John, it is a distinct pleasure to have you on this list. Your work and your knowledge will be most welcome here. Thanks, Sheila
--- John Lowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am > John Lowther > i just signed on to this list > it was recommended to me > > i am a poet in atlanta ga > part of the atlanta poets group (apg) > for going on 9 years now > > i edit a small press called 3rdness > (a charles peirce reference) used to edit > a magazine called 108 > which i hope to get restarted in time > > & currently the APG is editing a new mag > called LEMNISCATA (don't send me poems now please) > > i'm very interested in Freud and Lacan and some of > the > analytic and other types who seem to owe a bit to > them > like Zizek, Ranceire, Badiou etc > > i am also in analysis with a lacanian > and hope to be an analyst someday > (which is to say i hope i get thru analysis) > > lately i have been making baby steps toward Hegel > > i am also interested in aesthetics > and read a good bit in that area lately > this may be on account of my writing some things > recently > for an art mag called INTERREVIEW > about artists Dario Robleto and Andrea Bowers > the issue is about to come out > but if anyone is curious about either > i'll backchannel you my essays > (i like both but Robleto really truly blows my mind) > > in the poetry realm some central reference points > are Antin, Andrews, Hejinian, Cage, Zukoksky, Spicer > & back a bit > Stein, Joyce (of the wake) > > i also like Richard Foreman a great deal > and after 1st reading his work > i wrote 3 plays and 4 parts of play > in a huge manic rush > > i'm not very savvy about new media poetry stuff > not anti- by any means, altho it seems > i have had a hard time finding the good stuff > or perhaps i just don't get what i do find > > after more than a decade since i dropped out of grad > school > (u texas austin - asian studies program) > i am about to go back in > phd prog in english > where i will focus on theory shite > and where (lucky for me) contemporary poetry is not > an option > thus protecting my true love from the job > > anyhow > that's me > > jlo >
