Alan Sondheim (SUND hime), Poet/Critic
(street address) 432 Dean Street
(city&state) Brooklyn, NY, 11217
(e.mail address) [email protected]
(phone number) 718-857-3671
(birthdate) 2/3/43
(place of birth) Wilkes-Barre Pa
(height) 5'8"
(weight) 160
(hair color and eye color) brown brown
(sex) male
(handedness) left
(sexual orientation) het
(ethnic background) jew
(pets) cat
(spouse) partner Azure Carter
(number of children) 1
(occupation) tap dancing on mean streets
(yearly earnings) 8000
(schools and degrees) Brown U, BA/MA
(vocations) teaching, telecommuting, writing, lecturing, counseling, mostly net related
(hobbies) none, all multi-media
(religion) taoist agnostic depressive neurotic
(politics) far left
(affiliations/organizations) School of Visual Arts, Computer Art Department
(publication credits) http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt
(list of works)
Disorders of the Real, Station Hill, 1988
Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America, Dutton, 1978
Archive cdrom, 2001
Baal cdrom, 2001
Parables cdrom, 2001
.echo, Launch, 2001
The Case of the Real, Potes and Poets, 1998 (?)
Parables of Izanami/Nikuko, Potes and Poets, 2000-2001
(where written up) read.me, forget the others
(contemporary poets important to respondent) Mez, NN, Talan Memmott, Clark Coolidge, Acker, Ursula Molinare, Brossard, Jabes, Blanchot, Celan
(poets of yesteryear important to respondent) Takuboku, Han Shan, others too many to mention
(criticism important to respondent) I.A. Richards's Practical Criticism, not much else
(tastes in poetry) digging beneath the bones of protocols, languages, beliefs, structures, obstructions, devices, pushing over the edge, hanging on by the nails, cutting the fingers
(description of criticism) neither a poet nor a critic if i write or speak to someone it's on the order of a phenomenology
(sample of respondent's criticism) in the form of texts in the internet text - I'm not sure what else would constitute criticism.
(criticism feedback) sure
(impression of contemporary poetry) caught up in too much yammering about language poetry as if the world hasn't done anything in the past 40 years or as if being on line means nothing at all except another mode for distribution. some work like a great deal however.
(zines, etc., that ought to be listed in the dictionary) Beehive, Cauldron, Titus
(what respondent enjoys in the arts besides poetry) too many I work in a number of media. think of SPK, Immendorf, Notes from Underground, Donatello, Sotatsu, Kleene's metamathematics
(why poetry, etc.) it's one of a number of obsessive practices, scratching away at things, bodies, sexualities, entities, indiscriminately
(science and philosophy) read a lot in mathematical logic, philosophy of science, etc. do programming on occasion
(interests in sports) discus used to throw, walk/hike, watching luge
(life- in-general) we're heading to extinction
(The first poem that comes to mind right now is) Rime of Aunciente Maryner
(What do you think of the current status of the world, and can you do anything about it?)
I teach this the future is dismal and it would take far too long to talk about modeling, scenarios, etc. here.
What can be done about it? Organize, protest, scream - not that anything will change.
(questions left off survey) detailed questions about sexual behavior, handicaps, illnesses, attitudes towards death
For a sample of Sondheim's poetry, click here.
(feedback about poetry?) sure
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