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Afterword. [Getting Out Of Your Own Way. Scott Thurston and Julia Griffin]

on September 11, 2019

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ISSUE#7 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 THE LAST WOLF IN ENGLAND: A MANIFESTO An Explanation by Jeffrey Robinson Responses to Jeffrey Robinson's Romantic Manifestos Manifest : RESPONDEES Noviada Angkasapura , Erica Baum , Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein , derek beaulieu , Nick Blinko , Liz Collini , Felipe Cussen , Allen Fisher , Susan Howe , Patricia Farrell , Simon Patterson , Rachel Blau Du Plessis , Jessica Pujol Duran , Mehrdad Rashidi , Kay Rosen, Jon Sarkin , George Widener , Cecilia Vicuña, Cerith Wyn Evans, George Quasha [NB Some respondee pages in progress] Last Wolf, a thought-diary by Philip Davenport /images Liz Collini Manifest: NEXT [a kind of OUTRO] by Jeffrey Robinson CHAPTER 2 WRITTEN ON BONE Visual telepathy & glitch: Michael Jacobson and Kristine Snodgrass by Menard Tanner Symphonie Bleu: Women in Lettrism, by David Seaman Bern Porter, borderblur & otherstreams by karl kempton Bob Grumman: A SUM by karl kempton Bob Grumman, WOW by Michael Basinski, John M. Bennett, Jake Berry,

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ABOVE: Bob Grumman, mathemaku This essay is a reflection, refracted. It notes the poetic/philosophical influences flowing around Bob Grumman’s life and emanating from karl's response to his death. Like many of the “experimental” poets celebrated in Synapse, Bob struggled for recognition in his lifetime — and in fact the very basis of his poetic work was often challenged. You might say that his poetic licence was revoked by the official language police. And yet he continued unabated, even revelling in his "Outsider-dom". A blessing, because his was an exemplary and generous practice, sharing his vision, encouraging many others. The essay (among the longest we've published in Synapse) then travels on, far beyond Bob the individual who karl knew well, into a wider and deeper oceanic terrain of confluence and influence in visual poetry. It is also a history of many repressions, many outsider-ings, many licenses revoked; the human will to erase is perhaps as strong as the

ISSUE#7. THE LAST WOLF IN ENGLAND: a manifesto [RESPONSES to Jeffrey Robinson's Romantic Manifestos Manifest]

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