This poem was taken from myThornrants  blog, April 2017.

Don't You Know

πόσος καιρός για να ανθίσει ένα λουλούδι;
2023

Χορεύει ο άνεμος στων λουλουδιών τα φύλλα,
κρασί στο χώμα έσταξε κι ανθίσαν δυό κρίνα.

Σε πότισα, σε πότιζα
με της βροχής το δάκρυ,
σε πότιζα, σε πότισα
με τα πολλά τα χρόνια.

Άνθισες
και μαράθηκες
με λιγοστά κλωνάρια•
και τα κλωνάρια γίνανε
της άνοιξης μπουμπούκια•
τα μπουμπούκια,
τα μπουμπούκια κήπος,
κήπος στην αυλή μου.

πόσος καιρός για να ανθίσει ένα λουλούδι;

πώς; πώς μετράς την υπομονή;

πόσος καιρός για να ανθίσει ένα λουλούδι;

This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussion of lexis, usually translated as "diction" or "style", which is the fourth of six dimensions of tragedy that he identifies, and also quite important for epic poetry as well.  After an initial discussion of modes of language, Aristotle distinguishes a number of parts of lexis, including element, syllable, connective, noun, verb, inflection, and statement.  He also discusses the nature and uses of metaphors and neologisms

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Aristotle, Poetics - Parts Of Diction (Lexis) - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussion about the fourth dimension of tragedy, lexis, generally translated as "diction" or "style". Aristotle provides some guidelines for how to produce excellence in lexis in tragedy and epic poetry. This involves balancing the needs of clarity and non-banality in the language one selects, which in turn requires judicious incorporation of metaphor and loan words, as well as lengthening and shortening the words one uses.

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Aristotle, Poetics - Excellence In Diction (Lexis) - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussion of Epic poetry, including what elements it shares with tragedy, what makes it good, and why Homer is the paradigm for excellent epic poetry

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Aristotle, Poetics - Epic Poetry - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle' work, the Poetics, focusing on his discussion near the end of the work focused upon the question whether tragedy or epic is superior as a poetic genre. Aristotle argues that tragedy is the superior genre.

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Aristotle, Poetics - Is Tragedy Or Epic Superior? - Sadler's Lectures

Eclipse

Audio excerpt from the Febuary 18, 2025 world premiere by ~Nois and Varo String Quartet on the Frequency Festival, Constellation, Chicago, IL

This 40-minute octet features a spatial arrangement with the strings centered in the performance space and the saxophones posted around the perimeter. Tones, players, and quartets sound individually and fuse together into composites, melodic shapes blur into vertical harmony, and just-intonation harmonies are animated as their constituent tones take shape in spatiotemporal patterns.

Poetics of Space Translation Symmetry EXCERPT (m189-344)

We are joined by poet and scholar Keston Sutherland to discuss the poetic language used in the works of Marx. In an essay entitled ‘The poetics of Capital’,  Sutherland contrasts Marx’s use of language with that of Henry Mayers Hyndman’s bungled translation of Marx’s Capital, published in 1881, as England for all. As Sutherland notes:
“Marx assaults his reader with the image of beloved limbs ripped up and darling heads crushed flat. Hyndman softens the mental lighting so that these same beloved bodies instead more agreeably just ‘fade away’, ephemeral as an enchanted fairy in a forest dim by Keats. The workers who in Marx are crushed, sucked out, laid waste, decertified, elasticated, tortured and distorted into human specks, stumps and fractions, are by Hyndman regenerated in the language of literary respectability as lyric poets, ‘who now rejoice in the gleam of a transient prosperity, only to be cast into a deeper despair on the next stagnation.”

Keston Sutherland, ‘The Poetics of Capital’ in Capitalism: Concept, Idea, Image. Aspects of Marx’s Capital Today.

It isn’t simply enough to understand the intellectual and critical content of Marx’s writings. To fully grasp Marx’s ideas we have to understand Marx’s poetics. As Sutherland notes, Marx’s “Capital is both critique and poetics at once”.

Marx and Poetics: A Live Conversation with Keston Sutherland

We present the third mixtape of Poetics studio at WSM (Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw). Authors of tracks:
Ita Litwiniec (as IT A), Jotka Kałwa (as Jotka), Jan Łuczak, Jan Marek Kamiński, Mateusz Stańczak, Filip Wasilewski, Szymek Umiński
Cover: Marta Sundmann - widok z bloku na blok, 98x68, 2024 (detail)
Tracklist:
Mateusz Stańczak - 4.
Jotka - KnTr3 (demo)
Filip Wasilewski + Szymek Umiński - taktak
IT A - you aint need me (demo)
Jan Łuczak - untitled3
Jan Marek Kamiński - jest pięć po wpół do, a wciąż nie zdałem sobie sprawy, że czekam na koniec świata, który nigdy nie istniał
Jotka - = nie wiem
autor nieznany - family guy. dubmaszyna

POETICS MIXTPE VOL.3

Art & Research Group led by Bradley Tuck dedicated to exploring the history and future of avant-garde and radical counterculture.
📍Brighton, UK & Online

Lyrical glitch poetics pioneer plenty of phonetics don’t need a beer just cuz I wanna live longer don’t mean I’m stronger cuz no strength is greater than mercy and love so I go to great length to slip into the shadows above

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Noah Jenkins is a composer and violinist/violist from Oregon, now living in Chicago. His music is inspired by tuning, field recordings, synthesizers, acoustic phenomena, and experiences of deep sound in deep time.

In 2022 Wild Up premiered Spirits Hover as part of the LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight festival. In 2023 Jenkins developed and premiered After Life (a 40-minute piece with original text for vocalist and ensemble) in Chicago with Après L’Histoire. In 2024 he released Without Persistent Environments (Sawyer Editions), an album of two electroacoustic trombone pieces recorded by Chicago trombonist and composer Riley Leitch. Peter Margasak (Bandcamp) praised the music’s “sustained lines awash in luxurious overtones” and its “focus on the dynamic interaction of sound drifting into eternity.”

In 2025 John Adams will conduct the LA Phil New Music Group in the premiere of Not a dream sound, but a sound which sleeping we had really heard, a work for string orchestra, keyboards, and antiphonal percussion, and ~Nois saxophone quartet and Varo String Quartet will premiere Poetics of Space Translation Symmetry in Chicago.

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