By Stephanie Young
Poetry. "PICTURE PALACE supplies an previous tale a brand new language: lady grows up in church, thinks she will be able to depart, yet then years later realizes that regardless of all the pieces she's performed to get out that she remains to be captive. That the woman sees this truth in the course of the phrases and photographs of others is what makes Stephanie Young's first publication considering that TELLING the long run OFF whatever so new, so relocating, so resonant with connective tissue that to be so stuck sounds like accountability and in addition liberation"—Juliana Spahr.
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Only in these and other passive ways does he continue. Except for their hysterics of exchange. The mail drips toward her overladen with its own watery, symbolic weight. But he was an earth sign. 4 This quiet evening in my arms where every part of the laughter at her expense is part of the dreamer everybody’s Cassandra at the drive-in terrified, she’s still doing it in the hills, you used to work there—he, looking down through decorative grasses as if I had been swimming in chlorinated water for ever, for ever ever, for ever ever?
We were listening to TLC. We were listening to 2 $hort. We were listening to Tweet. We were looking at cartoons. We were looking at the illustrations. We were moving boxes. We were moving our car. We were moving the VCR back and forth. We were picking berries. We were proofreading. We were reading A Lover’s Discourse. We were reading Folding Ruler Star. We were reading Freud. indd 52 5/20/08 6:48:36 PM We were reading Fun in Games. We were reading The Iliad. We were reading The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book.
I had been gone for several days. I waited, the program fetching messages. It would happen when I stopped waiting. Methods. “Lift up now thine eyes,” with a broad gesture of the arm and hand, “and look from the place where thou art,” the next seven words not included here are directions, “for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever” (Genesis 13:14-17). And so I had my expressive freedom. Was it worth it? “Let me work it / I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it” (Missy Elliott).
