Vow to Poetry is a trumpet call from our most iconoclastic poet that tears down the walls of prescribed creative processes. This stimulating mix of autobiography, interviews, and essays reveals a life possessed by the muse. You've seen the "safe" versions, now comes this unconventional, irreverent, transgressive volume.Anne Waldman ran the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York for over a decade. She is the co-founder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at The Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches and directs the Master of Fine Arts program in Writing and Poetics.Contents>/B>Author's Note, 13 Prelude: "My Long & Only Afterlife", 15 Feminafesto, 19 My Life a List, 23 Oppositional Poetics, 48 That Light Is Sandino, 49 Managua Sketches, 51 Seeing What Happens (Interview with Joyce Jenkins) , 54 Kali Yuga Poetics: A Manifesto, 60 "Take Me to Your Poets!", 74 Loom Down the Thorough Narrow, 81 Hermeneutical (Light to Read By), 91 Vow to Poetry (Conversation with Randy Roark), 96 Sikelianos's Delphic Idea: Site & Poetic Legacy, 123 Hags, Nuns, & Magpie Scholars, 135 The Outrider Legacy (Interview with Mark DuCharme), 142 Poetry as Siddhi, 155 Noösphere & the Six Realms, 167 I Is Another: Dissipative Structures, 173 The Talisman Interview (Interview with Edward Foster), 192 Warring God Charnel Ground, 205 Deviant Identities, 213 Minstrel Bard, 228 Last Days, Hours, 230 Burroughs: Hurry Up. It's Time, 235 Go-Between Between, 238 Grasping the Broom More Tightly Now (Interview with Eric Lorberer), 247 Creative Writing Life [Reading/Writing/Performance] Experiments, 247 Alphabetic Tesserae, 262 Epic & Performance, 266 "Surprise Each Other": The Art of Collaboration (Interview with Lisa Birman), 272 Spare Us Your Epiphanies, 280 Marriage Marriage: A Sentence Sentence, 283 Muse, 286 My Life a Book, 289Acknowledgements, 292 Selected Bibliography, 295Oppositional Poetics"wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?"-Hölderlin from "Bread & Wine"How do we