Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Gloria (for Elizabeth Treadwell)
Gloria, go back to the beginning:
Gloria, in the woods, we're safe:
Gloria, who knows how to listen.
The dream-glass breaks, black with tar, spit, and glitter
ash and grass drifting together
a deer, a fox : : : the bee-buzz bird-saw
drone and thrum
let it call you: Gloria.
let it call you: Home.
Gloria, in the woods, we're safe:
Gloria, who knows how to listen.
The dream-glass breaks, black with tar, spit, and glitter
ash and grass drifting together
a deer, a fox : : : the bee-buzz bird-saw
drone and thrum
let it call you: Gloria.
let it call you: Home.
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
News
I have coco-fresh poems in the ever-awesome Coconut!
The Poetry Booth will be popping up around town this month. First stop, Paseo Nuevo courtyard this Thursday (April 4th) in downtown SB
The Poetry Booth will be popping up around town this month. First stop, Paseo Nuevo courtyard this Thursday (April 4th) in downtown SB
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Feral Poetics
Reflecting on the ecopoetics conference. Lots to sift through and think about. Thought I would share my abstract here. I'm already thinking of ways to amend and refine the ways I would describe a feral poetics, so consider this a work in progress.
Troubling the Field: Feral Poetics, Feminism, and the Politics of the Anti-Pastoral
Representations of nature and creaturely life, both in poetry and in the language of
environmentalism, remain haunted by the pastoral tradition. As a feminist, I am often concerned by the tacit acceptance of a pastoral frame in writing about nature. In my work as a writer and reader, I have experimented with a feral poetics as way to trouble pastoralism’s duplicitous and highly gendered fantasies of nature as "wild," “pure,” “unpopulated,” and outside of historical and political time. A feral poetics destabilizes these fantasies, and feral texts articulate and recover the subjects otherwise contained or made invisible by pastoralism’s narratives of nature, nation, state, and species.
In this presentation––part of a continuing project that meditates upon the politics of interspecies affiliations, affinities, and alliances––I outline the contours of a feral poetics, situating it as both an aesthetic and scholarly project of refusing/resisting pastoralism, recalling that pastorlism has often served as the warrant for settler colonialism, racism, and imperialism. In light of a feral poetics, writers, thinkers, and creatures as diverse as Bhanu Kapil, Claudia Rankine, Bernadette Mayer, Donna Haraway, Elizabeth Grosz, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Audre Lorde, Lorine Niedecker, Emily Dickinson, the feral ponies of Assateague Island and New Zealand’s celebrity ovine “Shrek” the sheep can be seen as co-conspirators in a common endeavor.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The Next Big Thing
I was tagged by Elizabeth Treadwell. She is awesome. She sent me a copy of Virginia or the mud flap girl and it is awesome. I am supposed to send her a copy of my book in return. Even though I don't have a published full-length collection. I will probably send her some chapbooks and a valentine if I can get to the post office soon.
THE NEXT BIG THING
1. What is the working title of the book?
I've been working on something called Fur Birds for about 3 years. It has multiple manifestations, including two chapbooks (one by Dusie and one in the Parrot series for Insert Press) and 3-d book arts assemblage stuff.
Right now, I have a 105 page manuscript with three sections: Fur Birds, Havens, and Notes from the Land of Hurt Feelings
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
It came from the mess of glass and glitter that is the sort of the flotsam and jetsam of the broken and brakish swampland of nostalgia and other fantastical longings. A longing for an unlearning that might take me back to creatures. A longing for dirt. A weaving through an affective geography that effectively maps states of emotional intensity without losing too much to narrative or conventional rules of grammar, syntax, and other linguistic forms.
3. What genre does your book fall under?
Poetry. Mysticism. Cozy Catastrophe.
4. What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
It would be a way of looking at people and things and not so much about the actors.
5. What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
Time is with the animal. It has a politics.
6. How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
This is difficult for me to answer because my writing process is closest to that of a compost heap.
7. Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Living in this world. Animals. Capitalism. Spending a lot of time in the South Carolina woods when I was a teenager.
8. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
The narrator(s) may or may not be human.
9. Who is publishing your book?
I don't know.
tagging Julia Drescher, CJ Martin, gillian devereux, katy henrickson, harold abromowwitz, amanda ackerman, matt timmons.
THE NEXT BIG THING
1. What is the working title of the book?
I've been working on something called Fur Birds for about 3 years. It has multiple manifestations, including two chapbooks (one by Dusie and one in the Parrot series for Insert Press) and 3-d book arts assemblage stuff.
Right now, I have a 105 page manuscript with three sections: Fur Birds, Havens, and Notes from the Land of Hurt Feelings
2. Where did the idea come from for the book?
It came from the mess of glass and glitter that is the sort of the flotsam and jetsam of the broken and brakish swampland of nostalgia and other fantastical longings. A longing for an unlearning that might take me back to creatures. A longing for dirt. A weaving through an affective geography that effectively maps states of emotional intensity without losing too much to narrative or conventional rules of grammar, syntax, and other linguistic forms.
3. What genre does your book fall under?
Poetry. Mysticism. Cozy Catastrophe.
4. What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?
It would be a way of looking at people and things and not so much about the actors.
5. What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
Time is with the animal. It has a politics.
6. How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?
This is difficult for me to answer because my writing process is closest to that of a compost heap.
7. Who or what inspired you to write this book?
Living in this world. Animals. Capitalism. Spending a lot of time in the South Carolina woods when I was a teenager.
8. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?
The narrator(s) may or may not be human.
9. Who is publishing your book?
I don't know.
tagging Julia Drescher, CJ Martin, gillian devereux, katy henrickson, harold abromowwitz, amanda ackerman, matt timmons.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
the shadow self is but a shadow
but the doubleself is help. I've let the one slip inside another, hoping for a respite. Today, I've taken to my bed. All this wondering about being ill, all this...hoping for an explanation. I'm letting myself sleep as much as I want, and it is ... a lot. hours upon hours. I have no desire to go outside. yes the sun is lovely and I notice the bees now at the lavender and the birds trilling in the hedges, but it's like looking at everything through a window -- this fatigue. I write but the letters look alternately like bones harvested from an owl pellet or temperamental metal filings arranging and rearranging themselves around frenetic and rhizomatic poles. I can't help thinking "who cares?"
I'm not telling anyone, except myself, in a code I'll call latin, though most of the vernacular is language I've stolen from the dog. I cannot take credit for it.
I'm not telling anyone, except myself, in a code I'll call latin, though most of the vernacular is language I've stolen from the dog. I cannot take credit for it.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
What I've been up to
LA Times book fest w/ Smokin' Hot Indie Lit Lounge
LA Times book blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/04/festival-of-books-dice-poetry.html (nice shout out to my dice and plastic animals poetry activity)
Eohippus labs at bookfest: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdetorie/sets/72157629518623444/
Poetry Booth Coverage from April
KCSB: http://www.kcsb.org/news/kcsb-news-friday-april-20-2012
Daily Nexus: http://www.dailynexus.com/2012-04-26/clas-celebrates-poetry/
City 2.0 http://sb.city2.org/blogs/amybou/blog_entries/3142-literary-sb-visit-the-poetry-booth-during-1st-thursday
City 2.0 http://sb.city2.org/blogs/lemonjelly/blog_entries/3150-mobile-post-make-a-poem-at-the-poetry-booth-in-front-of-marshalls
Poetry Booth at UCSB: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdetorie/sets/72157629861652617/with/7096977047/
Poetry Booth at First Thursday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdetorie/sets/72157629497156186/
Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing
Presented my paper "Notes Toward a Feral Poetics"
http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/2012-conference-emergent-communities-in-contemporary-experimental-writing.html
http://ucsccommunitypoetryconf.tumblr.com/
Also participated in and attended some great readings.
Also took some lovely walks.
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