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B O C A: December 2012
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. Don't talk to me about cruelty. Or what i am capable of. When i wanted the roaches dead i wanted them dead. And i killed them. i took a broom to their country. And smashed and sliced without warning. Without stopping and i smiled all the time i was doing it. It was a holocaust of roaches, bodies,. Parts of bodies, red all over the ground. I didn't ask their names. They had no names worth knowing. Now i watch myself whenever i enter a room. The other being, ...
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B O C A: August 2009
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. All summer, where have I been. Amnesia of mediocrity. The walk again and again and again into a wall. Reading old news. Summer news. I saw Pina Bausch twice. Once ten years ago, in a performance of "Carnations". Then last year at UCLA in a performance of "Ten Chi". Carnations": dogs, men, and women:. Color, speech, and repetition:. Is the flower a grave. Is Form the Burden. And the threat of the body: Helene Cixous:. A leap is already / a tragedy". Like a w...
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B O C A: November 2011
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. CALACAS NEGRAS, FLORES BLANCAS. Something about the new cold taste in the air. My Day of the Dead. And here comes Lila Downs' weeping singing in the lower register about a bolt of lightning that withdraws like a lover's betrayal:. Quiero a dios a ti te pagen / con una traicion igual. Para cuando t'emborraches / tu sepas lo que's llorar. Songs on days like this have taught me / sorrow in revenge is true. Who knew chopped bone could sing? And gave you the gif...
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B O C A: July 2013
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. Peter Høeg's latest novel translated into English, The Elephant Keepers' Children. Takes its departure from other literary mystery/crime novels (in my little stack it belongs with say, Natsuo Kirino's Grotesque. Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires Affair. And more recently Roberto Bolaño's Woes of the True Policeman. And yet, I read through the whole thing in two days. Skipped the pool parties and bbq's and fireworks and all the nationalistic madness for thi...
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B O C A: August 2010
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. LOVE, WOUNDS and CLOWNS OF WAR: Dunstan Thompson. Or Reinaldo Arenas' C. One of the many failed minstrels of longing and desire, one of the countless broken-hearted clowns on night parade, Picasso's sad version or Hernan Bas' sexy, heroine sheik hooker in the garden with a terrific and absurd belief in love. . So it is I come to Pleiades Unsung Masters Series: . Dunstan Thompson, On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master . Lament for the Sleepwalker.
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B O C A: CRUEL SUMMER
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. I was excited to find a copy of Luis Negrón's first collection, Mundo Cruel. He said the part that bothered him most was all that wasted energy. . . You know he talks that way. Waste? Girl, you don't know what waste is. But, I'm going to tell you. 1985. Seven. Not one, not two. Seven of my best friends including my lover- and no more and no less than 8 months of being in a relationship- all died! Pum, pum, pum! Steal it if you can. View my complete profile.
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B O C A: August 2011
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. A bell rings in the middle of Dostoevsky's long story about a husband, a wife, and her lovers. Fast, energetic, moody types- and like Shakespeare, Dostoevsky is obsessed with types, the Suicidal Devil, the Crazy Karamazov, the Lovesick Idiot, and so on- I don't know how I've missed The Eternal Husband. The object in life of which he had had such a joyful glimpse had suddenly vanished into everlasting darkness.". Has said about the short lyric of 10-20 lines...
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B O C A: July 2009
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. N Defense of My Desire To Elasticize the Meaning of the Word Political:. I think there is an important distinction to make between Poetry as a political act, and an intentionally Political Poem, written with a clearly drawn purpose. The call to my edition of OCHO was clearly driven by a political purpose. Many of the poems in it, were not. I agree. It was the call to, and answer from, poets like yourself that was political. (Dear Prince of Pansies. Does thi...
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B O C A: April 2010
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. I COULD BE ILLEGAL. I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon. Because I’m not going back to Arizona as long as it remains a police state, which is what the appalling anti-immigrant bill that Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law last week has turned it into. Dear President Obama,. I do not want the police here, there, Arizona, or anyplace else, pulling people over cuz you look like you. Walt Whitman, Preface to the Leaves of Grass. I love to smile like a thief.
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B O C A: October 2012
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A HYBRID NOTEBOOK OF POETICS AND PORNOGRAPHIES. THE MOONLIGHT IS A BROKEN WINDOW. Last week I read Marjorie Perloff's Frank O'Hara: A Poet Among Painters. A critical study of O'Hara's work in the middle of which I felt unhinged and suddenly able to read a few contemporary poets in a new way, poets like John Ashbery and Sarah Vap. I might call this moment Opening a Broken Door, or. In the final chapter to the book, Perloff makes a smart comparison, contrasting the metaphysical restraint of Ashbery's sente...
