Alan Sondheim

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Biographical note:  Alan Sondheim was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; he lives with his partner, Azure Carter, in Brooklyn NY. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brown University in English. A new-media artist, writer, and theorist, he has exhibited, performed and lectured widely. Sondheim's writings include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjectivity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), .echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001), Vel (Blazevox 2004-5), Sophia (Writers Forum, 2004), Orders of the Real (Writers Forum, 2005), The Accidental Artist (Fort/Da), Azure/Nature/Digital (Blue Lion, 2009), and The Wayward (Salt, 2004) as well as numerous chapbooks, ebooks, and articles.

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EAN13:  9781844718030
ISBN:  9781844718030
Author:  Alan Sondheim
Title:  Deep Language
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  30-Jul-10
Extent:  260pp
Height:  246 mm
Width:  189 mm
Thickness:  15 mm
Weight:  390 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  NP
Price:  GBP 12.99
Price:  USD 16.95
Rights:  World

Short description/annotation:  A series of short texts or poems that revel in structured and unstructured language, with all the gaps and excitement that happens when language is stressed to the limit.

Main description:  In Sondheim’s Deep Language, writing detours through digital and other media, returning with new forms and genres, new ways of thinking philosophy, the body, religion, and everything else. This is a series of poems that revel in structured and unstructured language, with all the gaps and excitement that happens when language is stressed to the limit.

These pieces cohere, interrelate, interpenetrate; they develop the concept of deep language in any number of fascinating ways, ranging from intuitive writing to the use of scripts, code, and programming to elucidate hidden meanings – where none may have existed before.

Table of contents:
The Churn: supine body in supine body inversion
Philosophy about Music
experiments with sullen truths
cinema of weather and virtual objects
what i meant to say was
suicide for Nikuko
zero / infinity and infinity / zero
violation fabric
into futurism i will make my stand
particle states
Philosophy Text: The New Language
Philosophical Text: Ying-Yang
Philosophy Text: Being
of the 1000 character essay
Philosophy Text: Philosophy of Poetry
Philosophy Text: The Final Text of Philosophy
Epitaphter
Susan gasping lunged Johnny stripping
Ch’ien Tzu Wen 2/3 translation < filter > Ch’ien Tzu Wen
the true nikuko Nikuko flesh meat
the false nikuko Nikuko
hard story thing theory
corework
ok
Julu on Colonialism
what am i supposed to do with this did i make this
“fertile musings”
fundamental questions
After Auschwitz
128 character essay
eight character essay
forty-four character essay
the chant of the dark wood
out there
Tricks To Cheating House Wives
0 wear
name
of
trip
Emerald Bluing
echo echo
Skin-Changing
I Will Mess With Your Dead
configuration
history, the covenant of the remant
heir conquers me above your great-wind!
- from jennifer –
others
history
essay on codework
monstrous repetition
code
splishy code
(codework and conflation)
the last 2004
and We keep
The Moon is Wanin
butterfly fugue
wvxlmhgifxgrmt zylny znvirxz
the warm
infinite cancer
small breathing / closing down
Opal’s God
bunnies
despair
epic and machinic
oo distillation
on distillation
world
violation fabric
codex.
Capture
already dead
what if you could escape the world
“how am i doing”
Photo Poem for Murat Nemetphoto-Nejat
The Completion of an Unfinished Quatrain by John Clare
motion emotion
Little Palm Poem
opening
jennifer alan clara and their meaning
antipassion
Not to Mention
no thanks romeo
some sort of phenomenology
Because I say so I am Dangerous Monthly
the uselessness of poems
Proof
of J-D and of
as if derail in mourning
Flying Blind
Hollowed
ruling
General Principle of Narrative (Violence) Under Capital
shtut
future anterior
homeland vortex
Sonnetta
In seinen Arme das Kind war tot.
The long tunnel
The Wonder
Credo or The Writing in Quantity
struct
Writing of the Third
luge
Control Sites
Codework Self-Negated
“the lyric poem
the lesser vehicle
The Greater Vehicle
the Index
The decomposition
John Donne, The Computation
Oh look! It’s a new animal!
after my death, i have been thinking about this writing
genesis genesis redux
genesis genesis redux explained
darling, she said softly, look at the twinklers
…because the generating image was cold and charming…
In response to the singing of death, repertoire, life-in-death, digital
old text illustrated by its future anterior
without order

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bunnies

the bunnies made strange calls, odd calls,
gruntings, not the thumpings but the gruntings -
‘“I say” ‘there is a chair’“ – Wittgenstein in
translation – right over the other lupus’ ears,
just like that! —->:anyway the rabbits did this
five or six times in a row and it seemed
fairlyclear they were playing and right in front
of us in the middle of the night. Honestly, you
should have seen them! I never saw such a thing!
I never knew rabbits could do such a thing! “Do
not try to analyse your own inner experience.” -
Wittgenstein in translation -:i pucker my lips
constantly in the absence of the shakuhachi. i
know its murmuring burbling abbling brook. now
i’m at a loss, having transformed bAbbling into
something else entirely – in any case, when i
die, these three instruments will huddle in a
maddening corner, bubbling with mournful
murmuring cries – “Not it’s looking like him.” -
Wittgenstein in translation – ]]] here is a
space. the one rabbit runs straight at the other
and the other rabbit jumps vertically at the very
last moment over the first rabbit and landf in
the same spot.that’s ‘lands’. <——::

Write through my the bunnies made strange calls,
odd calls, gruntings, not the thumpings but the
gruntings – ‘“I say” ‘there is a chair’“ -
Wittgenstein in translation – right over the
other lupus’ ears, just like that! —->!

Unpublished endorsement:  Alan Sondheim writes. In fear of death — literal fear, real fear, symbolic fear — he uses anything and everything at his disposal to make and unmake himself and all of us as statements, words, part-words, characters. Alan Sondheim is one of the precious few who joyfully — and in abject misery — risks these terrors of writing for us, for our pleasure and our undoing. What happens? Language disposes of us.

As if that were not all that is required of any writer, Alan Sondheim is also the poet, the artist, the maker who has most profoundly immersed himself and his work in the life-changing code-forms — of networked computation — that have the world and its ‘genesis redux’ in their grip.

John Cayley

Unpublished endorsement:  Pioneer of experimental sensibility in multiple performance media Alan Sondheim tangles us up in these hypnotically repetitive, abject, slyly humorous and childishly gleeful, philosophically, aesthetically, theoretically and psychologically dense and insightful poems that are also essays, diasporic riffs and incantations, true confessions, Platonic dialogues, shtick, tantrums, aphorisms and manifesti. And that’s just the first 5 pieces!

Maria Damon