Reading Report: Edwin Torres and Will Alexander
at the Poetry Project site!
at the Poetry Project site!
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I started to write my thoughts on Alli Warren's new chapbook, Well-Meaning White Girl, and I realized that I was picking out the dirty parts as I read. Here, then, are the dirty parts, pretending to be a new poem.
Gold Dirt
out of several secretions
nectar
come bursting through the ground
secret swelling
in gaping engagement
must be made more moist
with spore sacs and sac fruits
and we were all like
plugging the whole
lactating
all gummy in the mouth
breathing and peopled cupping
we wipe each other off
waxing real hard
pussywillows whip in the wind
I lick around the perimeter and then I lick under
insert two fingers to bring breath
the flooding comes
donk for days
I lay my button down on naked ladies
if this is decadence
I had something special on
for pants
big breathy icons
and fruity knockers
I held it in my mouth
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8:42 PM
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This isn't a picture of me; it's Barbara Walters, in whom, honestly, I really never thought I would find my doppelganger.
It's from this video, which my mother sent to me on Hallowe'en:
Weird.
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Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U
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10:17 PM
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Extraordinary. Not only was it a trenchant critique of its time and a metacommentary on the faculty of seeing and the medium of film, but also prescient of the soon-to-come doors-of-perception cleansing with which LSD was to douse the culture. Worth seeing just for the pink 1950s optical instruments and the partygoers doing the Twist naked in the main character's enhanced vision.
also a brilliant video by Dani Leventhal as part of a program curated by Peggy Ahwesh, ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME, featuring mainly young women filmmakers. I enjoyed the other films as well, but Dani's was a standout. In the Q and A afterwards, she said she had been influenced primarily by sculpture and drawing, and that made sense, but the edits really seemed like poetry to me.
Also on the program was Otis Turner's THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ from 1910, which Peggy cited as an early influence, and I found this VERY interesting as my own last two movies have used images from the series of early Oz films. I stumbled on the DVD on a trip to Cape May last summer: what a treasure trove! And here it is (part 1)...
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Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U
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11:37 PM
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These callipygian longings.
Not to have seen you naked =
the greatest injustice known
to man! But don’t assume
that I am writing about
you.
Stunned daffy energy
morphosing on the lipid
pleasure of revolution
in tartan tights. I love
it when men tell me what
to do I love the timid crust
of need on the surface
of false order. There.
You have your orders.
Go.
Life beribboning
itself with more
and more and more life:
then twisting into its
same old spiral.
In semicostume as always
prying the sticky lens
from the bioglobe.
Opinionated. Injured.
All the little…
comptrollers…
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Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U
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11:19 AM
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I can’t ketchup to you
to sweetly relish
your interiorities:
not even with all this
pelvic mayonnaise. The poems
are the crucial chutney
to the bland daily “special.”
Nothing else matters,
not the wasabi
of your personality,
the coarse mustard
of my mannered
suggestiveness,
or the gooey duck sauce
of these noxious phantasms.
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Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 U
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10:06 AM
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Sol Lewitt wrote:
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. There is nothing worse than seeing art that wallows in gaudy baubles. By and large most artists who are attracted to these materials are the ones who lack the stringency of mind that would enable them to use the materials well. It takes a good artist to use new materials and make them into a work of art. The danger is, I think, in making the physicality of the materials so important that it becomes the idea of the work (another kind of expressionism).
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1:22 PM
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