Jennifer Scappettone

Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump

The Republic of Exit 43

Etel Adnan

Lyn Hejinian

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Limited Edition. In this special series of eight perfect-bound books, each book is an anthology and a conversation between the guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts. In ELDERS SERIES #5, Jennifer Scappettone hosts Etel Adnan and Lyn Hejinian. Belladonna* has featured over 150 writers of wildly diverse age and origin, writers who work in conversation and collaboration within and between multiple forms, languages, and critical fields. 2009 marked the tenth anniversary of their mission to promote the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with language. As performance and as printed text, the work collects, gathers over time and space, and forms a kind of conversation about the feminist avant garde: what it is and how it comes to be. The anniversary ELDERS SERIES is a continuation of this conversation, which highlights the fact of influence and continuity of the ideas, poetics, and concerns we circle through.

Etel Adnan, Lyn Hejinian, Jennifer Scappettone

Nick Montfort

David Baker

Harryette Mullen

John Taylor

Philip Levine

Gary Snyder

Johanna Drucker

Bruce Bond

Curzio Malaparte

Alice Notley

Charles Wright

Jerome Rothenberg

Ilya Kaminsky

Rita Dove

Dana Levin

David Huerta

Martin Woodside

Fady Joudah

Juana Adcock

Rachel Galvin

Marc Vincenz

Alan Sondheim

MARGENTO

mIEKAL aND

David Jhave Johnston

Chris Funkhouser

Brian Kim Stefans

Maria Mencia

John Cayley & Daniel C. Howe

Jim Carpenter

Sandy Baldwin

JD McClatchy

GC Waldrep

Page Hill Starzinger

Șerban Foarță

Stephanie Strickland & Ian Hatcher

Babylonians as Americans as Babylonians

Jared Pierce

A Computationally Assembled Anthology / Antologie asamblată computațional

"US" Poets Foreign Poets / Noi poeți "americani" poeți străini

As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase. Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture—from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover—Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.

Modernism in Venice

Killing the Moonlight

Jennifer Scappettone

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