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Reg Johanson
Reads at Spartacus Books
Saturday, October 301, 2006
Authors who read on this date:
Reg Johanson
Hung Q Tu
Programme
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Introduction by Jeff Derksen |
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Tu part A |
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Tu part B |
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Tu, whole reading |
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[ Note: the files of Johanson's contribution to this event have unfortunately been lost. ]
HUNG Q TU was born in Vietnam but grew up in San Diego, California, where he now lives. He is a founding editor of the San Francisco publishing collective Krupskaya, and author of three books of poetry: A Great Ravine (Parenthesis), Versimilitude (Atelos), and, most recently, Structures of Feeling (Krupskaya). The latter work is described by Tom Raworth: "Hung Q. Tu's poems push the mind into a nest of steel rods all hitting the surface of an unknown shape at the same moment: political and quotidian, in language demotic and arcane they acutely render the beauty of scorn." Or, in the poet's own words:
"Geopolitical or molten core go to hell
I was born on a hijacked plane Now that nobody can go back except to collect the effects
People can't afford to lose their heads"
"There is a sense that everything seems packed& the courts packed, issues packaged, information packeted and the room Im sitting in hopelessly cluttered. &. A build-up of negatives, to paraphrase P.Inman, with its own history and force of persuasion like favelas which make Disneyland that much less persuasive. Whos besieging whom? All this dialectically, mind you, as the welcome sign doubles as a doormat, gets starker and starker." - Hung Q Tu
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