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Thu, 05 Aug 2004In his essay, "Notes toward a Nomadic Poetics" Pierre Joris points out poets of interest:
Nataniel Mackey - foundational noise
Valere Novarina - theatre - ludic nomadology of names that dissolves character into a fluidity...
Melvin Tolson - bifacial multi-phasic poet
Kateb Yacine - multiple life-long text
Jerome Rothenberg
Don Byrd - leads us through the "mesocosm - the dense locale of the common, that is absorbed by the exaggeration of symbolism, on the one hand, and by mere biology, on the other.
Leslie Scalapino - reading ... so slow ... no content ... motion is a thing in itself
Edouard Glissant - poetics of the diverse
Allen Fisher - investigation into all our knowledges - the great serial constructive derive...
Lynn Hejinian - border worker
Michel Deguy - hospitality
Abdelwahab Meddeb - allography
Muriel Rukeyser - life as necessarily political, as needing to be engaged at all levels
Nicole Brossard - quest for and conquest of meaning
Charles Berstein- invention is not a choice
Nicole Peyrafitte - wild metonymic grammar of desire - no fictional single static point
John Cayley - Indra's Net - cyberpoetics
Jed Rasula
Franco Beltrametti
Anselm Hollo - writing nomadically in a language that is not his mother-tongue
"All language is found -- or given. Language does not belong to us. One does not own language or does not create language, one is invited into it."