enough

Edited by Leslie Scalapino, Rick London

$16.00

Details
Publisher
O Books
Original Language(s)
English
Additional Credits
Cover art by Abigail Child
Design by Guy Bennett
Genre(s)
Literary Non-Fiction, Periodicals, Poetics, Poetry
Edition, Year
First Edition, 2003
ISBN
978-1-882022-48-9
Pages
160
Format
PaperbackWeb-Ready PDF

enough, which the editors, Leslie Scalapino and Rick London, began to assemble following 9/11 and at the start of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, is a collection of poets whose writings are interactive with their current time, producing writing in its matter and syntax not separate from oppressive conditions and war. The volume takes as its premise that a radical purpose of poetry in critical times is to disrupt the language of consensus. Writers include Mahmoud Darwish, Nasri Hajjaj, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, Lisa Jarnot, Eileen Myles, Bill Berkson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, P. Inman, Tina Darragh, Robert Grenier, Abigail Child, Alan Davies, Nathaniel Mackey, Fanny Howe, Harryette Mullen, Murilo Mendes, Abdul Kader El Janabi, Tom Raworth, Etel Adnan, Jackson Mac Low, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Jalal Toufic, and others.

Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino (1947-2010) was born in Santa Barbara, California and raised in Berkeley. She is the author of thirty books of poetry, prose, inter-genre fiction, plays, and essays, including a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, Read More
Rick London
Rick London was born in Detroit in 1948. He moved to San Francisco in 1974, where he continues to live and work. He is the author of the poetry collections The Materialist (Doorjamb Press, ... Read More

Praise for enough

The editors began to assemble this anthology following 9/11 at the start of the U.S. war on Afghanistan. It is a collection of poets whose writings are interactive with the current time, writing as its matter and syntax not separate from oppressive conditions and war. In enough, U.S. poets, British, Palestinian, Iraqi, Israeli, speak back and forth to each other only in the medium of their art. Most of the poems were written for this collection; the poets were taking on being in that moment/event (of an exchange unknown until it is a book, as well as being in those real-time events). The editorial basis of enough is that these poets’ art is not separate from their being in the world — and that: Seeing what’s happening is a form of change.

— Leslie Scalapino

A radical purpose of poetry in critical times is to disrupt the language of consensus, taking possible thought into a more intimate relation to life as anybody lives it, contradicting the fanfare of established power. And inventing new ways of making art reflects the rejection of hegemonic forces in the world. Engaged art perceives that when the wounded speak they use the language of the wound. The work gathered in this collection opens and extends these radical practices.

— Rick London

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