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April 26, 2012
Another piece from LRL6: This poem by Jack Collom & Jenny...
Another piece from LRL6: This poem by Jack Collom & Jenny Henry totally flipped my lid when I received it. Was a foster parent at the time & finding very little lid left to flip, so at night before bed had a regular appointment to read something amazing for at least 10 minutes. I read this one like 5 nights in a row. For the issue, I took a stack of LIFE magazines to Kyle Schlesinger’s place in Austin & we cut them down & went to town on the ads.
April 25, 2012
"All the ideas (we’re running out)
Play the rocks.
Unit of measure here: sentence in 3’s
Viola of..."
All the ideas (we’re running out)
Play the rocks.
Unit of measure here: sentence in 3’s
Viola of love, of artifice
Load it on ¶, move in the act (rest of preface)
‘dragging our trains,’ even, as a rhetoric
Faith essay. ‘interface / interfaith’ (N. Cole).
America needs a faith lift.
& in the actual face, ‘form is the thing that happens
when you reach those limits’ (D. Lundy-Martin)
(resist including any of this)
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Face Essay
“Now let me see—have I forgotten anything? Good lord, yes! My fountain pen!” — Brunswick in The Craven Sluck (Mike Kuchar, 1967)
April 22, 2012
joylandpoetry.com
New poems from Sarah Campbell up at Joyland!
"Be the next
shaky precipice
That one unfazed
in all works
& cheer & golden Bodies
Wonder..."
Be the next
shaky precipice
That one unfazed
in all works
& cheer & golden Bodies
Wonder career
Off waiting
- from Rhyme Eats the Words (“Work, Kids” section)
April 20, 2012
Stephen Ratcliffe & Robert Grenier in (a life) conversation....
Stephen Ratcliffe & Robert Grenier in (a life) conversation. Meditative bench listening, 4/20/12. There are many more hours of this conversation here.
April 17, 2012
Johanna Drucker leading poetry calisthenics! *Really* worth...
Johanna Drucker leading poetry calisthenics! *Really* worth listening to… (bench listening, 4/17/12)
April 14, 2012
Barbara Guest, from "Shifting Persona"
The person with the omnipotence of a cloud hovers over a poem pointing to the direction that it should take.
The poem’s concealed autobiography. A memoir of itself which is released as it becomes a presence existing in time.
When the poem is on its feet, to leave it alone to express its own person. The relief from the intensity of the poem’s presence as it heats up.
An astonishment throughout the poem at the vibrations of its ego. “I” becomes the bystander and the poem is propelled by the force of the “person” stripped bare.
Richard Wollheim writes: “The artist is essentially a spectator of his work.”
(Forces of Imagination, pp. 40-41)
Susan Gevirtz interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara...
Susan Gevirtz interviews Hadley Guest about Barbara Guest’s life & work. The complete interview is available on the Kelsey St. Blog. (bench listening, 4/9/12)
A partial constellation for Susan Gevirtz's AERODROME ORION & STARRY MESSENGER
A prelude to some old notes on Susan’s last (gorgeous) book from Kelsey St.
from Gevirtz’s Thrall:
p. 26, the city’s edible foundation “positing levitation / as twin to dwelling”
p. 34, “Taking the scapula and / putting in the wingspan of a bald eagle. This way”
from C.S. Giscombe’s Here:
“all names / had fled from memory and from the map both. // I saw typescript loose in the air all around our location when we spoke / in the dream, // the sentences disembodied but readable”
Wallace Stevens’ Auroras of Autumn: a mother & father in the sky
H.D.’s star-aster
Rob Halpern’s dis-aster
Robert Duncan’s”In Blood’s Domain”:
“The Angel Syphilis in the circle of signators looses its hosts to swarm”
Cecilia Vicuña’s Unraveling Words & the Meaning of Water:
“& if I devoted my life to one of its feathers”
the feather/object/invocation skyward/inward/(as earthward)
& event/performance, unraveling the book
Norma Cole’s My Bird Book & Mars
Hölderlin’s “In Lovely Blue”:
“Would I like to be a comet? I think so.”
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