PEREGRINATION: Poems for All Points Between Departure and Return

It is just elegantly persuasive and completely compelling. Polis The great benefit of Deneen's book is the way in which it inspires a reader to return to the original texts. The Review of Politics This is a brilliant essay, traversing a vast intellectual space with admirable ease and fairness. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?

This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno.

Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to rethink the issues that are truly at the heart of our contemporary 'Culture Wars,' and he encourages us to reassess our assumptions about the Western canon's virtues or viciousness. Deneen's penetrating exploration of Odysseus's and our own enduring battles between the dual temptations of homecoming and exploration, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and relativism and universality provides an original perspective on contentious debates at the center of modern political theory and philosophy.

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Deneen explores the fascination evinced by philosophers such as Plato, Rousseau, Adorno, and Horkheimer with the political themes and dilemmas on display in Homer's epic. And he adds to these hermeneutic contributions a thoughtful meditation of the lessons of the Odyssey for the contemporary confrontation of the claims of cosmopolitanism and particularism upon our loyalties.

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Set up a giveaway. And his father used to write a poetry column for the Stars Ledger, one of the New York-based newspapers. I actually remember a line from a poem that he read, it was a poem about getting older, the line went: He finished and then Allen read Kaddish. I had read some poems, my friends and I used to sit around, get high and read poems, but when Allen read Kaddish he went into a rhythmic reading of it. Something he was really concerned with was using his breath as a form of meter.

The reading unfolded the story of his mother and his family. The setting of the poem was about five miles from where we were sitting, and it involved his father who was standing next to him. I had had no idea that poetry could do that.

When he finished, nobody said anything, it took a long time before people clapped. It was a life-changing experience for me. Years later, I spoke about that with him during the session and he said that it had also been life-changing for him.

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He explained that it had been very heavy for him as well, because it was not just his father, his whole extended family was there in the room. All of them knew his mother, it was the first time that he read the poem in front of his whole family, and he said it was very hard for them.

Anyway, after thatI bought these little paperback 7 copies of Planet News , Wichita Vortex Sutra , these individual poems that you could buy in bookstores. So I read these particular poems before the session. Yes I was familiar with his work. I read later on Howl and the famous stuff. I was very happy when Hal called me for this project because of the poetry and becausethe other musicians who were on it were all great.

And when I got into reading the works, I chose a bunch of really early stuff. I was very surprised and happy to get more fully acquainted with what he had done. I associated it with several drugs I had given up. I wanted to avoid the drugs and the related writing. But I was really happy to find that the early poems were really fantastic, naturalistic, like To Aunt Rose , which is one I chose for the set, and The End. To Aunt Rose is describing a Jewish family setting with which I was totally familiar: I was wondering actually to what extent the poems themselves inspired the music.

For Aunt Rose, for instance, it is classical guitar that you chose as a background. I was wondering how you made these choices after reading the poems. It was kind of intuitive. But also now if I think about it later, I felt like the kind of repetition, the repeating practice of a classical music phrase was sort of consistent with the character of Aunt Rose.

You know, her repeating her ideology, like kind of a broken practice, a practice that had become emotionally deep. You know, Allen was critical of them but actually he wrote about his characters with some affection. You said you chose three poems, I think the Shrouded Stranger as well, which is also an early poem and so when you read them, did you choose them because they were your favorite or because you thought that the music was coming to you as you read? Yeah, more of the latter you know. There was always the love of the poems but these suggested something and I think I love them!

Did Ginsberg give you any indications as to what he wanted for the poems in terms of music? He was a great live reader, no matter what the musicians presented, he made a really strong effort to go with. So there was sometimes maybe too much respect! Allen met a lot of musicians over the course of his career, and well, some of the collaborations were more successful than others.

Would you say that you are reinterpreting the poem with the musical setting or that you are supporting it somehow? How do you perceive the finished object as not a poem but a performance? Yeah, I understand the question. John Lurie once said something very interesting about film scoring, and I think it also applies to setting poetry.

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The music without question alters the words. It alters the reality, the way the words are perceived without question, in another way. Absolutely and every occurrence of a performance is different from the previous and the next. When you saw Ginsberg reading Kaddish , you saw a one-time performance. Yeah, and every performance of the words is different in itself. Depending on what music you put with those words. You could take a recording of a poem, a reading, and set different musics to it and create drastically different outcomes for the listener.

And when you say that his poetry had an impact on you, do you think it also applied to the music you created as a musician? Everything that you experience in your life has some effect on what you play, so yes, on some immeasurable degree. You were talking about being from New Jersey and you said you just wanted to get out of there, but retrospectively today would you see it differently? Now, would you say that there is a community of artists from New Jersey? And it was a jazz trio backing him up and both Baraka and Ginsberg were fantastic readers, they got along.

You know the reality is that oftentimes when there are smaller towns in the proximity of a great city, the great city kind of siphons off the artistic talent. Some very interesting artists live in New Jersey but there is no reason for there to be a local scene. People get on the trains from Paterson, from South Orange, Orange, from Newark and are in New York in twenty or thirty minutes, it costs like a buck or two. He stayed for the autochtonous poetry of New Jersey not the poetry scene! But what I meant was that maybe there was a geography, a common ground to those artists, I was wondering if you felt that, precisely because of the proximity to New York maybe….

So you know the amount of guts that it took to be out! It must have been astounding. Do you have anything else you wanted to say about the session because we did digress a bit…. I remember when we were recording that piece we did a first take that was absolutely atrocious. Did you feel that as you were growing up? Well, I grew up in South Orange, which was a white suburb, which bordered on Newark. What do you know about it? Did you get into the history of the riots and all that? Yes, I did learn a bit about that, actually, from Philip Roth! Yeah he would know!

So my family moved to Orange. I was born in Newark.