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Patrick F. Durgin, Poet
Durgin is editor and publisher of Kenning, a (printed) newsletter of contemporary poetry, poetics, and nonfiction writing. (Go to www.durationpress.com/kenning for more information about Kenning.) The poetry of Durgin, a former musician, can be heard on Ninian Hawick's experimental pop / electronic group, "Steep Steps" CD. He is the author of two chapbooks, Pundits Scribes Pupils (Potes & Poets, 1998) and And so on, a serial poem (Texture Press, 1999). His poetry and critical work have appeared in periodicals such as Commentaries (Moscow), The Poetry Project Newsletter
(New York), Rhizome (Los Angeles), and Vico Acitillo 124 (Italy). Work is forthcoming (as of 14 April 2000) in Crayon and Lipstick 11.
Durgin maintains that, just as Marx read Hegel "transitionally," time is still ripe to read (not recuperate) Marx as such.
He especially values Summi Kaipa, Rod Smith, Jen Hofer, Charles Bernstein, Eileen Myles, Clark Coolidge, Charles Reznikof, Jackson Mac Low, Chris Chen, Renee Gladman, Brenda Coultas, Lyn Hejinian, Joan Retallack, and Nathaniel Mackey among contemporary poets, and Paul Bowles, John Cage, James Schuyler, Gertrude Stein and Edgar Allan Poe among poets of yesteryear. He also cherishes the work of Guillaume Apollinaire. Brian Kim Stefans and Mark Wallace are the two contemporary literary critics he deems most
important to him.
About his tastes in poetry, he says, "Away with provincialism!"
To view four short poems by Durgin--"Sonnet," "Grimey Olive," "Hirsute Peach" and "Campus by Night"--click here.
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