Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen\u27s Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuma

The Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape by David Hinton

Review of David Hinton’s The Wilds of Poetry: Adventure’s in Mind and Landscape

The Wilds of Poetry: Adventures in Mind and Landscape by David Hinton

Review of David Hinton’s The Wilds of Poetry: Adventure’s in Mind and Landscape

Saturn/Cronus-11

“Saturn/Cronus-11” is from a Cosmography, an in-progress project of Literary Digital Art that invokes the gods of seven planets in our celestial neighborhood; plus The Sun, The Moon; and Incognita. It includes my trope of invagination: fragments exhumed from the authored corpus and transplanted into the body of a living text, which, along with superimposed images and animations, advances us toward a more magnanimous, transdisciplinary sphere. The project also includes notes

Curing It

Poem by Joel Weishaus

Laying More Pipe

With pick and shovel, find the brokencast iron pipe, pry out old lead,knock off rusty joints.20’ of 4” 40-schedule ABS sawedand coupled with rubber collarswith stainless steel braces,joined to pipe at next streamcrossing, joined to terra cottapipe under tea house site, joined to three lengths ironpipe cut three poems ago.1 lb brick of dull lead meltedin a pan becomes silver liquidpoured into iron bell-collars.Black cement smeared over allconnections is a waterproof coating.Taps turned and draining,toilets flushed... Give it all back

Hacking It; Laying New Pipe; & Clearing The Ground

HACKING IT cast iron pipe sawed straight through, blisters rising from the small hacksaw rushing to meet its end, singing, with you with you with you with you...LAYING NEW PIPE Where turds bob up with clogs of toilet paper and Tampax, mint trees & flowers thrive, the line was cracked by roots. One hundred year old terra cotta pipe, a young Bay tree broke her way through. We lay ten foot lengths black plastic tube, glue the joints, cross the stream, on out... CLEARING THE GROUND Clearing the ground, Frantically working the gears, Grabbing handles, pulling levers, billows of dust... O MAN, dragged over the land Behind a machine!! Tearing freeways, cracking sidewalks, Universities, libraries...whole worlds Of consciousness plowed back to seed

Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers. By Karen O’Rourke. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press, 2013.

While there is a long well-documented tradition of poets walking and writing about the landscape, for at least the past fifty years visual artists have been laying out walks as various kinds of artwork. More recently, with the technology of mapping morphing into electronic devices, artists have begun using these tools to develop entirely new genres