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Doxsee, Julie. Objects for a Fog Death. (2010)
Objects for a Fog Death is a series of odes to images and objects, and to the “you” responsible for distancing these images and objects from mortal relationships. With this distance comes a profound desire and a heightening awareness of earthly proximity. Through the accompanying hypnagogic verses, oceans quiet the voice while disorientation hurls it into a temporary place—hovering overhead or shying away in the murk. Is a river an object? Is fog an object? Or for that matter, is fog a place? Behind this book lies a call for rescue from confinement and immobility, from the ineffability of touch. Out of this fog springs forth the coeval shriek of something that will not be reduced to love. Available now from Black Ocean.
Samples after the jump…
Skyholes that Made You Laugh
I throw a moon, it rolls
onto your bathroom roof.Look where the sky greens
around where I rippedit, full null hung
like a roar. Radios screwup. I told the bullet
whir & the bulletmade a world.
X
With a fingertip you cross
my chest beginning to end &we graduate gradually
to knives. In a tranceunder the violet-blind sheet
I see only the windwaving violets, cartoon-
ripe from a plan perfectlycut. Tingling after the
grip, your hands makea shadow parrot, but
there is no sun to cast it, tomake it look not guilty
like hands.
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That cover is real cool. Nice samples too.
i endorse this product
Just started reading this book today and those are two of the poems that immediately stood out to me. I think it’s because the objects here are forced into positions and uses that defy or deny their intended uses. That technique works well, and I’m excited to dig a bit deeper but I haven’t even finished a first read.
That cover is real cool. Nice samples too.
Just started reading this book today and those are two of the poems that immediately stood out to me. I think it’s because the objects here are forced into positions and uses that defy or deny their intended uses. That technique works well, and I’m excited to dig a bit deeper but I haven’t even finished a first read.
Wonderful poems, a great cover and as art should be -in slug motion they syncopate Yourgrau with a one-drop beat … end with a hypnagogic startle –bloody difficult to describe! :-)
Wonderful poems, a great cover and as art should be -in slug motion they syncopate Yourgrau with a one-drop beat … end with a hypnagogic startle –bloody difficult to describe! :-)
i second drew’s endorsement, adding my own.
i too endorse this product.
i second drew’s endorsement, adding my own.
i too endorse this product.
Thanks for posting–
–and for the good words everyone!
We picked up this book right after her first one, Undersleep (with Octopus Books), came out. So we’ve had it for a while, biding our time. I’m excited to finally see it in print and in people’s hands.
Thanks for posting–
–and for the good words everyone!
We picked up this book right after her first one, Undersleep (with Octopus Books), came out. So we’ve had it for a while, biding our time. I’m excited to finally see it in print and in people’s hands.
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