nice! and congratulations on the print, etc.. "...will huddle in a maddening corner..."
am in need of a copy. once the pay check's in.. beautiful cover too. you on design? brian On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: > > > Deep Language, by Alan Sondheim, Salt Publishing, 2010 > > Salt Publishing has just brought out my Deep Language; the URL is > > http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844718030.htm > > Please consider ordering this; it's inexpensive, and helps support Salt. > If you don't want the book, please check out the publisher's other > listings - Salt is one of the few independent companies who are not > publish-on-demand; their books are found in bookstores, there are review > copies, and so forth. They really need your support; they have a number of > wonderful writers, and their paperbacks are high quality. Salt is at > http://www.saltpublishing.com/ and they are very cool. > > > Deep Language, > > Alan Sondheim > > EAN13: 9781844718030 ISBN: 9781844718030 Author: Alan Sondheim Title: > Deep Language Series: Salt Modern Poets Audience: General/trade > 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 > > PAPERBACK / SOFTBACK > > 20% off at the UK Bookstore! 12.99 10.39 > > 20% off at the US Bookstore! $16.95 $13.56 > > 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. > > Excerpt from book: > > 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 > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- glimpsecontrol.com baiowulf.com
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