Stacks

Anne Carson reading text in STACKS © Michael Hart, 2008. Courtesy Jonah Bokaer Choreography.

Mare Aliorum	Sea of Others
Mare Ambulationis	Sea of Walking
Mare Anguis	Snake Sea
Mare Australe	Sea to the South
Mare Crisium	Sea of Crises
Mare Dormiendi Nuditer	Sea of Sleeping Naked
Mare Frigoris	Sea of Cold
Mare Humboldtianum	Humboldt's Sea
Mare Humorum	Sea of Moistures
Mare Imbrium	Sea of Rains
Mare Lunae Quaestionum	Sea of the Problems of the Moon
Mare Marginis	Border Sea
Mare Moscoviense	Moscow Sea
Mare Nectaris	Sea of Nectar
Mare Nocte Ambulationis	Sea of Walking at Night
Mare Nubium	Sea of Clouds
Mare Orientale	Sea to the East
Mare Personarum	Sea of Masks
Mare Phoenici	Phoenician Sea
Mare Phoenicopterorum	Sea of Flamingos
Mare Pudoris	Sea of Shame
Mare Relictum	Sea of Detroit
Mare Ridens	Laughing Sea
Mare Smythii	Sea of Smyth
Mare Spumans	Foaming Sea
Mare Tempestivitatis	Sea of What Frank O'Hara Calls
	"Cantankerous Filaments of a
	Larger Faintheartedness Like
	Loving Summer"
Mare Vituperationis	Sea of Blaming

THUNDERSTORM STACK

A bird flashed by as if mistaken thenit starts. We do not think speed of life.We do not think why hate Jezebel? Wethink who's that throwing trees againstthe house? Jezebel was a Phoenician.Phoenician thunderstorms are dry andfrightening, they arrive one inside theother as torqued ellipses.

STACK OF THE DEFINITIONS OF "STACK"

Large usually conical pile (as of hay) left        standing in the field

Large quantity or number

English unit of measure especially for        firewood equal to 108        cubic feet

Vertical pipe (as to carry off smoke)

Exhaust pipe of an internal combustion        engine

Pyramid of three rifles interlocked

Structure of bookshelves for compact        storage of books usually        in the plural

Pile of chips sold to or won by a player        of poker

Collection of data of which only the        most recently added        item may be removed        the latest item being at        the top basic operations        are "push" and "pop"        sometimes known as        a "last in first out"        construction or LIFO

To fall over in skating

SHAME STACK

Shame requiresthe eyes of othersunlike guilt. The eyesof Elijah the Tishbite sawin Jezebel a person with muchto be ashamed of. There is a linkbetween shame and mercy people wholack the one lack the other. No one couldrelax around Jezebel. Psychoanalysts say thatshame ruins your capacity for reverie by making cracksin the mind where it is dangerous for thought to wander. Inthe end Jezebel's own eunuchs throw her off the parapet. Her blood is on the    wall and on the horses.

SHAME STACK RESTACK

There is a link between psychoanalysts andeunuchs,

cracks no one could lackthat say

blood others thought.

SHAME STACK RESTACK RESTACKED

Jezebel couldcrackpsychoanalystsoff yourmind andruin thelack oflack.

THUNDERSTORM STACK

I watch a thunderstorm play the piano itis Sviatoslav Richter. Don't lookaway or an island where birds dive.Even on TV the piano keys can barelyhang onto his hands.

ROCKSTOCKDOCK STACK

Do you need to repair your ship.Dig a trench exactly the same length as your ship.Haul your ship offside.Give the trench a base of solid rock.Put a row of stocks across the rock.Let water flow into the trench.Haul your ship back in.Now you are a Phoenician andhave invented drydock.You can repair your ship from below.Drydock is not an example of a"last in first out" construction orLIFO.

SMOKESTACK

Question about what words are.

Think of an inscription cut in stone.

Would you say words are the cuts in the stone or    words are the stone around the cuts?

        Think of a page in a book.

Are the words the ink or the paper containing the        shape of this ink?

Think of a face, no you can't engrave a face.

Think of a sentence written as Homer might say on        the tablets of your mind.

Does...