November 1955: Critical Tuning: Radio Interference and Interruption as a Poetics for Writing (footnote to Words Out of Time)

See here for my 'Critical Tuning: Radio Interference & Interruption as a Poetics for Writing', in VLAK Vol 1: Number 1: 2010. Scroll to pp. 62-66 of the pdf. This piece, along with others, on, of, or about poetics, appears in my 2024 Shearsman book The Necessity of Poetics. Details here: Pages: The Necessity of Poetics - out now! (robertsheppard.blogspot.com).  

This is also footnote to 'The Given', part one of Words Out of Time. See here. This is the introit to 'The Given':

I remember I re-

Member

A valve radio

Left on all day gathered

Electrical interference

From passing cars a crackle

Rising to a spitting and passing

Cars that are eternally

Past

Eternally passing

At the heart of things

This heartless

Irritation this re-

Iteration of the pure prosaic