Ron Silliman talks about John Cage at Kelly Writers House, March 2012 скачать в хорошем качестве

Ron Silliman talks about John Cage at Kelly Writers House, March 2012

Ron Silliman talks about John Cage at the Kelly Writers House, March 20, 2012, as part of the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program. For more information, visit the KWH Fellows page at: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fe... Visit the KWH calendar at: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/... To watch the complete event, go to: http://media.sas.upenn.edu/watch/126482 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." Silliman's first book, Crow, was published in 1971. His collection Paradise won the Poetry Center Book Award from San Francisco State University in 1985. Silliman has written and edited over 30 books, including a memoir, Under Albany (2004), which was named a book of the year by Small Press Traffi. His remarkable and notorious twenty-six part poem The Alphabet was written continuously between 1979 and 2004. He was a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. He was also one of the first to launch a poetry blog, which received its 3 millionth visit in October 2010. Silliman's unique work in his field has merited respect from a broad base of readers, but also from the finest writers. Eminent poetics critic (and 2011 Writers House Fellow) Marjorie Perloff writes of the poem "Albany": "In their curious collisions, these 'casual' sentences point to an author who is matter-of-fact, street-wise, and largely self-educated; his is the discourse of a working-class man [...] who has slowly and painfully learned the craft of poetry. Yet Silliman's characteristic formulations are by no means gloomy: on the contrary, his 'voice' emerges as sprightly, engaged, curious, fun-loving, energetic." Visit the Kelly Writers House at ‪http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/‬