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Assembled Members of a Set
Some notations on “Final Notations” from An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich What is its meaning? Try memorizing the first stanza. Be mindful of what gets laid down quickly and where the memory catches. It’s itself. It … Continue reading
Recognition Scenes
This is how it begins The image/ the pawnees in their earth-lodge villages, the clear image of teton sioux, wild fickle people the chronicler says, This is how it ends in our desires, our desires, mirages, mirrors, that are theirs, hard- … Continue reading
Least Terms
There erupts a passage from Lisa Robertson “The Fountain Transcript” Nevertheless, flow in itself, with its fatal grandeur, does not interest us: we prefer to describe obstacles to flow, little impediments, affect-mechanisms, miniaturizations of subliminity. as I am contemplating poems … Continue reading
Whose Idea of Who?
The Edward Curtis Project: A Modern Picture Story. Marie Clements and Rita Leistner. In the play by Marie Clements there is a moment when two women are conversing. They are sisters from a mixed marriage; one is brown skinned and … Continue reading
Spume and Veil
Susan Howe appends a note to Where Should The Commander Be* and the note reads *A preliminary exploration of the hidden feminine in Melville and Olson. And the patient reader is treated to a finale drawing not only on skill … Continue reading
Stretching for Allusion
I wonder how some lines in a poem by Tim Dlugos play out if you don’t connect with an allusion to Raymond Burr’s character, Perry Mason, in Ironside. The gestural quality transcends the allusion: Like wheelchair detectives we reach for … Continue reading
Gift of Navigation
Michael Riordon in fine form in the preface to Eating Fire: family life, on the queer side We live in a relational universe. […] Moving through our lives, we define ourselves not only as the insular I, but in relation … Continue reading
Reductions
Colm Tóibín in a review of the poetry and prose of Thom Gunn collected in Love in a Dark Time concludes […] we must acknowledge that his talent, his seriousness, his intelligence and his generosity, if they can be separated … Continue reading
Star Drumming
From a piece of ephemera announcing a star drumming workshop facilitated by Robin Armstrong where participants learn how to play an I Ching hexagram comes this sentence: Over everyone’s head is a different star, and under our feet is the … Continue reading
Mailboxes
Andrew Holleran’s narrator in The Beauty of Men finds himself waiting behind a school bus and musing He regards the school bus now with a certain awe — even if he knows it’s filled with bullies and brats trying to … Continue reading