#aaron kunin

[mournfulroses]

Aaron Kunin, from The Sore Throat & Other Poems; "No Word, No Sign,"

[colubrina]

[A]rt... is not really on the side of civilization. Art is free and savage.

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The Five Poetry Books You Should Read This Summer

Steven Zultanski reviews five wide-ranging new collections that address immigration, love and the cruelties of the internet

We agree with frieze magazine​--these books are a must-read! 

Shimmy over to spdbooks.org and snag some small press gems:

EXTRATRANSMISSION by Andrea Abi-Karam (Kelsey Street Press​)

LOVE THREE by Aaron Kunin (Wave Books​)

PRECIOUS AGAINST A PRECIOUS THING by Michael Field, fwd from Stacy Szymaszek (Golias Books​)

xoxoxo

[hyperallergic]

One current, and especially heated, debate animating the contemporary poetry scene revolves around conceptual poetry’s polemic against Romantic expressivity. Such an argument can be neatly, if reductively, encapsulated by the key terms of two titles: witness Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith’s 2011 anthology Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing and Calvin Bedient’s 2013 response in kind, “Against Conceptualism: Defending the Poetry of Affect.”

Coldness, Concept, & Convention: On Aaron Kunin’s ‘Cold Genius’

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character-shaped-hole

to the characters post -- Aaron Kunin defines character as “a formal device that collects every example of a kind of person.” 

1. Case in point. 

2. Maybe not. A miser or even a misanthrope is obviously a “kind of person.” Is “character[-who]-deflates”? What about “character[-who]-says-go-to-hell”? “character-called-my-dear”? “character-shaped-hole”? 

One might have an easier time making the case for something like “character-called-my-dear,” certainly “character[-who]-says-as-you-wish.” The latter approximates a kind of “stock-character” -- a butler -- through a specific speech act. Does that mean that any speech act is enough to collect examples of a kind? Or only those speech acts already strongly associated with (to the point of being a function of) a kind? The former has less determinate contours. But being called something suggests at least an identification being made. 

I don’t know what to say about character-shaped-hole but it would be fun to write an essay about. 

[bathosmtn]

[heartsdesirereadingseries]

K. Silem Mohammad reading at the East Bay Poetry Summit for Hearts Desire Reading Series (a part of bayareapublicschool.org) on July 5th, 2014 with Aaron Kunin, Allison Cobb and Feliz Lucia Molina.

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Feliz Lucia Molina reading at the East Bay Poetry Summit for Hearts Desire Reading Series (a part of bayareapublicschool.org) on July 5th, 2014 with Aaron Kunin, Allison Cobb and K. Silem Mohammad.