num_pages: 377
description: Vow to Poetry is a trumpet call from our most iconoclastic poet that tears down the walls of prescribed creative processes. This stimulating mix of autobiography, interviews, and essays reveals a life possessed by the muse. You've seen the "safe" versions, now comes this unconventional, irreverent, transgressive volume. Anne Waldman ran the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York for over a decade. She is the co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches and directs the Master of Fine Arts program in Writing and Poetics. Contents&gt;/B&gt; Author's Note, 13 "My Long &amp; Only Afterlife", 15Feminafesto, 19My Life a List, 23Oppositional Poetics, 48That Light Is Sandino, 49Managua Sketches, 51Seeing What Happens (Interview with Joyce Jenkins) , 54Kali Yuga A Manifesto, 60"Take Me to Your Poets!", 74Loom Down the Thorough Narrow, 81Hermeneutical (Light to Read By), 91Vow to Poetry (Conversation with Randy Roark), 96Sikelianos's Delphic Site &amp; Poetic Legacy, 123Hags, Nuns, &amp; Magpie Scholars, 135The Outrider Legacy (Interview with Mark DuCharme), 142Poetry as Siddhi, 155Noösphere &amp; the Six Realms, 167I Is Dissipative Structures, 173The Talisman Interview (Interview with Edward Foster), 192Warring God Charnel Ground, 205Deviant Identities, 213Minstrel Bard, 228Last Days, Hours, 230 Hurry Up. It's Time, 235Go-Between Between, 238Grasping the Broom More Tightly Now (Interview with Eric Lorberer), 247Creative Writing Life [Reading/Writing/Performance] Experiments, 247Alphabetic Tesserae, 262Epic &amp; Performance, 266"Surprise Each Other": The Art of Collaboration (Interview with Lisa Birman), 272Spare Us Your Epiphanies, 280Marriage A Sentence Sentence, 283Muse, 286My Life a Book, 289 Acknowledgements, 292Selected Bibliography, 295 Oppositional Poetics "wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?" -Hölderlin from "Bread &amp; Wine" How do we
language: English
title: Vow to Poetry
titlecomplete: Vow to Poetry
genres: Criticism, Poetry
ratings_count: 56
publisher: Coffee House Press