Vow to Poetry

"Vow to Poetry" is a trumpet call from our most iconoclastic poet that tears down the walls of prescribed creative processes. This stimulating mix of autobiography, interviews, and essays reveals a life possessed by the muse. You've seen the "safe" versions, now comes this unconventional, irreverent, transgressive volume. Anne Waldman ran the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York for over a decade. She is the co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches and directs the Master of Fine Arts program in Writing and Poetics.Contents/BAuthor's Note, 13Prelude: "My Long and Only Afterlife," 15Feminafesto, 19My Life a List, 23Oppositional Poetics, 48That Light Is Sandino, 49Managua Sketches, 51Seeing What Happens (Interview with Joyce Jenkins), 54Kali Yuga Poetics: A Manifesto, 60"Take Me to Your Poets ," 74Loom Down the Thorough Narrow, 81Hermeneutical (Light to Read By), 91Vow to Poetry (Conversation with Randy Roark), 96Sikelianos's Delphic Idea: Site and Poetic Legacy, 123Hags, Nuns, and Magpie Scholars, 135The Outrider Legacy (Interview with Mark DuCharme), 142Poetry as Siddhi, 155NoAsphere and the Six Realms, 167I Is Another: Dissipative Structures, 173The Talisman Interview (Interview with Edward Foster), 192Warring God Charnel Ground, 205Deviant Identities, 213Minstrel Bard, 228Last Days, Hours, 230Burroughs: Hurry Up. It's Time, 235Go-Between Between, 238Grasping the Broom More Tightly Now (Interview with Eric Lorberer), 247Creative Writing Life Reading/Writing/Performance] Experiments, 247Alphabetic Tesserae, 262Epic and Performance, 266"Surprise Each Other": The Art of Collaboration (Interview with Lisa Birman), 272Spare Us Your Epiphanies, 280Marriage Marriage: A Sentence Sentence, 283Muse, 286My Life a Book, 289Acknowledgements, 292Selected Bibliography, 295Oppositional Poetics""wozu Dichter in dA1/4rftiger Zeit?""-HAlderlin from "Bread and Wine"How do we