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William (Bill) Marsh, Poet/Critic/Publisher
Marsh lives at 1860 Pacific Beach Drive #4, San Diego CA 92109. His e.mail address is wmarsh@nunic.nu.edu, his phone number (619) 272-8669.
He's had poems and essays published in Antenym, Chain, Experiodicist, JackLeg,
membrane, Situation, Syntactics, Tyuonyi and Witz and a book, b/c published by PaperBrain Press.
He considers the following contemporary poets important to him:
bpNichol,
Lyn Hejinian,
Ron Silliman,
Lisa Robertson,
Becky Byrkit,
Robert Creeley
and John Ashbery.
Among the
poets of yesteryear important to him are Blake, Whitman,
Stein,
Apollinaire,
Williams,
Stevens,
H.D.,
Oppen,
O'Hara,
Olson,
Creeley and
Ashbery.
Steve McCaffery,
Alan Davies,
Charles Bernstein,
Ron Silliman,
Marjorie Perloff,
Don Byrd,
Michael Joyce and
George P. Landow are the critics who made Marsh's list of critics important to him.
Marsh admires "poetry that thinks words / sees, feels, hears words in words, and composes
via an act of d(e)riving forth, ie, from word into word and back out again / to trace a syntax in
the infraverbal landscape, d(e)riving sense and teasing out nonsense into sense / poetry that risks
itself, is not afraid of itself, that permits no contraries to itself / techniques, strategies that serve
the orchestration, not vice versa / poetry that feels right and thinks through it, cautiously,
relentlessly
(description of criticism) to locate all the above / then to highlight its tendencies
(impression of contemporary poetry) in a state of distended bliss / or blissful distension / the
message is the medium is the message / a polylocal symphony
Marsh recommends the following poetry zines for inclusion in the Comprepoetica Dictionary of Poetry, Poets and Poetics:
Antenym,
Chain,
Syntactics,
Hambone,
Sulfur,
membrane,
EPC,
Poetic Briefs,
Poems for the Millenium and
Out of Everywhere
Also the following Sites/E-zines:
UBU Web,
Wr-eye-tings Scratchpad,
Proto-Anthology of Hypermedia Poetry,
The Poetry Machine,
Internet Philosophy and Psychology,
The Poetry Machine,
Cybpher Anthology,
Flashpoint,
Free Cuisinart,
Qazingulaza,
Sound,Visual,Concrete and
Visible Language
Click here to go to a poem from Marsh's Nodes. Click here to go to a poem March admires that's from bpNichol's The Other Side of the Room: poems 1966-1969 . .
For more of Marsh's works, as well as some of his instructional efforts, collaborations and affiliations, and links he finds worthwhile, Comprepoetica highly recommends his billseye. .
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