Friday
Aug312007
CRITIPHORIA
Friday 31 August, 2007
From Crag Hill:
Looking for Work: CRITIPHORIA: A Journal of Poetry and Criticism
Edited by Stephen Paul Miller, Tim Peterson, and Cecilia Wu
Contributing Editors: Karen Alkaly-Gut, Maria Damon, Kenneth Deifik, Denise Duhamel, Peter Frank, Bob Holman, Carolee Schneemann, and David Shapiro.
Critiphoria is a journal partially funded by St. Johns University which seeks submissions of "poetry-criticism" in all its forms for a first issue to be published in late 2007.
This new journal will energize poetry and criticism through one another, exploring their intersection in the possibility of a "third genre" that grows out of such precedents as Charles Bernstein's "Artifice of Absorption,"
Stephen Paul Miller's poem reviews and essay/lectures, [Bob Perelman's "IfLife"] Lyn Hejinian's poetic nonfiction, the linguistic mysticism of David Shapiro, the autobiographical scholarship of Susan Howe, Zizek's psycho-political analyses, W.J.T. Mitchell's totemic digs, David Antin's talk poems, and a variety of dialogic critical-poetic objects (we enthusiastically anticipate new models). We will publish essays in poetic form, essays using poetic methodology, poems with critical content, pedagogy, essays concerning poetry-criticism, statements about poetic production. We also invite items of a more general nature pertinent to these topics, including essays, poems, visual art, vispo, audio, and e-poetry.
Submissions may include a statement concerning the submission and how it concerns dynamic interaction between poetry and criticism.
Critiphoria will appear at http://www.critiphoria.org, and a print edition will also be published. Subscriptions are $20/two issues. Email submissions or other correspondence to the editors: Stephen Paul Miller, Tim Peterson, and Cecilia Wu at critiphoria@gmail.com.
Looking for Work: CRITIPHORIA: A Journal of Poetry and Criticism
Edited by Stephen Paul Miller, Tim Peterson, and Cecilia Wu
Contributing Editors: Karen Alkaly-Gut, Maria Damon, Kenneth Deifik, Denise Duhamel, Peter Frank, Bob Holman, Carolee Schneemann, and David Shapiro.
Critiphoria is a journal partially funded by St. Johns University which seeks submissions of "poetry-criticism" in all its forms for a first issue to be published in late 2007.
This new journal will energize poetry and criticism through one another, exploring their intersection in the possibility of a "third genre" that grows out of such precedents as Charles Bernstein's "Artifice of Absorption,"
Stephen Paul Miller's poem reviews and essay/lectures, [Bob Perelman's "IfLife"] Lyn Hejinian's poetic nonfiction, the linguistic mysticism of David Shapiro, the autobiographical scholarship of Susan Howe, Zizek's psycho-political analyses, W.J.T. Mitchell's totemic digs, David Antin's talk poems, and a variety of dialogic critical-poetic objects (we enthusiastically anticipate new models). We will publish essays in poetic form, essays using poetic methodology, poems with critical content, pedagogy, essays concerning poetry-criticism, statements about poetic production. We also invite items of a more general nature pertinent to these topics, including essays, poems, visual art, vispo, audio, and e-poetry.
Submissions may include a statement concerning the submission and how it concerns dynamic interaction between poetry and criticism.
Critiphoria will appear at http://www.critiphoria.org, and a print edition will also be published. Subscriptions are $20/two issues. Email submissions or other correspondence to the editors: Stephen Paul Miller, Tim Peterson, and Cecilia Wu at critiphoria@gmail.com.
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The Human Stain
It is an irony of the human condition that man shares an innate, intimate relationship with, and an inextricable connection to, Mother Nature and her forces— achieving a sense of stability— yet engulfs himself into an existence, that is, in essence, entrenched and entangled in illusions. (Such illusions, for all intents and purposes, encompass and encapsulate the often enigmatic, yet profound proverbial phrase: things are not always what they appear to be.) Hence, what he may see, may not in effect entirely exist; what he thinks, may be but a mere fallacy; and what he may feel, may hold devoid of all sensations. It is his vision, intellect and emotions which ultimately subside and gradually become clouded by what at moments, is called, his own 'human stain', giving way to such ironies of the human condition.
It is a so-called human stain, indirectly stemming and derived from the inherent sorrows and sadness present in a society, where such sorrows almost always originate and emanate from a loss of some sort: be it of a material possession or of a spiritual entity. Man develops this human stain by first feeling unjustly treated for being afflicted with such sorrows and then in turn by blaming humanity, since he feels such sorrows and sadness are a plague and disruption to his reality.
It is a human stain, which then— after its development—being an infectious and contagious entity, feeds and permeates from man to man, infecting many in society.
It is a so- called human stain, which directly encompasses and in essence, simply contains all that is evil and derogatory to mankind: hatred, betrayal, brutality, revenge, skepticism, mistrust and deceit.
It is a human stain, unfortunately, which man paradoxically wears so proudly and adheres to with such fervor and vehemence as if to acknowledge his presence and survival in a world he feels with certainty, is engulfed with utter hatred and cynicism.
And it is a human stain, that if not stopped, will cast its final shadow upon man and play its ultimate acts of irony in a catastrophic and unforeseen plot where man's consequential complexity will bring about his own self destruction— leaving man with a persona and image so far removed from what was once perceived to be an 'iconic portrait of man's invincibility.'
And it is a so- called human stain, that very simply, if removed— by acknowledgment of its existence as a destructive and debilitative entity, and its consequent extermination— will bring man out of chaos and disarray, and into disillusionment and serenity... and ultimately— back to his own humanity...