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\"LenorePaul Corman-Roberts on Lenore Weiss: Bay Area poet, essayist, fiction editor at The November 3rd Club<\/a>. <\/em> She is the author of \u201cSh\u2019ma Yis\u2019rael\u201d published by Pudding House, and has an extensive list of publication credits both online and off with her most recent work in “Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal,” and in “Women in Judaism” from Canada. Lenore also produced “The CellPhone Poems” with composer Paul Kirk and she is currently working on a collection of “Tkhine,” modeled on prayers by Jewish women, which were first published in 1648. She serves as Web Master for a transit company and as the chair of the political action committee of AFSCME Local 3916. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cLong ago I looked
\nat sky and saw
\nit was all morning glories,<\/p>\n

blue flowers
\nstretching from
\nthe top of my head<\/p>\n

and climbing along
\nan invisible thread
\nthe way Jack\u2019s<\/p>\n

magic beanstalk
\ngrazed the window
\nof a giant\u2019s palace.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m no longer
\na young girl
\nwho can turn<\/p>\n

sky
\ninto flowers
\nduring my morning watch,<\/p>\n

but, even so,
\nI practice
\nbeneath a dormer<\/p>\n

outlined
\nby winter rain
\ninto curves of light.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Hope.
\nOnce I learned how,
\nI\u2019ll never forget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBrit Shalom: Covenant of Peace\u201d<\/em>
\nLenore Weiss<\/p>\n

Lenore Weiss\u2019 opening piece in her most recent collection of poems, Sh\u2019ma Yis\u2019rael (Pudding House Press, 2007) illustrates perfectly the haunting optimism that permeates so much of her work.
\nThat may seem like a strange description, but it is just this quality that distinguishes Weiss\u2019 work.\u00a0 Between her every day gig as a web designer and fiction editor for the politically savvy online journal, The November 3rd Club, it is not surprising to find a prose poet and essayist who volleys and serves comfortably on the courts of technology and politics.\u00a0 More importantly, she is an emerging writer of serious style and content who is comfortable being an \u201cinternet writer\u201d while transcending the \u201cindie\/small press\/outlaw\u201d ghetto mentality that permeates much of the net.
\nHer strongest quality on this front is how she captures what some would call \u201cthe ghost in the machine,\u201d that is, her ability to find, distill and ultimately craft what is essentially the human spirit bleeding between the cacophony of noises and spectacle.
\nAs a young recruit at the communist party convention in late summer New York, Weiss was \u201cgetting tired of speeches\u2026I wanted to be in the company of worldwide revolutionary artists who had caught my attention: Neruda, Casals, Picasso, all Pablos \u2013 Berthold Brecht, Paul Robeson, Ben Shahn, the Hollywood 10 and many others who\u2019d been called to testify in front of the witch-hunting McCarthy Committee…\u201d\u00a0 Before the convention was over though, she would be flagged down by one such artist and intellectual who asked \u201care you Lenore?\u201d
\nThe radical poet and publisher Walter Lowenfels would become a mentor to Weiss and encouraged his young charge to go on and explore the boundaries between human language, technology and communication. This resulted in her being an early 80\u2019s convert to the digital age, rare amongst the boomer generation of that time (though residing in Northern California undoubtedly helped in this regard.)\u00a0 This aesthetic of a growing role of technology and its unique relationship with human emotion and perception is particularly well reflected in a short story published in Andrei Codrescu\u2019s Exquisite Corpse in 2005 entitled \u201cTech Notes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI can sense that I’m getting close. Now the tech directs me to place the door to the computer chips over the board, and to turn the computer right side up. I turn on the power and carefully listen for some sound of life stirring inside the shell of my desecrated computer.<\/p>\n

I have completed the autopsy. Nothing.<\/p>\n

She orders a technician to come to my house to replace the motherboard. I may hear from him within a day.<\/p>\n

I hang up.<\/p>\n

I am bathed in a warm light that falls through the window, and makes a circle around me on the burgundy rug. I am encased in a glow, for some reason enfolded in a calm. Somewhere I hear a gentle whirring and it is at this precise moment I know that light is the breath of my parents.<\/p>\n

Today I saw you near the BART station
\nwhere Chinatown’s elderly practice aikido
\neveryone dressed in jeans and loose shirts, on tip-toe
\ndissecting the air into equal rations.
\nBut where did you come from? Former patients
\nin hospital gowns, maybe on tour from a distant do-jo
\nfacing each other, repeating each form in slo-mo
\nwithout the help of medication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I couldn’t believe it, there under the blue sky
\ntumbling on the plaza like two kids
\nwho’ve never needed to stop and ask why
\nlife bounces us back and forth in a fine sieve
\ngrinding our edges until we give;
\nI saw you so quickly, I didn’t have a chance to cry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From \u201cTech Notes\u201d Exquisite Corpse, 2004-2008<\/em>
\nThe mix of narrative and poetry wrapped around a core theme of a broken piece of computer in this daring prose piece point the way toward future experimentation in voice (and even in some cases negative capability such as \u201cReincarnated Lenny Bruce Speaks of the Jewish Problem\u201d; \u201cOslo according to Nina\u201d in Sh\u2019ma Yis\u2019rael) which are reminiscent of dramatic \u201ccall and response\u201d structures in Anne Carson\u2019s work.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, Weiss was a theater minor at San Francisco State during the 70\u2019s, around the time she was studying with William Dickey.
\nAfter the appearance of Tech Notes<\/em>, She joined the staff of the newly formed November 3rd Club<\/em>, as fiction editor; the magazine being a literary response, both conservative and liberal, to the political absurdity the Bush administration was orchestrating as nightly theater.\u00a0 This was quickly followed by the release of her collaborative CD with Paul Kirk, The CellPhone Poems<\/em>.
\nThese influences give us a book like Sh\u2019ma Y\u2019srael, which, while one might say is \u201cmerely\u201d a chapbook, manages to be the document of a very \u201cwired\u201d and engaged artist digging into the core of the inner self and finding an archetype rife with meaning, yet resonant with even casual readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe grow loquat and Meyer lemon in Oakland
\nglossy fig and yellow and red plum that give
\nchildren in the flatlands something to do with summer
\nclimb trees, have fruit-wars in the backyard
\nwhere they don\u2019t eat pulp, but smash it.<\/p>\n

Children inhale spores through pipelines
\nsalt-spray of oceans,
\neven if they didn\u2019t grow up in refugee camps
\nwaiting for food packages,
\nthey\u2019ve watched parents fall in the street.<\/p>\n

Women, could we,
\nliving in caves and hills, in rubble of cities,
\ndetained at border and checkpoint lines, rise up like a forest-
\ndisplace politics, religion, drugs, oil\u2014
\nturn everything on its crown, deliver our children?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSpores of Hope\u201d, Lenore Weiss
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Corman-Roberts:\u00a0 What does the title of your book, Sh\u2019ma Yis\u2019real mean?<\/em><\/p>\n

Lenore Weiss:\u00a0 Sh\u2019ma Yisrael is the name of the basic prayer of Judaism.\u00a0 Almost every Jew, even those who have dismissed their faith know the Sh\u2019ma, the call to prayer, one of the oldest calls to prayer which means quite literally \u201cListen.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s a call to listen. I was not raised religiously but I\u2019ve found a home through Kehilla, particularly since becoming an empty nest parent, I really had a need to find a community, and Kehilla is where I came. The title really grew out of the high holidays this year, the preparation, the rituals and the Sh\u2019ma which are of course, a big part of the holidays.<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 How defined do you think is the line between technology connecting people and alternately alienating them?<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0 I\u2019m on the side of connection because you know technology is just a tool after all, which like anything else, can be used or not used for enlightened purposes \u2013 bombs over Baghdad or solar roofs over Miami. Similar questions were asked about television and I think the real danger, or the real question is: who controls those tools?\u00a0 When the internet first came on the scene a lot of people from the 60\u2019s really gravitated toward that, particularly because the idea of communicating\u2026the potential of that type of communicating\u2026I can remember for the first time talking in real time over a monitor to someone across town and that just blew me away.<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 But how do you manage to keep technology in service of the human without the lapsing
\nof the human into the service of the technology?\u00a0 Or is a little bit of both needed to balance out the process?<\/em><\/p>\n

LW: Walter (Lowenfels) wrote a little book called, “The Revolution is to be Human.” In the final analysis, I believe that’s the real revolution. Unless we can continue to evolve our consciousness, humankind may very well be doomed to destroy ourselves and this planet. But I’m an optimist.<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 In your essay \u201cThe Empty Nestrance,\u201d your initial meeting with Lowenfels makes it sounds like he flagged you down on the edges of a seminar hall while you prowled the grounds impatiently. How was it that he became aware of you? It seems he had a notion of who you were.<\/em><\/p>\n

LW: My anti(Vietnam) war\u00a0poem had appeared\u00a0in “Dialog” magazine which was published under the auspices of the CPUSA’s Cultural Commission.\u00a0 This is how Walter first became aware of me.\u00a0 He was an expatriate who had been in Europe around the same times as Hemingway and Stein.\u00a0 When he came back, he put together this anthology about the war in Vietnam (The Writing on the Wall: 108 American Poems of Protest Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969)\u00a0 and he wrote extensively about the \u201cWhite Poetry Mafia\u201d because at that time, black poets were getting no exposure. Walter would take authors like Ishmael Reed and Clarence Major under his wing, and I was going to visit him and his wife Lillian every weekend and he was the first person to publish a poem of mine.
\nI have a long history of wonderful teachers in how I came to writing.\u00a0 My father was born in Hungary and my mother was born in the US of Hungarian immigrants, and they both loved poetry. My mother would read poetry to us every evening.\u00a0 She loved Longfellow, and my father really enjoyed the work of Sandor Petofi who was one of the truly great national Hungarian poets; Petofi in particular because he wrote of the need for Hungarian liberation from the Hapsburg empire in the mid 19th Century.\u00a0 Those were some of my very first influences.\u00a0 My father was in the Communist Party, not when he was raising us, so I was not a red diaper baby in that sense, but those influences were very much around me. I\u2019m a 60\u2019s person, so I grew up with my ears open to what was happening in the U.S. at that time.
\nWhen I got my masters at SF State I became very friendly with William Dickey. At the time he was the head of the Department and also charged with setting up the school’s computer lab.\u00a0 Bill worked with me on my Master\u2019s Thesis, and then we\u2019d hang out at his house and he would read my tarot, and we\u2019d have a drink and such. He was my daughters godfather, we were quite close. He, like myself and Lowenfels, had a great interest in the relationship between language and technology, and its impact on writing. This is where he and I really connected.\u00a0 We corresponded across the Bay about this subject for years. We both felt that as writers it would be a mistake to ignore the enormous impact that technology was and continues to have on language, and how we relate to each other through that electronic stratosphere.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been involved with technology all my working life, and I think it has impacted our generation and our age more than anything else, and thus our communications and our relationships.
\nNow after years of sitting behind a computer screen, I’m becoming increasingly bombarded by information via these low-resolution screens that are unable to communicate the richness and complexity of experience. I’m hoping to write about that subject more. But it’s still a part of my paying attention to the relationship between technology and language.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a carry-on with a singing noise
\nthat goes wherever I go,
\nit goes eeee-eeyah!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m waiting to board
\nso I can get back home
\nwaiting in the airport
\nwith a toothbrush and a comb.
\nIt goes boop boop, boop da dee boop!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a man next to me
\nreading a newspaper;
\nsomeone\u2019s sitting next to him,
\nbut he doesn\u2019t want to face her.
\nIt goes oh oh, bodie oh!<\/p>\n

She\u2019s wearing a shirt
\nstenciled with Marilyn Monroe
\nbut whatever girlfriend\u2019s feeling
\nshe doesn\u2019t want it to show.
\nIt goes donna wap wappa woedie!<\/p>\n

\u201cTicketholders are now boarding
\nin aisles one through 18,\u201d
\nI\u2019m over 21 and I still can\u2019t think
\nwhat I\u2019m going to do in that empty apartment.
\nIt goes rrrr rrrr rrrr rrrr rrrr!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll get in the car and drive back home,
\nI\u2019ll wash up, eat something, and check the telephone
\nthat never goes eeee-eeyah!
\nIt goes, blah blah bloddie blah.<\/p>\n

I have a carry- on with a singing noise
\nthat goes wherever I go
\nWherever I go
\nit goes eeee-eeyah!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAirport Song\u201d from Sh\u2019ma Yis\u2019rael<\/em><\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 In your prose story Tech Notes, which was published by Exquisite Corpse, you portray the ordeal of going through the dehumanizing process of trying to repair a failed computer, which was reminiscent of the perseverance that might be required in an emotional or intimate relationship with a human being; requiring incredible levels of patience and focus to get through it. In that story, at least to me, you brought an element of the paranormal into technology when a display light becomes the presence of your parents, kind of a ghost in the machine effect.<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0 That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 Do you believe in the paranormal?<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0 Yeah, I do. I see signs out there in the Oakland Hills when I take walks along the fire trails, and I frequently ask for guidance.\u00a0 I believe there is another level of reality beyond the one that you and I are currently occupying.<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 Do you ever strive for magical realism in your literary work?<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0\u00a0 I think I do. There\u2019s another manuscript that I\u2019ve started working on again from when I was a young mother, and I really tried to get it published at that time.\u00a0 It was initially called Tulips In The Dark<\/em>, but then it changed to being just called Lulu, and I\u2019ve only recently just returned to it. But I\u2019m amazed\u2026I mean\u2026I don\u2019t like my writing that much, because we\u2019re all our own worst critics after all, because we have to be. But because so many years have interceded I\u2019ve been able to bring a more objective criticism to this manuscript from a distance and I really like the work a lot. It ties together a lot of the themes of being Jewish and the Holocaust. The protagonist, Lulu is half Puerto Rican and half Jewish, and her grandmother is raising her but also a survivor of the camps, and is trying to distance herself from being Jewish. The fact that this girl is only half Jewish then makes it easier for her grandmother to raise her. It\u2019s a story about their relationship and so the magic realism in that comes from Lulu\u2019s fantasy life that she develops in order to survive her grandmother, who is not a very nice person, because she was so very warped by her experience in the camps. So I\u2019ve had to say to myself, \u201cwow, maybe this work has just been waiting for me until I could reach a point where I could work on it more thoroughly.\u201d
\nIt\u2019s funny that you mention the Tech Notes poem. I was really happy with that because at the time, and as someone who is a writer and who works as a webmaster I\u2019m always living with deadlines, and I had reached a point where it was all too much and I needed to back off and take some time, particularly because I hadn\u2019t really dealt with the issue of my parents death in a way that I needed to.\u00a0 They died when I was in my early twenties and I grieved deeply in the background of my psyche and creativity, but not so much in the forefront where I needed to. Around the time that piece developed I was taking a class from Diane DiPrima on forms and I really just wanted to write a sonnet sequence as it turned out, and combine that with what was happening in my life, which was demanding so much of my consciousness. So, the way those two worlds came together, it was a profound and satisfying experience.<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 How would you react if I were to suggest your writing is a combination of Futurism and Magical Realism; that in essence, you’re something of a “Magical Futurist”?<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0 I like that moniker.<\/p>\n

A woman walks down a path in early spring
\na firetrail that runs along a creek
\nbloated with the excess of winter<\/p>\n

But today golden poppies are arched to the sun,
\nas the woman spots a brown snake, new in length,
\nstretched across the road, its tongue<\/p>\n

begging for hand outs from every rustle.
\nShe bends down to see the solicitor.
\nBut seeing happens so quickly,<\/p>\n

even if with her own two eyes,
\nas dragonflies piggyback around her,
\nshe touches the string of snake with an outstretched finger.<\/p>\n

Her act is an instinctual thing,
\nwhile observing is an acquired art.
\nNever mind.\u00a0 She\u2019s in the thick of it now,<\/p>\n

follows the snake through the water, to the other side
\nof the water\u2019s bank, until she turns into snake,
\nand twining around him, even his cold blood feels warm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cString Theory\u201d from Sh\u2019ma Yis\u2019rael<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0\u00a0 What is the project specifically you and Sharon Doubiago have discussed doing with Kehilla Synagogue at Esalen?\u00a0\u00a0 Is this designed to be a collaborative effort with and among students?<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0\u00a0 Well, the project specifically is through Kehilla synagogue, the first one in the country to recognize the two state solution.\u00a0 The project is working within the Jewish community to develop these literary pieces that are then brought to a larger stage. Broadly speaking there aren\u2019t a lot of venues to hear the many different opinions or the struggles about Israel and Palestine and the occupation which has been going all of our lives.\u00a0 It\u2019s helping people develop this material and then bringing out on a larger stage within the Jewish community for starters; to have readings, put together selections of material for possible publication, buy you know, one step at a time, that\u2019s my larger vision. Alas, I have not heard back from Esalen who has a policy of “Don’t call us; we’ll call you if we’re interested.”<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 With increased instability becoming a hard and disturbing reality in the middle-east, do you think the 2 state solution is further away than ever (that is, not possible without a serious upgrade in bloodshed) or possibly closer than anyone thinks?<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0\u00a0 I can and do have an opinion regarding the possibility of a two-state solution, but in the long and short run, it doesn’t matter what I think. I’m not living there. Having said that, here’s my opinion: unless a two-state solution offers real access to roads and the ability for Palestinians to move within any designated area, there can be no real equality. The settlements have carved up the West Bank and further isolated Palestinians into restricted areas where they are unable to conduct business and raise their families. Many Palestinians feel that the Israeli government is pursuing a path to eliminate or force all Palestinians to leave.
\nFor many, a two-state solution is the probable political outcome, but I’ve also heard discussions that real equality can only come when Israel is not a singularly Jewish state, but equally recognizes the legal rights of both Palestinians and Israelis together. Do I think any of this will come to pass without more bloodshed? I hope not.\u00a0 Do I think a solution is closer than anyone thinks?\u00a0 Don’t know.\u00a0 Ireland and England reached an accord after years of bloodletting. Eventually, both countries and their peoples tired of the violence, loss of lives, and condemning future generations to more of the same. The Middle East is further complicated by its pivotal location for the U.S. geopolitical machine.\u00a0\u00a0 In my opinion, the peace movement within both countries is crucial to edging their respective governments (Israeli and Palestinian) toward a settlement. We don’t get substantive news here in the U.S. about the peace movement, but it is alive and well, the true soldiers of this horrible war. Outside of Israel, I think it’s important to continually win the hearts and minds of older and influential American Jews who’ve in some ways become shell shocked by the Holocaust into believing that Israel can do no wrong.<\/p>\n

PCR:\u00a0 It\u2019s fair to say the progressive Jewish community has been fighting to get a larger and more open debate on the subject, and that\u2019s been hard to come by.<\/em><\/p>\n

LW:\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 My experience in reading selections from Sh\u2019ma Yis\u2019rael is overwhelming. People haven\u2019t heard this kind of material which is an alternative view from the established Jewish voice, regarding the whole issue. The response has been tremendous. My challenge, now that my daughter has moved to college is to schedule more readings and get these views out much more publicly.<\/p>\n

Hear O Israel
\nfrom your daughter
\nwho can only read the alliterative text of Hebrew
\nwith glasses that need a new prescription
\nand a mouth that gets filled with saliva
\nfrom a tongue that knows not how to deliver
\ntwo dotted vowels-<\/p>\n

Hear O Israel,
\nfrom a daughter
\nwho was born in the same year
\nyou were created,
\nafter World War II had folded
\nits charred arms around
\nthe only hope that was left-
\nIsrael, the land of milk and honey-
\nYou were the voice of my parent\u2019s generation
\nwho planted trees along new boulevards
\nand carried ashes sewed
\ninside the hem of their clothing
\nto cry along the wadis of your limestone beds,
\nhugging Exodus by Leon Uris.<\/p>\n

You gave them a bright torch
\nto carry every high holyday
\nfor all their days
\nraising money and donating shoes-<\/p>\n

a reason to drink tea
\nin a glass mug with a lump of sugar
\ncoating their tongues with sweetness
\nas they stamped letters,
\nmade phone calls,
\nargued with each other in the accent
\nof wherever they\u2019d come from.<\/p>\n

Israel, my heart is heavy
\nwith the dreams of my parents
\ntheir second generation daughter
\nwho wanted a lasting peace
\nto fill the crevices
\nof your Wailing Wall
\nwith a light of its own creation.<\/p>\n

Instead, only war and massacre,
\ndairy farms and steel plants
\nlaid to rubble.
\nTwisted iron stabbing the earth.
\nAnd the sighs of the six million
\neach time another official
\ninvokes their name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSh\u2019ma Yis\u2019rael\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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