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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

from "Joe's Marginalia"

some later Rae Armantrout

deviance -
blues songs

poetics of questions -
necessarily open-ended

singularity v. universality

but Narcissus - Narcissus -
didn't notice!

(her) (like Echo?)

(so as to avoid originality)

I can't help thinking
of my toyota, here -

self-absorption is bothered
by imitation?

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Is this "cerebral" poetry =
compared to Notley - ?
(cerebral palsy)

creepy -

flash of perception -

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or see

- to Hades? or earth?

insincerity of particulars?

transcendence

(things as they are)

*

all else

e.g., the dead - false syllogisms
empty - (potentiality)

(of what?)

*

- hmmm . . .

*

every poem a world-view

a connoisseur of vacancies - good description of her - title
for a biography?

(or lines)

who? - She
her?
(not "narratives")

breaks up
in the middle distance

like
these
poems?

*

electrical
pole/ wires

(the circumstance's
word is gone)

*

the late work - hers?

right? schtick
another form
of perform

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the other - the third
who walks beside you

(in memory)

(a tough audience!)

*

(sameness does)

deja-vu

to? -

*

engines - vice boxes [here I meant "voice"] - or
syrinxes

(which it has, in speaking a
word)

(thtat's what words are, after all)

the "managed poem"

(im-)

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