George Quasha's work
in poetry in recent years—following Amanita's Hymnal,
Somapoetics,
and Giving the Lily Back Her Hands—has continued
in several
strands: the "axial"
poems—a selection of which comprises In No Time,
the "oneirica" (including
Ainu
Dreams), and
an open modality working with
both the "somapoetic"
and axial principles (The
Preverbs of Tell: News Torqued
from Undertime).
The axial principle extends across mediums to visual and
sound work—sound
performance, drawings, stone works, installation and video.
His "Axial Stones"
will be exhibited at the Westbeth Gallery in New York City
in December1999.
His ongoing collaborations
with Charles Stein and Gary Hill, begun
in the 1970s,
include sound poetry
(e.g., Tale Enclosure, a
Gary Hill single-channel video),
text and on-site development
of the installation Disturbance (among the jars)
at the Centre Georges
Pompidou in Paris, and various kinds of writing and live
performances—the
latter extending his over twenty years of performance and
dialogical work with
Charles Stein. Also with Charles Stein he has co-authored
many works, including
three recent books in a series, Gary Hill's Projective
Installations 1-3:
HanD HearD/liminal objects, Tall Ships,
and Viewer.
He has edited several
poetry anthologies—including America a Prophecy
(with Jerome Rothenberg),
Open
Poetry (with Ron
Gross), and Active Anthology
(with Susan Quasha),
the journal
Stony
Brook and, recently, The Station Hill
Blanchot Reader.