Back from a first trip and ready for another one .... in France it's the Poets' Spring .... Sorry for my lack of avaibility .... but I keep writing and working and still enjoying reading you!
# 12 After G.Stein series
# 12 After G.Stein series
inspired by
G.Stein’s History or Messages from
History
She wants to read it.
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Usage. You-sage. Use-age.
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Does
need give a great deal
of pleasure?
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Are
they embryonic arguments at
the crosswords of the right sight
and the left
one?
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Germs of contradictory ideas that
create
an image you cannot
consider as
the result of reading?
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Is
variety inscribed in
eyes?
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Are they seasons in eyes ‘life able
to
sustain weathereadings … ?
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responsible for & not aware
of …?
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| You-sage comes to the conclusion |
heading to
You-seless but memory
remembers easily
So you see rows of whys queuing.
Lines welcoming all these migratory
birds applying for a journey in eyes.
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Lovely, Béatrice. When I read Stein, and I often read Stein (mostly Tender Buttons - a very long, slow reading project for me), I never quite understand intellectually what I’m reading, but it always unleashes a lot of writing--as if my body were responding viscerally. I haven’t read History or Messages from History though and I now want to. I think you capture something essentially Steinian here, but also create a standalone piece that is a kind of Ars Poetica of your own. I not only like it semantically and sonically, but also the way it’s laid out on the page with its forward and backward motions (like strophe/antistrophe).
ReplyDeleteI love the rythmn here. To me it's stop-start staccato appears like a road junction - at every line never knowing what is coming in from the left, above, below or reflection back on the right margin and.. bewildered.
ReplyDeleteThis line design is better than clever! It throws spanners and disrupts the flow enough to associate multiple phrasing and meanings. You know I like it. Inspired!