Auto-Destruction

Charles Olson Reading at Berkeley: Coyote 1966, top of page 18 as transcribed by Zoe Brown:- Olson: And I'm going to read you also a poem, Maximus 10, after I read you the next poem I propose to read, which is Maximus 9---- But my point is, I want

The cries rise, & one of us has not even eyes to see the night's sky burning, or the hollows made coves of mist & frost, the barns covered over, and nothing in the night but two of us following the blind highway to catch all glimpses of the settling,

An Ode on Nativity All cries rise, & the three of us observe how fast Orion marks midnight at the climax of the sky while the boat of the moon settles as red in the southwest as the orb of her was, for this boy, once, th

The Ring Of It was the west wind caught her up, as she rose from the genital wave, and bore her from the delicate foam, home to her isle and those lovers of the difficult, the hours of the golden day welcomed her, clad her, were as though they h

Robert Creeley from Cento Magazine Oh, do you remember...         Remember sweet Ed who despite being dead

A blown husk that is finished             but the light sings eternal a pale flare over marshes                 &nb

                   THE KULTCHURAL EXCHANGE                   &nbs

Described by the Turned On Horse.

The Ashes......Perth Australia. So the Ashes aren't yet lost to the Aussies.....but how long will it be? Cook's century and Bell's defiance were a real fillip to wake up to this morning, but, and it's a big but, what a blow to th

FROM GLOUCESTER OUTEdward DornIt has allcome back today.That memory for me is nothingthere ever was,             &n

I didn't know you had a drawl, SlingerI don't, I slow up at noonfrom the inertia of National Lunchand from the scatterednessof the apexed sun which attemptsat that point to enter a paradox-namely, The West which is The East.You say the Sun moves!?Not

I didn't know you had a drawl, SlingerI don't, I slow up at noonfrom the inertia of National Lunchand from the scatterednessof the apexed sun attemptsat that point to enter a paradox-namely, The West which is The East.You say the Sun moves!?Not exact

Now sun rises in Ram sign. With clack of bamboo against olive stock We have heard thebirds praising Jannequin and the black cat's tail is exalted. Ezra Pound

Charles Olson....from Letter 9 (And I buzz,

from CANTO CXV

This tapestry moves as the morning lights up. And they who are in move and love its moving from sleep to Idea born on the breathing of a distant harmonium, To See is their desire as they wander estranged throug

Ed Dorn's 'Gunslinger' excerpt from Book 1 ...1967.