Mark Young and I have been working to get the final volume of e-values interviews together. It's going to be a big, resonant book I think.
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I've been hoping to transition out of doing interviews for a while in order to make space for poetry writing. However, I'm finding myself embarked on a new flight of exchanges which will find, hopefully, venues by and by. It's harder to overcome habits of thought and practice than one thinks.
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This morning, groggy, I was having lines of poetry occur to me. I didn't write them down right away because they were so vivid and I was turning them around in my mind. I, of course, lost them in their specificity but kept them in the way of unresolved keywords.
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The desire to write poetry is like any desire.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
e-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-v-a-l-u-e-s, etc
Monday, May 5, 2008
This Poem/What Speaks?/A Day
This Poem/What Speaks?/A Day
Tom Beckett
44 pages
Cover painting by Thomas Fink
ISBN: 978-0-9804541-7-8
Otoliths 2008
$10.00 + p&h
URL: http://www.lulu.com/content/2266888
"This is not a quest for epiphany: it is a rigorous modus vivendi. Tom Beckett’s is a poetry which, in accompanying us in our questionings — more than this, in feeling with us throughout our errancies — is as much phenomenological inquiry as it is intimate emotive play. It is at once the voice inside our heads and those voices outside, which we love, but cannot understand. From out this space of inquiry and intimacy, Beckett’s work emerges as that poetic praxis most necessary to us in our time. It is a consciousness seeking answers to itself." — Nicholas Manning
The cover image is Thomas Fink's Hay(na)ku 5. I chose it because of its three-part configuration which mirrors my book and for its disturbing beauty--lyrical and visceral, all at once.
I think the new poem at Chiaroscuro Metropoli is going to be called "Subject Positions." Damned if I know how it will proceed, other than trial and error (lots of trial, lots of error).
Sunday, May 4, 2008
New Notes on Chiaroscuro Metropoli
The plan, when I began Chiaroscuro Metropoli a couple of years ago, was to dissolve the blog when the poem I was attempting was "finished". That poem ("What Speaks?") was completed and has been included in my latest book. I've decided, to my surprise, not to dissolve the blog just yet, but to begin writing another longish poem in public. Don't know if I can carry off what I have in mind, but I've posted a small beginning which I hope to build on as I'm able.
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