[the incompressible shuffles into place] by kari edwards

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 1, 2016   [the incompressible shuffles into place]   kari edwards

substituting one day for the next remaining attempt to emerge from the next gesture skip deity made entirely of language, to the next instant justification graveyard, like content, like everything else, like a given epic, like another battle dream beach distance, another metaphor without preemptive assumptions.   we are through and the matter is time, is material substance, is too many free radicals, a consequence for contemporary rethinking, but what account accounts, indexes rational skips to the next gesture stale regime?   I want to believe in conclusion forest, in an ascendant transmission, but the pain remains, the places visited remain, a reverse placebo reverses reason that never was, because incessant dread snaps cool, captures remains doing the same.            Copyright © 2016 Frances Blau. Used with permission. About This Poem   “The work is marked by all the wild and grainy cross-hatchings of kari’s first personal singular, an ‘I’ at once coarse and scarred and morose and tender and bitter with the most impersonal bitterness, a tre[m]bling condition longing for a situation, indeed, a sayable you, an ‘I’ undone by rage, and rendered by a broken heart the body can’t contain counting the dead, counting the days, counting heartbeats.” —poet Rob Halpern   kari edwards was born in Illinois in 1954 and raised in Westfield, New York. Among edwards’s books are having been blue for charity (BlazeVox, 2007), obedience (Factory School, 2005), iduna (O Books, 2003), and a day in the life of p. (subpress collective, 2002). edwards died in 2006.   Photo credit: Brian Casem  Poetry by edwards   having been blue for charity (BlazeVox, 2007) "When Ecstasy is Inconvenient" by Lorine Niedecker "Ponderable" by Lyn Hejinian "My Skeleton" by Jane Hirshfield Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038