Corbin & American Poetry #??

Michael Boughn on Charles Olson at the 1965 Berkeley Poetry Conference:

"The happening that Olson staged—and trust me, he knew exactly what he was doing—broke every rule of conference etiquette in the book. He got drunk in front of the audience. He wouldn’t read a whole poem all the way through. He continually followed the digressions of his thinking in order to be open to revelation rather than force his thinking into a proscribed etiquette. It was a ta’wil, a revelatory spiritual event, not a “reading,” and that really pissed a lot of people off, including good friends such as Duncan, who left. But Olson didn’t care. He saw what was coming. Have you been to one of those verbal circle jerks they call poetry readings these days? Talk about institutionalized, from the form—three readers, no more than 10-15 minutes to show your stuff, open mic at the end (the open mic is to be sure someone comes)—down to the generic poetry reading rhythm and the stifling silence of the audience. He tried to stop it before it took root, to smash the institution right there, on the spot."

from

What Whim Has Wrought: An Interview about Dispatches from the Poetry Wars

with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson conducted by Steven Manuel

in Chicago Review.

New Corbin in English: Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia

Jung, Buddhism, and the Incarnation of Sophia

Unpublished Writings from the Philosopher of the Soul

By Henry Corbin

DUE IN FEBRUARY

Inner Traditions

amazon

We're not getting much info from the publisher - who is the translator? - but this is the same book published in French by Entrelacs in 2014 as Autour de Jung. I'm delighted it has been translated. 

Online Courses in 2019: Corbin, Archetypal Psychology, Psychoecology

I'm going to offer some online classes beginning in January 2019 - not through an accredited institution, but simply online via Zoom or some other such platform. I will make the tuition voluntary and ask people to pay what they feel they can afford and make it possible to pay per session. Class size will be limited to no more than 12 per class. I have three topics in mind as of now:

An Introduction to Henry Corbin

An Introduction to James Hillman

An Introduction to Psychoecology

Classes will be recorded and made available to those whose time zone makes real-time attendance difficult.

Anyone with interest should contact me via email to get on the class list and receive updates:

tcheetham@gmail.com