OSWALDO
DE ANDRADE's "Cannibal Manifesto," translated
from the Portuguese by Mary Ann Caws and Claudia Caliman: Only
Cannibalism unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.
WILLIAM
LEVY's "Zock, the Outlaw Manifesto of the Century":
The right to suicide, the conscious uncompromising realization of
stepping out of society in public (on television) is an inalienable
fundamental right of ZOCK man
ED
SANDERS' "The Z-D Generation: The Age of Investigation":
surround the glyph with gnosis-vectors
GEORGE
QUASHA's "Axial Poetics An AXIAL LINE suffers
every unitary, referential or surcharged connection as if it might
be an instance of "original sin" -- principle of a first
wrong turn -- ready for a process of self-immolation. Its cleansing
of pattern ends in a free embrace, enacted within appropriate reading
KENJI
SIRATORI's "The Etude of Murder": the aerofoil
of the fractal cyber of the cadaver
ROBERT
DOWNING's "Dear Canada: A Manifesto": I've
come to realize the error of my ways and promise that I will no
longer be a practicing Canadian fine artist
KEN
WRIGHT's "Wild People, Unite": We can argue
about the details, but first we must unite against those who have
no meaning of Place beyond the money that can be extracted from
the land
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PATRICK
PRITCHETT's "Continuation Manifesto (The Impossible)":
Continuation rooted in groundlessness starts with the recognition
of a central impoverishment. On this absent foundation the poem
builds the word that utters emptiness
LAWRENCE
FERLINGHETTI's "History of the Airplane": And
the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented something
that could make peace on earth
IAN
AYRES' "Cuntlicker/Cocksucker Manifestoes":
Whether you're a cuntlicker or a cocksucker
ELLEN
CHAMPAIGNE's "Golden Shower Manifesto/Peeing Down
the Bones": I piss, therefore I am
DAVID
HESS and KENT JOHNSON'S
"Yasusada Dialogues": the most controvertial work
of poetry... a criminal act
ALLAN
GRUABARD on Penelope Rosemont, anthologist: "Should
you love maps of elsewhere, and wish to use this book as a guide,
keep your senses about you. You'll be walking into an erotic-magnetic
night with your sunglasses on
MARY
ANN CAWS interviewed by MARK SPITZER:
"Yes. The Whistler, the Wilde, and the Mallarmé
remain of ultimate importance. AND I am very fond of each of them
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