville
Skyline </i>period. Had the CD focused only on works that utilized music, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse </i>might have set off a
revolution in poetic song, because the overall quality of these best works is <span class="GramE">startling.</span> The musical pieces are what ultimately <span class="GramE">holds</span> this disc together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The two dozen texts that are
unaugmented by music can themselves be divided into somewhat overlapping
groups: straight readings of straight poems, recordings of live readings, one
piece by Charles Bernstein obviously chosen for its jabberwocky. Many of these
pieces simply document the poet&#8217;s reading of the text and some, such as
Guillermo Castro&#8217;s &#8220;A Deli on </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-family: Arial;">First Avenue</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-family: Arial;">,&#8221; <span class="GramE">do</span> so quite well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I&#8217;ve <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_10_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2383247807">argued</a>
that stand-up comedy is a major formal referent for the spoken word movement
and there are seven clear examples on the CD: Rob Gee&#8217;s unaccompanied theme
song for &#8220;Viagra,&#8221; Corey Frost&#8217;s shtick, <span class="SpellE">Regie</span> <span class="SpellE">Cabico&#8217;s</span> sexual assessment of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dawson Creek </i>cast, Barbara <span class="SpellE">Decesare&#8217;s</span>
vicious impression of a nagging mother, Robin Davidson&#8217;s terrorism nursery
rhymes, Alicia <span class="SpellE">Sometime&#8217;s</span> funny song of a man&#8217;s love
for the female (I can&#8217;t say more without giving away the <span class="SpellE">punchline</span>,
literally), and Lucy English&#8217;s explanation of why she wants to be in &#8220;The
Company of Poets.&#8221; Only Gee&#8217;s would stand a chance at a competition in a comedy
club. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Alicia Sometimes&#8217; piece,
which uses music, does so in a way that has no intelligible relation to the
content of her poem, referring as the text does to a musical instrument. It&#8217;s
one of three works on the CD that comes off in ways that seem to be at odds
with the poet&#8217;s original intent, suggesting a level of risk in this kind of
production. The other two such works are both by poets not normally associated
with slam poetics, but who stand revealed when placed into such a context.
Billy Collins&#8217; poem &#8220;Love&#8221; comes across very much like a Daniel <span class="SpellE">Pinkwater</span> essay for NPR radio, but less insightful, less
well written, not so funny &amp; with a cloying last image that is to cringe
for. Even more pronounced in the unintentional humor vein is Glyn Maxwell&#8217;s
&#8220;The Stones in Their Array,&#8221; which explains why stones are special in precisely
the same kind of terms that TV&#8217;s Mr. Rodgers used to explain that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you </i>were special. It&#8217;s a howler and
anybody who confuses Maxwell with a serious writer should be forced to listen
to this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">* It&#8217;s
interesting to note that the CD was edited by Rattapallax editor </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ram Devineni</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">, and not by Phil Norton or </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Todd Swift</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">, who edited the paperback and
e-book. All Rattapallax books are accompanied by CDs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Including <span class="GramE">his own</span> CD, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please,</i> which I&#8217;ll examine in more depth tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">A third question posed by the
new anthology <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.rattapallax.com/fusion.htm">Short Fuse</a></i> has to do with
the volume's underlying agenda. Its ambition can be gauged by the fact that
Swift &amp; Norton's intervention works in two directions simultaneously.
First, the book attempts to situate oral and performance poetries, aligned in
this particular case most closely to the slam &amp; spoken word scene rather
than to, say, sound poetry, well within the legitimated borders of text-based
work, placed alongside neoformalism, langpo &amp; McPoetry as an equal, not
just something quaint done by wannabes at your local slam tavern. Secondly
&amp; most ambitiously, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i>
argues at least implicitly that oral poetries offer the "missing
link" between contending traditions of verse. Thus <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i> offers to transcend the poetry wars by placing itself
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Although <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i> is hardly the first anthology to suggest the breadth
&amp; diversity of oral &amp; performance poetries, it succeeds at its first
task. The book clearly demonstrates a phenomenon that is more global than any
other tendency within English-language poetry &amp; with a lot more pizzazz
than some.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">But to succeed at the second,
the performative poetries of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i>
would have to overcome some serious limitations. This version of oral poetry
would have to become, for example, a genuine poetic tradition whose sense of
long term historical memory consists of more than the occasional Robert Service
/ <span class="SpellE">Vachel</span> Lindsay imitation.* <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Close to half of the work
presented in this particular vision of oral poetries could be described as
stand-up comedy routines transcribed for the page, some better, some not.
Polysemy in such works is not only close to non-existent, it's often
counterproductive, in that this is a poetry aimed toward an audience that
doesn't identify as readers &amp; which places at least as much value on
agreement &amp; titillation as it does on meaning. Still, multiple levels of
signification are possible, as Guillermo Castro's wry, wonderful homage to
Allen Ginsberg, "A Deli on </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">First Avenue</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">," demonstrates. But as a rule it's
not evident that, in the context of performativity, richness in content
advantages the text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">I think it&#8217;s important to
note that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i> as a project
represents one possible step toward just such an increase in depth &amp; this
may be its major achievement. Oral poetries by their very nature tend to be
local. If you don't see what, say, Edwin Torres<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>is doing, you have relatively little access &amp;, by itself, a
transcription on paper is seldom enough to suggest all the many layers that are
potentially active when the poem itself is understood first of all as a score.
At a party I attended for the anthology in the offices of CLMP, the Council of
Literary Magazines and Presses, one Toronto poet told me how much she
appreciated hearing the work from Montreal at a reading the previous evening at
the New School. The two scenes, according to this poet, seldom communicate,
even though both are involved in parallel activities within the same country.
In bringing together so many like-minded writers from different regions and
parts of the world, Swift &amp; Norton may ultimately be taking the first steps
toward the creation of a performance metalanguage, a shared vocabulary that
would enable such writers to begin to build on what one another are doing
elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">The absence of this vocabulary
is a major weakness in many of the oral poetries gathered in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i>. It explains, in part, why so
much of this work falls back on the stand-up comedy routine as a formal
framework from which to operate &#8211; it&#8217;s something to which all these poets and
their audiences have been exposed. The lack of a metalanguage is precisely the problem
that has kept conceptual art in a position of always having to start over from
scratch with each new work, regardless the worker, regardless the scene. And
the absence of a true sense of tradition, of historical memory, is itself as
much a consequence of this lack of shared vocabulary as it is a cause. It is
precisely this absence that an oral poetics must overcome if it is to become
more than an adjunct to the text-based poetries of the day, interesting more as
sociology than literature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">All of which is to say that I
don't think that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i>, the
anthology, is going to change the world of letters, not now, not yet, but that
by envisioning what such a project might look like, </span><st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Todd Swift</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> &amp; </span><st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Philip Norton</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> have upped the ante for performance
poets everywhere. That is a huge achievement. And one from which we all benefit,
whatever our taste in poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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editor has read, for example, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sound
Poetry: <span class="GramE">A</span> Catalogue, </i>edited by </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Steve McCaffery</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> and the late <span class="SpellE">bp</span>
Nichol (<span class="SpellE">Underwhich</span> Editions, 1978) or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Poetry Reading: A Contemporary
Compendium on Language &amp; Performance</i>, edited by Stephen Vincent &amp;
Ellen <span class="SpellE">Zweig</span> (<span class="SpellE">Momo&#8217;s</span> Press,
1981), it&#8217;s not evident. The relative lack of sound poetry and Fluxus-inspired work
in the anthology &#8211; Penn Kemp is the notable exception &#8211; keeps <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">from being truly definitive as a
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<st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Todd Swift</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">'s work in the poetry-music duo <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2381766519">Swifty
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Short Fuse</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">
is hardly the first book to pose this issue. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker</i>, by Edwin Torres (Roof, 2001)
is an in-depth collection by one of the most brilliant performance poets alive,
but I couldn't work through its use of typographic pyrotechnics until I had
actually heard Torres for myself. In ways that are not apparent from the text,
or at least were not to me, that experience opened up the work &#8212; I could <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hear</i> it, even in poems that I had not
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for those poets not represented on the book's companion CD. The disc contains
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">But Penn Kemp, to pick one
example, is a superb sound poet &amp; enormous fun to see on stage. Her texts
on the page offer no sense of the extraordinary phonemic overload that comes
with her words. Ditto, tho more in a jazz vein, <span class="SpellE">Adeena</span>
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Carlos Williams, that writers of her generation literally did not know how to
read him at first, they could not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hear</i>
his poetry, its foundation in speech, which seems self-evident to somebody my
age, was not at all apparent. Yet over a couple of generations, Williams
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