Through the Ruins

Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1

Fawz Kabra

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781581771961
• Subtopic: Performance Art

Explore creative resistance with global activists and artists.

Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1 presents a range of contemporary practices at the intersection of human rights and the arts. Activists, scholars, and artists from around the globe share personal stories, theories, and histories, revealing the richness and range of creative tools of resistance. Each chapter includes a Q&A with a live, international audience, enhancing the text with emphatic typography and creative design.

Discover:

• How art can be a powerful tool for social change
• The role of creative expression in human rights advocacy
• Global perspectives on activism and resistance

This volume is for readers interested in social justice, artistic activism, and the power of creative expression to promote human rights. Gain inspiration and empowerment from the stories and insights of these global voices.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: The Poetry of Initiatory Transmission by Charles Stein
• Measure’s Measures
• The New American Poetry Revisited—yet again
• Major and Minor Bullshit in the New (Olde) Literary Discourse
• Robert Creeley’s Anger
• Robin Blaser’s Exody and Some Mechanics of Splendor
• The H.D. Book
• H.D., Robert Duncan and the Question of the Occult
• H.D.’s Recitals
• How Long Is Long Enough?
• The Interstices of Poetry Wars
• Beyond “Projective Verse”— the Poetics of Proprioception
• picking up the Injuns: Poetics as Transformation
• Poetics’ Bodies—Some Poetry Wars, 1913-1990
• Poeisis, Poetics, and Morality
• What Is a Soul and Why Might It Need a Curriculum? Charles Olson’s “A Curriculum of the Soul” for Skeptics
• Olson, Empire, and the Thinking of America
• Who Put the “x” in Occxident?: the Empire of Neo-Obscurantism
• Maximus IV V VI—Measuring the Incommensurable
• Olson’s Buffalo
• The Legacy of Charles Olson and the Struggle for a New American Poetry
• Appendix 1—A Checklist of the Publications of Frontier Press, 1965-1972
• Appendix 2—Checklist of the Publications of the Institute of Further Studies, 1969-1997
• Bibliography
• About the Author