26.1: WHITE HOMES

Poetry Editor Kristina Maria Darling
Released January 2008
Index of Poems
Contributor Notes
Cover Image: Chris Schedel

A brief intermission between the towering edifices (edifii?) of INNOCENCE and EXPERIENCE, Kristina Maria Darling’s WHITE HOMES is a collection of prose poems from the USA, featuring works by Elizabeth Willis, G. C. Waldrep, Richard Siken, Mary Ann Samyn, Simone Muench, Sarah Manguso, Richard Greenfield, Robert Gibbons, Joshua Clover and Erin M. Bertram.




Sarah Manguso: Hell

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

The second-hardest thing I have to do is not be longing's slave.Hell is that. Hell is that, others, having a job, and not having a job. Hell is thinking continually of those who were truly great. Hell is the moment …

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Sarah Manguso: Address to Winnie in Paris

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

Winnie, I am writing this on behalf of my friend Harris. He loves you and wants you to love him. I have never been to Paris, but I have heard that it is a good place to be in love …

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Richard Greenfield: THE SESSION

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

began with paper arguments, wipe-away lines crossed at the cardinal x of the low table, the surface the oily luster that absorbed the cotton-colored catalog light, began, actually then, with symmetry; the ragged tour entered a hall of empty pedestals, …

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Richard Greenfield: RE ZONE

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

                          Self-hatred coils eventually upon itself-    the warning rattle is without context, separated from the dead snake in the path                  now gone, the rattle snapped off and slid into my pocket, inutile to the fang; two years               living on a road …

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Robert Gibbons: Goat & Camel

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

We'd had lunch already, but I wanted to see what goat meat looked like, so we stopped in next door to the Somali place on St. John Street, where the old butcher obliged. It's bright red, & sinewy. I asked …

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Robert Gibbons: The Dahlias

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

My reluctance to choose York Street didn't last long, at first simply finding myself there, then deliberately heading up or down, what with the light slanting just right, it must have originally been a ridge above the harbor. Then, the …

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Robert Gibbons: Woman Married to the Sun & Wind

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

Though it reeks of it in that grand sequence of prose poems, Paris Spleen, Baudelaire uses the word prostitution only three times. He seems to equate the phenomena with generosity of spirit, a creative sharing of the self with the …

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Joshua Clover: Contempt

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

This illuminated surface of events, this present tense, this staring at screens that we've been doing to escape the flatness of these deadpan days. This calling movies dreams, this calling memories Rome. The colors in Contempt, are they of the …

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Joshua Clover: Whiteread Walk (2)

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

Monumental the lacunae between illbiquitous promenaders down to the Square past the Open 24 Hours as social forms of grieving we are prohibited this is the remix the new glitch has been recalled melancholy of luscious Pictober the fall of …

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Joshua Clover: Whiteread Walk (1)

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

Vertigo Europa austere museum sex hotel record shop Odeon neon breath isolations in the vale of lang climbing the Whispering Gallery doing the Strand glad girls paper wedding painted retina crosses a small continent between two bars colored rays of …

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Erin M. Bertram: Selections from The Urge To Believe Is Stronger Than Belief Itself

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Cordite Poetry Review

Note: Cancer is not invasive like a virus or bacteria, an injury or trauma. Cancer is a disease of the self. The body's own cells assume a guise & stage a quiet coup. Breast cells, on average, take 100 days …

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