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113: INVISIBLE WALLS
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112: TREAT
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111: BABY
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110: POP!
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109: NO THEME 12
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108: DEDICATION
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107: LIMINAL
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106: OPEN
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105: NO THEME 11
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104: KIN
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103: AMBLE
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102: GAME
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101: NO THEME 10
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100: BROWNFACE
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99: SINGAPORE
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97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
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96: NO THEME IX
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95: EARTH
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94: BAYT
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93: PEACH
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92: NO THEME VIII
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91: MONSTER
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90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
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89: DOMESTIC
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88: TRANSQUEER
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87: DIFFICULT
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86: NO THEME VII
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85: PHILIPPINES
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84: SUBURBIA
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83: MATHEMATICS
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82: LAND
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81: NEW CARIBBEAN
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80: NO THEME VI
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57.1: EKPHRASTIC
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57: CONFESSION
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56: EXPLODE
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55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
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55: FUTURE MACHINES
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54: NO THEME V
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53.0: THE END
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52.0: TOIL
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51.1: UMAMI
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51.0: TRANSTASMAN
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49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
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49.0: OBSOLETE
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48.1: CANADA
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48.0: CONSTRAINT
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47.0: COLLABORATION
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46.1: MELBOURNE
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45.0: SILENCE
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44.0: GONDWANALAND
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43.1: PUMPKIN
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43.0: MASQUE
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41.1: RATBAGGERY
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41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
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40.1: INDONESIA
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40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
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39.1: GIBBERBIRD
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39.0: JACKPOT!
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38.0: SYDNEY
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37.1: NEBRASKA
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37.0: NO THEME!
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36.0: ELECTRONICA
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CONTRIBUTORS
Louis Armand
Conspiracy Theory is Contemporary Genre Literature
1. the task isn’t to tell the truth / but to induce in the reader / the belief that they’ve discovered it 2. only the poet finds Abyssiania inside the toe of their shoe 3. there are / worlds / …
Posted in 97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
Tagged Louis Armand
A House for Hanne Darboven
I’m not. I’m not, I’m not, I’m not. Describing. And. Sundial. Three nine seven one five. Drei neun sieben nul funf. And. No. She spent her childhood in Hamburg. She spent her. Five zero zero zero one. Plus. Funf nul …
Posted in 83: MATHEMATICS
Tagged Louis Armand
Truck & Trailer Approaching a City
(Jeffrey Smart, 1973) Europe in a thousand container terminals – the sat-nav recalibrates, the one language. Tollgate, tunnel, interchange. Who knows which roads get switched in the confusion. This welfare city or that doppelganger on the other side – this …
Posted in 80: NO THEME VI
Tagged Louis Armand
Unitary Pleasures: Masturbating in Space
The day Apollo traded his pipe for an appearance on the Eurovision Song Contest: “Living on Borrowed Time.” Absolutism isn’t the solitary pursuit it once seemed. Out of hours, display receipt. There’re other words for con- tainment, she said, but …
Posted in 64: CONSTRAINT
Tagged Louis Armand
Unsanitary, or: The Candy-Coloured Clown
Solo for Dennis Hopper Light everlasting! Jacked-up on a century’s backwash, knee-deep in it. The Cambodia of their dreams lay on a dirty mattress, amputated at the hips. A whole nation could bury its heartbreaks there & never know they …
Posted in 64: CONSTRAINT
Tagged Louis Armand
Brunswick Street Nocturne
(for Bill Moussoulis) Gamblers and parrots in polyvinyl acetate. Heads on blocks. The film runs backwards from the dénouement, a profile en face like a filled-in Rorschach blot coming closer. The street’s all hard encroachments, things ricochet, blur, united in …
Posted in 62: MELBOURNE
Tagged Louis Armand
Submission to Cordite 47: COLLABORATION Open!
THIS IS NOW CLOSED. Cordite 48.0: CONSTRAINT is accepting submissions. Poetry for Cordite 47: COLLABORATION is guest-edited by Helen Lambert (Moscow) and Louis Armand (Prague). What kind of poems are we looking for?: Two (or more) people working together to …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Helen Lambert, Louis Armand
Notes from New York, New York
New York Diary, 6 November 2013 The day begins at the Hollywood Diner on West 16th and Sixth. I used to keep office hours at Joe Junior’s down at 12th but they closed it two years ago and shifted it, …
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Louis Armand
Monument
1. Play the fluted column. Treasury of the consciousness of Man. Ring the emperors’ bells. The disappearing hat-trick. Replace chipped crockery. One copy among others. Animal furnishings. Will make nature obsolete? And so they cluster. Picture, fresco, miniature and stained-glass. …
Posted in 57: MASQUE
Tagged John Kinsella, Louis Armand
Juvenilia
Standing in line with haircut to join the Air Corps circa 1989 – & failing that, a George St boarding house (firetrap w/ kindling for stairs), shoesole counter-dinner, chips, tomato sauce. Squadron Leader says lost cause, gulping schooners & ducksoup …
Posted in 49: SYDNEY
Tagged Louis Armand
John Kinsella’s Poetics of Distraction
Like Rauschenberg’s Dante drawings, John Kinsella’s Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography has firstly had to address the question of its status with regard to “the allegorical requirement of a master text.”
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged John Kinsella, Louis Armand
1. sleepless thirty days:
there was a fork sticking out of my orange wires and random messaging the language of television and the synaptic schizophrenic snufflings of streetlights where crows in bad taste laugh at death and electric eels writhe in delight But overlapping, …
Posted in 38: POST-EPIC
Tagged Louis Armand
Louis Armand Live at the Globe
[audio:http://cordite.org.au/audio/Louis_Armand_Prague.mp3] Louis Armand live at the Globe Bookstore (15:29) Prague, 15 April 2009
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Louis Armand
Notes for a Prospectus
Louis Armand is an artist and writer who has lived and worked in prague since 1994. his work has appeared internationally.
Posted in 21: DOMESTIC ENEMY
Tagged Louis Armand
Slow Evenings
… when even words were eaten and behind our backs they were forming a picture an inscription illegible but flawless as that other time when words were still things their melody ringing on the cold, charred ground
Posted in 07: NORTHERN TERRITORY
Tagged Louis Armand, Sylva Fischerova
The Weather Glass
evening – we cross a deserted city – it's raining the whole infinite milieu! you tell me the story of democritus in the garden of abdera – it's pitch dark i try to remember details a telephone number date of …
Posted in 06: NEW POETRY
Tagged Louis Armand