Another South: Experimental Writing in the South

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Editor’s Introduction xi Poetry Scouting Mission:At the Intersection of Southern and Experimental, by Hank Lazer xv Ralph Adamo New Orleans 1 Roches Moutonnees 1 from The Bicameralization 2 Sandy Baldwin [basic system code] 7 Heralds of the hurricane.) 8 Artificial Terra-cotta Skin Mutagen Mask of Humbaba/Humwawa 9 Jake Berry from Brambu Drezi, Book III 12 Holley Blackwell New Poem 19 Message No. 32 19 Law of Trichotomy 20 (August 2000) 20 Another 20 Message No. 44 21 Message No. 57 21 SEEing yu 21 Message No. 69 22 Dave Brinks The Secret Brain 23 The Halo Factory 24 Proscenium Moon 24 Please the Carrots 25 The Story Pillow 26 Any Blue Movie 26 The Tao Sequence 27 Joel Dailey Poetry fro Dummies 28 Ride the High Country 28 Dear Bubble 29 Call Me ‘Shortchange’ 29 Thong 30 Rio 31 Right Away 32 S’what Up 33 Brett Evans K-Doe Codas 35 Skip Fox The Most Notoriously Absent North American Bird in Her Face 44 In Referring to What Does Not Exist 44 sic transit gloria mundi 45 sic transit 47 Sic Transit 48 Economics of Metonymy: sic transit 48 sic transit 50 Economics of Metonymy 51 I cannot observe myself unobserved. 52 another 52 sic transit 52 Jessica Freeman Bayou Arabic Argot 54 Slate Roof Blues 54 Garden District Soubrette 55 Mourning dove ragpicks bargemen 56 November 1st 56 Part Evil 57 Customer #! 57 Houseboat Ferry 58 Ewe’s Candy Canes Red Sea Outerbank 59 Up Tchoupitoulas Nom de Guerre 59 Bob Grumman Cryptographiku No. 1 60 Cryptographiku for Wallace Stevens 60 Cryptographiku for Jim L5ftwich 60 Mathemaku No. 16 61 Mathemaku No. 17 61 Mathemaku for Beethoven 62 Reality 68 Summer Rain 69 Ken Harris A in I as was Blackening Read (Mandala) 70 A Bough Well Bounds The Vowel Bounds Well 71 Vigil 71 The Fire After Fire 72 Poem In Progress 73 The Old Poetess Makes a Child 74 Directions to the Maze 75 Call and Response 75 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Eatonton Tableaux 76 You Don’t Know What Love Is 77 Five Note Range of Sorrow 78 Ezekiel Saw de Wheel 79 i am your courtier 80 Ellen Craft 80 Eyes of Soon Children 81 Marla Jernigan A Palm at the Entrance to the Arm 82 Glorious 82 Kind of Ransom 83 Past Qualm of Hours 84 Put together how it will 85 This is Still Life 86 Who are you 86 Joy Lahey White Soil 87 Cattails Along Red River 88 Cotton and Gladiolas 89 Habitat Photo 90 Buckles 91 U-turn 92 .22 93 Bill Lavender A Note to Skip on Max and Maxine 94 from pentacl 97 vi contents Hank Lazer from Days 99 from The New Spirit 100 Jim Leftwich Eleusis 111 )ohn Lowther ASLEEPING 119 Dana Lisa Lustig big guns go boom! (for Mark Prejsnar) 129 plane song 129 barefoot/extinguish at will 130 “and I am lonely and small in all this, goodnight” 131 Camille Martin [untitled] 133 to abcs and from rimbaud 134 from no truck 136 solfège parasite 138 Jerry McGuire Not A Ton Notation 141 The Cages 142 Feeling Rosemary 143 Plate Pieces 144 Gongula 145 Thomas Meyer The Merchant’s Daughter 149 Dancing There 154 Uranium Ore 155 A. di Michele About the Extinction Of 156 Solstice / Surgery (12-21,22-99) 159 Unica Zurn’s Loam Bowl 160 Archipelago (Interra Diocesan) 162 Mark Prejsnar Composition with Wire 166 Ode to Toge 168 assuage bane 171 Government and Binding 172 abusive! that’s the word! 173 Randy Prunty Trigger D’evolution 174 Alex Rawls “H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts)” Part I by Ezra Pound 183 “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman 184 “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” by William Blake 185 from What’s Your Sign? 186 “Romance Somnambulo” by Garcia Lorca 189 David Thomas Roberts Toward Mena 191 Tiff Belt Parley 191 Rodeo 192 Little Pilot Knob 193 I Mandate Ridges Raving 194 Kalamu ya Salaam SOUND is ProFound Sense 195 THE MOMENT OF THE FIRST DAY 200 contents vii James Sanders Poem with Referees 204 From the Mark Prejsnar Playbook 207 Christy Sheffield Sanford Rachel’s Recovery (Fucking with the Angels). 214 Lorenzo Thomas An Even-Tempered Girl Holds Her Breath 226 Dangerous Doubts 227 Blues Variations 228 Foolish Treasures 230 Back in the Day 230 Flash Point 232 Magnetic...