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John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics
John Cage was among the first wave of post-war American artists and intellectuals to be influenced by Zen Buddhism and it was an influence that led him to become profoundly engaged with our current ecological crisis. In John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics, Peter Jaeger asks: what did Buddhism mean to Cage? And how did his understanding of Buddhist philosophy impact on his representation of nature? Following Cage's own creative innovations in the poem-essay form and his use of the ancient Chinese text, the I Ching to shape his music and writing, this book outlines a new critical language that reconfigures writing and silence. Interrogating Cage's 'green-Zen' in the light of contemporary psychoanalysis and cultural critique as well as his own later turn towards anarchist politics, John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics provides readers with a critically performative site for the Zen-inspired “nothing” which resides at the heart of Cage's poetics, and which so clearly intersects with his ecological writing.
Prop
Peter Jaeger's beautiful new work was written while travelling in Japan, India, Canada, Italy and England, but these intense lyrics are more than "travel poems," they explore body awareness and consciousness within language itself - an interplay that becomes more evident through Jaeger's unfamiliar surroundings and his exploration of meditation and yoga. These poems express the temporary, impermanent character of perception by re-negotiating the traditional, voice-based lyric, making use of collage as well as dramatic shifts in syntax and narrative. Prop is a book written in motion, and its quick changes in tone and imagery present the dynamism and impermanence of the world.
ABC of Reading TRG
Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, focussing on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG).
Watching and Praying
Toronto psychoanalyst Haartman examines the development stages and contemplative techniques that comprised the model of spiritual transformation created by John Wesley, the 18th-century founder of British Methodism. He uses a psychoanalytic perspective to explain the pastoral effectiveness of the method, and to show how Wesley's view of spiritual growth was both therapeutic and transformative as measured by the standards of contemporary psychoanalysis.
Rapid Eye Movement
'Rapid Eye Movement' follows a strict constraint: two bands of text run continuously throughout the book. The top band consists entirely of fragmented dream narratives recorded by historical and contemporary dreamers, while the lower band juxtaposes found material which includes the word "dream." No two sentences taken from the same source follow each other. As an investigation of the sign "dream" across a number of social discourses, including literature, psychoanalysis, advertising, popular culture, song lyrics, philosophy and religious literature, Rapid Eye Movement presents a record of our culture dreaming. "Jaeger dreams of the day when forestry operations can use balloon-based, skidding devices that float above the treetops and winch trees out of the forest without damaging the woodland floor. Jaeger dreams up some interesting shots. Jaeger dreams of peace. His book of dreams is not too different from a hope chest. His dreams are getting better all the time. His dreams are coming true." Christian Bök. -- back cover
The Granite Monthly
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The Persons
The Persons is a scrapbook of found texts which have been clipped, archived, sorted for their parallel grammatical structure, and then rearranged so that no two consecutive sentences come from the same source.Peter Jaeger's life, here, is thus written through the words of others: those protagonists who animated his imagination and left their traces in the newspapers, emails, diaries, books (from literature to philosophy), and all the countless ephemera with which the externalized inner drama of our lives plays out.Peter Jaeger is a Canadian poet, literary critic and text-based artist now living in the UK. His published work includes the books Eckhart Cars (2004), Prop (2007), and Rapid Eye Movement (2009). He currently teaches poetry and literary theory at Roehampton University in London, and lives in rural Somerset with his family.'The Persons extends the necessary citicism of the world inside a celebration of life.' Allen Fisher
The Playing Field
Collected short fiction and poetry from national award-winning writers, leaders in new fiction and up-and-coming authors, who have read at the I.V. lounge in Toronto.
A life caught in a spider's web
This issue is dedicated to Dr. Christo Deltshev, the doyen of Bulgarian araneology. It contains seventeen arachnological publications, including a concise biography of Dr. Deltshev, a list of his scientific publications and his described taxa. The volume comprises taxonomic contributions in the spider families Hypochilidae, Sicariidae, Dysderidae, Hersiliidae, Theridiidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Dictynidae, Gnaphosidae, Sparassidae, Philodromidae and Salticidae and fossil taxa in the harvestmen suborders Dyspnoi and Eupnoi, written by a total of 36 authors. Four new genera and 37 new spider and harvestmen species have been described in this volume, and dozens of new taxonomic alterations (new combinations, new synonyms, new statuses, etc.) are proposed too. Geographically, the papers deal with material originating from Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America. There is also an overview of the use of barcoding to identify spiders in species-rich genera.
