George Quasha
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Books
Poetry
Five Blind Men, with Jim Harrison, Charles Simic, J.D. Reed, Dan Gerber (Fremont, Mich.: Sumac Press, 1968)
Amanita’s Hymnal (privately distributed, 1971).
Magic Spell for the Far Journey (privately distributed, 1972).
Somapoetics: Book One (Fremont, Mich.: Sumac Press, 1973).
Word Yum: Somapoetics 64-69 (New York: Metapoetics Press, 1974).
Giving the Lily Back Her Hands (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1979).
Ainu Dreams (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1999).
Verbal Paradise (preverbs) (Tenerife, Spain: Zasterle Press, 2011).
Scorned Beauty Comes Up From Behind (preverbs) (Barrytown: Between Editions, 2012).
Speaking Animate (preverbs) (Barrytown: Between Editions, 2014).
Free Floating Instant Nations (preverbs) (Annandale-on-Hudson: Metambesen, 2014).
Glossodelia Attract (preverbs) (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 2015).
The Daimon of the Moment (preverbs) (Northfield: Talisman House Press, 2015).
Things Done for Themselves (preverbs) (Marsh Hawk Press, 2015).
The Eros of Soft Exterior Shocks (preverbs) (Annandale-on-Hudson: Metambesen, 2015).
Writing on art
Hand Heard/liminal objects (with Charles Stein) (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1996).
Tall Ships (with Charles Stein) (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1997).
Viewer (with Charles Stein) (Barrytown: Station Hill Press/Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 1997).
Gary Hill: Language Willing (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 2003).
Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, foreword by Carter Ratcliff (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2006).
An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings (with Charles Stein), foreword by Lynne Cooke
(Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2009); www.academia.edu/28928186/An_Art_of_Limina_Gary_Hills_Works_and_Writings.
art is (Speaking Portraits) (New York: PAJ Publications: The Performance Ideas Series, 2016).
Anthologies
America a Prophecy: A New Reading of American Poetry from Pre-Columbian Times
to the Present (with Jerome Rothenberg) (New York: Random House/Vintage, 1973/ Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 2014).
Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems (with Ronald Gross) (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973).
An Active Anthology (with Susan Quasha) (Fremont, Mich.: Sumac Press, 1974).
A Station Hill Blanchot Reader (with Charles Stein) (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1999).
Selected Essays/Interview online (as of 2016):
“Awareness Inside Language: On George Quasha’s preverbs,” interview by Thomas Fink: May 13, 2016 https://jacket2.org/interviews/awareness-inside-language.
“Axial Drawing” (Drawing as Performance), PAJ (A Journal of Performance and Art, ed. Bonnie Marranca), May 2014, Vol. 36, No. 2 (PAJ107): 62–65: https://www.academia.edu/29721900/Axial_Drawing_Drawing_as_Performance_
“Electronic Linguistics” [a poetics of radical language in electronic space & Gary Hill], Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, ed. Thomas Bartscherer & Roderick Coover (University Of Chicago Press: 2011): https://www.academia.edu/29160760/Electronic_Linguistics_a_poetics_of_radical_language_in_electronic_space_and_Gary_Hill_.
“Uncertainties” [Robert Kelly and the Poetics of Singularity]: http://talismanarchive3a.weebly.com/quasha-kelly.html.
“Sleight of Flower” [Reality-generating art/language], in Heide Hatry: Not a Rose (Milan: Charta, 2012): https://www.academia.edu/27775468/Sleight_of_Flower_Reality-generating_art_language_.
“Orc as a Fiery Paradigm of Poetic Torsion” [Blake poetics], eds. David Erdman and John T. Grant, Blake’s Visionary Forms Dramatic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970): https://www.academia.edu/20670685/Orc_as_a_Fiery_Paradign_of_Poetic_Torsion_Blake_poetics_.
“Cage in Principle” [on Kay Larsen’s Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (The Penguin Press: 2012)], in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2012): https://www.academia.edu/5308427/Cage_in_Principle.
“Configuring Principle” [Principle vs. Conceptual Art and the Poetics of Thinking], PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2010): https://www.academia.edu/5308426/Configuring_Principle_Principle_vs._Conceptual_Art_and_the_Poetics_of_Thinking_.
“Time Samples” [on Alison Knowles], Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory (2009): https://www.academia.edu/5308433/Time_Samples_on_Alison_Knowles_.
“Healing Fiction,” preface to James Hillman, Healing Fiction (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1983): https://www.academia.edu/30824063/Healing_Fiction_on_James_Hillman_.
“Publishing Blanchot in America: A Metapoetic View” (with Charles Stein), afterword to The Station Hill Blanchot Reader (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1995): https://www.academia.edu/30823879/Publishing_Blanchot_in_America_A_Metapoetic_View.
“Gary Hill: Taking Time to Take Place,” catalogue in Portuguese for Gary Hill: o lugar sem o tempo / taking time from place,” Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, July 21-September 6, 2009: http://www.quasha.com/writing-2/on-art/taking-time-to-take-place.
“DiaLogos: Between the Written and the Oral in Contemporary Poetry” (1976), New Literary History (Vol. VIII, number 3, 1976-1977): http://www.quasha.com/writing-2/on-poetry-poetics/dialogos/dialogos-between-the-written-and-the-oral.
“The Age of the Open Secret: a writing piece on Ethnopoetics, the Other Tradition, and social transformation” (1975): Ethnopoetics: A First International Symposium, a special issue of Alcheringa: Ethnopoetics (New Series Volume 2, Number 2: Boston University, 1976) edited by Michel Benamou and Jerome Rothenberg: http://www.quasha.com/writing-2/on-poetry-poetics/dialogos/age-of-the-open-secret-1976.
“Squeezed Coherence,” Introduction to Lissa Wolsak’s Squeezed Light: Collected Poems (Barrytown: Station Hill, 2010): http://www.quasha.com/writing-2/on-poetry-poetics/on-lissa-wolsak.
“Ta’wil or How to Read” (1973), Vort: Robert Kelly (Vol. 2, No. 2: 1974, Silver Spring, Maryland), editor, Barry Alpert]: http://www.quasha.com/writing-2/on-poetry-poetics/dialogos/tawil-or-how-to-read.
“Island Reading” [On Islandia by Maria Negroni, translated by Anne Twitty (Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 2001), delivered on the occasion of the 2002 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation]: http://www.quasha.com/writing-2/on-poetry-poetics/on-maria-negroni.
“Boxed Light Bodies: On Heather Hutchison” [Written as catalog for the one-person exhibition “Night as Clear as Day” at Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York City, January 19 - February 18, 2006]: http://www.quasha.com/writing-2/on-art/on-heather-hutchison.
Selected Videos Online at vimeo.com (as of 2016)
art is / poetry is / music is (Speaking Portraits): https://vimeo.com/channels/artis:
poetry is (Speaking Portraits) (Vol. I) (2009) (1 hr. 20 min. 55 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4407987.
poetry is (Speaking Portraits) (Vol. II) (2015) (1 hr. 47 min. 30 sec.): https://vimeo.com/129744982.
art is (Speaking Portraits) (Vol. I) (2009) (1 hr. 3 min. 44 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4385868.
art is (Speaking Portraits) (Vol. II) (2008) (1 hr. 2 min. 48 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4410383.
art is/India (Speaking Portraits) (2008/12) (47 min. 55 sec.): https://vimeo.com/52033504.
art is/East Africa (Speaking Portraits) (2008/11) (29 min. 39 sec.) https://vimeo.com/19493544.
art is/Madrid-Complutense 2006 (Speaking Portraits) (52 min.) https://vimeo.com/18811761.
music is (Speaking Portraits) (Vol. I) (2009) (46 min.): https://vimeo.com/4390933.
Other Speaking Portraits: https://vimeo.com/channels/82364:
Alana: a speaking portrait of Alana Siegel (2008) (12 min. 06 sec.) https://vimeo.com/4145786.
Desire: a speaking portrait of Robert Kelly (2011) (16 min. 3 sec.): https://vimeo.com/23306045.
Art is Not Natural: a speaking portrait of Basil King (2012) (10 min. 50 sec.): https://vimeo.com/49993577.
Unsaid: a speaking portrait of Victoria Vesna (2010) (9 min. 42 sec.): https://vimeo.com/15892342.
Sounding Portraits
McClure: a sounding portrait of Michael McClure (2011) (2 min. 8 sec.): https://vimeo.com/18512674.
Kythe: a sounding portrait of Kythe Heller (2010) (3 min. 13 sec.): https://vimeo.com/14601333.
Axial Video: https://vimeo.com/channels/axialvideo
Confingering Figures (axial drawing music 1) (2005) (13 min. 7 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4121113.
I Don’t understand Language [I] (verbal object 1) (2005) (15 min. 49 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4143847.
Pulp Friction (2003) (16 min. 9 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4144155.
I Don’t Understand Language [II] (2009) (6 min. 21. sec): https://vimeo.com/4144286.
Axial Hands (Somamudra 1) (2007) (4 min. 13 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4146130.
Saying Sappho (invocation) (2006) (2 min. 14 sec.): https://vimeo.com/4146361.
Tell Tale Heart (verbal object 8) (2006) https://vimeo.com/4159399.
Axial Landscapes: https://vimeo.com/channels/1027763
Sound Nature (2010) (14 min. 47 sec.): https://vimeo.com/16337089.
Wave Black (2010) (1 min. 56 sec.): https://vimeo.com/15750163.
Torque (an axial landscape) (2006) (3 min. 43 sec.): https://vimeo.com/9151558.
Turning Green (2010) (4 min. 34 sec.) https://vimeo.com/15765504.
Diabole (an axial landscape) (2006) (11 min. 07 sec.): https://vimeo.com/9148373.
Performance/Reading/Axial Music: https://vimeo.com/channels/46550
Enearthing Sounds on Tornado Island (Quasha-Stein, 2013) (31 min. 10 sec.): https://vimeo.com/73404168.
Axial Music for Beach Box (Arner-Beaulieu-Quasha-Stein, 2012) (1 hr. 6 min. 40 sec.): https://vimeo.com/48916974.
Axial Music/2 (Arner-Quasha, 2010) (39 min. 36 sec.): https://vimeo.com/14821024.
Axial Music/Tivoli (Arner-Quasha, 2011) (26 min. 49 sec.): https://vimeo.com/19682660.
George Quasha at T Space (reading-performance) (40 min. 59 sec.): https://vimeo.com/25802929.
John Cage’s 4’33” (snare drum, George Quasha) (20130 (6 min. 21 sec.): https://vimeo.com/60996756.
Axial Music in Barrytown (Arner-Quasha, 2013) (41 min. 48 sec.): https://vimeo.com/43755876.
Axial Music & Liminal Languaging (Arner-Quasha-Stein, 2010): https://vimeo.com/14529438.
Axial Trio in Barrytown (Arner-Beaulieu-Quasha, 2013): https://vimeo.com/71147223.
Axial Transmission for the DownTown Ensemble (2013) (Goode-Hellerman-Papach-Quasha-Stein-Waterman): https://vimeo.com/68991912.
Axial Drumming with Preverbs (2010) (9 min. 49 sec.): https://vimeo.com/9507711.
Axial Music at Bard (Arner-Coolidge-Quasha-Stein) (2015) (40 min. 55 sec.): https://vimeo.com/135772827.
The First House at T Space (preverbs for architect José Oubrerie) (2015) (9 min. 6 sec.): https://vimeo.com/133698525.
Collaborative Performance of George Quasha & Charles Stein with Gary Hill in Videos
Tale Enclosure (1985) (5:30 min.): https://vimeo.com/5597325.
Figuring Grounds (1985/2008) (7:19 min.): https://vimeo.com/5602401.