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Thanksgiving 2017 | A Menu Poem
To celebrate the amazing Steve McCaffery
This is an online event that takes place on this webpage, Follow the link here or read below for the whole poem, introduction and links to Steve McCaffery's works. (https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=7ed930cdda&e=23e256c01c)
** 16th Annual Thanksgiving Poem
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** Guest of Honor : Steve McCaffery
That Poem What You Wrote
A Half Peal of Bells:
polyphony through change ringing
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Thanksgiving Introduction
https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=877ac7756b&e=23e256c01c and welcome to the 2017 Thanksgiving menu poem. This is the sixteenth incarnation of the Thanksgiving Menu-Poem! Our guest of honor is the wonderful Steve McCaffery. This series began in 2002 with a Menu-Poem to honor Charles Bernstein, and since then this series engages Thanksgiving as the basis to celebrate poetry, poets and the poetry community. Being a trained professional chef I have blended my love of food and poetry into a book-length work as a feast of words to bring everyone a tiny bit closer together.
This project is a conceptual meal served for the thousands of friends I would love to have over to our home on Thanksgiving Day. Since it is unavoidably impossible to even consider doing such a thing in real life, I have designed a menu of foodstuffs that reflect upon the guest of honor as a person, a poet and their poetry. These works directly respond to our surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, this menu-poem tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=e8ae3426ee&e=23e256c01c year our guest of honor is Steve McCaffery. This poem series represents a combination of sound and visual poetries as a tribute to the magnificent works he has created. This is his seventieth year and to celebrate this milestone mark in his life this year’s Thanksgiving menu is an extravagant affair. Since Steve was born in England, a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner would be a nice choice to celebrate but maybe not the best choice. Steve is very much a gourmand and since this feast is conceptual and our budget is imaginary I decided to make this an expensive, luxurious event. Included in this dinner are champagnes, caviar, fois gras, white truffles from Alba, jamón Ibérico, rare vintage wines, Armagnac and to top it all off we finish with a 50 year old whisky that retails for twenty five thousand dollars a bottle. I am sure you will agree that Steve deserves no less.
I hope you enjoy this meal, the menu and the poem. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Rockets, Geoffrey
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** Bio, Interesting Links, and Poems
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https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=d2d1b89452&e=23e256c01c McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England, and earned a BA in English and philosophy from Hull University (England), an MA from York University (Toronto), and a PhD from the program in poetics, English, and comparative literature at SUNY Buffalo.
A critic, poet, and professor, McCaffery was part of the Canadian avant-garde poetry scene in the 1970s. His creative work has been marked by innovation and a move away from conventionally narrative forms. His oeuvre includes sound poetry (as part of the collaborative group the Four Horsemen with poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol) and concrete poetry. His visual poetry is in permanent collections at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Paul Getty Research Institute in Malibu, the International Concrete Poetry Archive in Oxford, England, and the New York Public Library in New York City.
McCaffery’s poetry publications include a number of chapbooks and full-length collections, among them Modern Reading: Poems 1969–1990 (1991), Seven Pages Missing: Selected Texts Volume One (2001) and Volume Two (2002), and Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 (2010). He has twice received the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative North American Poetry.
McCaffrey and bpNichol edited Sound Poetry: A Catalogue (1978) and Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book-Machine: The Collected Research Reports of the Toronto Research Group 1973-1982 (1992), a manifesto and sampling of Canadian arts and writing. His published scholarly works include Imagining Language with Jed Rasula (1998), North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973–1986 (1986), and Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (2001).
McCaffery is a professor in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. [From The Poetry Foundation]
Interesting Links
Poems by Steve McCaffery:
* Command Filter with Negative Entailment (https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=b03d055e4c&e=23e256c01c)
* Envoi (https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=e5816d5069&e=23e256c01c)
* Negative Statement (https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=ca47f7f6e7&e=23e256c01c)
* Writing a Sand Thinking (https://blazevox.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f912b5b7fd2f9030d2be4f4a8&id=dcd821f824&e=23e256c01c)
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Thanksgiving Menu:
ROYAL KALUGA CAVIAR
Red Onion “Gelée” and Pumpkin mousseline
Modicum, Extra Brut, "Schramsberg Vineyards," Blanc de Blancs, North Coast 2013
LONG ISLAND MOULARD DUCK FOIE GRAS TERRINE
Creamed Royal Trumpet Mushrooms, Satsuma Marmalade
Veuve Clicquot CAVE PRIVÉE ROSÉ 1990
SHAVED WHITE TRUFFLES FROM ALBA
Browned Butter, Toasted Black Rice, Apple Brunoise, Belgian Endive
Prinz, Riesling, "Hallgartener Jungfer," Kabinett, Rheingau 2009
SEARED DIVER SCALLOP
Jamón Ibérico, Pearl Onions, Garden Radishes, Watercress Leaves
Rebholz, "Vom Muschelkalk," Pinot Blanc, Trocken, Pfalz, 2009
CHARCOAL GRILLED VENISON
Cardamom Poached Cranberries, Piedmont Hazelnuts, Garden Fennel Purée
Apple-Ginger Mignonette
Opus One Napa Valley Red 2012
CHEESE, SHERRY & ARMAGNAC
Fromager d’Affinois, Manchego, Beecher’s Reserve Cheddar,
Cambozola Black Label, Port Salut & Comte
El Maestro Sierra Oloroso "Extra Viejo" VORS 1/7 Jerez de la Frontera, Sherry
1967 Darroze Domaine Bellair 50 Year Old Vintage Cask Strength Armagnac
DESSERT
Classic Crème Brûlée
with Quince Poached with Star Anise
Roasted Northern Spy Apple
with Maple Ice Cream
Glenfiddich 50 Year Old, Glenfiddich Whisky Distillery, Speyside
Happy Thanksgiving from BlazeVOX
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We'll See you Next Year!!
Rockets, Geoffrey
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