Paradoxes and Oxymorons - John Ashbery

This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.

Look at it talking to you. You look out a window

Or pretend to fidget. You have it but you don’t have it.

You miss it, it misses you. You miss each other.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot.

What’s a plain level? It is that and other things,

Bringing a system of them into play. Play?

Well, actually, yes, but I consider play to be

A deeper outside thing, a dreamed role-pattern,

As in the division of grace these long August days

Without proof. Open-ended. And before you know

It gets lost in the steam and chatter of typewriters.

It has been played once more. I think you exist only

To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren’t there

Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem

Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.

Massive Attack - United Snakes

Having a Coke with You - Frank O'Hara

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne

or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona

partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian

partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt

partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches

partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary

it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still

as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it

in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth

between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint

you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them

                                                                                       I look

at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world

except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick

which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time

and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism

just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or

at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me

and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them

when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank

or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully

as the horse

                   it seems they were all cheated of some marvellous experience

which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m telling you about it

Versión Wordle de mi poema Racimos.

The Doors: Roots at UCLA and other stories - a lecture by Rui Silva

"De par en par", poesía visual de Myriam Moscona - otro lanzamiento de Bonobos en la FIL Guadalajara!

Jueves 3 de diciembre. 18 horas

 Feria Internacional del Libro. Guadalajara

Bonobos presenta

Litane de Alejandro Tarrab

y

Widescreen de Víctor Cabrera

Hostería La Bota

Regina 48. Centro. México

26 de noviembre, 19 horas

CECI
UC Mexicanistas
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

I Jornadas de Cultura, Lengua y Literatura Coloniales

University of California Los Angeles
19, 20 y 21 de noviembre de 2009

 

program

DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION

Tell the UC Regents: No More Fee Hikes! 

11/18 + 11/19—UCLA—Covel Commons

UC Regents will meet at UCLA in Covel Commons from Tuesday 11/17—Thursday 11/19

Wednesday: Regents' Committee scheduled to vote on fee hikes around 10:45AM
Thursday: Regents scheduled to vote on fee hikes

Picket Lines, Public Comment, Rally, UC-Wide Strike, Crisis Fest, and More Planned in Response!
See schedule in this email for details

for more information:
http://ucstrike.com
http://sites.google.com/site/protestucregents/
http://crisisfestucla.blogspot.com/
http://ucfightsback.blogspot.com
ucfightsback@gmail.com, crisisfest@gmail.com,'save ucla!' facebook page

UCLA FIGHTS BACK MOVEMENT PROGRAM

1. Lower Student Fees.

2. Stop the Privatization of Our Public Schools.

3. Defend the Right to Quality Higher Education. Prioritize funding to public education.

a) Provide budget transparency, provide transparency in the decision making process, allow for an independent audit of the
    UC budget, and implement progressive budget solutions.
b) Maintain our resources, including weekend library access.
c) Maintain comprehensive, critical, and culturally representative educational excellence.
d) Stop cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences.
e) Cut funding for war. No military recruitment on our campuses.
f) Tax the rich and prioritize funding in the public interest.

4. Stop the Resegregation of Public Education. Ensure access and diversity in higher education.

a) Increase underrepresented minority student enrollment.
b) Provide full scholarships for AB540 Students.
c) No ICE/UCPD collaboration on our campuses.
d) Expand the Blue and Gold Opportunity Program to ensure access for low-income students.
e) Allocate funds for recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students.

5. Respect Workers’ Rights and Contracts

a) Reverse the layoffs, protect vital services, and stop pay cuts for the lowest paid workers.
b) Stop the union busting and bargain in good faith.
c) No furloughs for workers who make $40,000 or less.
d) No ICE/UCPD collaboration on our campuses.

UCLA FIGHTS BACK SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Tuesday, November 17th

• *ALL DAY—Flyering, Announcements, and Sign-Making* (find us on Bruin Walk!)
  
• 1-3PM—Press Conference—Pat Morrison @ Covel Commons

Wednesday, November 18th—Regents' Meeting— Covel Commons (unless otherwise stated)

• 6AM— Set-up pickets— Volunteers needed — Meet at AFSCME Office 1085 Gayley (near El Pollo Loco)  
• 6:30-7:30AM—Picket Prep and Picket Lines 
• *8-10AM—Public Comment*
  
• 10-11:30AM—Picket and Flyer
• 10:30AM—Food— Food Volunteers Needed at 10AM
• *11:30-12NOON—Meet at Bruin Plaza and march to Covel Commons* (for students, staff, and faculty who can't make morning actions)
• *12NOON-1PM—Press Conference and Rally *
• 2-4PM—Teach-Out
• 1-4PM—Picket and Flyer
• 4-5PM—Tent City Prep—Tent Prep Volunteers Needed at 4PM
• *5PM—Midnight Tent City and Crisis Fest at Wilson Plaza* (free food, hot drinks, workshops, discussions, camp on campus)

BUSES FROM CALIFORNIA

• 2 buses Berkeley
• 1 bus Santa Cruz
• 1 bus Santa Barbara 
• 1 bus Riverside 
• 1 bus Irvine 
• 3 buses San Diego

Thursday, November 19th —Regent's Meeting— Covel Commons (unless otherwise stated)

• 6AM—Set-up pickets—Volunteers Needed Meet at AFSCME Office 1085 Gayley Ave (near El Pollo Loco)
• 6:30-7:30AM—Picket Prep and Picket Lines
• *8-10am—Public Comment*
  
• 10:30AM—Food—Food Volunteers Needed at 10AM
• 10-11AM—Regents Trial—Political Theater—Volunteers, Actors and Script Writers Needed
  
• *12NOON-1:30PM—Rally at Covel* (to march through Bruin Plaza)
• 3PM—All buses scheduled to leave

Collective Poetry Reading of Latin American Poetry in Translation, an event of Crisis Fest

Tomorrow, Wednesday 18th, at 5:30 pm, and as part of CRISIS FEST, I will coordinate/conduct/organize --whatever you wanna call it-- a collective reading of contemporary Latin American poetry in translation. I will provide you with some copies but you are more than welcome to bring your favorite poetry, Latin American or not. Come to read in Spanish and/or English.