Ron Silliman Discusses the influence of John Cage скачать в хорошем качестве

Ron Silliman Discusses the influence of John Cage

Ron Silliman was selected as one of the Kelly Writers House's 2012 Fellows. After meeting in class with students who had been studying his work for a third of their semester, he attended two programs open to the public at the Writers House, moderated by Al Filreis. In this video Ron and Al discuss the influence of John Cage and how space informs a performance. Ron Silliman has been crucial to the changing scope of contemporary American poetry for more than forty years. A founder of the Language poetry movement, Silliman established the concept of "the new sentence," which Penn's own poet and scholar Bob Perelman calls "defiantly unpoetic." "Its shifts break up attempts at the natural reading of universal, authentic statements." Perelman continues, "Instead they encourage attention to the act of writing and to the writer's multiple and mediated positions within larger social frames." Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction — more honored in practice than in theory — between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other. Follow this link to watch both of Ron Silliman's KWH Fellows programs in full: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fe...