Source of Lit - Listen Up

The 2007 edition of Listen Up, which is produced by Cranbrook Academy of Art (I tried, but couldn't find a link for the journal itself) was guest edited by Peter Markus and I just received a copy yesterday.

There's a great bit from Peter's introduction that I think captures him pretty well, and seems to capture what he's found to include in this edition of the journal:

     "Say, if you can say it.  Yoknapatawpha County.
     What I wouldn't give to hear Faulkner himself give breath, give utterance, to such a strange sound.  I imagine it would be nothing short of an acoustical event.  I can't even say it, my tongue can't wrap itself around a word like Yoknapatawpha County.
     My tongue is more at home with words like mud and river and fish and brother.  My tongue, which is where the lingual event begins, knows the music of those words:  mud and river, fish and brother.  These four words - the language - scape of these four words, as well as the physical landscape that these words point to and evoke - these words connect me to the singular place, above all other places, that I feel emotionally anchored to:  a place that is made up of mud and river and brother and fish, this place that is rooted to what is at the core root of who i am.  This landscape/languagescape made up of mud and river and brother and fish, my tongue can taste those words, but I cannot taste, I cannot say, Yoknapatawpha County.
     That word is foreign to my tongue.
     That word belongs to William Faulkner.
    As writers, we want to find the words, the worlds, that belong solely to us.  When we write about a place, we want to speak from the inside of that place, to speak about it in a way that nobody else could speak about it, because the nature of that place -the power of that place - resides and is wrapped up inside of us.  We don't even have to live in that place anymore for a place to take up residence inside of us."

It is with these ideas in his head that Peter found material from authors like Dan Beachy-Quick, Yannick Murphy, Robert Fanning, Michael Kimball, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Brian Evenson, and others to fill up the 30 or so pages of this fine looking journal.  Names that might be familiar to readers here at the EWN.

I'm not sure how to order this, or if you even can, though an email to the Cranbrook  Academy of Art might be the best start.  It's worth at least trying that much.

Comments

[peter markus]

Dan,
I've got half a dozen copies I'd be happy to send to EWN readers. Anyone interested can hit me with an email.

[email protected]

Peter