^* Robert Kelly, who in the early sixties had organized his magazine Matter around the Olsonian principle of poets as researchers on the primal, proposes some “Labrys” (or double-headed axes) as twelve “matters”: (1) Mare Nostrum, (2) Central Asia, (3) The place itself, (4) The uses of earth, (5) Sound, (6) Traditionary sciences, (7) Techniques of Enstasy, (8) Techniques of Ecstasy, (9) Shape, (10) Story, (11) Time & (or as) dimension, and (12) The Nation. Kelly elsewhere provides an “Experimental Program for Dream Research” in Io 8 (1971): 299–301. The “Labrys” are from In Time. Repositories and forums of the old lore and the exploration of the archaic (all dating from the 1960s to 1970s) include Robert Kelly’s Matter, Richard Grossinger’s Io, David Meltzer’s Tree, Jerome Rothenberg and Dennis Tedlock’s Alcheringa, and Rothenberg’s New Wilderness Letter. “I look for new forms and possibilities,” Rothenberg writes, “but also for ways of presenting in my own language the oldest possibilities of poetry going back to the primitive & archaic cultures” (Poems for the Game of Silence, 121). Outlining “Intersections & Analogies” of primitive and modern, he cites such approaches to the poem as performance score; intermedia; corporeality; concrete and pictorial poetries; noncausal logic as in surrealism, dream, and deep image; and a visionary continuum from shamanism to dada performance (Pre-Faces, 73–74, originally Technicians of the Sacred).