关键词:
Hank Lazer
Zen-Taoism
poetic visuality
shape-writing
contemporary American poetry
摘要:
Hank Lazer is a well-known American innovative and experimental poet and Professor Emeritus and Associate Provost Emeritus for the University of *** author of 35 books of poetry and several collections of essays,his most recent books of poetry explore the intersection of poetic innovation and spirituality,with attention to his ongoing Zen meditation *** interview explores in depth Lazer's poetry and poetics,especially the relationship between Chinese Zen-Taoism thoughts,such as emptiness,nothingness,and silence,etc.,and his poetics and poetry creation,focusing on a particular phase of Lazer's poetryshape-writing-an improvisatory practice invented by Lazer(poems written without drafts in abstract shapes).Lazer's shape-writing has an important relationship to Zen-Taoism,Chinese characters,calligraphy,and improvisatory jazz among *** writing explores the nature of being,consciousness,nature,the complex life in language,and the presence that occurs through the practice of meditation.