Hank Lazer is a well-known American innovative and experimental poet and Professor Emeritus and Associate Provost Emeritus for the University of Alabama.The author of 35 books of poetry and several collections of essa...Hank Lazer is a well-known American innovative and experimental poet and Professor Emeritus and Associate Provost Emeritus for the University of Alabama.The author of 35 books of poetry and several collections of essays,his most recent books of poetry explore the intersection of poetic innovation and spirituality,with attention to his ongoing Zen meditation practice.This interview explores in depth Lazer's poetry and poetics,especially the relationship between Chinese Zen-Taoism thoughts,such as emptiness,nothingness,and silence,etc.,and his poetics and poetry creation,focusing on a particular phase of Lazer's poetryshape-writing-an improvisatory practice invented by Lazer(poems written without drafts in abstract shapes).Lazer's shape-writing has an important relationship to Zen-Taoism,Chinese characters,calligraphy,and improvisatory jazz among others.His writing explores the nature of being,consciousness,nature,the complex life in language,and the presence that occurs through the practice of meditation.展开更多
文摘Hank Lazer is a well-known American innovative and experimental poet and Professor Emeritus and Associate Provost Emeritus for the University of Alabama.The author of 35 books of poetry and several collections of essays,his most recent books of poetry explore the intersection of poetic innovation and spirituality,with attention to his ongoing Zen meditation practice.This interview explores in depth Lazer's poetry and poetics,especially the relationship between Chinese Zen-Taoism thoughts,such as emptiness,nothingness,and silence,etc.,and his poetics and poetry creation,focusing on a particular phase of Lazer's poetryshape-writing-an improvisatory practice invented by Lazer(poems written without drafts in abstract shapes).Lazer's shape-writing has an important relationship to Zen-Taoism,Chinese characters,calligraphy,and improvisatory jazz among others.His writing explores the nature of being,consciousness,nature,the complex life in language,and the presence that occurs through the practice of meditation.
