Forthcoming in E·ratio 19

Asemic Knitting Writing  

Margo Korableva Performance Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia

Gvantsa Nikabadze, Keti Latsunashvili, Maiko Lapachi, Mary Vardiashvili and Mariam Nikabadze

Conceived and directed by David Chikhladze
Photo assistance: Ana Kalandarishvili
Design assistance: Smaki Siradze

Thanks to Rusiko Oat and OAT Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

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“Suppose that I could succeed in writing as well as Shakespeare. It would be lovely, but what then? There is something wanting in literary art even at its highest. Literature is not enough. The greatest literature is still only mere literature if it has not a purpose commensurate with its art. Presence or absence of purpose distinguishes literature from mere literature, and the elevation of the purpose distinguishes literature within literature. That is merely literature that has no other object than to please. Minor literature has a didactic object. But the greatest literature of all—the literature that scarcely exists—has not merely an aesthetic object, nor merely a didactic object, but, in addition, a creative object: that of subjecting its readers to a real and at the same time illuminating experience. Major literature, in short, is an initiation into truth.”

 —Katherine Mansfield


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My play, Come Spring, Comes a Circus, along with additional texts taken from my book, Theatreland, with The Margo Korableva Performance Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia.

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On Twitter it’s The Best of E·ratio and right now it’s poet Anne Blonstein (1958-2011):

https://twitter.com/EratioPoetry.

E·ratio is reading for issue 19, the spring 2014 issue.

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a noun sing e·ratio 18 · 2014

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Juliet by Joseph F. Keppler (2013). Torn and pasted paper collage, 6.5" x 5".

Forthcoming in E·ratio 18, Sparring in Seattle with Time, Space, Art, and Minds. Essays and art by Joseph F. Keppler.

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The forthcoming issue 18 of E·ratio is dedicated to the memory of the English author, Colin Wilson (26 June 1931 - 5 December 2013).

 Read The Colin Wilson Interview at E·ratio.

 And read my review of the 2010 Colin Wilson documentary, Strange is Normal.


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E·ratio issue 18 is in production. Proofs will be going out soon.





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I wrote this utterly fictitious “invective poem” for Carl Solomon (1928-1993). Remember his Mishaps, Perhaps (1966) and More Mishaps (1968)? I visited Carl, one afternoon, while he was living in The Bronx in New York City. Carl’s situation, there, seemed to be that he was taking care of two elderly and ailing relatives, and the apartment smelled like hospital. It was a big, old apartment with few pieces of furniture. The two were in their bedsteads, one in what would have been the living room and the other in what would have been the dining room. I had to pass through the apartment to get to Carl’s bedroom, where he sat me on a chair and he sat on the bed. He thought I came there to grill him with questions about Allen Ginsberg, but no, like I told him on the phone it was to talk about his books, Mishaps, Perhaps and More Mishaps. And we did. And he signed my copies. And he gave me a copy of the two published together in a French edition, and he signed that for me as well. In the months that followed we shared some letters and postcards (his were all written in pencil). Going to see Carl, and wanting to sense him in person, I had a question in my mind, and that question also included Artaud and Jones Very and Christopher Smart. My sense of him, then, and now, still, was that he was just worn out (and had been, for a long time).

Read my poem, “Two Songs for Samson,” online at Empty Mirror.


Thank you, Denise.


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a noun sing e·ratio 17 . . . featuring The Swing, an artist's book by Elena Berriolo . . . an e·chap by Anne Gorrick . . . and new work by 25 poets.

edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino with contributing editor Joseph F. Keppler









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E·ratio issue 17 is in production. Proofs will be going out soon.

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The complete catalogue for the Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection show is available to read online at issuu. Look for works by Bob Grumman, Kaz Maslanka and Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino on pages 54 and 55.

THE DARK WOULD

language art anthology
edited by Philip Davenport

This is a moment in time when poets and many artists share the same primary material: language. Conceptual art, vispo, text art, outsider art, conceptual poetry, flarf, concrete poetry, live art, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, sound scores. . . . THE DARK WOULD is a compelling document of now, alchemising text into art into text.

THE DARK WOULD gathers work by over 100 contributors including some of the most noted artists and poets alive today: Richard Long, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Jenny Holzer, Fiona Banner, Maggie O’ Sullivan, Tacita Dean, Tom Phillips, Tom Raworth, Nja Mahdaoui, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Tsang Kin-Wah, Charles Bernstein and many, many more.

 THE DARK WOULD is one paper volume, and one electronic volume as a download. Cover price includes both volumes. £29.99 / $49 Published by Apple Pie Editions. Available from Amazon.com and the Apple Pie Editions website.

Launches April 11 at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Contributors include:

Jerry Rothenberg, Rosemarie Waldrop, Tom Phillips, Nja Mahdaoui, Tom Raworth, Paula Claire, Susan Hiller, Robert Grenier, Ed Baker, Lawrence Weiner, John M. Bennett, Kay Rosen, Allen Fisher, Richard Long, Ron Silliman, Richard Wentworth, Kevin Austin, Maria Chevska, Alan Halsey, Ken Edwards, Mike Basinski, Charles Bernstein, Jenny Holzer, Hainer Wörmann, Tony Lopez, Fiona Templeton, Maggie O’Sullivan, Geraldine Monk, Márton Koppány, David Annwn, John Plowman, Jesse Glass, Jurgen Olbrich, Liz Collini, Robert Sheppard, Patricia Farrell, Fernando Aguiar, Shirin Neshat, Penelope Umbrico, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Steve Waling, Robert Fitterman, Michalis Pichler, David Austen, Keiichi Nakamura, Shaun Pickard, Geof Huth, Tony Trehy, Wayne Clements, Peter Jaeger, Elena Rivera, Kenny Goldsmith, Harald Stoffers, Erica Baum, Nick Blinko, Philip Terry, Caroline Bergvall, Carol Watts, George Widener, Philip Davenport, Nico Vassilakis, Monica Biagioli, Tacita Dean, Jeff Hilson, Alec Finlay, Christian Bök, Fiona Banner, Nigel Wood, Satu Kaikkonen, Simon Patterson, Dave Griffiths, Nayda Collazo Llorens, Vanessa Place, Peter Manson, Andrew Nightingale, Matt Dalby, Steve Miller, Christoph Illing, Sean Burn, Doug Fishbone, arthur + martha, Hung Keung, the gingerbread tree, Brian Reed, Laurence Lane, Tomomo Adachi, Tom Jenks, David Oprava, Scott Thurston, Julian Montague, Derek Beaulieu, Wang Jun, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Alec Newman, Rick Myers, Andrea Brady, Eric Zboya, Linus Slug, Jeff Grant, Richard Barrett, Christopher Fox, Linus Raudsepp, Carolyn Thompson, Tsang Kin-Wah, Stephen Emmerson, Andrew Topel, Anatol Knotek, Ola Stahl, Roman Pyrih, Christine Wong Yap, Sarah Sanders, Ying Kwok, Catherine Street, Michael Leong, Sam Winston, Angela Rawlings, James Davies, Rachel Lois Clapham, Steve Giasson, Amelia Crouch, Aysegul Torzeren, Jeremy Balius, Emily Crichley, Amaranth Borsuk, Ben Gwilliam, Imri Sandstrom, Sam le Witt, Michael Nardone, Tamarin Norwood, Lucy Harvest Clark, Jessica Pujol Duran, Holly Pester, Rebecca Cremin, Ryan Ormonde, Nick Thurston, j/j hastain, Bruno Neiva, SJ Fowler, Alex Davies, Helen Hajnoczky, Samantha Y Huang, Anna frew, Nat Raha, Jo Langton, Ekaterina Samigulina, Emma King, Leanne Bridgewater and more.

Work that meditates on the real/virtual split as a metaphor of dis/embodiment.

“The dark would have me.”


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The Apollinaire Museum at E·ratio · Il Pleut.

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