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<br /><b><span style="color: red; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/Golding-Alan_Interview_Wexler-Studio_11-19-2014.mp3"><span style="color: red;">Talking</span></a> </span><span style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">with <a href="http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0351.htm"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Alan</span></a>
<a href="http://jacket2.org/content/alan-golding"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Golding</span></a>:<br /><br />
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from the Wexler Recording Studio<br /><br />
@ Kelly Writers House,<br /><br />
with <a href="https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/Filreis-PennCollegian-article-Spring1987.pdf"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Al</span></a>
<a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/People/AlFilreis"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Filreis</span></a>,
<a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/People/BobPerelman"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Bob</span></a>
<span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Perelman">Perelman</a><br /></span><br />
<a href="http://www.orchidtierney.com/"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Orchid</span></a> <a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/People/OrchidTierney"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Tierney</span></a>
&amp; <a href="http://www.deepoakland.org/author?id=232"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Ron</span></a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In both cases, the long poem is itself a compilation of titled sections that one wants, at least partly, to read as individual poems, not unlike the way one reads &#8220;Voice Play&#8221; at the end of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>People. </i>But with both &#8220;IFLIFE&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Tank Top&#8221; the interior poems have their titles centered, which gives the effect of making them appear to be more in the flow of the text, unlike &#8220;Voice Play,&#8221; &#185; and in &#8220;IFLIFE,&#8221; Perelman runs a continuing thread through each of its ten <span class=SpellE>subpoems</span> or sections, Laurence Britt&#8217;s &#8220;14 characteristics common to fascist regimes.&#8221; Since the poems also go back &amp; forth between poetry &amp; prose (they have a tendency to start in verse form, then spread out, so to speak, going back &amp; forth, passages in verse as short as a single line or up to just about a page). One <span class=GramE>consequence,</span> and I&#8217;ve thought about this for three days, is that there is no single page I could type up here that would be, in any useful manner, &#8220;representative.&#8221; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In many respects, tho, &#8220;IFLIFE&#8221; is deeply representative of Perelman&#8217;s interests as a poet &#8211; going between the personal &amp; political, the historical &amp; critical, <span class=GramE>the</span> chronicler of daily life. He names <span class=SpellE>names</span> along the way, tho not so much in the way, say, Ted Berrigan did &#8211; there are, I think, just two references where only a first name is given &amp; you&#8217;re supposed to recognize the allusion: &#8220;George says &#8216;up is better than down&#8217;,&#8221; alluding to the linguist <span class=SpellE>Lakoff&#8217;s</span> theory of metaphoric frames &amp;, earlier, &#8220;One can think of contemporaries here: Ron&#8217;s SOQ&#8221; &#8211; this following a quotation, not from me, to the effect that &#8220;&#8217;The distinction a critic makes between Modern-self-analytical and Old Master &#8211;representational refers less to the works compared than to his own chosen stance &#8211; to be analytic about the one and polemically naive about the other.&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Elsewhere, Perelman himself affects naïveté, misspelling the name of Martin Scorsese, ascribing an Allen Ginsberg anecdote from the film <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>No Direction Home </i>about the song &#8220;Hard Rain&#8221; to &#8220;The Time&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>(sic) </i>They Are A-<span class=SpellE>Changin</span>" a work with a very different relationship to the literal and the role of language & imagery. The error reduces Ginsberg to a purveyor of political correctness, which wasn't Ginsberg's point at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;IFLIFE,&#8221; the poem, is Bob Perelman&#8217;s love-hate story with the whole of poetry. It&#8217;s interesting to see who Perelman goes after just as it is where he pulls his punches. An imaginary Ginsberg is one such target, but language poetry is another, as when Perelman conjures a Greek chorus &amp; puts words into the mouth of one of its speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>That the gestures that Language poetry triumphantly says are still radical are actually super-codified now. And that&#8217;s my whole point. We need to rethink that equation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I don&#8217;t know of any so-called <span class=SpellE>langpo</span> who either thinks or has ever asserted that the devices of the 1970s are in any sense above or outside of history &#8211; if anything, quite the opposite. So it&#8217;s interesting to wonder just what perspective Perelman is trying to present here, a position more in keeping with caricatures than the thing itself. And it&#8217;s interesting to read the following passage substituting the name Amiri Baraka for Thyrsis:<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>I think it&#8217;s interesting that Thyrsis came into the conversation. Because I think that we don&#8217;t observe enough that in darts or in gymnastics it&#8217;s possible for someone to be an innovator, who shows you a new way of making the moves, that they themselves might not take very far. And I would say that Thyrsis is an astonishing figure because he makes possible the careers of about ten other poets. Bruce Andrews is only possible because of Thyrsis. And for me that&#8217;s not a negative judgment on Bruce Andrews&#8217;s work, which I find very powerful. But it comes straight out of some of the Thyrsis work of the late 60s and early 70s. Thyrsis shows you how you can do it, but he usually does it in a limited sphere. He&#8217;s very restless. And he&#8217;s not an author who goes toward . . . I don&#8217;t know what to call it: personal insight&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Now reread that same passage and substitute the name Matthew Arnold for Thyrsis. Thyrsis was a shepherd in Virgil&#8217;s Seventh <span class=SpellE>Eclog</span> that <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City> appropriated for the title of an elegy for Arthur Hugh Clough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>If &#8220;IFLIFE&#8221; is a complex, problematic poem &#8211; the two quotations above both come from its next-to-last section or <span class=SpellE>subpoem</span>, entitled &#8220;Now Call It <span class=GramE>A</span> Poem&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s because Bob Perelman is a very angry man <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>and </i>Bob Perelman hates, utterly despises, the whole idea of conflict. <span class=GramE>And because his subject here is not just poetry, but the poetry that is nearest and dearest to him.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Perelman is hardly the first or only self-conflicted poet in the world. It&#8217;s a role at least as old as Rimbaud &amp; just possibly goes back all the way to Gilgamesh. And while there any number of poets of all types, from Robert Duncan &amp; Clayton <span class=SpellE>Eshleman</span> to Hart Crane &amp; James Merrill to Franz Wright &amp; Bill Knott who could be said to be writers who have chosen (or been given) <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>to be the conflict </i>&amp; not merely to speak of it, Perelman, like <span class=SpellE>Eshleman</span>, Andrews, Ginsberg &amp; Hannah Weiner, does so consciously. The result here is that &#8220;IFLIFE&#8221; &#8211; and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IFLIFE </i>&#8211; is an extraordinarily passionate work, one that demonstrates that the poetic &amp; critical thought are not opposing impulses but deeply intertwined, inseparable, hectoring us at every turn. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#185; Graphically, &#8220;Voice Play&#8221; is the only poem, or series, whose internal poems have titles at the left margin. One might, therefore, read them as being more subsections than &#8220;IFLIFE&#8221; perhaps, save that these texts are more distinct one from the next in terms both of content and form &#8211; they are distinct, short works, such as the couplet &#8220;Ideal Reader&#8221; that I quoted on Monday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I have this desire to read each poem of Bob Perelman&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=1931824215"><span style='color:black'>IFLIFE</span></a> </i>closely, to worry over it and poke at it. Andy <span class=SpellE>Gricevich&#8217;s</span> comment to yesterday&#8217;s note &#8211; he calls <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IFLIFE </i>&#8220;one of those &quot;Oh &#8211;THIS is why I love poetry&quot; experiences &#8211; strikes me as exactly correct. It&#8217;s definitely one of those books where the more you look, the more closely you read, the more you will find. That&#8217;s an issue, or question, that Perelman himself raises in &#8220;A Guide to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Homage to <span class=SpellE>Sextius</span> Propertius,</i>&#8221; another poem from the section <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>People </i>that I looked at yesterday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Before I read the poem, I went back to my (still relatively new) Library of America Pound &amp; reread &#8220;Homage to <span class=SpellE>Sextius</span> Propertius,&#8221; indeed even went to Wikipedia &amp; read up on the real Propertius &amp; his fellow Augustans there. And I went back &amp; reread Pound&#8217;s interview in the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4598"><span style='color:black'>Paris Review</span></a>, </i>perhaps because that was the last Pound I&#8217;d read, and I thought about the Pound panel I&#8217;d sat in on at the MLA, with Perelman chairing no less, Ben Friedlander focusing on Pound&#8217;s broadcasts, Rachel <span class=SpellE>Blau</span> <span class=SpellE>DuPlessis</span> &amp; Jennifer <span class=SpellE>Scappetone</span> discussing Pound as influence, then Barrett <span class=SpellE>Watten</span> on Pound as symptom, reading Pound through <span class=SpellE>Adorno</span> (and, to a lesser degree, reading <span class=SpellE>Adorno&#8217;s</span> work on the authoritarian personality through Pound as well). <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>More than any other modernist, even Gertrude Stein, Pound&#8217;s role &#8211; indeed, Pound himself &#8211; has changed during my lifetime. When I was first coming up as a poet in the 1960s, one sensed a great unease with any reference to Pound&#8217;s &#8220;suburban prejudice&#8221; of anti-Semitism or his propaganda for the fascists during WW2, not so much out of deference to Pound per se but rather simply (and simultaneously) to keep the work available &#8211; people like Robert Silliman <span class=SpellE>Hillyer</span> had not so very long ago suggested that this was not a good thing &amp; <span class=SpellE>Hillyer</span> (unlike Pound) had won a Pulitzer Prize &#8211; and also from deference to certain elderly wizards of the then-neonatal Pound industry, particularly Hugh Kenner, about whom one sensed that part of the attraction to Pound was, if not political per se, at least economic. That was a hornet&#8217;s nest best avoided. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Now, however, anyone who sidestepped &#8220;the problem&#8221; would look like a <span class=SpellE>doofus</span>. Indeed, as virtually everyone at the Pound panel appeared to suggest, the way, possibly the only way, to recover what matters in Pound is to go directly at the problem, to ask what in Pound&#8217;s politics is in harmony with his aesthetics &amp; particularly the practice of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Cantos. </i>One of the books that helped create this reversal was Perelman&#8217;s own <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6393.html"><span style='color:black'>The Trouble with Genius</span></a> </i>some twelve years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Perelman&#8217;s &#8220;Guide&#8221; rhymes with Pound&#8217;s largely to the degree that each is composed of ten parts (in both cases using Roman numerals, a distinction that is not incidental). But Perelman&#8217;s &#8220;Guide&#8221; is less of a <a href="http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-11,pageNum-23.html"><span style='color:black'>Cliff Notes</span></a> tour of <span class=SpellE>Ez</span>, <span class=GramE>then</span> it is a look at the issues Pound&#8217;s work raises for Perelman the poet &amp; Perelman the Jew. To say <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>problematic </i>doesn&#8217;t really touch it. One might say of Perelman&#8217;s &#8220;Guide&#8221; &#8220;this time it&#8217;s personal.&#8221; Consider, for example, the predicate to the sentence that is the first section:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Now if ever it is time to translate modernism into a contemporary idiom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>into</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> &#8220;something to read in normal
circumstances&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>to</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> quote <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Homage to <span class=SpellE>Sextus</span> Propertius, </i>one of the few moments when Pound&#8217;s poetry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>was</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> fully contemporary, when he felt the <span class=SpellE>distentions</span> of writing time most generously<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>and</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> thus most accurately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Where you expect the predicate, at the sentence&#8217;s end, it&#8217;s missing. This throws the reader back on what at first seemed to the sort of architectural phrasing needed to set up a more complex syntactic structure &#8211; indeed, the &#8220;true&#8221; predicate here is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>it is time. </i><span class=GramE>And <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>if ever </i>sets up a sense of urgency &#8211; this is a crisis.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Much of the poem that follows deals with the same questions of address we find everywhere in this book. Pound after all is the epitome of the problem, constantly trying to raise the level of discourse by reminding you just how little you know, ideograms poised like a weapon (or, to use a more exact parallel, for the same reasons that <span class=SpellE>gangsta</span> slang choose terminology that shuts the outsiders out), trying to make a living &#8211; Friedlander suggests that Pound was not unsuccessful, consider that he had two households to support (three if one considers that his parents had retired to Rapallo by 1940) &#8211; through &#8220;popular&#8221; radio broadcasts ostensibly on economics that are the most overt racist ravings conceivable, cryptic to the point of comedy, but who would then write some of the finest poetry of the century, some of literally on toilet paper, in a cage at war&#8217;s end. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Perelman&#8217;s concluding questions are ones to which he has returned, in both his poetry &amp; prose, his entire life. Here is the opening of section X, which borrows from Basil Bunting&#8217;s famous characterization of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Cantos </i>as The Alps: <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Will <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Cantos </i>outlast the Pound industry?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Or have they made it so that any poetry, to be read outside its group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>must</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> manufacture its own industry</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Do the scholiasts&#8217; clarifications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>do</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> more than add to the rubbish at the base camps?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Heat-soured milk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>overburdened</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> verbal habits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>the</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> cold peak beckoning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span class=GramE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Scholiasts </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>is</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> an interesting word choice here, deriving as it does from a diminutive. What is the relation of the commentator to a reader &#8211; clearly Perelman doesn&#8217;t agree with Hilton Kramer&#8217;s hysterical lament that our times went to hell because people stopped letting the likes of him serve as our gatekeepers to <span class=SpellE>Kulchur</span>. Or Bloom. <span class=GramE>Or <span class=SpellE>Vendler</span>.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Yet if poetry is language being used to the fullest, how can it exist if it self-censors in order to communicate broadly? This is a problem that has bedeviled poetry since the days when the troubadours developed one literature for external consumption &amp; another (<span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>trobar</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> <span class=SpellE>clus</span></i>) just for themselves. Not unlike Pound, Perelman would love to have it both ways, to write fully &amp; be read widely. That cleavage, that gap, is precisely the distance that is always being negotiated in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IFLIFE. </i>Pound, Perelman suggests, did not solve the problem. The poem ends by quoting &#8220;Homage to <span class=SpellE>Sextus</span> Propertius&#8221; not at its finest moment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8220;Though my house is not propped up by <span class=SpellE>Taenarian</span> columns from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Laconia</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></p> 
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>(<span class=GramE>associated</span> with Neptune and <span class=SpellE>Cerebus</span>)&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8211; <span class=GramE>that</span> is not something someone &#8220;in the throes of some particular emotion&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>would</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> actually <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>say. </i>It&#8217;s something you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.5in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>wrote</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>. For pleasure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=1931824215"><span style='color:black'>IFLIFE</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, all one word, is <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/perelman/"><span style='color:black'>Bob Perelman&#8217;s</span></a> 16<sup>th</sup> book of poetry&#185; and his most ambitious. Like many of his earlier volumes, dating back to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>7 Works, IFLIFE </i>at first appears to be that straightforward thing, a collection of poems, but when examined more closely reveals layers of connection from one to poem to the next until a close reader becomes dizzy with the vertical dimensions that can lurk behind the simplest word, such as <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>you: <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Wrong Country<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-align:right'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>for William Carlos Williams<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Yours were the first names I saw<br>
a self-conscious speaking tube in love<br>
with the loud gaps<br>
into which we'd plunge, my idea<br>
<br>
of you and the other action figures<br>
attached to the air currents<br>
lifting the words that move together<br>
or not at <span class=GramE>all<br>
<br>
I</span> read you?<br>
<span class=GramE>A you</span>? Now<br>
divided by then<br>
to amuse the ones to come<br>
<br>
You'd hate the web<br>
the buyable things against the screen<br>
even more you'd hate<br>
liking things like that<br>
<br>
Quatrains helped or were you<br>
against yourself on principle?<br>
Meanings are still at large<br>
The wills of so many involved<br>
<br>
Cherry pink bra strap<br>
lost to thought<br>
and that person's dictionary of response<br>
exciting the senses<br>
<br>
to open a new document<br>
A full day beneath the jets<br>
hardly a shred of local left<br>
America's sinking, everyone sees</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>By the time you reach this poem, eighth in a series of nine in a section entitled <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>People, </i>the third of the book&#8217;s five parts, you are &#8211; or at least should be &#8211; so oversensitive to this term that <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>you, </i>the &#8220;action figure,&#8221; echoes not just as an address at once both to reader &amp; the dead Williams, but indeed, tucked into Williams&#8217; own initials, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>double you see double you, </i>the first two of which are likewise the first letters in the words of the title of this poem. What, in fact, is a &#8220;self-conscious speaking tube&#8221; with &#8220;the loud gaps / into which we&#8217;d plunge,&#8221; if not the actual physical construction of that consonant that mimes a vowel, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>W?<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>People, </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>just to say within this one section, is constantly bringing us back to this question of who <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>you </i>might be, from its very first poem,  an elegy in the form of a letter to Gil <span class=SpellE>Ott</span> (still the dean of Philadelphia poets), then a poem entitled &#8220;Indirect Address: A Ghost Story,&#8221; dedicated (if that&#8217;s the word) in brackets no less &#8220;<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>[to Jacques Derrida].&#8221;</i> This is <span class=GramE>followed by a poem entitled &#8220;In Memory,&#8221; which is unusual for this section in that it is neither</span> dedicated to, nor for, anyone, nor focuses on a single influence, say the way &#8220;Notes on Memoir,&#8221; which shows up next, fixes on a single copy of Stendhal&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Life of Henri <span class=SpellE>Brulard</span>. </i>This is followed by two <span class=GramE>poems,</span> one dedicated to Perelman&#8217;s late father, the other to the medievalist Emily Steiner, and then by a long piece entitled &#8220;A Guide to <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Homage to <span class=SpellE>Sextus</span> <span class=SpellE>Propertius</span></i>.&#8221; It&#8217;s at this point that &#8220;Wrong Country&#8221; shows up, followed by a suite of short pieces entitled &#8220;Voice Play&#8221; that has, among 14 works, one titled &#8220;Enemy Reader,&#8221; another &#8220;Ideal Reader&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>What you write is perfectly true.<br>
It makes me want to think so too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But the anti- or counter-text to &#8220;Wrong Country&#8221; would seem to be &#8220;In Memory,&#8221; the poem that does not attach itself to any specific person:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Memory lying open to the one spread naked <span class=SpellE>fa</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>shion</span> plate earliest front page someone signing<br>
<br>
Memory lying open to the one spread naked fashion pl<br>
ate blood on the wall and a little around the back door<br>
<br>
Earliest front page a smiling man in handcuffs<br>
staged it turns out real weapons in the trailers<br>
<br>
Unbearable hisses Go upstairs but me<br>
<span class=SpellE>mory&#8217;s</span> already dusted the fingerprints<br>
<br>
Blood on the wall and a little around the back door now h<br>
<span class=SpellE>ere&#8217;s</span> a person in charge of the excitement going backstage<br>
<br>
The pleasures of the night eyes shut maybe me<br>
<span class=SpellE>mory</span> on the wall a little around the back door<br>
<br>
Friendly smile but stopped by the shutter blurred<br>
by the presses older machines heavy with capital<br>
<br>
Upstairs the pleasures of the nigh<br>
t smiling already &#8220;Dawn <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>likes </i>you&#8221;<br>
<br>
Memory lying open friendly smile already dusted I&#8217;<br>
m in the picture too at attention in front of the TV<br>
<br>
Small bruise the picture swallowed into the<br>
center dot and a little around the back door<br>
<br>
Breathing in bad sectors not available<br>
ash unreadable under the bedside light<br>
<br>
Staged it turns out actors in charge backs<br>
age too small bruise not a friendly spread<br>
<br>
Rehear unrepeatable hisses b<br>
<span class=SpellE>ut</span> memory&#8217;s already upstairs<br>
<br>
With Freud wrong and nobody right <span class=SpellE>th</span><br>
e picture swallowed into the center dot<br>
<br>
Older breathing heavy with substitution<br>
accent <span class=SpellE>raconteuring</span> so I sound like this<br>
<br>
Real weapons get used to it with<br>
Freud wrong and nobody right<br>
<br>
Blood on the wall and a little around the <span class=SpellE>ba</span><br>
ck door holding hands like book and reader<br>
<br>
Here we are awake tell me if it hurts<br>
bad sectors <span class=SpellE>unhearable</span> small bruises<br>
<br>
The picture swallowed into the <span class=SpellE>cen</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>ter</span> dot the only one without accent<br>
<br>
We all say that &#8220;Dawn <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>lik</i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><br>
<span class=SpellE>es</span> </i>you&#8221; <span class=SpellE>unhearable</span> hisses<br>
<br>
We can&#8217;t be translated resurrected not that k<br>
<span class=SpellE>ind</span> lees less brutal once you make the toast<br>
<br>
Now here&#8217;s a person in charge <span class=SpellE>mayb</span><br>
e excitement awake in a forged epic<br>
<br>
But memory had son<br>
s too another couplet<br>
<br>
&#8221;Dawn <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>likes </i>you&#8221; <span class=SpellE>sudd</span><br>
en appearance of cum<br>
<br>
Public light over everything a mess eyes shut seeking <span class=SpellE>th</span><br>
e pleasures of the night handcuffs backstage excitement<br>
<br>
You can&#8217;t remember them yet<br>
stuttering in front of the epic<br>
<br>
Trees grow leaves <span class=SpellE>leaves</span> get<br>
educated education fall off<br>
<br>
The walls meet less frequently ho<br>
<span class=SpellE>lding</span> hands like book and reader<br>
<br>
Here we are awake earliest fro<br>
<span class=SpellE>nt</span> page a smiling man <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>likes </i>you<br>
<br>
Cross the bridge the one spread <span class=SpellE>nak</span><br>
ed when you come to it backwards<br> 
<br>
Cutting wood to fold rubles into esc<br>
ape velocity forced awake in an epic<br>
<br>
Chopping and sawing all day <span class=SpellE>slee</span><br>
p from dusk on substitute velocity<br>
<br>
Caresses maneuvering over fix<br>
ed scars tell me where it hurts<br>
<br>
But memory&#8217;s already dusted the <span class=SpellE>fingerprin</span><br>
<span class=SpellE>ts</span> escape memory lying open in the forest<br>
<br>
Fixed stars spread throughout the day <span class=SpellE>invisibl</span><br>
e behind the escaping light here we are awake<br>
<br>
Lees less brutal once you make that <span class=SpellE>toas</span><br>
t the pleasures of the night tell me again<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is halfway between the lyric reiterations of a Lorca (or, say, of <span class=SpellE>Celan&#8217;s</span> &#8220;Black Milk of Morning&#8221;) &amp; an episode of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.cbs.com/primetime/csi/"><span style='color:black'>CSI</span></a></i>. At one level, the &#8220;broken&#8221; linebreaks mid-couplet echo the &#8220;<span class=SpellE>unhearable</span> hisses&#8221; tho at another, they replicate the strategy Perelman has taken with his letter to Gil <span class=SpellE>Ott</span> two poems before, &#8220;Or Not,&#8221; part of which reads:<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>D<br> <br>
ear Gil,<br>
<br>
I w<br>
<span class=SpellE>onder</span> w<br>
<br>
here<br>
the <span class=SpellE>dail</span><br>
y<br>
<br>
noises <span class=SpellE>st</span><br>
art making<br>
poetry hap<br>
pen hap<br>
<span class=SpellE>py</span><br>
<br>
or not read<br>
y to continue being w<br>
that they on<br>
<span class=SpellE>ce</span> sounded like<br>
the<br>
y<br>
were starting out to say or not being one thing being one <span  class=SpellE>mani</span><br>
fold sound in min<br>
<br>
d<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Here the abruptness of mid-syllable enjambments mimed the tragedy of early death. But in &#8220;In Memory,&#8221; where the lines aren&#8217;t as various in <span class=GramE>length</span>, it functions more as a constant scraping, like a scratch across an old vinyl LP: click <span class=SpellE>click</span> <span class=SpellE>click</span>. Further, what I call the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>CSI </i>elements bring in precisely what is otherwise absent here: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>the body. </i>Forensic whodunits do indeed operate around this negatively sanctified phenomenon: the corpse  who cannot be fully shown, not so very far from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>the picture swallowed into the center dot </i>of the TV being shut off. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>All of these dimensions, from I/Thou to elegy &amp; influence, to absence &amp; even the detritus of cable reruns, play off of one another here. It&#8217;s a dizzying display of mastery, and one thing about  <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>IFLIFE </i>is that Perelman never lets up. The book as a whole can be exhausting, but in the exhilarating way that rafting whitewater is, although there are moments when Perelman will remind you that you&#8217;ve forgotten to bring the boat. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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