[NetBehaviour] Chant de la Sirene (thrilled to be in this!)

[Alan Sondheim]

Announcing the release of

Chant de la Sirene
Journal of Poetics & the Hybrid Arts
Issue 3:
War, Peace & Poetics


with work by over 30 poets, visual, performance and multimedia artists &
featuring Cris Cheek's "No War" image series

www.chantdelasirenejournal.com


Marcella Durand, Anne Gorrick, James McCorkle, Maria Damon & Alan
Sondheim, Michael Ruby, Marjorie Welish, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Neda Zahraie,
Burt Kimmelman, Norman Fischer, Pina Piccolo, Steve Benson, Chris Tysh,
Eileen Tabios, Michael Golston (Georg Trakl translations), Susan M.
Schultz, Abigail Child, Andrea Carter Brown, Anthony Howarth, Carla
Harryman, Barrett Watten & Vladislav Davidzon, James Sherry (with Deborah
Thomas's curated images), Sarah Porter, DeJe Watson, Cris Cheek, Giacomo
Cuttone, Margo Berdeshevsky, Susan Mohini Kane (with Nathan Alamillo), Sam
Truitt, Cynthia Hogue, Adeena Karasick, Laura Hinton, Jane Augustine, and
the Ukrainian poet Inna Romenska (translated by Pina Piccolo)

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from the Introduction:

"War has forever existed as ironic cause of and foundation for human
civilization. War claims property. It violently negotiates religious
belief systems that appear foundational to human collectivity. It
establishes and re-enforces other community social orders like the
dominance of binary gender roles through its heroic masculinity warrior
stereotypes, propagating the concept of female exclusion zones and
defining concepts of cultural manhood for children and adults alike. It
propagates ideological propaganda of all types.War continuously recycles
and teaches a social politics founded upon outsider/insider binary
structures, a system that makes the implicit 'stranger,' a social
'enemy'...

"...As humanity realizes itself as a globally extended community of
multiple societies and bodies, of competing signs and genders and
religions, we see ourselves living upon a large but not infinite plane of
space, a shrinking ontological universe in which no one can escape the
latest catastrophes of war.

"War must now become antique."--Laura Hinton, Editor