Notes : : The Way of Alcheringa
[1] Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg, "The ways of Alcheringa," Alcheringa, new series, no. 1 (1975): 2. If the reader is interested, I have digitized this magazine—previously quite difficult to acquire—online at my site here: http://jhenrychunko.blogspotcom/2007/04/dwelling-place-9
[3] Jerome Rothenberg. "Pre-Face" to Revolution of the Word: A New gathering of American Avant-Garde Poetry 1914-1945 (New York: Seabury Press, 1974), xv.
[4] From a 1978 letter to Richard Kostelantetz. Reprinted in Richard Kostelanetz, The Old Poetries and the New (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1981),.
[5] See Henry M. Sayre, "David Antin and the Oral Poetics Movement," Contemporary Literature 23, no. 4. (1982): 428-450.
[6] Jerome Rothenberg. "Pre-Face" to Revolution of the Word: A New gathering of American Avant-Garde Poetry 1914-1945 (New York: Seabury Press, 1974), xi.
[7] Tedlock and Rothenberg, 3.
[8] Gras, 13.
[9] Tedlock, "The Way of the Word of the Breath," 4.
[10] Ibid, 4.
[11] Charles Olson. "Projective Verse," The Poetics of the New American Poetry, ed. Donald Allen and Warren Tallman (New York: Grove Press, 1973), 151.[12] Tedlock, 4-5.
[13] Ibid, 4.
[14] Ibid, 5.
[15] Dennis Tedlock. "Toward an Oral Poetics," New Literary History 8, no. 3: Oral Cultures and Oral Performances. (1977): 507-519. Accessed via JSTOR. Tedlock continues: The structuralist, if he is not a cynic, is like a mad vivisectionist, thinking he will at last discover the secret of life if the animal on the table will endure just one more little incision before it goes limp. ... The texts subjected to Levi-Straussian exposition resembled the pelts and skeletons in zoological archives more than they resembled live animals, right from the moment the analyst laid eyes on them. On top of that, he has preferred to show us only sketches of the carcasses, chalking in only such details as he has already been able to analyze....
[16] Steven Clay and Rodney Philips. "A Little History of the Mimeograph Revolution" A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980 (New York: New York Public Library, 1998), 33-34.[17] Cited from Trobar, a magazine of the New American Poetry 3 (1962) in Clay (1998), 131.
