http://chax.org/blog.htm
Charles Alexander, also, has a nice extended and different kind of take
Dahlen's A Reading 18 - 20. Interesting C's take on the way shadows play
into and against the work, absence and presence, and where the 'word'
manages to name and/or gets erased.
It would be interesting to see Rachel Blau DuPlessis' take on Beverly's
work. I know the two were in close correspondence for years and critically
important to each other's 'long' works.
Once the last quarter of the century is further and variously crystalized
(in correspondences, etc.), I suspect the letters of Rachel and Beverly will
be seriously engaged in terms of an experimental feminist poetics that was
related to and responsive to Language Poetries (including the various
theoretical influences), but an independent force, thread and configuration
of its own particularities. Course a bunch of that conversation and concern
goes on in A - Reading, including letters and quotes.
Stephen Vincent
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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Subject: Re R Silliman Review of Works of Beverly Dahlen
(Please excuse any cross-posting)
On this already past Monday, September 25, Ron Silliman - at his blogspo -
has given Beverly Dahlen's works a substantial review, including generous
excerpts from several of her books over the past 35 years.
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
The occasion of Ron's review is the Instance Press (Elizabeth Robinson et
al) new publication of, A Reading 18 -20. (Which only takes "A Reading" up
to 1986!). Among much, #18 has a nice 'head to head' response to Barry
Watten's "The XYZ of Reading: Negativity (& Diane Ward)", was being much
discussed at the time. A Reading 18 -20 is available through Small Book
Distribution (Berkeley, CA).
I won't go further on at this time to make my own reflections on the Beverly
Dahlen's new book, but, for those on this list with interest, as once
publisher of Momo's Press, I still have some available copies of A Reading
1 - 7. (Published in 1986).
$20 will bring you the book, handling and postage included, no matter where
you are in the world. If interested, please your check out and send order
to:
Stephen Vincent
3514 21st Street
SF CA 94114
I also have a very few copies of her first book, signed, Out of The Third,
published in 1974. Email me if you have interest.
CHAX Press has also printed a section of A Reading (as well as a series of
her poems on Spicer; (either go to the CHAX website, or SBD for ordering
info); another chunk of A Reading is published by Potes and Poets - though I
do not know if that is print or accessible.
Thanks,
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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