Sam Hamill

[Arcadia]

I read in our local newspaper today that he will be reading his poetry in Rosario next friday night in the teatro El Círculo. I´ll try to go.
I searched his poems in internet but I still don´t find them. I found interesting links, though: Poets against the war (I read some poems but I couldn´t sintonize with them, I´ll read more later) and also:

www.progressive.org/mag_cusachamill

www.jacketmagazine.com/23/rex-hamill.html

[Arcadia]

beautiful poems! He read some from "Almost paradise" with a good translator at his side, so it was great. Beautiful, grave voice, maybe Sean Connery´s like but with USA accent and less affectation.
he also has a special sense of humor: he said he wants to spend some months of the year here and be an argentine citizen...!
interesting definition about poetry: "poetry is a big house with many rooms... ones are more interesting than others... and I don´t like rooms with mirrorrs"
I´ll post more links or poems if I find them.

[stilltrucking]

Everyday I realize how much I do not know. Everyday I feel as if I know less than I did yesterday. Thanks for increasing my ignorance

I been reading through your post. Googling as I go. This is just my cut and pastes and a few random thoughts of mine. Pretty chaotic.


Cut and Paste starts here

When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering.
Q: Is there a particular bit of Sappho you quote?
Hamill: There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the hill. / Others say it's a vast infantry on the march. / But I say the most beautiful thing is the beloved." How political can you get?

All the posts about the Danish cartoons. I kept saying all I see is a bunch of pecker heads with beards and testosterone poisoning pounding on their chests like ape men. Nobody seemed to notice or think much of my theory. Nietzsche warned about self loathing, I am happy with being a man, it is just mankind I can’t stand.

The engaged public voice of these recent works is a significant achievement at a time when poets seem to be struggling to come to terms with the daily horrors of the world around them (“A Horrible Sonnet” (1994) concludes with the Mannix quote, ‘horror is my honeybunch’)

. http://jacketmagazine.com/26/hawk-hamm.html



I was thinking that Laura Bush could say “horror is my honey bunch”

Hammial has developed a formidable range of techniques for generating a complex variety of poetic forms. His early work frequently echoes Michaux’s use of anaphorae: détourned maxims and taxonomies extend in serial proliferation. There is also an apparent attentiveness to dream, though these are never simply transcriptions but are worked over relentlessly for significance. In later writings they modulate into fables, culminating in the brilliant Kafkaesque miniatures of With One Skin Less (1994). The metamorphoses generated by Hammial’s programmatic forms are apparently infinite; similar processual techniques were explored in Bernadette Mayer’s workshops attended by many prominent contemporary poets in the 1970s. Here is a typical extract from the earlier poem “Hollywood Hotel”:

...If Molly says
that she’ll smother your much with your such she probably
will. I won’t. Low
for high, I couldn’t
if I wanted to. Stage frights

tender genders with their fishing
fortuitously trussed. If Charlotte says
that she’ll lick your cage until it’s clean she probably
will. I won’t. Switch
for hit, I couldn’t
if I wanted to. Stage frights

come easy to the fore but they do insist
that the rowers must pay. If Sarah says
that she’ll leave you out in the rain she probably
will, I won’t. Wet
for dry, I couldn’t
if I wanted to...

http://jacketmagazine.com/26/hawk-hamm.html

I spend a lot of time thinking about bad translations of Freud and the harm they have caused. He is translating from Chinese. It makes my mind boggle. More than 2400 charcters in Chinese
He adopted something similar to what has since been labeled .


He is not fond of religion but
Buddhism is a religion I have always thought.


Speaking of Apes
Nothing to do with your post but I been thinking of what he said about Sapho and the infinite stupidity of man.

It is an entirely new, previously undocumented code of peaceful conduct for a baboon society, and it has been learned! If only humans were that smart

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Williamson0526.htm

[Arcadia]

I see that you were trying a jacket!
I´ll read your links later, siesta is waiting.

[Arcadia]

an australian poet and agent orange?. I´m reading Harold Williamson´s article abut the agent orange. Interesting in case we have to live with more dioxines around.

[stilltrucking]

Yes it is interesting, It would have been better if I posted to the general board article about the paper plant.

I goofed, put the wrong link, nothing to do with this thread. sorry

http://www.ec.gc.ca/CEPARegistry/regula ... ?intReg=21

I am thinking about taking a course in Spanish. I have been thinking about it for about twenty years. I wish I could read more of your posts.

Crazy Mike used to tell me I got a big wish bone, but my back bone is weak.

Wish bone? i wonder if that has any meaning in Spanish, it is a game kids here play on "thanksgiving day" , what ever person finds a certain bone in the bird, it is kind of shaped like a "U" two kids grab the bone by either end and pull on it while making a wish. the bone breaks and who ever gets the biggest piece gets his wish.


Thanksgiving day always falls on the third Thursday in November. It is when we give thanks for gullible Indians. We kept making treaties with them and they keep signing them like we were going to keep our word.
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[Arcadia]

a Spanish Course? it´s always easy to learn más o menos a language.
what is back bone? coxis? sacro?
saludos for the indians!