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Uncertain Remains
"Uncertain Remains is a book of poetry by Michael Boughn and published by BlazeVOX [books]"--
City
Michael Boughn's City is explicit in its celebration of the urban as a pumping heart with architecture. Boughn approaches the 'common' with an open language knowing full well that some who share the space may not 'understand.' His Walden is a full-canopied forest of neighbourhoods within and around which true solace is found, but only after much searching. Victor Coleman City mirrors the soul's own anthems, landmarks, apparitions and traffic jams. William Blake would be at home in Michael Boughn's tough and devilish town, apocalyptic in its ferocious litanies and bellicose arsenals, its grinding insistent engine roar ruling out nothing, in the midst of which an ironic I, both innocent and ex...
The Book of Uncertain
"The almost hallucinatory music in The Book of Uncertain is front and center ... fast, powerful, exuberant, joyful, like an extended solo in the so-called "energy music" of jazz-think John Coltrane on tenor, Cecil Taylor at the piano. The waves of sonic charge that break against Uncertain are the music of the poem as war machine, offered as resistance and antidote to "the Doom Program.""--
City
Poetry. Taking as its instigation Charles Olson's "Poem 143--the Festival Aspect," Michael Boughn's CITY attempts to navigate the visionary registers that animate the city and its moods. A long poem in three books, each book is set up to explore a different dimension of the city. Combining observations and commentary on current affairs with references to and considerations of traditional texts by Dante, Augustine, Fra Carnevale, Weber, Bachelard, Whitehead, Benjamin, Agamben, and a host of others, CITY weaves multiple threads together into a tapestry of urban experience that is always both here and beyond. BOOK I: SINGULAR ASSUMPTIONS moves through the depths of the city's incarnation, mappi...
One's Own Mind
One's own Mind is fascicle number 4 in A Curriculum of the Soul proposed by the American poet Charles Olson in 1969 and begun by The Institute of Further Studies in 1971 under the general editorship of John Clarke. --Glover Publishing.
Tales from the Theory of Angels and Other Writings
This collection incorporates Franz Kamin's two main previous books--Ann Margret Loves You and Other Psychotopological Diversions (1980) and Scribble Death (1986)--plus his posthumous writing originally collected as Tales From The Theory of Angels. He links the scribbling of children, artists, and dreamers with the hopes and terrors of obsession and delirium. Through all of this one may almost detect a somber chuckling from the authorial domain.
Measure's Measure
"MEASURE'S MEASURE collects essays by Michael Boughn concerned with the explicit poetics of an interrelated but individually distinct group of poets, most of whom came to prominence after Donald Allen published his anthology, THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY, with Grove Press in 1960. Boughn includes three poets and one philosopher that antedate the "Donald Allen" but are arguably that poetry's important predecessors and inspirers: Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. The philosopher is Emerson. The Donald Allen poets treated are primarily Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser though with not inconsiderable glances at others. The poetic practices and thematic attentions of these writers do constitute something like an "identity" for this group, whose work may be characterized as "the poetry of initiatory transmission." The poets not only mean to present the content of their poems but to transmit the conditions of awareness, imagination, and intelligence from which that practice of poetry and thought come to be"--
Great Canadian Poems for the Aged
Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1 Illus. Ed. dares to go where no book of Canadian poetry has gone before ? deep into the heart of darkness epitomized by the idea of the Great White North. Except white is not dark. And the heart thing was a bit overused even by the time Conrad got around to it. In any case, recalling the fundamental elements of the Canadian struggle for identity, when he can recall anything at all, Michael Boughn takes his few, select readers on a tour through the midden heap of Canadian culture that turns into a unique confrontation with the profound questions facing the nation, like, "What's a Doukhobor," "Did Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald really do it in a canoe," and "What was Wyndham Lewis doing in Wawa"? No one actually able to finish this book will remain untouched by the subtle lyric voice that weaves together disparate, irrelevant, and often offensive elements of the Canadian experience into an unforgettable poem for the aged. "Who let this guy into the country?" - George Grant "This is not Great Literature." - Northrup Frye "This stuff is so cold it's almost hot." &dnash; Marshall McLuhan
Narthex and Other Stories
Fiction. Edited with an Afterword by Michael Boughn. Primarily known as a poet, H.D. was also a prolific prose writer. In fact her writing career began with the publication of children's stories in Sunday school magazines. She wrote several novels, only two of which were published in her lifetime, and a number of short stories and novellas, some of which were published under pseudonyms. Two of the three stories reprinted here for the first time were published in the 1920s under the names Rhoda Peters and D. A. Hill in Pagany and Life and Letters Today. The third story--really a novella--was published in Alfred Kreymborg's anthology The Second American Caravan in 1928 and has been unavailable...
