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Callaloo 25.1 (2002) 222


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Unpainted Discussions/Bob Kaufman's E-corpse

Lisa Samuels, Maria Damon, Jordan Davis,
Jorge Guitart, Rod Smith, Cris Cheek, Gabrielle Welford

crackling blueness blasts
  lilywhite andalusian inches
   street-colored Orphean
pauses on the bop to telegraph a premonition
scent of ylang-ylang and louisiana
still bare wood covers
and the porches falling slideways
    under the wheels of a middling archer
  peeling her lines from a tinseltown
universal cancer tambourine
man the bay on the dock of man o man
   date star log thrift income burnt
  siesta on the conestoga stogies
    little doggies gamma them painted cribs
all the nothing holding on market of me
thinks nothing of all the holding me
     me, all the same in the vice of a serial
treatment, shock to shock to cheek to lip
      and shrill liking sent variously, oh my gardenia
my lit cigarette weaving kinetic poetry web
spied her clambering after the last wisp feathering
     an upsy daisy chained into her frock


 

In honor of "A Celebration of Bob Kaufman," St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, April 1996. The poem was not read at the event but occasioned by it, and intended as an homage.

Lisa Samuels is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published a poetry chapbook, Letters (Meow Press), a full-length book of poems, The Seven Voices (O Books), and a new edition of Laura Riding's Anarchism Is Not Enough (University of California Press). She also has poems and essays in New American Writing, Talisman, Denver Quarterly, New Literary History, Qui Parle, and elsewhere.

Maria Damon teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota. She isthe author of The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (MinnesotaUniversity Press) and co-author, with Miekal And, of Literature Nation, a hypertext poem at http://cla.umn.edu/joglars/. She is a member of the National Writers' Union.

Jordan Davis lives and works in New York City. He is an editor of The Hat, and his recent books include Yeah, No, A Winter Magazine, and Million Poems Journal.

Jorge Guitart teaches in the Spanish and Portuguese program at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

Rod Smith is a poet who manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.

Cris Cheek is a performance poet living and writing in England.

Gabrielle Welford is finishing up a PhD at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, helping out within a portion of the native Hawaiian sovereignty movement, but is most proud of her children, one of whom at 15 is walking across the U.S. as an appeal for peace. Her poetry has been published in Tinfish, Chain, Abiko Literary Rag, and the South Coast Poetry Journal, among others.

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