Poet of the Week: "Crazy Old Lady"

Listen and reduce to tropes and chunks, begin to hear those as carried on surges of shifting affect(s) ...

Poet of the Week: "Maxwell"

Ok, this is a bit outside the usual for the blog but I think it deserves the props. 

That said, I know nothing about this person and mean no disrespect to them by reposting. 

I've tried to convince folks now and then that all language is poetry. Mostly they don't want to hear it. 

But these photos of Maxwell work as poetry for me, as I need it. 

That Maxwell was feeling very very bad at the time of this can be gauged by the text here where I found these images. 

Poet of the Week: German Lukomnikov

This one has an eye-catching title (once it gets translated at least):

Поэт Герман Лукомников отправляется в село Синенькие Саратовской области с группой психонавтов

...or...

The poet Herman Lukomnikov sent to the village Sinenky Saratov region with a group of psychonauts

What exactly this is all about I will leave to others to discern. I do like the blank look of the shop girl and the old lady's laugh.


But as there may not have been enough overt HEY LOOK AT ME I'M POETRY HAPPENING HERE, try this:

...do enjoy the E's at around 1:50

Poet of the Week: German Lukomnikov

If only I understood the part that sounds something like "ov vishim vishim soat" ... the little opening music makes me wonder if this was shown on television or whether it was a webcast thing or what.

Poet of the Week: German Lukomnikov

Ok, I already wrote a bit about German Lukominkov late last year, here. & then, the Poet of the Week idea emerged and so I figured why not point back over the shoulder a bit to that post and then run a few more of the videos mentioned there and others I missed in hopes that more will see them. 

So yes, German Lukominov is the Poet of the Week here at the APG Blog, so there might be a few posts of his stuff. I missed the video above when I was hunting before, perhaps because the title is "Boniface at the Winery". There are also a few more of these here, and here and here. Altogether these feel more semantically driven than certain other of the videos I listed before, and for the non-Russian-equipped auditor they do not push as many sound poetry buttons immediately. Though, even without knowing the language being played with, you can hear some curious close repetitions and so forth. 

& as this is the 1st official Poet of the Week post, here is a gratuitous piece of digital image art, "Lokomnikov multipled," (oh and don't assume that just because it is called Poet of the Week that every week in the year 2012 will have another one, that would be a best case scenario).