On Dancing

Be confident and glad.

Don't live as if you have a face of rotten teeth.

44

That the remarks be, like Ponge's soap, susceptible.

43

That the melancholy of the prototype is the dispensation of the work's society.

Ingenuity

Who said that for nothing?

Peeping Mot: Available from Apogee Press

First assembled and composed in this forum, Peeping Mot is now a perfect-bound paperback book, published by Apogee Press.

Available from Small Press Distribution or Amazon.

Like the cast of characters A Maxwell has here assembled (Robert Walser, Aaron Kunin, Rene Char, Sir Thomas Browne, and more), PEEPING MOT is a collection of brilliant and occult profundity. Its propositions admirably reinvent the paternal, make a wry and deep inquiry into the function of poetry, and wield the epigram as Chinese box, as koan. It is a book of uncommonly beautiful language and enigmatic intelligence, packed with soft surprises.  – Maggie Nelson

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Bill Mohr, the terrifically energetic and generous historian of Los Angeles microliteratures and poetries was kind enough to put down these thoughts after receiving a copy last week.

Share of Voice

The imminent sorrow of the flaccid designator.

End of First Collection Entitled Peeping Mot

A blog becomes a booklet.  |  150 epigrams & concerns: 2010-11.

42

That while the language is not transparent, the language may see me through.

41

That poetry recapitulates the basic problem of language as forced entry –– or invention.

That the basic problem of language is reachability.

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As with the family, or the living, or the poem––

We cannot compare.

Just stop equivocating–– you know that

The basic problem is reachability.