New Weathers
Lectures from the Naropa Archive
Anne Waldman editor Emma Gomis editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nightboat Books
Published:12th Jan '23
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A collection of lectures transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program that represent a continuing lineage of experimental literary movements.
New Weathers asks us to consider how poetics might embolden deeper engagements with the world. Collected from the alternative education zone founded by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg with the aim of opening up discourse and fostering political engagement, these texts invoke issues of gender and race-based injustice, the global climate crisis, and our possible extinction. They weave through our poetic community, the conversations we are having, the issues we are facing—our “new weathers” to posit strategies of resistance.
List of Contributors: Paula Gunn Allen, Amiri Baraka, Dan Beachy-Quick, Sherwin Bitsui, Robin Blaser, William S. Burroughs, Julie Carr, J’Lyn Chapman, Jos Charles, Jack Collom, Samuel R. Delany, kari edwards, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Tonya M. Foster, Forrest Gander, Alan Gilbert, Allen Ginsberg, Renee Gladman, Robert Glück, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Jarnot, Kevin Killian, Thurston Moore, Fred Moten, Eileen Myles, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, Akilah Oliver, M. NourbeSe Philip, Margaret Randall, Roger Reeves, Ariana Reines, Lisa Robertson, Ed Sanders, Andrew Schelling, Cedar Sigo, Eleni Sikelianos, Harry Smith, Edwin Torres, Cecilia Vicuña, Asiya Wadud, Peter Warshall, Eliot Weinberger, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Ronaldo V. Wilson.
"The lectures compiled here range from poem to storytelling to information-share to monologue, but all have at least two (and certainly many more) things in common: first, that they are concerned with the construction of a livable future for the world, for poetry, for art, for life; and second, that they owe their existence to the archive. . . [I]n every line detailed above, I feel the grace of the archive like a guiding hand."—The Brooklyn Rail
“Waldman has developed her own patented brand of rhythmically insistent model structure, both conveying and imitating the transitoriness of the human moment. Occurring in key points in this scheme, harmonistic images of natural wholeness, reconciliation and plentitude provide the chords that hold the receptive, inclusive structures together.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Anne Waldman is a poet orator, her body an instrument for vocalization, her voice a trembling flame rising out of a strong body, her texts that accurate energetic fine notations of words with spoken music latent in mindful arrangement on the page.”—Allen Ginsberg
“Celebrates her awareness of the many roles a woman plays with incantations of comtemporary flux. . . . A reader-performer, a manic public voice whose poetry joins graffiti, collage, jazz, and conversation.”—Library Journal
ISBN: 9781643621470
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400 pages