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RELATED SITES
Miscellaneous sites related by direct affiliation or practical interest CHARLES H. KERR PRESS Publishers of Chicago Surrealism, popular history and "anti-establishment literature since 1886" COACH HOUSE PRESS Toronto-based press for Canadian experimental poetry and fiction BEARD OF BEES Chicago-based press cranking some incredible poetry - tricky stuff ARRAS.NET Brian Kim Stefans' site for new media poetry and poetics DEMOCRACY NOW Amy Goodman's indispensible radio/TV news program CRIMETHINC.ORG Think about it
POETRY RESOURCES
Larger-scale resources for experimental writing EPC The Electronic Poetry Center is an important site for information on postwar experimental poetry from the 'States. Perhaps the oldest poetry web online, the EPC is maintained by Loss Glazier with the assistance of volunteers from UB's Poetics Program. UBUWEB Kenny Goldsmith's UBUWEB is an invaluable resource for alternative poetries, as well as a site of ongoing experimentation with new electronic distribution media. To know it is to live it. NACIP YORK Directed by Steve McCaffery, The North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics is a web-based forum for experimental interdisciplinary work art and writing. FLUXUS Flux your muscles.

A SPORADICALLY-PUBLISHED "MAGAZINE" OF POETRY AND POETICS
Christopher W. Alexander and Linda Russo, eds.

ISSUE 7
Last Updated: 15 April 2005

your back to me, inside the black suit
Kathleen Fraser

Your back to me inside the black suit, inside your back and shoulders fitted in sleeves

marked with chalk at the insets. After this discovery, appearing to be exactly identical in

intensity to every other part of the backdrop, a person leaning against it as if you

assigned one full day in which necessity plays its part. Necessary to have a private

pink human in the cosmic field: brown window shades delivering glimpses, propelling

through to you. (Delete the anxiety of someone's chewing on a word before opening its

pronoun.) What did you mean in the series of inked life stages littering the lower half

of a uniformly lined page? Delivering her cool waters rowing through your own personal

throat? No need to obscure when a cough can be heard in almost any room -

your precedent for going away. Away there is nothing ready for use that has not been

preparing itself.

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