Through the Ruins

Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1

Fawz Kabra

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781581771961
• Edition: 0
• Subtopic: Performance Art

THROUGH THE RUINS: TALKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AN THE ARTS 1 is the inaugural volume in a series of publications dedicated to exploring creative tools of resistance. THROUGH THE RUINS is based on public talks presented at the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) by Faustin Linyekula (Kisangani); The White Pube (London); Cassils (LA); Emily Johnson (New York); Border Forensics (London); Ashmina Ranjit (Nepal); Mark Sealy (London); and Hamed Sinno (Philadelphia). In their own words and in conversation with others, these activists, scholars, and artists from around the globe make evident the richness and range of contemporary practices at the intersection of human rights and the arts. Each chapter is introduced by a different scholar or curator and is then followed by a Q&A with a live, international audience. The text is further enhanced by the collection's emphatic typography and creative design by Will Brady that guide the reader through chapters rich in personal story, theory, and history.

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