for David Shapiro I PARITY Underneath the garden, loose stars stapled to ribbed snail shells in octaves of sky, the revised mistranslation of a black pool expects what an inveterate tuba suggests: a broken interflow inhabiting the honeysuckle– but diction is unlivable, a plastic replica stuck in low tides, the snow’s psyche nearby, and the pool, its live-in help, third-persons the loud night, its open mouth an analogy of vowels… Such fierce quantums ingest roman à clefs, gondolas drifting on changed names below rows of dead windows. Oh, the globe’s pallor is so themelessly narrow, its doors glamorous and blind. Messy cement, set by geometrics, cannot fix it, though music’s lost paragraph can. II EVERYBODY HATES LOVE… its pale-colored loops. mental and spiritual, its woeful exaggerations primitive as tequila resonated through salt in vacuums invented by thieves– lorry lingo, islets, milkweed– and, yet, its purple-and-silver drivers get a groom’s reprieve, [...]

Apologies for the pseudo self-promotion — if you’re free this evening, 8pm, come to CPR – Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave (Brooklyn) for Projection: featuring Star Black, Stephen Motika, Brenda Shaughnessy and Danniel Schoonebeek

Below are some candid photos I’ve taken of Poetryland’s Personalities. “One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes… Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.” Mark Strand, Star Black & John Ashbery Mark Strand John Ashbery & David Lehman Harold Bloom Timothy Donnelly Richard Howard Christian Hawkey & Dara Wier Christian Hawkey James Tate Ruth Stone Frank O’Hara’s grave Lucie Brock-Broido & Tree Swenson Paul Mariani anonymous poet Adam Zagajewski John Yau John Ashbery (iPhone wallpaper) Christopher Ricks Linda Gregg Hart [...]