...just found out that Bimbo Gun is taking my poem "On Handling Spicer’s Filled But Unused Prescription of Neprobamate 400 mg While Kevin and Peter Look On At The Bancroft Library" for their upcoming issue...that's fun!
some notes toward the analytic lyric after reading Michael Palmer's essay "Counter-Poetics and Current Practice" published in Pavement 7 (1986):
1. silence/ conversation :political / linguistic/ grammatical
2. emergence, evolution regarding Palmer's diction/ the "accretive weight" of his language
3. silence as response
4. theater
5. a politics of politics
6. "incorporation of the immediate and the rupture of the unitary voice"
7. dispersal of the subject
8. operating at the margins (seems to be the major crux of an analytic lyric via Jabes, Celan, Vallejo, Holderlin, Hernandez, Hollander et al.)
9. critique of the discourse of power
10. structure of loss (margins)
11. the poem as an event both temporally and historically
12. prohibited content
after finishing the essay (originally presented as a "talk") i read through the endnotes finding a reference to a long interview with Palmer conducted by Benjamin Hollander and David Levi-Strauss published in ACTS 5...so i look on my bookshelf and lo and behold there she is, ACTS 5...the interview is 36 pages long! what a find! so, i'm going to read that today along with Palmer's Sun with the above notes in mind...i'll probably (hopefullly) end up with a mess of notes footnoting notes footnoting notes...a shimmery ouroboros of the analytic lyric...
...i'm not really sure why every morning i insist on smoking at least two cigs before my workout...super counter productive...like, mid-crunch i'm all "oh oh, where's the inhaler?"...for real...
...currently listening to Led Zeppelin IV...
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