Penny Rimbaud: of CRASS - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889307416 ISBN 13: 9781889307411

Publisher: Re/Search Publications, 2014

Synopsis

RE/Search has been fortunate to have had several visits from Penny Rimbaud and fellow-CRASS founder, Gee Vaucher over the past decade. They come to the United States and to San Francisco full of ideas, creative impulses, energy and the know-how to reach their audience. On many occasions there have been lengthy conversations with Penny Rimbaud, who is equaled only by V. Vale in his enthusiasm and knowledge of things non-mainstream. The book distills some of these conversations into a small, pithy volume, easier to carry than an iPhone, and readable from the bus to the bathtub.

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About the Author

CRASS founding member Penny Rimbaud has been writing poetry, song lyrics, philosophy and memoirs for 50 years. A drummer, performance artist, environmental activist and philosopher, he claims "breadmaker" as his most prevailing occupation.

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Where you go from there is another matter entirely. But I think… Whether language has been destructive or constructive is another—I suppose I’ve been a deconstructionist most of my life, trying to remove false imposed ideas so I can arrive at some sort of authentic qualitative existence. And certainly I am aware that that qualitative existence is divorced from word in any conceptual way. It could be interesting to say, “Where can word be if it isn’t conceptual?” So it’s simply the flamboyance of sound, as the flamboyance of music, which I tend to think that the sort of metaphor of poetry is: it’s something that doesn’t attach itself to the pragmatic use of word.

Edition details

• Publisher: Re/Search Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1889307416
• ISBN 13: 9781889307411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184