Allen Fisher

Slop [extract]

Language: english

Translations: german (Slop [Auszug])

Slop [extract]

Spin and momentum coupled
in spin-orbit
ultrafast optical techniques to spatiotemporal
resolve spin dynamics
in strained gallium arsenside and
indium gallium arsenside
epitaxial layers unexpected
observation of spin splits
arise from strain in semiconductor films

His heart not an island cut off but
joins to other continents
compassionate towards
the affliction of others
shows his heart
wounded itself when it gives balm
tasked to discover connections and their expansion
dangers no more light
if they seem light

Sensations vary and appear to
duplicate or repeat
experiences link memory to these
and similarity
whether to renew experience or
repeat it as likely as new
experience at each perception facility
to memorate spacetime with internal gorse

Trapped inside phase-coherence,
two pulses inject the control
results in absorbance of a signal field and
storage of a quantum state of the signal.
The suppression of noise
vital to avoid decoherence,
even tiny amounts of stationary light
introduce large nonlinear
effects

Every medicine an innovation
hard to speak with truth and untruth together
in a few words, Whoever delighted in solitude
either wild or a god where natural or secret hatred
towards society is savage unless out of a love
and desire to sequester his own high conversation
where solitude in a crowd produces without love
and friends are scattered needed only in misery
aperspectively to make visibility

Contemporaneity of the future
difference of dry light to his drenched affections
a councel given by others and
his own flattery
Friendship offers peace in affection
support of judgement
twin desires in a body
a body confined once with a typewriter
and ideas of politics in another.

Translations:

Language: german

Slop [Auszug]

…
Spin und drehimpuls gekoppelt
im spin-orbital
ultraschnelle optische verfahren zur raumzeitlichen
lösung der spin-dynamik
in filtriertem gallium arsenige säure und
indium gallium arsenige säure
epitaxiale schichten unvorhergesehen
beobachtung der spin-aufspaltung
entwickeln sich aus spannung in halbleiterschichten

Sein herz nicht eine abgeschnittene insel doch
schließt an andere kontinente
mitfühlend für
die leiden anderer
zeigt sein herz
selbst verletzt wenn es balsam spendet
beauftragt mit entdeckung der verknüpfungen und ihrer weite
bedrohen kein licht mehr
wenn es licht wirkt

Empfindungen schwanken und scheinen so
verdoppeln und wiederholen
erfahrungen fügen erinnerungen an diese
eindrücke und findet differenz
und ähnlichkeit
wiederhole es möglichst als neue
erfahrung an jeder station der wahrnehmung
um raumzeit mit innerer verflechtung zu erinnern

Gefangen in der phasenkohärenz
injezieren zwei impulse die kontrolle
führt zur absorption eines signalfeldes und
speicher eines quantenzustands des signales.
Die rauschunterdrückung
entscheidend zur vermeidung der dekohärenz,
selbst kleinste beträge stehenden lichts
ergeben zu stark nicht-lineare
wirkungen

Jede medizin eine innovation
schwierig wahrheit und lüge in einem zu sagen
in ein paar worten, Werimmer sich erfreute an einsamkeit
sei’s wild oder ein gott wo natürlicher oder heimlicher hass
auf die gesellschaft grausam ist wenn nicht aus liebe
und verlangen die eigene hochkonversation abzusondern
wo einsamkeit in einer menge ohne liebe produziert
und freunde verstreut gebraucht werden nur bei leiden
sie aperspektivisch zu veranschaulichen

Zeitgenossenschaft der zukunft
differenz von dürrem licht und seiner feuchten neigungen
ein rat von anderen erteilt und
die schmeichelei von selbst
Freundschaft bietet frieden in zuneigung
unterstützt das urteil
zwillingstriebe in einem körper
ein körper eingesperrt einst in einer schreibmaschine
und gedanken von politik in einem anderen.

Allen Fisher

photo © Paige Mitchell

* 01.11.1944, Norbury, London, United Kingdom
lives in: Hereford, United Kingdom

Allen Fisher, born in 1944 in London, is a poet, painter and publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival and is the edit of Spanner magazine.

Allen Fisher has been involved in performance and poetry since 1962. In 1969 his poetry and art practice developed different strands of processual, conceptual and systematic methods. Altogether Fisher has over 150 publications in his name consisting of art documentation, poetry and theory. He has written four main long sequences of work: the PLACE project (1971-1980), Blood, Bone, Brain (1970-1980), The Art of Flight (1970s) and Gravity as a consequence of shape (1982-2007).

photo © Paige Mitchell

After starting Edible Magazine during the 1960s, and setting up Aloes Books in 1972, he started Spanner in 1974. Spanner continues to publish art and poetry texts and a series of chapbooks. From 1975 until 1980, he ran New London Pride Editions with Elaine Fisher, dedicated to writers then working in London. As editor of Spanner and "New London Pride", he has published many of the Revival poets.

Fisher started painting in 1978. After twenty years in lead and plastics industries he started teaching art, art history and poetry at Goldsmiths' College in the eighties, moved to Herefordshire College of Art & Design in 1989.
In 1998 Fisher became Head of Art at Roehampton University, was appointed as Professor of Poetry & Art in 2002 and became Head of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005 and was made Emeritus Professor in 2009.

His early long project PLACE was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. PLACE is a development in open field poetics, focusing on South London, and incorporates a series of books including Convergences (1978), Becoming (1978) and Unpolished Mirrors (1986).
Originally published over several years as a series of interconnecting books, it incorporated influences from Blake, Olson, Pope, Wordsworth, Robert Kelly, Walter Benjamin, Jung, Dickens, Foucault, Wilhelm Reich, Marxism, the Situationists, conceptual art and researches in mythology, linguistics, psychology, mathematics, immunology, topography, zoology and much else – and yet remains unclassifiable.

Parallel with this ten-year project PLACE, he developed systematic sequences of poetry, such as The Art of Flight based on the notes in Bach's The Art of Fugue and Apocalyptic Sonnets which invented the double sonnet. During the 1980s he started a series of works in art history and poetics (Necessary Business 1985, Topological Shovel 1999 and Confidence in lack, 2007).

Gravity as a consequence of shape incorporates many small books and booklets started in 1982, culminating in 3 collected volumes: Gravity (2004); Entanglement (2004), and Leans (2007).
This very long sequence is a mix of science, everyday language and the poetic tradition of Britain, combined with comments from philosophy, politics, and business to a web of texts that goes beyond collage and montage techniques and is closely related to forms of conceptual art and techniques of contemporary art.

This was followed by a book of emblems (poem-image-commentary) called "Proposals" and, in 2014, a collage book of poetry, visual images and prose quotations called "SPUTTOR". A book of essays "Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture and Perception" regarding American and British Poetry & Art Since 1950 and other essays on poetics was published by the University of Alabama in 2016. Forthcoming: a "Companion" to his work with essays by contemporaries and an "Allen Fisher Reader", both due in 2017.

Fisher has exhibited widely, including a retrospective painting show in Hereford Museum & Art Gallery in 1993, and one-man shows in London, 2003, and Hereford, 2013. Part of his processual work is in the Tate Collection and his painted work is owned by museums in Hereford and Iceland and private collections in America, Australia, Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

Allen Fisher lives as Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University in Hereford.

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