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Peter Gorgeous covers I could not log in had to become member P -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of peter ganick Sent: 24 November 2009 03:06 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ Volumes 01 - 07 of Remove A Concept are available now ] *[VOLUMES 01 – 07 OF REMOVE A CONCEPT ARE AVAILABLE] * Remove A Concept was written by Peter Ganick in the late 1980s in a café in the South End of Hartford CT. It consists of 3350 sections running approximately 4500 pages. The covers feature colorful abstract art by the author, art that suits the abstract nature of the text. Commentary regarding each volume by Ivan Argüelles, Sheila E. Murphy, Jim Leftwich, John Crouse, Olchar Lindsann, Michael Peters, and Richard Deming can be read below. Each volume is approximately 300 pages, and is available as a printed copy, a PDF-download, and readability in full for free at each volume’s web-page. Remove A Concept is expected to fill 16 volumes before its completion sometime before Summer 2010. Stay tuned for further updates. Take a chance and read some of one of the volumes in the free-read version at each of the webpages. Just click on ‘Preview This Book’ near the bottom of each page. ------------------------------------ Remove A Concept vol 01 / blurb by Ivan Argüelles www.lulu.com/content/7642668 Peter Ganick's REMOVE A CONCEPT written in the mid 1980's, comprising 3350 sections and employing registers of language that range from the colloquial of jazz refrain to the enigmatic typlogies of the "seer". Between the convulsive high notes of Archie Shepp and the intricate silences of a himalayan Rishi this amazing text baffles stimulates irritates and gratifies the reader who has the patience and intellectual curiosity to plumb the depths and extents of this "ghost-ridden astrologic theater" , which can also be read as a continuous? segmented? alleatory composition in the manner of John Cage. It is as if Jackson Pollock had chosen to use words (syllables!) rather than pigments as his medium. Ganick says "the poem was exciting to write" and indeed its almost naive exuberance, fracturing syntax in every possible way, is a principle characteristic of this monumental Text. This is not to deny the underlying lyricism in the content of its intense fragmentation, as in "over full, read is anothered to morning in sky," ... The at times oneiric segmentation cannot help but remind one of Holderlin's "Fragments". The enormous and sometimes puzzling breadth of this Text can best be summed up in a single phrase: "Light & Maya". ----------------------------------- Remove A Concept vol 02 / blurb by Sheila E. Murphy www.lulu.com/content/7762352 A principled uncertainly proposes hypotheses, examines each with a cool calculus infused with depth of feeling. One of the welcome ironies of this extended text is the centrality of a pressurized short segment that stands discernibly as a focal gem. Peter Ganick’s disciplined attention to the situational mystique reveals that single points of focus enrich the whole mental field with meaning. Here, a fine, musical ear sharpened by considerable and continual study and experience, trusts the occupation of a locus, finds a panoply of linkages embedded within situations to yield concise renderings of surfaces and their multiple under-layers as a recognition of infinity. ------------------------------------ Remove A Concept vol 03 / blurb by John Crouse www .lulu.com/content/7800085 yr remove a concept, its endless/open as yr other writings. while it tells/ says one thing, it can be other things @ other readings/looks. yr words dont seem harvested by program, i would say theyre not, theres alot more going on than random splice and splat & see what sticks. the kind of reading i experience, or what i experience while im reading yr work is a kind of terminal freedom, a velocity that glides unbiased like gold thread can keep stretching while retaining valence and value. terminal as endless as well as endless places to board and depart. ------------------------------------ Remove A Concept vol 04/ blurb by Jim Leftwich www.lulu.com/content/7841069 thinking in this text, *what if *soon becomes *as if*, and if, one by one, concepts proposed are removed as other concepts emerge, then *as if* becomes *is*, concept yields to process, being yields to becoming, and one is no longer thinking, or at least not thinking of concepts, one is in the process, no longer reading for content, or at least not for concepts as content, nor is one engaged in a process of reading as writing, one is rather reading as a process of following poetry as it unfolds, as if a poem might be about the time spent writing or reading it, as is the case with this poem, and perhaps with all other poems, once the concepts are removed. ------------------------------------ Remove A Concept vol 05 / blurb by Olchar Lindsann www.lulu.com/content/7962709 A poem to be read by the morning, when routes of possibility are to be discerned winding amongst the gaps between shifting particles of thought, of thoughts still porous, not utterly cohered: so that the removal of a concept is the opening of a trapdoor, an infra-verbal space in which one shuttles back and forth: so that the poem forms itself around spaces, in undulating and arrhythmic cascades of language, then waits: so that one thinks *between *the nascent concepts lunging in staccato or gushing languorously on either side (...) A space for movement, to form itself around. -------------------------------------- Remove A Concept vol 06 / blurb by Michael Peters www.lulu.com/content/7962708 This important historical work bears its age with increasing intrigue, simply because it would seem to suggest the inversion of time via its manipulation of absence—before and after you were born. It is unlike some of the more known, smaller works comprising Peter Ganick's publishing history—and a must have, but good luck finding yourself within it. This massive body of words becomes porous, wildly poetic—a veritable sea of holes, a space machine, or a supervaast field of labias. Ganick's RAC, a.k.a. "Remove a Concept," stretches you way out, makes you cross vaast spaces where you are uncertain of removals and insertions, and this contemplation includes yourself. Then if you realize it was undertaken in the late 1980s, the kinks in its thinking creates wild, definitive indefinitiveness where even the uncertainties are doubtful. ------------------------------------- Remove A Concept vol 07 / blurb by Richard Deming www.lulu.com/content/7962853 A “fond energy” surges through the veins of Peter Ganick’s herculean *Remove A Concept*, powering the poems forward at every turn and creating an inescapable gravitational that pulls together its far-flung parts. Ganick, an unsung, underground master, has given his life to poetry and to music and it shows throughout this latest volume of his massive undertaking. To read *Remove A Concept* is to be reminded, that even at this late hour language can still surprise us and can yet reveal those moments when “to enfold envelops you out.” No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.425 / Virus Database: 270.14.80/2523 - Release Date: 11/24/09 07:46:00