...on music and poetry and poetry and music on... by Steve Fly "Omniverse / Is / The totality / Of / All the universes / And you / Are welcome / To / Be citizens / Of / The Omniverse--Sun Ra, Omniverse. "Rhythm...is the first formal esthetic relation of any part to part in … Continue reading …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…
Category: Charles Olson
Amiri Baraka Reads at the 4th Charles Olson Lecture 10/19/13 Pt. 2
Astral Projective Verse: Olson, Ophiel and Sun Ra
Astral Projective Verse By Steve Fly Agaric 23 For Eric Wagner and John Sinclair. Thanks for inspiring these wild speculations which are really notes that shall be reshuffled into a more coherent whole at some future point. Sounds Fly: Music Writing by Steven James Pratt et al. Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ "The essay introduces his ideas of … Continue reading Astral Projective Verse: Olson, Ophiel and Sun Ra
Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character
"The first was Ernest Fenollosa's provocative essay 'The Chinese Wriiten Character as a Medium for Poetry.' He found the Pound-edited text of the essay in the latter's book Instigations and excitedly copied out its main arguments into his notebook that June. Fenollosa's account of the exhaustion of poetic qualities in modern discourse resulting from a … Continue reading Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character
MAYAN MAXIMUS ARKESTRA
Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri Baraka treatise comparing the work of Charles Olson & Sun Ra with this episode featuring recordings by the principals plus selections by Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Archie Shepp, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and William Butler Yeats.--John Sinclair.http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/mayan-maximus-arkestra-fly-by-night-with-steve-the-fly-38/ Steve The Fly is following up on the amiri … Continue reading MAYAN MAXIMUS ARKESTRA
Preface to ‘The Mayan Letters by CHarles Olson.
For me, and my world right now (9th December 2012) Charles Olson and his book 'The Mayan Letters' makes perfect sense.Here's the preface:Preface to Mayan Lettersby Charles OlsonSometime toward the end of 1950, it was in December I think, but the letter isn't dated, I heard that Charles Olson was off to Yucatan. A sudden … Continue reading Preface to ‘The Mayan Letters by CHarles Olson.
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