I suggest listening to Tone Škrjanec read his poems in the Slovene while you read these English translations, for a delicious confluence of languages in your ears and mind. – Emily Wallis Hughes https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/A-View-of-Scenery-That-Evades-All-Laws-1.mp3 A View of Scenery That Evades All Laws I had lacy underpants lowered […]
Plastic adventure
With translated selections from RIGID FOAM LAMINATES (Marcia H. Gutcho, pub. Noyes Data Corp 1972) 1. CHEMICAL PROCESS REVIEWS, $35 per issue. (Poetry Translation) [ACROSTIC] TRI ME LLove me? IT doesn’t have to be hard. It Can be easy, it should be. Another New HYDRa I Desire to be for you. Elephantine proportions, endless cantilever, […]
Two Poems by Edmund Berrigan
Listen to Edmund Berrigan’s voice as you read his two poems, “Perseids and Leonids” and “Poem (after Chantal Akerman).” https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Perseids-and-Leonids.mp3 Perseids and Leonids What happened to me is that I turned red on the swing.I’ve never quite known what I’ve known then it’s gone. Among thousands constantly as we rocket to millionin my pockets […]
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i Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will ii Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory iii Rosalind Krauss, “Richard Serra” iv Rosalind Krauss at the hearing over Tilted Arc in New York in 1985. Perhaps the artist is misinterpreting Krauss; perhaps the artist doubts “vision’s intentionality”; perhaps the artist ought to take a walk. v The mother […]
It is said
that disagreements over matters of perception and perceptions of matter might be reconciled if one quits the business of ornamenting language about them, the press release read for a new hot-shot abstractionist picked up by her gallery. She put down her white wine to take a swig from her aluminum water bottle before swilling the […]
“You promised my baby would come out alive,”
the child’s mother wails. “But he’s here, right in front of you,” the therapist insists, pointing at a plastic comb, a pile of muddy clothes, some underwear, eyeglasses. “But this isn’t the same, those glasses aren’t even his.” The child opens the office door, squishing his way across the high-pile carpet as if atop a […]
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