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When Rudolf Bahro spoke of "surplus consciousness," he might just as well have been talking about the wor(l)d as Eastern Europe and political oppression. Marjorie Perloff must have a deeper sense of this than ?? - who knows -- This is beautiful and sad in equal measure.

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Bravo! Wonder full!

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beautiful.

His book, “PoePoePoePoePoePoePoePoe,” is amazing.

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As the founder of The Last Poets, who accepted Amiri as mentor . I love and am deeply inspired by this poem - which I’ve only recently discovered. And I can appreciate your rather scholarly approach. For me, “the something “ alluded to an entrapment in a consciousness.

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Jack was the Elvis of poetry ❤

Much of this is brilliant, but it is over a line of normal speaking about sensitive matters.

Thank you Rachel for the erotic charge in Stein! As a lesbian nonbinary and autistic person, it seems completely obvious to me how incredibly charged the language is and thrilling to hear her announcing herself (a stein is a carafe...) as being not so strange an arrangement and spreading. I love it!

The ability to express one’s consciousness beyond the time boundaries effortlessly without the hope of pleasure or pain

Top tier brilliance, even better than barbecue...sizzle..

Boomers 😂

This is one of my favorite PoemTalks! I heard it first as a podcast and listened to it twice and now am finally watching the video. Great poems with marvelous discussions of them!

I love the PoemTalk series. Since I am not a native English speaker, I actually benefit a lot from the KZbin auto-generated transcript with the video. I hope more talks can be uploaded to KZbin so that audiences like me can learn more from the PoemTalk conversation.

Too much nasal on the reading of the original.

LOVE it thank youuuuu for posting

What name do I have for you? Certainly there is not name for you In the sense that the stars have names That somehow fit them. Just walking around, An object of curiosity to some, But you are too preoccupied By the secret smudge in the back of your soul To say much and wander around, Smiling to yourself and others. It gets to be kind of lonely But at the same time off-putting. Counterproductive, as you realize once again That the longest way is the most efficient way, The one that looped among islands, and You always seemed to be traveling in a circle. And now that the end is near The segments of the trip swing open like an orange. There is light in there and mystery and food. Come see it. Come not for me but it. But if I am still there, grant that we may see each other.

lost count of the amount of times the guy on the right cut susan off

there’s no sound …

Who is the other, and whither longest way leads one to?

Absolutely profound. Thank you.

12 August 23. Poem talk has gotten me through Covid isolation and I have added poems and poets to my reading list. I have never been a big fan of Ashbery yet every poem you have discussed of his has been interesting. You might find the following useful: when the panelists are all male there is often a lot of yucking it up but if even one woman is present there is not. The Baraka podcast is a good example.

Poetry 101 brought me here

I started performing sound poems in this format after learning about Jackson MacLow, and reference him regularly. This is a superb performance of these variations.

I think it would be good to include the written poem, and here's why. Rosmarie Waldrop said in the Oral History Initiative interview at the Harvard site that Robert Creeley in readings emphasized the ends of lines with pauses. I don't think I'm alone in the interest of the suspense, everything from silence to gender is under consideration.

Brilliant! Noisily silently unknowable...

I love that PennSound exists. My young years were in Europe reading and listening to UbuWeb, now in my 40s, PennSound. Great opportunity to know more poets from this country where I now live in and in a language that I am discovering day by day.

Charles is on the perennial shortlist for Poet Laureate of the United States.

I listened very closely trying to learn why he writes poetry, but I still don’t know. I’m certain the fault is mine.

What does he mean by literary tourism?

1:44 I think of Kenneth Rexroth's "Under Soracte."

religion poisons everything.

amazing conversation

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a wonderful invitation to wonder at all that poetry can do and be. Thanks for this

The two spools are Past and Present - the rope is the Present

Sneed's Feed and Seed (formerly Chuck's)

Emily Butler sent me!

...endlessly self-important and self-publicising and so utterly soporific

far more astute than most current commentators.........

makes sense to me................

All of the prof's comments where so on point. I loved each and every one. Al's poetic instincts are different though. He is so in Ashbery's head space. imho. Thank you!!!!

Timestamp for when the analysis begins would be immensely helpful🙏

i've listened to this several time, and each time hear another aspect. Thank you all! C.J. Prince

i have no life in Bolinas Richard Brautigan’s spooky house scares the shit out of me Down in Monterey