Claudia Rankine / Albums of 2011
I’m back after the big yearly trip to the AWP Bookfair. And then coming back to the disaster of catching up. So I’m slowly catching up, and I’ll be posting soon on several things/thoughts I had or saw while in DC.
Claudia Rankine’s reading was quite interesting. If you haven’t heard about it, she started off by having Nick Flynn read Tony Hoagland’s poem “It Changed” (I think that’s the title?), and then she read her reaction to its depiction of race. Then she read an email reaction to her reaction from Tony Hoagland (wherein he calls her thoughts on race naive). Finally, she read her reaction to Hoagland’s reaction. I hope the whole thing gets put up somewhere.
Other things: The idea that somehow irony and sincerity are an opposing binary. I’d like to think more about that. And then various other ticks and tocks, including a new season of albums that are out or coming out over the next few months.
Already out
British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
Destroyer - Kaputt
John Vanderslice – White Wilderness
Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs. Evil
Apex Manor (ex-The Broken West) - The Year Of Magical Drinking
Robert Pollard - Space City Kicks
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Tennis - Cape Dory
Hands & Knees - Wholesome
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Death - Spiritual, Mental, Physical
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
The Radio Dept. - Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010
Mean Creek - Hemophiliac EP
One Happy Island / Standard Fare - Standard Fare on One Happy Island
David Lowery – The Palace Guards
February
Asobi Seksu – Fluorescence (2/15)
Drive-By Truckers – Go-Go Boots (2/15)
Bright Eyes – The People's Key by (2/15)
Cowboy Junkies – Demons (Songs of Vic Chesnutt) (2/15)
Sonic Youth — Simon Werner a Disparu (2/15)
Eksi Ekso – Brown Shark, Red Lion (2/15)
Lifeguards (Robert Pollard & Doug Gillard) - Waving at the Astronauts
East River Pipe - We Live In Rented Rooms (2/15)
Jonny (Norman of Teenage Fanclub & Euros of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci)
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
Yuck – Yuck
Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
Beach Fossils - What a Pleasure EP
The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh
March
Lucinda Williams – Blessed
Ron Sexsmith – Long Player Late Bloomer
Middle Brother – Middle Brother
Buffalo Tom - Skins
R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now
Wye Oak - Civilian
Brave Irene (featuring Rose Melberg) - self-titled debut EP (3/15)
Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now! (3/15)
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar (3/15)
J. Mascis - Several Shades of Why (3/15)
Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You (3/22)
Eldridge Rodriguez (of The Beatings) - You Are Released (3/22)
Mars Classroom (Robert Pollard w/Gary Waleik of Big Dipper) – The New Theory of Everything
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (3/29)
Obits - Moody, Standard and Poor (3/29)
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (3/29)
April
The Feelies – Here Before (4/12)
Low – C’mon (4/12)
Jonny (Norman of Teenage Fanclub & Euros of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci) -- self-titled debut (4/12)
The One AM Radio - Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread
Bill Callahan (Smog) - Apocalypse (4/19)
Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Centro-matic - Candidate Waltz
Other Things
Idaho - "Revoluta" (May?)
Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues" (May 3)
Crooked Fingers - TBA
LoveLikeFire - "Dust" (physical version in Spring, out now digitally)
Southeast Engine - "Canary" (Spring)
David Bazan - "Strange Negotiations"
Girlfriends
Wild Flag – full-length TBA, 7-inch in March
The Wooden Birds - TBA
Hallelujah the Hills - record album III
Beach Fossils - TBA
Thurston Moore - Benediction
Pinback - TBA
Ladybug Transistor - TBA
The Sheila Divine
The Rationales - "The Distance In Between
M83 – full-length TBA
Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee, Vol. 2
Death Cab For Cutie – TBA
Kate Bush - TBA
The Maybes
Big Dipper
Gary Waleik (of Big Dipper) and Bob Fay
You Can Be A Wesley
Camera Obscura
Caspian
Radiohead
The Shins
The Long Winters
The Wrens
posted by John Gallaher @ 4:42 AM
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9 Comments:
She posted her response on her site: http://www.claudiarankine.com/ (click on AWP)
Eric,
Thanks, but that's only Part 1. The next part was the email from Hoagland. That, I think, was the most fascinating bit of the whole event. In the poem, one can say he's working with a character, or a type, but the way he defends the poem, and pushes back against the piece she posted on her website, is, well, fascinating.
And then her response to his response. I wish there were a way to get the four documents in a row. Like I say, as it is here, it's only the first, ahem, volley.
It would be nice to see the second half of that, John. Definitely post it, if it shows up anywhere.
It seems the highlight of AWP will always involve Tony Hoagland. Last year, Donald Revell and him sparred about the future of poetry, and it was the best panel I saw.
How funny. I was there too. maybe we sat together and didn't even know it.
I really wish I could find that email from TH, and the response from Rankine.
The poem with her first response is interesting, but the real meat is in Hoagland's email. It's a discussion well worth having.
Is it possible you could paraphrase? I've found a few summaries on the net, but none do it justice. Not that any summary is a substitute, of course.
I'm surprised how condescending TH is in this whole matter. On one hand, I sympathize with the idea that speakers in poems are not the author, but his defense that, "this is a poem for white people" seems at odds with that notion.
I'm working on it, but I've not gotten much yet. Maybe I can get something tomorrow.
I would really like to see the whole thing too. The naive remark is incredibly condescending. Isn't it naive to think that simply being honest about your stereotypes excuses them?
I've been thinking (and posting) about the irony/sincerity thing too. I've come to this conclusion: irony and sincerity are not an opposing binary. However, irony and not-irony are. :)
Harriet today doesn't have the whole thing, but it has a pretty good summary of the whole thing so far. I feel, anyway, from the summary, I know all I need to know. I'm not in the mood to discuss it now, but for those who want the summary...
Thomas Brady
I saw that, but it was from someone who wasn't there. It's just a report of the one blog post that's the only version out there.
If the Hoagland email and the response to it that Rankine read were posted, then there would be a better context for his "naive" remark that's being quoted, slightly differently than I remember it. I'm not saying that to defend him. Just that I want to have the context clarified.
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