Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. Poetics. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. Featuring Diane di Prima, Robert Duncan, Margaret Randall, Muriel Rukeyser, and Jack Spicer. Edited by David Hadbawnk and Sean Reynolds, erica kaufman, Meira Levinson, Bradley Lubin, Megan Paslawski, Kyle Waugh, Rachael Wilson, Ana Božičević, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, and Margaret Randall, with General Editor Ammiel Alcalay. LOST &amp; FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers. Unearthed from personal and institutional archives in the United States and abroad, these materials are edited by doctoral students at the Graduate Center, CUNY. SERIES II is a collection of 6 chapbooks featuring Diane di Prima's Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D. and R.D.'S H.D. (on Robert Duncan); a transcription of Robert Duncan's Charles Olson Memorial Lecture; selections from the Mexico City-based literary magazine El Corno Emplumado [The Plumed Horn] by Margaret Randall; Selections from Muriel Rukeyser's Spanish Civil War Archive; and Jack Spicer's Beowulf. Edited, annotated, and with accompanying essays, The London Review of Books calls this "a serious and worthy enterprise." Diane di Prima calls the series "a gold mine" and Joanne Kyger writes: "What a brilliant cast of characters. Just exactly what one (myself) would like to read." SERIES II includes: Jack Spicer's Beowulf: Selections (Parts I &amp; II) (David Hadbawnk and Sean Reynolds, editors) Robert Duncan: Charles Olson Memorial Lecture (erica kaufman, Meira Levinson, Bradley Lubin, Megan Paslawski, Kyle Waugh, Rachael Wilson, and Ammiel Alcalay, editors) Diane di Prima: The Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D. (Ana Božičević, editor) Diane di Prima: R.D.'s H.D. (Ammiel Alcalay, editor) Barcelona, 1936: Selections from Muriel Rukeyser's Spanish Civil War Archive (Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, editor) Margaret Randall: Selections from El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn (Margaret Randall, editor)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series II

Literature & Fiction

Randall, Margaret

Duncan, Robert

Spicer, Jack

DiPrima, Diane

RUKEYSER, Muriel

United States

The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. Poetics. California Interest. African &amp; African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Film. Featuring Edward Dorn, Vincent Ferrini, Helene Johnson, Pauline Kael &amp; Robert Duncan, and Adrienne Rich. Edited by Kyle Waugh, Kate Tarlow Morgan, Emily Rosamond Claman, Bradley Lubin, Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev &amp; Wendy Tronrud, with General Editor Ammiel Alcalay. From a never before seen manuscript of poems by Harlem Renaissance poet Helene Johnson to a treasure trove of Adrienne Rich's teaching materials from City College, this new series overturns all expectations. We have brought you facsimile reproductions and variorum editions, notes, storyboards, memos, screenplays, letters and of course, poetry from all around America. Building cultural history from the ground up, Series IV provides a completely different vantage point from which to further explore our literary heritage. LOST &amp; FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES IV consists of eight beautifully printed chapbooks (600 pages in all), featuring rare and unpublished texts, including late work by Harlem Renaissance poet Helene Johnson, Adrienne Rich's teaching materials, a newly discovered film script by Edward Dorn, the formative correspondence of Pauline Kael &amp; Robert Duncan, and a facsimile reproduction of Vincent Ferrini's 1946 Tidal Wave: Poems of the Great Strikes. SERIES IV includes: Edward Dorn: Abilene! Abilene! (Parts I &amp; II) (ed. Kyle Waugh) Vincent Ferrini: Before Gloucester (eds. Ammiel Alcalay &amp; Kate Tarlow Morgan) Helene Johnson: After the Harlem Renaissance (ed. Emily Rosamond Claman) Pauline Kael &amp; Robert Duncan: Selected Letters 1945- 1946 (PARTS I &amp; II) (ed. Bradley Lubin) Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968- 1974 (Parts I &amp; II) (eds. Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev &amp; Wendy Tronrud)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series IV (The Cuny Poetics Document Initiative, 4)

RICH, Adrienne

DORN, EDWARD

Ferrini, Vincent

Johnson, Helene

Poetry

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. Poetics. Translation. California Interest. African &amp; African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Featuring Kathy Acker, William S. Burroughs, Langston Hughes, and Jean Sénac. Edited by Gabrielle Kappes, Alex Wermer-Colan, Zohra Saed, and Kai Krienke, with General Editor Ammiel Alcalay. LOST &amp; FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers. Unearthed from personal and institutional archives in the United States and abroad, these materials are edited by doctoral students at the Graduate Center, CUNY. LOST &amp; FOUND SERIES V is a collection of 5 chapbooks featuring Kathy Acker, William S. Burroughs, Langston Hughes, and Jean Sénac: four major writers responding to sweeping socio-political shifts around the globe. While working at a strip club in Times Square in 1972, Kathy Acker writes Homage to Leroi Jones and other "exercises," as part of an effort to map her "total present consciousness." In The Travel Agency is on Fire, William S. Burroughs performs cut-ups on authors related to his personal canon and ranging from William Shakespeare to Anthony Burgess. Across the ocean, Algerian poet Jean Sénac writes Le soleil sous les armes [The Sun Under the Weapons], a revolutionary manifesto urging for nothing short of total cultural transformation. Traveling between Moscow to Tashkent in 1932, Langston Hughes befriends, photographs, and translates the works of young poets writing in Uzbek in his travelogues, excerpted here as part of Poems, Photos &amp; Notebooks from Turkestan. Edited, annotated, and with accompanying essays, The London Review of Books calls this "a serious and worthy enterprise." Diane di Prima calls the series "a gold mine" and Joanne Kyger writes: "What a brilliant cast of characters. Just exactly what one (myself) would like to read." SERIES V includes: Kathy Acker: Homage to Leroi Jones (ed. Gabrielle Kappes) Jean Sénac: The Sun Under the Weapons, Correspondence &amp; Notes from Algeria (Parts I &amp; II) (ed. Kai Krienke) Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos &amp; Notebooks from Turkestan (ed. Zohra Saed) William S. Burroughs: The Travel Agency is on Fire (ed. Alex Wermer-Colan)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series V

HUGHES, Langston

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.

ACKER, Kathy

Sénac, Jean

History & Criticism

Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Music. Featuring Gregory Corso, Judy Grahn, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Ted Joans. Edited by Ammiel Alcalay, Iemanjá Brown, William Camponovo, Iris Cushing, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, Öykü Tekten, Wendy Tronrud. LOST & FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers. Unearthed from personal and institutional archives in the United States and abroad, these materials are edited by doctoral students at the Graduate Center, CUNY. LOST & FOUND SERIES VI presents work by Gregory Corso, Judy Grahn, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Ted Joans. While the styles and experiences of these writers are radically different, each project presented here enacts a commitment to the exploration of knowledge unbound by disciplinary constraints. Gregory Corso: Naropa Lectures 1981, introduced by Anne Waldman, includes two transcribed and annotated lectures that illustrate Corso's vast storehouse of cultural knowledge, animating his poetics both on the page and in the classroom. Bobbie Louise Hawkins: The Sounding Word presents two very different lectures from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and a new interview with the author. Whether looking at iconic French novelist Colette or examining the poetics of prose, The Sounding Word describes an unflinching empirical approach to knowledge and its transmission through direct experience. Judy Grahn: Selections from Blood, Bread, and Roses explores mythic, societal, and personal relationships to menstruation throughout time, and is accompanied by a recent interview with the legendary poet, teacher, scholar, and activist. Ted Joans: Poet Painter / Former Villager Now / World Traveller, introduced by Diane di Prima, presents an array of previously unpublished texts on jazz, surrealism, travel guides to Africa and Paris, his inimitable Negative Cowboy, and photographs from his life and times. As writers, each considers and refigures the malleable conditions of historical truth and the pursuit of knowledge as part of their creative process. And as readers, we are encouraged to do the same.  SERIES VI includes:  Gregory Corso: Naropa Lectures 1981 (Part I & II) (ed. William Camponovo, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, Öykü Tekten)  Bobbie Louise Hawkins: The Sounding Word (ed. Iris Cushing) Judy Grahn: Selections from Blood, Bread, and Roses (ed. Iemanjá Brown & Iris Cushing) Ted Joans: Poet Painter / Former Villager Now / World Traveller (Part I & II) (ed. Wendy Tronrud & Ammiel Alcalay)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series VI

Corso, Gregory

HAWKINS, Bobbie Louise

Grahn,Judy

Joans, Ted

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. African &amp; African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Building on previous projects centered on the pedagogy of poets, and friendship through correspondence, LOST &amp; FOUND SERIES VII breaks new ground to present unpublished and presently unavailable materials by novelist, filmmaker, and activist Toni Cade Bambara; iconic poet-activist-teachers Audre Lorde and June Jordan; scholar, activist, and poet Dr. Jack D. Forbes, and letters between North American poet and translator Paul Blackburn and Argentinian in exile novelist, poet, and translator Julio Cortázar. While Cortázar and Blackburn forged their own institution of sorts, through a friendship that would help ignite the Latin American boom, Forbes, Bambara, Jordan, and Lorde worked in and out of institutions to help transform the landscape of our educational and historical horizons and expectations. For some years Bambara, Jordan, and Lorde all taught together in the City University of New York, the largest urban system in the United States, collaborating with activist students and other faculty to create new curriculum in Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Women's Studies. At the same time, Blackburn also taught part-time at City University, while bringing the vision of another world into American English, through his translations of Cortázar, a champion of the Cuban revolution and a writer of unparalleled influence in Latin America. On the other side of the country, Dr. Jack Forbes's vision of hemispheric Indigenous life was brought to bear on his involvement in the creation of D-Q University, the first Indigenous university in California, as well as the creation of Native American Studies at UC Davis, a program that would be emulated at other universities in North America. At the same time, his extraordinary and almost unknown poetry, featured here along with notable materials on his educational activism, presents a vision of Los Angeles cutting across race, class, and ethnicity that the work of all the writers in this Series help us realize. SERIES VII Includes: Audre Lorde: "I teach myself in outline," Notes, Journals, Syllabi, &amp; an Excerpt from Deotha (edited by Miriam Atkin and Iemanjá Brown) Toni Cade Bambara: "Realizing the Dream of a Black University," &amp; Other Writings (Parts I &amp; II) (edited by Makeba Lavan and Conor Tomás Reed) June Jordan "Life Studies," 1966-1976 (edited by Conor Tomás Reed and Talia Shalev) Jack Forbes: "Yanga Ya," Selected Poems &amp; The Goals of Education (Parts I &amp; II) (edited by William Camponovo) Paul Blackburn &amp; Julio Cortázar: "Querido Pablito"/"Julissimo Querido," Selected Correspondence, 1958-1971 (Parts I &amp; II) (edited by Ammiel Alcalay, Jacqui Cornetta, Alison Macomber, and Alexander Soria)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series VII

JORDAN, JUNE

LORDE, AUDRE

BAMBARA, Toni Cade

Forbes, Jack

Blackburn, Paul

Lost & Found: Series VIII (Lost & Found, 8)

Alcalay, Ammiel

CORTAZAR,JULIO

Pietri, Pedro

Di Prima, Diane

Basil King carries within him a profound array of things seen and things heard first hand, things whose immediate memory is fading from our world ever faster. And these are not just "ordinary" things but encounters with the lives and visions of some of the greatest creative minds of the post World War II era. This is not to say that Basil King is some relic, a storehouse of bric-a-brac from the past: on the contrary, his ability to apprehend the here and now in light of what he knows, and to find his own form for it, is our very sustenance, a path to be taken right here and right now, a way through the morass we are in. These qualities are brilliantly displayed in recent writings that take up figures like Billy the Kid, poets Samuel Greenberg and Isaac Rosenberg, painters Velazquez, van Dyke, Rubens, Soutine, Modigliani, and Chagal. While we thought he was a painter, and he certainly still is, Basil King's latest textual landscapes portray worlds torqued into collision and relation, offering us new ways to interpret our histories transposed through time, close to the bone and heart, close to our own felt ways of knowing. Edited with an afterword by Öykü Tekten. "'I bring disparate things together,' Basil King writes. Indeed, his gift as a writer is his ability to bring widely dispersed objects together into constellations that only he would have charted."--Michael Seth Steward "Basil King's set of portraits are as widening rings in the pool of human circumstance in which desire and the creative strike for freedom is the stone at the center. King pays attention to everything and pays no attention to art historical distances. It's all now."--Kimberly Lyons "Basil King is among the last living poets who touch the universal without effort, as if it were an accident of fidelity to the language it was given him to speak."--Cole Heinowitz "Always meandering with purpose, King dwells especially in happenstance--how one life brushes against another. His personal, collective, memory--colored with beauty and understanding--is infused with profound compassion."--Burt Kimmelman Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Hybrid. Art.

There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits

King, Basil

Arts & Photography

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