Bologna in Lettere 2019
Disseminazioni
Sabato 11 maggio ore 18.00
CostArena, Via Azzo Gardino 48, Bologna
Pesi & Contrappesi
Dialoghi, monologhi, pregnanze e facezie tra un autore e un critico
Colin Herd / Alessandro Brusa
desire was strongest for the gap in
between when, with my finger
on the button i would hear
the very familiar buzz. i
love that faint whurr
and my anticipation
of the assertive
click-click. desire,
through a conviction
that it wouldn’t ever be
fulfilled, focused on the
act of rewinding, a repetitive
act, passive, lonely and, because
i would lie there for hours, i surefootedly
can say i was in the throes of a kind of erotically-
charged boredom. it is surely not difficult to speculate
why i so fixated on this act. i was obscenely obsessed
with my own self-pity, always going back to the start
and playing it through again. schopenhauer said
that boredom is just the reversal of fascination,
that both depend on being on the outside of
something rather than the inside, and that
one leads to the other. i certainly felt ‘on
the outside’ and as i rewound pop
songs on cassette tapes my
intense boredom and
equally strong
fascination
continually
outstripped each
other like long-distance
runners. when one dropped
back, the other steamed on. or
like dough kneaded full of air and
knocked back to deflation, and then
re-kneaded, and so on. i wasn’t doing
this through a conviction that i’d find back-
tracked satanic messages that had been leading me
and others so frighteningly astray a la the band ‘cradle
of filth’. (scratch that, maybe i was. up in my room rewinding
tapes, i think i must have been looking for messages, my
desire so used to pointing outwards fruitlessly towards
guys at school that i would be willing to find some
kind of response anywhere, be it spooky as you
like.) i’m not sure whether it comes across
for anyone else but when typing this out i
sometimes felt as though i was back
listening compulsively to that buzz
again, caught up in conflicting
senses of possibility and
boring inevitability.
Da Too Ok (BlazeVox, 2011)
Colin Herd è poeta e docente di Scrittura Creativa all’Università di Glasgow. Tra le sue opere ricordiamo Too Ok (BlazeVox, 2011), Glovebox (Knives, Forks and Spoons, 2013), Click & Collect (Boiler House Press, 2017), Swamp Kiss (Red Ceilings Press, 2018). La nuova silloge You name it è in uscita per i tipi di Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Nel 2016 è stato tra gli organizzatori di Outside-in / Inside-out: A Festival of Outside and Subterranean Poetry. Nel 2014 “tug design” è stata proposta per i Forward Prizes. Nel 2018 è stato incluso da Roddy Woomble in “Best Scottish Poems”.
Dirige www.adjacentpineapple.com
Il suo sito web www.colinherd.com
link utili
https://jacket2.org/poems/poems-colin-herd
http://www.guttermag.co.uk/glovebox-and-other-poems-by-colin-herd/
http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/Poetry/too-ok-by-colin-herd-220/
