Dear George,
welcome to the list.
I think you have a great deal to offer and look forward to your posts, which
I suspect will be differently rather than mis- or ill- informed .
best
Randolph
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From: "George Hunka" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: [POETRYETC] Introduction in Order?
> Listfolk,
>
> I've just joined the list and have been reading through the archives,
> notably lacking in "Introduction" items, but since I felt it would be
> better manners to introduce myself than to start posting merrily away
> without warning, I just wanted to briefly say hello.
>
> I'm a playwright from New York City who's recently been thinking about
> issues regarding the poetics of theatrical space and the theatrical body
> (i.e., Grotowski and Artaud), as well as the presence of the lyrical voice
> in contemporary dramatic literature. My own background is in Languages and
> Literature; at Bard College in New York many years ago I studied with
> writers like Robert Duncan and William Gaddis, but am just picking up
> their work again after some time and trying to integrate some of their
> ideas into my own dramatic technique. Most recently, I've been reading
> Bataille's "Erotism" and Grotowski's "Towards a Poor Theatre," trying to
> see how this all fits together into some kind of dramatic erotics. At the
> moment I'm thinking about exploring this through the Phaedra myth, but am
> only just starting on the research. Most recently, a workshop production
> of my plays "In Private / In Public" closed last month following a brief
> off-off-Broadway run in New York.
>
> Although I'm not a poet per se, I'm finding much more inspiration these
> days in lyric poetry and the study of poetics, so forgive me please if on
> occasion I seem somewhat mis- or ill-informed. However, I did hope that
> this list might provide some community and inspiration. You'd be surprised
> how little anyone writes about these concerns in the American playwriting
> community these days, at least that community as it exists away from the
> academy.
>
> I write a little about this, off-and-on, at my own blog. It's here, if
> there's any interest: http://www.ghunka.com.
>
> I look forward to continuing to read poetryetc and occasionally to joining
> in if I'm so inclined.
>
> Best wishes,
> George Hunka
>
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