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Patrick Durgin has posted an essay and also images of the actual typescripts of Hannah Weiner's Early and Clairvoyant Journals
Hannah Weiner is a hard to describe poet. She wrote from her clairvoyance (she saw words on people's heads and more) a poetry that is part everyday and part the other rhelm. Patrick's essay begins like this:
It is an extremely rare thing in any field to invent a new form. Invention, as such, momentarily collapses the frontier between theory and practice. This is why it not only invariably widens the scope of that field’s potential acheivements, but it appears to us, in hindsight, as an event, a phenomenon, a content through which to bring the overall form of that field into historical relief. Although largely unknown and practically unread, Hannah Weiner accomplished such an invention. She called it “large-sheet poetry” – I call it “avant-garde journalism.”
Patrick Durgin has posted an essay and also images of the actual typescripts of Hannah Weiner's Early and Clairvoyant Journals
Hannah Weiner is a hard to describe poet. She wrote from her clairvoyance (she saw words on people's heads and more) a poetry that is part everyday and part the other rhelm. Patrick's essay begins like this:
It is an extremely rare thing in any field to invent a new form. Invention, as such, momentarily collapses the frontier between theory and practice. This is why it not only invariably widens the scope of that field’s potential acheivements, but it appears to us, in hindsight, as an event, a phenomenon, a content through which to bring the overall form of that field into historical relief. Although largely unknown and practically unread, Hannah Weiner accomplished such an invention. She called it “large-sheet poetry” – I call it “avant-garde journalism.”
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