Sighs in Community Texts

The fatigues of devotional literature.

Paraphrasing Spicer

That the problem with Red Rock Canyon is that its name is Red Rock Canyon.

What could be meant by 'disputed language'?

What they called for then -- when there were names, and not these promiscuous groves.

Value and Disclosure

"The cost of defensive publication can be zero, like a conference paper."

Anthem

The world is replete, yet there is no end to fiction.

U.S. Bonds

In absence of the prerecording, the risk is who might hear.

I want to holler but the town's too small.

...

That the "human spirit" is too well-furnished to be crowded into the future.

That the quotation marks are evidence of this.

The Conceptual Poet and the Hiring Committee

• Invests in genre limits, provided one can violate them.
• Somewhat underdelivers, often dancing around the encounter.
• Tendency to pleonasm, though clearly wants to charm. Hints of personals ad in the LRB.
• Open to traveling for panel appearances.
• Seeks to individuate. Cites collectives as evidence of curatorial abilities.
• Claims not to know who Laurie Anderson is.
• Hyperlinks to allegory (the most repeatable and literary of devices) as evidence of invention.
• Is flexible, underspecifying the 'movement' as necessary, hesitant to commit to self-description should the next conference demand another.
• May read too many back issues of October –– envious of painting's egress.
• Good at market research, though strangely views literature as emerging market.
• Skeptically references something called "Flarf". (HC - No one knows what this is.)
• Provides consistent consumer reporting on previously used theoretical apparatus.
• Definitely willing to travel for panel appearances.
• Possible hire.

Escape Artists

––That poetry is vulnerable to invention
––That invention can proxy for egress
––That poetry can prepare an exception

They think that's what it is:
   the black swan tool.