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Wikipedia Poem, No. 129
poems whose admonishments in the bodies of adults their bodies contribute relief many to fulfill reducing they had Russian girls snake-like the starving years an atrophy wasting saint-like of food aid and agriculture to a punish a sense of tissues exacerbating already a fetus an illness two other brothers then to more than or eat…
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Author Photo with Knife
to grab the reader by the balls to force it to sculpt my bellicose cleavage in the whitespace under the image to demand pedagogy and aloofness had coupled in the unified field and born “THISS” (quoting Olson & Graham) to imply the blue of the sea, or Kings Plaza gray and untouchable, or a wild…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 128
up smoking mouths project Georgia where discreet means muttering a sense of release up screes from a touch-screen listing hickory from a Germaic noun used in western French Canada Australia New York; cree as in “creening his eyes” perhaps recording and that of the flesh see creep (v.) flashing look up split-screen (adj.) look up…
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Library of Congress
Winter landscape The statue The disciple A point of age The traveller The ball poem Fare well The spinning heart Parting as descent Desires of men and women World-telegram Ancestor Boston Common: a meditation upon the hero The moon and the night and the men The enemies of angels Canto amour Young woman’s song The…
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Pre-Columbian Parlor Trick
A white man stripped nude in February snow A white man bisected and disemboweled A white man lowered into a boiling fin de siècle kettle A white man, a nail gun, a scoreboard A white man, his radius and ulna strapped to the rough cut stump of a boxelder maple, anterior artery up A white…
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Mary Karr
Assail self-portrait in U.S. letters today—an invention of his seductive voice this zippo and his seductive voice is influence is influential is inflated enough to take a smart guy immensely charming most celebrated and unclothed enough to take it he’s a smart guy with a genius ear for music In America’s besotted unclothed empire anybody…
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from Ben Lerner’s “Leaving the Atocha Station”
“Reading poetry, if reading is even the word, was something else entirely. Poetry actively repelled my attention, it was opaque and thingly and refused to absorb me; its articles and conjunctions and prepositions failed to dissolve into a feeling and a speed; you could fall into the spaces between words as you tried to link…
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John Ashbery
Reading Ben Lerner from behind Without Ben Lerner’s express written consent I am Ben Lerner “noctilucent” Against Ben Lerner’s particular ass The pedals of the tricycle in Ben Lerner’s front yard haven’t rotated, felt reciprocation in months But nonetheless, here I am, Ben Lerner Atop Ben Lerner, concerned about Death All tucking away the c-word…
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