By Anne Waldman
A desirable new paintings from an the world over popular poet Acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's most up-to-date book-length poem is an allegory of an intensive spirit in lockdown, ruled through "Deciders" and "Imposters" who threaten the way forward for poetry and its archive. A doppelganger nightmare ensues: the imposter "Anne" is a succubus, and the unique Anne has to break Read more...
summary: a desirable new paintings from an across the world well known poet Acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's most modern book-length poem is an allegory of a thorough spirit in lockdown, ruled through "Deciders" and "Imposters" who threaten the way forward for poetry and its archive. A doppelganger nightmare ensues: the imposter "Anne" is a succubus, and the unique Anne has to damage loose from a metaphorical fortress of torture and mental domination. There are travels via Vedic cosmology and historical Japan ahead of solution on a treeless tundra, the place fragile existence kinds fight to outlive. Waldman's oracular poem is a witty meditation on id robbery and a searing plea for the primacy of mind's eye and for collective sanity in our provocative but precarious time
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When Deciders cheer inside break sound they said manipulate pitch vocal cords phonation’s a discourse for the impostors what is language? “We use it, don’t we? ” “vocal grooming, could be low-cost” “is she vocalizing? ” phonemes produced on the outsides of our body shed skins to be nameless decided the pipeline that will change the cartography of living things deciding the Grand Canyon hundreds of water bodies threatened endangered habitat of whooping cranes pallid sturgeons decide the future of American burying beetles decide assault weaponry, blood on hands decided the model of air, water of earth of fire in empire offer a truced tribunal, tear down the wall or they shake within your cacophony the end of wilderness memo: we need a commission for the scrutiny tribunal Deciders of all accounts took the stratus off a poet-face (stratus = layer) kept her in a cage cumulus more of heap like severance pay cirrus = mere curl of a hair resembles coil of sound double bind decided our debt to one another was it not humanitas & caritas?
Looking into the Odd toed ungulate’s eyes who had his left leg resting on my shoulder. The mortal can be described the Gunslinger finished, That’s all mortality is in fact. —Gunslinger, Edward Dorn The valley spirit never dies. It’s called dark female-enigma, and the gateway of dark female-enigma is called the root of heaven and earth, gossamer so unceasing it seems real. Use it; it’s effortless. —Tao Te Ching, sixth-century BCE translated by David Hinton Table of Contents Acknowledgments Gossamurmur Pivots Audio Lines of Poetry About the Author Penguin Poets ACKNOWLEDGMENTS With gratitude to Peter Warshall, MaelstrÖm reEvolution, the Tamaas foundation, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Bhanu Kapil, Ambrose Bye, Pat Steir, Alexis Myre, Elliot Colla, Sawko Nakayasu, David Gitlen, Apsara DiQuinzio, and Gina Maher, who in her generosity gave home and shelter to this writing.
Gunslinger, Edward Dorn The valley spirit never dies. It’s called dark female-enigma, and the gateway of dark female-enigma is called the root of heaven and earth, gossamer so unceasing it seems real. Use it; it’s effortless. —Tao Te Ching, sixth-century BCE translated by David Hinton Table of Contents Acknowledgments Gossamurmur Pivots Audio Lines of Poetry About the Author Penguin Poets ACKNOWLEDGMENTS With gratitude to Peter Warshall, MaelstrÖm reEvolution, the Tamaas foundation, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Bhanu Kapil, Ambrose Bye, Pat Steir, Alexis Myre, Elliot Colla, Sawko Nakayasu, David Gitlen, Apsara DiQuinzio, and Gina Maher, who in her generosity gave home and shelter to this writing.
