“I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.”
When daddy slaps the water, baby laughs. Stocks split the gods from their stormdoors. Your necessary warnings, my beauty, are an occupiable space, a storage place about the body an hour before bed. The hero’s tongue is also a sunflower. Which drives like a Nyquil buckboard, a fractal beauty product, a Charles Bernstein poem called “Strike!”, a Bichon Frise. Knit. Sock. Love. “Under ciliated moon shake off floatings / Of soap; strike code on oxidised zinc.” My beauty is an MGTC. Questions evaporate off the pavement. Lines enfolded into lines cause social change. I could never be publicly intelligent for that long, your dailiness assemblage. When I hear “aesthetics” I reach for my body. My beauty isn’t a beauty thing. Affects happen in public. Jenner just puked up a leaf. Etruscan ethics, an eternity of ambiguous belief, light propagates in zones outside the body. Bunnies in the ethereum. Bride analyzer, an internal decor, dialectical behavior therapy. Can you see our dialogue boxes in the dark? If I leverage myself under the vinyl into the gondola with the mud/turf roof.
Anne Gorrick is the author of:
A’s Visuality (BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, NY, 2015),
I-Formation (Book 2) (Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK, 2012),
I-Formation (Book 1) (Shearsman, 2010), and
Kyotologic (Shearsman, 2008). She co-edited (with poet Sam Truitt)
In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley (Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY, 2016). She has also collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book called
Swans, the ice, she said with grants through the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She also co-curated (with poet Lynn Behrendt), the electronic journal
Peep/Show.
http://theropedanceraccompaniesherself.blogspot.com.au/
John Bloomberg-Rissman is in the last year of five on
In the House of the Hangman, the third section of his maybe life project called Zeitgeist Spam. The first two volumes have been published:
No Sounds of My Own Making (Leafe Press, 2007), and
Flux, Clot & Froth (Meritage Press 2010), and sections of Hangman have been published over the last couple years at
Jacket2. In addition to his Zeitgeist Spam project, the main other things on his plate right now are an anthology which he is editing with Jerome Rothenberg, titled
Poems for the Millennium 5: Barbaric Vast & Wild: An Anthology of Outside & Subterranean Poetry, due out from Black Widow Press around the end of 2014, longterm collabs with Anne Gorrick, and a study of Etel Adnan, which is in its early stages.
http://www.johnbr.com/