MM: The Sentence Commuted

A comprehensive commentary on Madison Morrison's universal epic
Sentence of the Gods by four dozen contributors in 20 languages

Contents

Introduction (PDF)

I General essays

• RON PHELPS The Sentence of the Gods (PDF) 3
• PETER CARRAVETTA Toward a Poetica Cosmographica (PDF) 20

II Commentaries

• FRANK W. STEVENSON Dissolution and Flow in SOLUNA (PDF) 31
• MARK SONNENFELD Quick Abstract Thoughts Upon Reading O (PDF) 54
• RON PHELPS The Darkness of Light (PDF) 55
• MARC DE HAY De Cederhouten Vleugels van Berouw (on U and Need) (PDF) 63
• GIO FERRI The Opening Lines of Need: Traduzione e Commento (PDF) 68
• GUIDO VERMEULEN REVOLUZIE IN nEUROLAND™ (on Revolution) (PDF) 72
• ALEXANDRA SATTLER Seeing (on Each) (PDF) 78
• JOKIE X WILSON Magic 81
• AD BREEDVELD Twee Wereld Mailart Kunstenaars (PDF) 84
• THE GORPF Every Second and daDaist poMe (PDF) 86
• R. SWAMINATHAN Three Strands of Narration in Every,2 (PDF) 90
• FnL OSOWSKI (Un)VEILED (on Every Second) (PDF) 93
• D. ROSS PRIDDLE Priddle’s Homeric Lexicon (from Second,2) (PDF) 101
• THE GORPF Two Greek Scholars at a Chios Bus-stop (Second,2, pp. 70-75) (PDF) 102
• MANJUSHREE S. KUMAR Hermes and the Modernist/Postmodernist Interface (on Realization) (PDF) 104
• D. GNANASEKARAN The Intertextuality of Body and Soul: A Realization toward Self-Realization (PDF) 119
• FRANK W. STEVENSON Sign and Ritual in Engendering (PDF) 126
• ROBIN SCHULTZ “I was the guy what . . .” (on Realization and Engendering) (PDF) 141
• CAROL STETSER All 142
• ARVIND THOMAS Causality, Chance, Intertext, Topos and Plot in Happening (PDF) 143
• ARVIND THOMAS Introduction to Divine (PDF) 152
• FRANK W. STEVENSON Focus and Transfiguration in Divine (PDF) 161
• MOWBRAY ALLAN Inventing Divine (PDF) 175

III Visual works and transliterations

• SUWAN METHAPISIT Genome Kid (in response to Or) 187
• DENIS MIZZI Vergil as Ubu Roi (photomontage for Second) 188
• DANIEL LEON DANDOY Soi Post Office (cover photo for Pattaya) 189
• KEIICHI NAKAMURA Meditations on MM 190
• EL HASSAN ERREZZAKI Madison Morrison 193

IV Introductions and brief essays

• HAN WEI-MIN Introduction to Engendering 197
• FLAVIO ERMINI Introduction to Particolare e universale 205
• MM Preface to Every Second 208
• MM On the Question of the Personal 210
• MM A Note on Genre 213

V Translations

• YOUNG JAY LEE “Is Homer Allegorical?” (Korean) 217
• ALESSIO ROSOLDI “Allegory and the Western Epic” (Italian) 221
• ALEXANDRA SATTLER “Experience in Late Modern British Literature” (German) 249
• R. SWAMINATHAN Every,2 (Tamil) 273
• DENIS MIZZI Illustration for Second,2 282
• VALÉRIE GAUTHIER “Ten Poems from Second” (French) PDF 283
• ALEXANDRA SATTLER “Ten Poems from Second” (German) PDF 293
• CAI YUAN-HUANG “Ten Poems from Second” (Chinese) PDF 303
• YOUNG JAY LEE “Ten Poems from Second” 1, 2 & 3 (Korean) PDF 314
• LINA UNALI “Ten Poems from Second” 1 (Italian) PDF 317
• NADIA TRATA “Ten Poems from Second, ” 1 (Greek) PDF 318
• ALBERTO MIRANDA “On a Reef in Tenerife” (Portuguese) PDF 319
• JOSÉ ROBERTO SECHI Numa Praia em Santos PDF 320
• MIGUEL MUÑOZ “Escapade ’74-’75” (Spanish) PDF 321
• CHEN RUI-SHAN “Poetry’s Cobblestones Cut Diamond-faceted by Charles Campbell” (Chinese) PDF 325

VI Interviews

• MM With a Greek Scholar on Chios 329
• MM With Cynthia in New York City 336
• MM With Daniel in Pattaya 338
• TERRY KENNEDY The Heart of the Matter 344
• MANJUSHREE S. KUMAR The Cultural Matrix 355

VII Cultural and political topics

• RAÏS NEZA BONEZA The Path to a Cultural Democracy in Africa (PDF) 369
• YOUNG JOUNG KWON Women (PDF) 373
• DIMITRI BABENKO Contemporary Boredom (PDF) 378
• MOISÈS STANKOWICH The Catalan Language and the EU (PDF) 381
• SHWE NI THAN The Bodhisattva Revived 385
• AYE KHIN MAUNG Myanmar (Burma) 389
• R. A. WESTPHAL The Middle Kingdom and MM 396