Lyn Hejinian, Joshua Clover, and Brian Ang
Studio One Art Center, Oakland, California, February 1, 2013
See also A Conversation: Joshua Clover and Brian Ang
Brian Ang: From The Totality Cantos: 32G+34D+E+35D+36C+J+K+38K+40B+J+42D+45B+I+46I+47I+48A+H+J+49A+50B
Robert Andrew Perez: Introducing Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover: Introduction
Red Drone
Gilded Age
The Transformation Problem
A List of Demands During Occupation of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in 2011
Poem Ending with a Line from Niedecker
Robert Andrew Perez: Introducing Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian: Introduction
From The Unfollowing
From Wild Captioning / The Positions of the Sun
ARMED CELL 4 was first distributed at this reading. The lettered sections of The Totality Cantos indicate my different conception of its sections at the time delineated by flush left lines, being interested in how unequal parts connected, before sections were equalized as ten lines each, enabling their comparisons. There is also a different articulation of lines including before I made suppressing verbs a principle in order to increase connections in what I call “smooth syntax.” I think of The Totality Cantos before restarting it in 2017 as the Ur-Totality Cantos. Joshua’s work would be published in Red Epic (2015). Lyn’s work would be published in The Unfollowing (2016) and Positions of the Sun (2018). After this reading, Lyn invited me that year to contribute to her Atelos Publishing Project and published The Totality Cantos in 2022. —Brian Ang, April 23, 2026
