<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div><div>Dear All--</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The minutes on our recent session featuring a discussion with poet/translator/publisher/raconteur Keith Waldrop is forthcoming. In the meantime, I want to remind everyone that our next session will be Friday, Feb 12 at 3 PM. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">This session will be held at the Beinecke Library, not at our usual room.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> A description of our focus is below and features links to supplemental readings.</span></b></div><div><br></div><div>Also, I wanted to send links to some terrific translations by new group member Hilary Kaplan. Hilary is translating work by Brazilian poet Angélica Freitas whose work is in dialogue with many of the contemporary American and French avant-garde poets that have been the group's ongoing focus.</div><a href="http://www.digitalartifactmagazine.com/issue2/translating_poems_from_angelica_freitas_rilke_shake_poems_poemas">http://www.digitalartifactmagazine.com/issue2/translating_poems_from_angelica_freitas_rilke_shake_poems_poemas</a><br><br><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/graduate/critical_matrix/cm_current.html">http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/graduate/critical_matrix/cm_current.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And since I'm giving news--see this nice discussion of our very own lovely and talented David Larsen and his work as poet/ translator that appears on Poetry Foundation's blog. <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/proceeding-translation-brandon-brown-david-larsen/">http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/02/proceeding-translation-brandon-brown-david-larsen/</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~prowom/graduate/critical_matrix/cm_current.html"></a>And don't forget--we have a blog. <a href="http://wgcp.wordpress.com/">http://wgcp.wordpress.com/</a></div><div>Ask for it by name.</div><div><br></div><div>Comprehensively yours,</div><div>Richard Deming, Co-coordinator <br><div><br></div><div><div class="entry-head"><small class="entry-meta"><br></small></div><div class="entry-content"><div class="snap_preview"><p style="text-align: center; "><img class="aligncenter" alt="" height="329" width="331" src="cid:C4760127-8B23-4A16-8FA1-45A738E60398@chn.comcast.net"></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">On February 12 at 3pm, the WGCP will meet in room 38 at Beinecke Library with Curator Tim Young to discuss Russian Zaum poetry and what Young has called the “pre- and quasi verbal” in books by poets and artists. Young will show an exhibition of rare Zaum books and related materials from the Beinecke Library’s Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection. Remember to arrive just a few minutes before 3 because there are some rules in visiting the Beinecke Library: All visitors are asked to leave their belongings, including coats and hats, upstairs in the lockers and racks on the main floor. If articles of loose clothing (scarves, sweaters, etc.) are brought into the classroom then they should be either worn for the duration of the session or returned to the upstairs racks/lockers. Please do not bring food or drink into the library. Use of pens is prohibited. Pencils only.</span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Examples of Zaum poetry, including Russian and English sound recordings, can be found online in the Getty Center’s outstanding exhibition, </span></font><a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> curated by Nancy Perloff.</span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></p><p><a href="http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/german/rumold/transitionweb/Jolas%20Articles/From%20Jabberwocky%20to%20Lettrism.htm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/german/rumold/transitionweb/Jolas%20Articles/From%20Jabberwocky%20to%20Lettrism.htm</span></font></a></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="3"><div id="primary"><div id="current-content"><div id="primarycontent" class="hfeed"><div id="post-163" class="post-163 post hentry category-announcements category-events category-sponsors category-wgcp-communications"><div class="entry-content"><div class="snap_preview"><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Additional readings:</span></font></p><p><a href="http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/german/rumold/transitionweb/Jolas%20Articles/From%20Jabberwocky%20to%20Lettrism.htm"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">From Jabberwocky to Lettrism</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, by Eugène Jolas</span></font></p><p><a href="http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/Editor/DworkinDestroy.pdf"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">To Destroy Language</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> by Craig Dworkin</span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Image: Cover of </span></font><em><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Tango with Cows: Ferro-Concrete Poems</span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> (Tango s korovami: Zhelezobetonnye poemy) from the Getty exhibition online; </span></font><a href="http://archives.getty.edu:30008/getty_images/digitalresources/russian_ag/pdfs/gri_2567-605.pdf"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">PDF version of the book</span></font></a></p></div></div><div class="clear"></div></div><div id="post-166" class="post-166 post hentry category-announcements category-events category-member-news"><div class="entry-head"><h3 class="entry-title"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></font></h3></div></div></div></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></body></html>