Deep Image

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>'For us Jerome Rothenberg played (and plays) the role Picasso and Braque did for the painters and Leiris and Bataille later for the French poets: opening the sparkling world that comes when you crack open literature and see the primal gestures of oral energy and sudden imagery from which it all surges' (Robert Kelly)   </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Deep Image is originally Jerome Rothenberg's conception. Through this vision of experimental writing he shakes up received ideas of what poems ought to be like. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this full-length work of prose and poetry</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> I have sought to operationalise this philosophy of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>l'écriture</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> (also with a tip of the beret to Jacques Derrida) juxtaposing metafiction texts with prose poems haikus and shorter verse. As for Rothenberg my own practice as a philosopher brings me to seek out and to create texts which bear a relation to the complex human condition as a deeper presence restructuring the poem and poetics.  </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In our times of contemporary crisis it is hoped that the writing of poetry and of poetics as a kind of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>minor literature</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> might serve and supplicate as a surprisingly robust resource contra the banality of mainstream culture (whether Spotify FB or worse). I have also included a recent critical text as Preface which draws out the genealogy of an ethical and aesthetic counter-culture all the way from the ancient culture of Bashō to our current malaise. </span></p><p></p>