On behalf of America Adrift I thought I’d shamelessly promote EyeCorner Press’s (Camelia Elias) latest title, Jagged Timeline by Robert Gibbons with Danish translations by Bent Sørensen. This bilingual volume introduces the work of American prose poet Robert Gibbons to a transatlantic audience. The volume shows how multifaceted a poet he is, effortlessly exploring political, [...]
Also tagged Bent SorensenTravels, Tattoos, & Traumas by Robert Gibbons As if travel & imagined fixed destinations were cures for these dissatisfactions, the World suddenly offered up three Central American immigrant fugitives straddling railroad tracks that run at a bad angle through the City, each carrying heavy green plastic bags balanced Old-World style, talking & brave, even as [...]
Also taggedCaption & Inscription In the dark, after the violence, the dream strayed from that Hollywood nonsense, & lent a hand to the project, presenting an array of sources, appropriating certain tracts of texts & imagery. An uncommon phenomenon, although not unknown to writers, artists, it led the way here: in 1936 Walter Benjamin hears jackboots [...]
Also taggedPoetry & Truth Those mean texts worthy to traverse through tough sledding. I said to her, when she spared enough Time to walk the Eastern Shore, to ungrapple herself long enough from her own course, the graphs & texts, as we looked over & saw the young punks sprawled out on the grass, smoking, lonely, wanting knowledge [...]
Also taggedSenses Rising Upward Upward flies our sense; thus it is a parable of our body, a parable of elevation. – Nietzsche Yellow-shafted flicker darts across my line of vision from thorn tree to cliff ledge animating crown of rock face. Cold February day sighting a bird not seen in years. Possibly resorting to those indigestible [...]
Also taggedParis Without End, the Novel Some call this shadow I’m Brailing walls in Paris down rue Jacob night, having satisfied both cultural & sexual curiosity, within visual pulse of the neon deus ex machinas, reptilian instincts keen to the jazz dizzying dervishing whirlwind Id. Again, limestone weight of Time coupled with glass desublimation of the [...]
Also taggedBastille Day in America Swung toward work enclosures today as I ironed my linen shirt, a shirt one doesn’t wear to work, say, leather factory with its massive dyeing wheels & dryer belts, or soon enough fish with its saws could cut a man’s arm up to here; then meat, where the difference in temperature [...]
Also taggedMy Friends & I It was a regal dove I caught sight of on the limb of a small oak, huge in the throat, calling his mate in his monogamous mourning, but causing a ruckus among the other birds fluttering around trying to mimic his masterful intonation. Ledge stones chimed in, & the Cape Brindisi, [...]
Also tagged Add new tagRobert emailed me his latest submission to share with us which I’ve posted below, along with a note that he’s graciously mailed me a copy of his most recent publication, Travels Inside the Archive. Today is St. John’s Eve in Denmark. So a timely and always much appreciated submission (cosmic connection) it is. I wish [...]
Also tagged AnnouncementsEverlasting Celestial & Terrestrial Dynamics I. We’re steps from the ocean: 150 for her, 142 for moi. Woke less than two hours into summer digging the energy all around earth & universe. Turned the light on at 3:40 in the morning & opened a notebook that seemed exactly ten-years old, what with all the paraphernalia [...]
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