John_Luna

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Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.

caw/Lord

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False Starts, Loose Ends

This talk was delivered at the College Art Association Conference, Philadelphia, February 21, 2002, at the session honoring Leo Steinberg as Distinguished Scholar. The speakers were introduced by David Rosand, Columbia University, followed by Samuel Y. Edgerton, Williams College; Rosalind Krauss, Columbia University; and Alexander Nagel, University of Toronto.

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Cayucas – Will "The Thrill"

[Verse 1] / Underneath what's beating slimy green / Saint Laurent built in the '70s / No intelligent thing left to say / Oh, washed up it bid them wash away / Motorcycle, nineteen

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The Poetics of Disobedience by Alice Notley

For a long time I've seen my job as bound up with the necessity of noncompliance with pressures, dictates, atmospheres of, variously, poetic factions, society at large, my own past...

rush to the end

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From My Forehead by Alice Notley

He seems to be in front helping me look out

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“you invisible and I perennial.”

(- René Char, “Mumbling”, trans. Mary Ann Caws)

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(Joan Didion, The White Album, 1979))

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Whoso List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind by Sir Thomas Wyatt

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,

File under sound, gesture & attitude. For future use (good to have)

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The Crack-Up

One of the greats confronts the pressures of fame in a most public forum.

Once this was part of a poem, but I’m not sure which one now; the reference was very open and general and seen at a distance, like a myth with no power except the implied absences that might be sussed out of a diffident and ambiguous delivery

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Digging (into) Vintage: Guerlain Habit Rouge, 1965 • scenthurdle

Perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain. Early Guerlain perfumes were built for the long haul. It’s one of many reasons that they’re considered classics. ‘Classic’ is a judgy sort of word and has

Reading Poem 16 (”like fresh latex paint, like Habit Rouge, like Arthur Rimbaud sitting down to work”)

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Giacometti’s Skinny Sublimity

Sculpting from models or imagination, Giacometti’s hand ate away flesh in his quest for a likeness beyond appearance.

(As much or mostly for his photo.)

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I sit in one of the dives

Before Sept ends/low_dishonest/analogies_to_fascism/Reading_Poem_23