Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years ago, local poets formed a solid alliance in a statewide, government-supported collective of seventy-five small presses called Texas Circuit. The Circuit's Downtown Literature Series has presented nearly two hundred poets reading their own works during the past two years, making Austin one of only twenty American cities to have an ongoing, city-sponsored literary series...
Grady Hillman, current manager of Texas Circuit, attributes a radical influence in the work of the regional poets to Russian dissident Konstantyn Kuzminsky, whose work is freed from restraining traditions in structure as well as content, jarring the scene's academic milieu, always reluctant to be flippant with the established forms of the classics. Kuzminsky's work has been published in numerous books and journals around the world, and his life and work were illuminated in the Autumn '76 issue of the French magazine Parler, which dedicated that volume to his creative struggles and accomplishments. He also co-edited Apollo...
...titles so far. The opening of their off-beat bookstore at 803 Red River Street was a major literary celebration that offered a weekend of readings by scheduled and non-scheduled writers, a home for in-print and out-of-print small press publications, as well as Texas Circuit, and a gathering place for poets to meet informally. Robertson contrasts "... the spirit of cooperation between young, energetic writers and small presses here, with the highly competitive scene in the Bay Area." As for the importance of Brazos Book Store, Grady Hillman declares the inevitable comparison to City Lights is warranted...
...vary much either--his preoccupations include the environment, arms control and civil liberties, but he also has a strong nostalgic bent, recommending regularly the pastoral virtues perhaps closer to his San Antonio birthplace than his current inner-city home. The child of a Methodist minister, the grandson of a circuit-riding preacher, Ratliff says he was exposed early to the fight for social justice--"back in the '30s, my parents always voted the straight Socialist ticket, and they pioneered in trying to get the whites and Blacks to work together," a task Ratliff--by his own estimation...
...preside as paterfamilias over the great brawling Democratic coalition, rewarding and remonstrating from the head of the table while all the family factions (workers, blacks, Jews, city dwellers, the poor, intellectuals) passed around the meat and potatoes. Carter won the White House in 1976 as a sweet-psalming loner circuit riding outside the party structures. As President, owing little or nothing to the party, he practiced a cool neglect of it. His motivations were rooted in his own interests, not the party's: a perfect '70s politician. He did not encourage new Democratic talent or ideas; he neglected...