#stepfordstanzas

[stepfordwivespoems]

An open-mind

has no emotional

secretaries

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 33

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day 23

society housewives suspicious of city call girls with silhouetted figures in a cottage on Fairview Lane

remix poem composed from words on pgs 34-35 Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972) edition published by Corsair, Constable & Robinson, Ltd, 2011 photograph credit: Vlad Gedroics

[thepoeming-stepfordstanzas]

October 31: Intervention level

half moons have the worst publicity

it’s all or nothing with the sky

[This is a found poem made of words located on page 2 (title), page 43 (first line), and pages 8, 62, and 63 (second and third lines) in the source text.]

Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. 1972. October 31 2024.

[stepfordwivespoems]

The bullshit changed

into a house

on fire

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 85

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[stepfordwivespoems]

The country and presidential

figures are hunting The Daughters

of Heaven

—

Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 99

[stepfordwivespoems]

you’re going to change

into an irrational pick me

and need a psychiatrist

he said shaking his head

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Source text: Levin, Ira. The Stepford Wives. New York: Random House, 1972. Print. Pg 87

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day 12

a German Virgo

an American Taurus

Lobster Newburg and

a pitcher of Bloody Marys

Found poem” composed with words on pg 75-76Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972)

edition published by Corsair, Constable & Robinson, Ltd, 2011

photo credit: Daniel Norris

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day 4

compulsive hausfrau 

came out for a cup of coffee 

shaking her head

erasure poem composed with words pg 31

Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives (1972)

edition published by Corsair, Constable & Robinson, Ltd, 

photo credit:  Daiga Ellaby