Thank you for the invitation.
I'm finishing a dissertation on the ideological uses of poetry in late 19th
c. Japan, write poetry and do mixed media work which includes words. I'm
starting to work on multimedia installations and pseudo-narrative
experimental videos (for the web and local venues).
I teach Japanese language and culture at St. Martin's College in Washington
State, US (4 hours south of Vancouver, BC).
Poetics? Lately I'm especially drawn to reading Gertrude Stein, John
Ashbery, Lynn Hejinian and Ron Silliman.
Orientalism in Anglo-American poetry (mention of anything Asian so that it
is wonderful to the extent that we are ignorant of its originally rational
context; anthologies of whites-only "Buddhist poetry"; "Zen" as a convenient
means of dehistoricizing one's synapses and being smugger) elicits insanity.
yoroshiku,
Dean Brink
Fish Folds
The salmon run turns
on a limb of the Pacific
remote missions trailing
great harvesting nets
sluicing sea spittle,
sonar battens down
pound for pound
blip for blip
national hatcheries spawn
stakes for lawmakers
to rush cutters
until it's in the numbers
for towns marked by tarred pilings
barnacled green gray freighters
to lay up docks
sealed in tetanus
let shore fall to tides
air sift through to fish
graceful in a slow count
coursing in locked arcs
metallic buoyant bodies.
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