BlazeVox 20 - Imperial Prototype, Bank Vault, Progress, Backseat Drivers, Farming Acquiescence5/18/2020 FRACTURED ECOLOGIES FRACTURED ECOLOGIES Edited by Chad Weidner EYECORNER PRESS CRITICISM SERIES ISBN: 978-87-92633-52-1 9×6 in; 424 pages FORTHCOMING: JUNE, 2020 http://www.eyecornerpress.com/fractured-ecologies/ Fractured Ecologies participates in environmental praxis through literary practice. How does experimental writing contribute to the ways we think about ecology? This collection of papers, bent essays, and playful poetic impressions positions marginal aesthetic forms front and center. The idea of Fractured Ecologies is that rigorous and irreverent papers addressing experimental writing and other borderline manifestations in an environmental context are infinitely interesting and always fresh. “somewhere located below the Sol – way cold solar plexus” —Frances Presley “Who tethered the earth to someone else’s sun?” —Joshua Schuster TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Chad Weidner: Introduction: Deliberate Poetry as Ecological Survival Technique Harriet Tarlo: ‘GOLD/ Is Recovered’: Maggie O’Sullivan and Environment Sarah Nolan: Fractured Environments in Susan Howe’s That This Margaret Anne Clarke: Biopoetics: The Interfaces between Language, Form and Life Richard Murphy: Hybrid submissions Matthew Shenoda: Wild Margaret Ronda: Green Road Vickie Vértiz: Cyanotype in a New York Public Library Maurice Kilwein Guevara: The Results Are Spreading Wang Ping: Peace Over Everest Aki Gibbons: Fireblossoms Orchid Tierney: ode to surfaces, air Camilla Nelson: RUN Evelyn Reilly: Grosse Fatigue: Eco-Weariness and the Feminine Hand Dana Zoutman: (that reflect heat back into space) Katrin Benzler: “What in the Name of Arse” “Cries out for Universal Brotherhood” “?” Sophie Bergmeijer: Tipped the Scale, Made a List, Then and Now Arthur Sze: Lichen Song and Salt Song Shelia Karpesky: Man to Machine Chad Weidner: Mourning May Kenji C. Liu: A Frankenpo: Report to Exxon Shareholders Andrew Shaw: Pests Edwin Torres: FRAMING DEVICE: The Animal’s Perception of Earth Angela Peñaredondo: Hybrid Submissions Jess Allen and Bronwyn Preece: full:new Robyn Maree Pickens: Tender a rawlings: WHOSE WHO Mari-Lou Rowley: Feral Poetics for a (Re)Programmed TechnéPolis Arpine Konyalian-Grenier: Fasciae, Fauna, Faux Pas: Capital Beyond the Noise Peter Jaeger: Walter Benjamin, John Cage, and Kenneth Goldsmith: A Weather Report Matthew Cooperman: Process, Person Erasure: Recovering the There There in Dorn, Orange, Long Soldier & Cooperman hiromi suzuki: Virtual Water Alarms Maja Jantar: Some Alison Hawthorne Deming: THE DIORAMAS Joshua Schuster: Notes on Heliopoetics Adam Dickinson: “THERMOGRAPHIA: Labwork” H. L. Hix: Copia Frances Presley: Channels: on boulder beach, Pink Bay, passerine, Needle’s Eye Brenda Hillman: S KIN OF OLDER WOMAN WALKING FROM
 Smile When in pockets or on wrists little wheels with teeth gnashed through small lives, the sidewalks lipped up regardless, “have a nice day.” Then the coltan digit brought to pitch in light speed. Emoji and Gif poke into each cheek. Tagging antisocial question marks as coat racks for the street, the command threatens to punish insightful resisters at the cash register. With time, a commuter buys into debt or hunts for a refrigerator box and a subway grate. Even in confrontation with weather, the baseline syndrome sufferers cling to exteriors though from around brainstems leather sacks for rotted emotions droop. Confetti Catcher Always the same site with similar pomp and circumstances. An organ shifts beneath flutes and violins that blanket a dark band tweaking noise into nose. Cornea eggs crack in socket bowls when stirring, and a gathering quakes on the bed refrain. When the sight ceremony lights up, all dreams exit through thin air. A whole world opens for the real while boredom fills with illusion for strangers on the street perhaps. The senses chase after stomach butterflies with a cup for coffee and a spoon. The excitement wishes by as the moment escapes, but the effort fills up and spills all over the nervous system. Soon a traffic jam will spread on concentration without absorbing a small part in the procession. Very pleased to have my poem (from my book Practitioner Joy) in the current issue of Oddball Magazine. https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-rich-murphy/?fbclid=IwAR2E6spkAfzIozghVPBOMdQnqOJjWQm4ra96tuZsCA01ePR7M1N8qsrHm5Q  I am very pleased to have gotten a book contract for “Prophetic Voice Now” from Common Ground Research Network. My collection of essays on modern and postmodern poetry and poetics has a publication date of March, 2020.   "Practitioner Joy" is an alternative voice offering a way forward that promotes the ideas of Hegel and Nietzsche through Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life and Slavoj Zizek’s Less than Nothing. The collection of poems will be published by Wipf and Stock in early Summer. The project entitled is also my confrontation with my practice as a poet and, at least in part, my inevitable death.
When outside Plato’s Cave, capitalism’s crisis horizon threatens with precarious “every conduct is economic conduct,” “I once was mine; now I am theirs,” and “Homo Deus” (a new species of humans from the loins of the wealthy only), prophetic voices are needed in an effort to counter and perhaps change the narrative’s and the future’s direction. There is absolutely nothing to lose in my project. Poets know well that we will die. Yes, yes this manuscript is poetry, but its sibling, philosophy, lurks within it. These poems break further from poetic styles from my past in that they are more stylistically confident in their conviction to name and in their embrace of a way forward not only for a person but for humans without corporate capitalism and without Homo Deus threats. While the poems are different from what lyric poems are being published in journals today, I believe they are the future. (I believe in my new –to me— poetics and believe that my manuscript is what Blake called “firm persuasion.”) While the manuscript has grown to 80 pages and will grow no more, when it was 64, it won as a semi-finalist in the 2019 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition at Southern Illinois University. Editor Katie Scions of Rumble Fish Quarterly nominated, “Work Quirk,” a poem from the collection, for a Pushcart Prize 2019 and remarked in her “Editors’ Note” introduction to the Winter 2018 issue, “Award-winning poet Rich Murphy offers up ‘Work Quirk,’ a poem that reads, and we mean this in the most complimentary terms possible, like a flesh-eating virus.” |
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