Taylor

1.

http://www.ubu.com/sound/cage_empty.html

John Cage

I have listened to this piece many times over the recent years, and this is one of my favorite recordings of hearing Cage read his work. My thesis is based off of working with the I Ching, so I am very familiar with this process. Using this process disjoins your likes and dislikes, and I personally find this to be an integral part in the making of anything, to open you mind to something that you would not have seen without using chance.

2.

 http://www.ubu.com/papers/solt/france.html

Mary Ellen Solt

So far from what I have mentally collected from this class, is similar to this manifesto type writing, Pierre Garnier's Manifesto for a New Poetry Visual and Phonic, but I find this to be a near perfect match for our class’ manifesto as well. There are guidelines, but also room to grow as one gains knowledge of the field of poetry, readers responses and oneself.

3.

http://www.ubu.com/contemp/warnell/files/viru2.htm

Nari

Nari does some very interesting things with his poetry, he creates these complex visuals with the words in the poem, that become an integral part of the piece. In this particular piece, Viru2 he takes the html font from a virus on a computer. He is taking something ordinary that our eyes are used to seeing, and reworking the meaning and making it their own.

4.

http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/text/vp/017_Garnier_microcosmique_1967.pdf

Pierre Garnier

Again this poet is creating form using fonts and text as a form of language, leaving interpretation up to the reader/listener. All language is a basis for a sculptural form, and I find this poet to support that idea the strongest.

5.

http://www.ubu.com/concept/stein_five.html

Gertrude Stein

Five Words in a Line is quite simply, five words in a line. Poetry can be molded from anything. Even if it as simple as this, simplicity is fascinating, because most people are looking for something more complex and miss the pure simple things.

6.

http://www.ubu.com/ethno/discourses/rothenberg_poetry_without.html

Jerome Rothenberg

Even though that I have not seen this performed, I find this to be a beautiful idea. I find the relationship between the body movement almost as important as the words being read. Deliberately incorporating the two as sign language, for me, creates this understanding that can only be obtained by the observance of ones movement.

7.

http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/poem.html

Dan Graham

These two poems, Aspen 5 and Aspen 6 are very intriguing to me, they are simply just formulas for something. The poet is taking something that we typically do not see as poetry and he turns organizes the words as a poem. He is defining poetry with the everyday.

8.

http://www.ubu.com/concept/acconci_re.html

Vito Acconci

This poem reminds us to take a breath and think about the empty space within the parentheses. Parentheses typically indicate something that would not fit into the writing, something that is not as important, or a side note. This whole writing is reminding us that nothing is un-important and everything is important.

9.

http://www.ubu.com/concept/bok_vowels.html

Christian Bök

This poem explores language and the use of vowels, something that I think we nee to remember to do. The way we make the sounds are important, especially if those sounds are what we use the most.

10.

http://www.ubu.com/film/mann_ron_poetry.html

Ron Mann

In this documentary Mann discusses his ideals of poetry, including things that we discussed in our first class session. The thing that I found most important that we discussed was, why don’t people read poems, I find that his discussions about how much energy it takes to be very interesting. Honestly, no I did not watch all 90 minutes, but about the first ten, but I plan to watch the rest of it sometime soon.