Edward Mycue and Nancy Keane in Sacramento
Sacramento Poetry Center Presents Bay Area Poets:
Edward Mycue and Nancy Keane
Monday, Nov. 10 2008
1719 25th Street
7:30 PM
Host: Emmanuel Sigauke
Edward Mycue's has published more than 15 books, and his first book, Damage Within the Community, published in 1973, was selected by Library Journal as one of the ten best poetry books of that year. He has published in numerous magazines in the US [including Lungfull!, Fence, Hawai’i Review, Dirty Goat, Illuminations, Painted Bride Quarterly, Carolina Review, Caliban, Exquisite Corpse, Boston Review and Poetry Flash] as well as magazines in England [Shearsman], Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain.
"Reading through small magazines-"those little magazines that died to make verse free," Gertrude Stein called them-one comes across the name "Edward Mycue" quite often, and always with pleasure. Mycue's poems are invariably interesting and alluring, imaginative, sometimes baffling: wonderful work." Jack Foley, The Alsop Review
Continuing this review, Jack Foley writes - "Mycue's poems hold us in a kind of meditative openness which constantly admits to its own difficulties. At the same time, they deliberately "educate" us: "educates-leads-out." The word "education," with its root in the Latin "educere," is one which Mycue has considered at some length. In a 1978 essay, "Methodology as a Theory of Sequence," Mycue writes,
[Educere is] said to be the word our word for education comes from-and the dryad (a wood nymph, whose life is bound-up with the life of her tree) is very like, to me, the idea of education: education, the word and its root educere (if it really is the root): not that it teach, but that it lead- out what is already there. As if the whole history of our species and its development is continually present in every further person and that maybe the role of education is to lead-out the history of ourselves. And the way educere was pronounced I liked, too: not like ed-u-kay-shun but like ay-duke-uh-ray. Great sound for a great meaning.
Nancy Keane has been the publisher and editor of "The 33 Review" since 1991. Poet, artist, North Beach musician since 1955. Founder and host of Poetry at the 33 venue since 1990.Latest 2007 chap book "You Cain't Have No Stinkin' Green Card"
Coming Up at SPC:
November 17 [Rebecca]: Ann Privateer and Edythe Schwartz
November 24 [Tim]: Connie Post and Janet Smith
December 1 [Art]:
December 8 [Emmanuel]: David Iribarne and Gabrielle White
December 15 [Rebecca]:Winter Solstice Read Around
December 22 [Tim]: No Reading
December 29 [Frank]: Indigo Moor and Alice Anderson and Jeanne Wagner
Edward Mycue and Nancy Keane
Monday, Nov. 10 2008
1719 25th Street
7:30 PM
Host: Emmanuel Sigauke
Edward Mycue's has published more than 15 books, and his first book, Damage Within the Community, published in 1973, was selected by Library Journal as one of the ten best poetry books of that year. He has published in numerous magazines in the US [including Lungfull!, Fence, Hawai’i Review, Dirty Goat, Illuminations, Painted Bride Quarterly, Carolina Review, Caliban, Exquisite Corpse, Boston Review and Poetry Flash] as well as magazines in England [Shearsman], Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain.
"Reading through small magazines-"those little magazines that died to make verse free," Gertrude Stein called them-one comes across the name "Edward Mycue" quite often, and always with pleasure. Mycue's poems are invariably interesting and alluring, imaginative, sometimes baffling: wonderful work." Jack Foley, The Alsop Review
Continuing this review, Jack Foley writes - "Mycue's poems hold us in a kind of meditative openness which constantly admits to its own difficulties. At the same time, they deliberately "educate" us: "educates-leads-out." The word "education," with its root in the Latin "educere," is one which Mycue has considered at some length. In a 1978 essay, "Methodology as a Theory of Sequence," Mycue writes,
[Educere is] said to be the word our word for education comes from-and the dryad (a wood nymph, whose life is bound-up with the life of her tree) is very like, to me, the idea of education: education, the word and its root educere (if it really is the root): not that it teach, but that it lead- out what is already there. As if the whole history of our species and its development is continually present in every further person and that maybe the role of education is to lead-out the history of ourselves. And the way educere was pronounced I liked, too: not like ed-u-kay-shun but like ay-duke-uh-ray. Great sound for a great meaning.
Nancy Keane has been the publisher and editor of "The 33 Review" since 1991. Poet, artist, North Beach musician since 1955. Founder and host of Poetry at the 33 venue since 1990.Latest 2007 chap book "You Cain't Have No Stinkin' Green Card"
Coming Up at SPC:
November 17 [Rebecca]: Ann Privateer and Edythe Schwartz
November 24 [Tim]: Connie Post and Janet Smith
December 1 [Art]:
December 8 [Emmanuel]: David Iribarne and Gabrielle White
December 15 [Rebecca]:Winter Solstice Read Around
December 22 [Tim]: No Reading
December 29 [Frank]: Indigo Moor and Alice Anderson and Jeanne Wagner
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