#charles perrone

[garadinervi]

Haroldo de Campos, (1984), Galáxias, Translated by Translated by Odile Cisneros, Suzanne Jill Levine, Charles Perrone, Christopher Middleton, Norman Maurice Potter, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn NY, 2024 [Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Seattle, WA]

what i mostly see here on this paper is the emptiness of paper folding over scorpion of words folding over itself and the cavernous cavity it forms when words empty out from their emptiness the scorpion has a sharp nail of words and its sting brands silence nails through silence in the singular i nail writing about or not writing and when this emptiness turns dense and dances and tenses its arabesques between scripted and ex-scripted trembling trellises in reverse white excrement of suspended suppressed spiders the silence where the i selves itself selfsighting enselves inmyselfselving hangingthread of text ex-text that’s why i write rewrite nail in the nought the font of this text the fork fiendish fingers of fables what follows is finding fables finite fables the finiunison of the one overflowing in emptiness what i mostly see here is this paper that i scalp the pulp of words on paper i expalpate the blank palpus of a cobweb paper woven from those threads from webs of surprised spiders ― (excerpt)

[revistazunai]

Esculturas Musicais 9: Charles Perrone

AN OBSERVATION ON FORM

“Poetry is language turned

toward its own materiality”

(posted in a library somewhere…)

So in sum in essence

what you may be saying

is that it scarcely matters

whether one’s lies defer to

the dictum of duple lines

or the senseless fur of a

wild beast released on

its own recognizance…

COUNTER-DISCOURSE EXERCISE #2

The songster and the songstress

both assure me with emotive intensity

that they will love me until the end of time

or forever and a day.

I don't quite grasp their emphasis

on such longevity

for by then

we will be in decrepitly deadly

and otherwise deplorable condition.

A LOCALE DUBBED THE SPOT

A pointed location of launch and departure:

a stone left less than cold upon an inscription—

an ancient set of phrases carved with tools,

instruments, and frantic fingernails;

thus to discover expired subscriptions,

brittle periodicals, and obsolete urns.

Submissions, applications, reversions, and such.

A lone hope obtains at this agreed upon juncture:

the sure and eventual imposition of the will

of sir remission.

 São Paulo?

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN, REVISITED

The fourth set of data

           that you have set forth

to arrange to send remittance

           has already somehow deployed

into volleys, replays

           of broken messages,

piecemeal attrition and

           replacement schedules.

We recipients had all so hoped

           that you could have favored peace

and just let better be. 

Charles A. Perrone é professor emérito de Literaturas e Culturas Luso-Brasileiras do Departamento de Estudos de Espanhol e Português da Universidade da Flórida. Mora atualmente em Santa Cruz da Califórnia, EUA.

[revistazunai]

Esculturas Musicais 7: Charles Perrone

An observation on form

             “Poetry is language turned

              toward its own materiality”

             (posted in a library somewhere…)

So in sum in essence

what you may be saying

is that it scarcely matters

whether one’s lies defer to

the dictum of duple lines

or the senseless fur of a

wild beast released on

its own recognizance. 

COUNTER-DISCOURSE EXERCISE #2

The songster and the songstress

both assure me with emotive intensity

that they will love me until the end of time

or forever and a day.

I don't quite grasp their emphasis

on such longevity

for by then

we will be in decrepitly deadly

and otherwise deplorable condition.

A LOCALE DUBBED THE SPOT

A pointed location of launch and departure:

a stone left less than cold upon an inscription—

an ancient set of phrases carved with tools,

instruments, and frantic fingernails;

thus to discover expired subscriptions,

brittle periodicals, and obsolete urns.

Submissions, applications, reversions, and such.

A lone hope obtains at this agreed upon juncture:

the sure and eventual imposition of the will

of sir remission.

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN, REVISITED

The fourth set of data

           that you have set forth

to arrange to send remittance

           has already somehow deployed

into volleys, replays

           of broken messages,

piecemeal attrition and

           replacement schedules.

We recipients had all so hoped

           that you could have favored peace

and just let better be.