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A Marathon Reading of Memory — In the heart of the Berkshires where much of Memory takes place, poets, writers, and artists from near and far read the entire book from morning until night at Familiar Trees in Great Barrington, 7/14/24
[...]✼ plaudit:
“How does a book’s static format capture the temporal, ever-changing nature of gesture, thought, music, all the motion that defines social history? By doing something very close to what I Will Keep My Soul accomplishes: breaking through the fourth wall of the page.”
[...]reviews
Diagram | I Will Keep My Soul by Helen Cammock: “She’s talking about skin and breath and ambient history, specifically Black American history and the legacy of racism and violent oppression, but also joy and art and genius.” —Elizabeth Zuba
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I WILL KEEP MY SOUL by Helen Cammock | A rhizomatic and particularly American story of art and activism, of culture and capital, of being and belonging, this prismatic artist’s book layers photography, historical documents, poetry and other texts, all rooted in the city of New Orleans.
[...]✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
April 11, 2024 — The spring peepers have thawed (these little frogs freeze in winter) and now, unabashedly randy, they chirp. At first there was one, then two, and now it sounds like thousands. Two days ago, when it was truly spring, their adamantine chorus was almost deafening (we closed the windows to simply think!). Siglio has relocated to a lush, thriving hollow at the furthest most edge of the Berkshires after two years of peripatetics, sans library—which is now unpacked in a less than Benjaminian manner (little time to contemplate—our urgency in getting books on shelves mirrored the peepers need to mate). The first few months of 2024 were almost unendurable, but we’re home, spring is here, and there are books to made. We are singing!
[...]the improbable
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE IMPROBABLE: “The Improbable takes its inspiration from Dick Higgins’ Something Else Newsletter just as his Something Else Press (1963–1974) is a totemic spirit for Siglio.”
[...]the improbable
No. 3 Lingual Music — IN THIS ISSUE & INTRO: Guest edited by Alex Balgiu and Chloé Gourvennec, this issue is a catalyst, a manifesto, a conversation across time, language and musical propositions.
[...]✼ not stones, not stale bread:
The book object. Object as aim. Object as thing. “In committing himself to book-objects, Dick Higgins confronted object status . . . the objectification of the creative act and the rise of art as a commodity object.” Call It Something Else at the Reina Sofia through January 22, 2024, curated by Alice Centamore and Christian Xatrec.
[...]the improbable
No. 1 Time Indefinite — MATVEI YANKELEVICH: In his reassement of the Something Else Press, he writes, “The value of the small press has long been centered in its marginality in relation to commercial culture.”
[...]books
Intermedia, Fluxus and The Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
[...]affinities
Appreciation | JOSHUA BECKMAN AT POETs HOUSE: “My hope is to share some of the exuberance I have found … in the things Dick Higgins put in the world.”
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List | Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On: A bibliography of Something Else Press reprints, facsimiles, etc. that evinces the enduring love for SEP
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