By Rae Armantrout
In exactly announcing, unbelievable or even untenable audio system are in short constituted—only to vanish. the result's half carnival, half nightmare. A tv pundit’s rhetoric segues into an strange succulent with writhing maroon tongues. whilst the area abruptly turns into legible, is that revelation or psychosis? during this ebook, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice of the safety country can come from at any place. the matter of id turns into acute. The poems in exactly asserting can be imagined as chimeras, creatures that seem whilst outdated differences holiday down and components more often than not saved separate mix in new methods. the following Armantrout either concerns (as a puppy concerns a bone) and celebrates the groundless fecundity of being and of language.
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It’s a line of ants following a scent trail. Or a string of stragglers on a death march. ” says the stranded traveler (actress) with that small fist pump now used to indicate irony’s uselessness. 29 Hol di ng Pe n Wall-mounted sconces hold thought bubbles up on either side of a bed, mirror, television. * You laugh when the man mentions something you recognize. * Wavy brown lines forming squares on a carpet; some squashed, some bloated! * Hold that thought for what remains of time 30 S u bdi v ision In a horror movie the dead eat the living; while in reality the living eat the dead.
In the beginning” In the end, these are – there are – only suggestions: “Clockwise” or “counter” – though there are no clocks. “Horizontal” or “vertical” – though there is no horizon. 17 * Being aware of anything outside yourself means you aren’t sleeping so you have pushed things away. Now you are alone with pain. Pain is as large as you are and is not obedient. If you became pain, perhaps, then you could rest. But it is not possible to merge with pain. 18 S pe n t Suffer as in allow. List as in want.
Not really. Darker and topped with a swathe of peach above which 41 a black cloud like a submarine and like big beads on a string is now nowhere to be seen 42 Tr a n sac t ion s 1 What do we like best about ourselves? Our inability to be content. We might see this restlessness as a chip not yet cashed in. 2 You appear because you’re lonely maybe. You would not say that. You come to tell me you’re saving money by cooking for yourself. You’ve figured out what units you’ll need to exchange for units if you intend 43 I know I mustn’t interrupt.