“realism documentation file 1”

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realism documentation file 1
man breaks muscled horse
like streams of cake batter
unrealistic currant red anatomy
study asparagus white anatomy
study studying studied while he fell down without
his eyes utterly empty yet san-
guine bestride the library steps
append musculature map room stampede

october april albert oehlen
the you kay recedes act now
york jump up contemporary
art museums market
enter via zurich near
erasmus exhales newspaper
post-retrospektive photography
live living lived the venice biennial
cycles selective resins develop
by the left reactions from
london says yet another hit

“Shocked (8 January 1963)” by Jackson Mac Low

Stunt.

Their groom shocked shock-
ed Police suspended suspensions though
     good Shocked thrown two shocked shock-
ed Police suspended suspensions though
     good shocked Chief two shock-
ed that though Shocked their groom shocked
     the two force,
Shocked The two shocked drank coffee relaxed.

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Source: Mac Low, Jackson. Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works. Ed. Anne Tardos. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 2009. Page 112. Print.

Wikipedia Poem, No. 240

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“Is there another poetry than the one I know? That seems to me the inescapable question.” Grossman

 

i subscribe purple cloth mouth
agape and swing select a bow
today one hundred enemies slain

a free life the trap between
foot soldiers familiar patterns in pixels
veins open up onto decaying sewer

this cave is still a gift to spinning refuse
the surface this cave is still a gift to
the abyss edge one hundred enemies slain

a free life the words but words but the present
spinning selects a box is a cave is still a gift
to which i subscribe purchase into decaying

spinning spinning refuse the trap between
foot soldiers familiar patterns in a free four
this cave is a cave is creepy coded like

the present spinning selects a box
a triumphant return to spinning
spinning selected a box was a cave

is a cave is still a gift to which i subscribe
purchase into decaying spinning spinning
spinning spinning selects a bow today

one two the trap between four familiar foot
soldiers familiar patterns in a free life
the present spun refuses the surface

this cave is a cave is a cave is a cave
is a cave is a cave is still a gift to which i
subscribe purple cloth in my mouth

agape and too near this cave is still a gift to the trap
between foot soldiers familiar patterns in pixels
veins open up onto a decaying selected bow today

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Source: Grossman, Allen R. True-love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Page 6. Print.

Wikipedia Poem, No. 239

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“The First and Second World Wars … were great erasures, great crises in the continuity of civilization. … Nuclear war threatens the obliteration of all persons whatsoever. … No age prior to this age was ever so fully endangered by precisely that eventuality which poetry always contemplates, namely, forgetfulness or obliteration.” Allan Grossman, 1981

 

scribble spears
scribble the physical
meant it too

so far apparent sharps
stationary school
slippery sand outpouring

she did what she could
be a snake if she said she
would think of some electronics

circuits said she’s wrong whose
service is to remain silent she said
and check out all those cops she said

from a sunday friend
seance she said pointing
some questions for god

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Source: Grossman, Allen R, Mark Halliday, Allen R. Grossman, and Allen R. Grossman. The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers.The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Page 11. Print.

Wikipedia Poem, No. 237

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“All warfare is struggle for control of the unalterable logic of manifestation. The urgency of the study of poetics in our time — the political character of such study that involves it with power — derives from the bearing of this proposition on the fact that the social formation of power (e.g., the state) is structured like a representation and maintains itself under the conditions of the scarce-contested space and constrained logics of the manifest (that is, the represented) world by manipulating access to acknowledgment, which is the fundamental wealth of life.” Allen Grossman

 

literature links
classical meter
to nautical law

and thereby governare
kybernan the metrical unit tailwind
downstep tabernacle

the foot as referent
upstep includes
floating foundation

poetry kneels below abyssal sea
at the bottom of truth amphibrach free
command all prayerful men obey

the reductionary vowel
succeeds in american verse
a single stress jumps up

the english sailor’s skill is refined
the jersey poet strangles his dactyl
the iamb swings its truncheon as trochee

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Source: Grossman, Allen R. True-love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Page 95. Print.

Wikipedia Poem, No. 233

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“the ammonia curled / for a moment in the air like a spirit.” Sharon Olds

 

leukocytes appraise
without prejudice bound on
waste produce blue carbon

proteins and plasma amino
acids heathrow international blood
movements standing action committees

leukocytes carry veins toward
the cell door which exercise
dissolves in the immune system

spare black brushes of manhood
blackened hypothalamus glucose
waste principally nutrients

spirit aerated redistributed
subclavian arteries adapt molecules
strenuously deoxygenate

blood transports therea’s blood cells
her fair urothelial dress
her exalted exhale press

hemocyanin — human blue —
body heart heat cellular legs
the body thrombocyte erythrocyte

leukocyte impure
an ocean of veins
from which cells are bound

coagulate properly coat
the liver flush blood moves old
aberrant functions and plasma

platelet fluids in
circulation humans
in capacity

Wikipedia Poem, No. 236

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“Pardon my past, because, you know, / it was like all one piece. / It can’t have escaped your escaped your attention / that I would argue.” John Ashbery

 

precipitating spirit-quickening phlegm
stopping food accumulation squishing
blood-dispelling bleeding spit-wicking

orifice-opening movement of water
dispelling spirit respelling liver
yang-fortifying astriction-promoting

blood-nourishing supplement gushing
spirit-quake external application
promoting blood-upselling

orifice-opening blood-scattering
qi-suppressing blood-nourishing
damp-dispersing phlegm-transforming