READING VITALITY

The emotional disturbance echoes down the canyons of the / heart.
-- Jack Spicer, from Language: Phonemics (as quoted by Anny Ballardini)

My word! Rather, Anny Ballardini's WORDS! To wit,

"Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy"

is a beautiful intellect in meditation. I recommend you pause from ____ (fill in the blank) to read, engage and savor. Also purrrring from how Moi popped up in this excerpt:

After André Breton in his 1924 Manifesto

Bill Lavender is Surrealist in Rimbaud
Hank Lazer is Surrealist in Spirit
Crag Hill is Surrealist in Reviews
Pam Brown is Surrealist in Justness
Charles Bernstein is Surrealist in Pound
Steve McCaffery is Surrealist in prisming
Camille Martin is Surrealist in collaging ideas
John Bennett is Surrealist in collecting
Ezra Pound is Surrealist in Economics
Mairead Byrne is Surrealist in repetitions
Obododimma Oha is Surrealist in Anthologies
Christian Boek is Surrealist in monosyllables
Maria Damon is Surrealist in translations/interpretations
Robert Pinsky is Surrealist – just a Surrealist
Alan Sondheim is Surrealist in resurrections
Karl Young is Surrealist in world views
Jim Letwich is Surrealist in air
Maxine Chernoff is Surrealist in theory
Mark Young is Surrealist in publishing
Paul Vangelisti is Surrealist in Italy and in California
Marilyn Hacker is Surrealist in Emotions
Pierre Joris is Surrealist in French
Sheila Murphy is Surrealist in the rain
Geoffrey Gatza is Surrealist in menus
Susan Schultz is Surrealist in Pacifism
John Tranter is Surrealist in Australia
Peter Ciccariello is Surrealist in convoluted shots
Fan Ogilvie is Surrealist in Dreams
Ron Silliman is Surrealist in Encyclopaedianism
Eileen Tabios is Surrealist in Vitality
David Graham is Surrealist in Poetic History
kari edwards is Surrealist in Paradise
peter ganick is Surrealist in editing
Bob Grumman is Surrealist in Visual Mathematics
Evelyn Posamentier is Surrealist in Faith
R. S. Gwynn is Surrealist in Narcissism
Rachel Loden is Surrealist in her eyes
Geof Huth is Surrealist in Goodness
Mary de Rachewiltz is Surrealist in Remembrance
Jean Vengua is Surrealist in painting
Br. Tom Murphy is Surrealist in Religion
Ruth Faintlight is Surrealist in Light
James Finnegan is Surrealist in Wallace Stevens
Joel Weishaus is Surrealist in anthropological philosophy
Kent Johnson is Surrealist in State Affairs and in Foreign Policy
Tad Richards is Surrealist in Lyrical Dylan
Carol Novack is Surrealist on the net
Dennis Barone is Surrealist in Prose Surrealism
Eve Rifkah is Surrealist in Medium States
Halvard Johnson is Surrealist in Sonnets
Ingrid Wendt is Surrealist on earth
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is Surrealist in letters
Gabriel Gudding is Surrealist in Traveling
James Cervantes is Surrealist in Mexico
Amy King is Surrealist in her Kingdom
Barry Schwabsky is Surrealist in reading
Dante (already quoted by A. Breton for his Surrealism) is Surrealist
Tony Trigilio is Surrealist in Projects
Machiavelli is Surrealist in the evening
Grace Cavalieri is Surrealist in the kitchen
Richard Dillon is Surrealist in Hope
Jesse Glass is Surrealist in Ekleksographia
Joseph Duemer is Surrealist in Vietnam
Farideh Mostafavi Hassanzadeh is plain Surrealist
Charles Martin is Surrealist in New York
Michael Rothenberg is Surrealist in touring
Jeff Harrison is Surrealist in Appearance
Jerome Rothenberg is Surrealist in thousands of books
Tom Beckett is Surrealist in ventriloquism
Daniel Zimmerman is Surrealist in post-avant-gardism
Etc.

Yeah. Moi am Vital.

And before that, Neruda's

While I’m writing, I’m far away;

And when I come back, I’ve gone.

And before that, as regards "Arakawa & Gin's crawling posture,"

"...the detachment from our Self, the momentary gap between the I and my Identity, will not be perceived any more with anguish or terror, but with a joyful and playful attitude."

Anny's is a "welcome turn to philosophy." And yea doth the tree wound become an open mouth with much to say...