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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://furniturepressbooks.com/books/mccrearyundone/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;mso-no-proof:yes;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border="0" height="442" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/G2plw6ZvoExADirGskd4VOsPXd_IfbIWEyAXbCGD74cRJYGm4Gq6rpFxOyw6VEEbM1IvFeNojoHVj5xW2Sd64g2MmbFXmtQ0NI0GVcPs7ZfiHkSl8pbX_MmJNcPMyvo1dyocWw%3Ds0-d" width="289"></span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yesterday&#8217;s Songs</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> <br> <br> Homer sings the gods<br> of war,<br> <br> Homer sings<br> &#8220;Uptown<br> <br> Girl.&#8221; He strings his lyre<br> w/ piano<br> <br> wire<br> if he&#8217;s got<br> <br> the notion, molds calliopes<br> from white<br> <br> bread then throws them<br> to the wine-soaked<br> <br> ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>That was one of the poems I was thinking of the other day when I characterized Chris McCreary as a New Precisionist. It&#8217;s not just careful use of couplets a la Williams that I&#8217;m drawn to in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://furniturepressbooks.com/books/mccrearyundone/"><span style='color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>Undone: A Fake Book</span></a></i> &#8211; tho I&#8217;m <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>always </i>a sucker for those &#8211; so much as it is the balance of mythological &amp; pop culture elements, &amp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>the extraordinary care with which he deploys sound &#8211; hear how the reiteration of long <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>e </i>sounds sets up the string of long <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>i </i>that follows, which in turn set up the rhyme of closure: <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>notion / ocean. </i>Sonically, this poem is as tight as a bear trap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>It&#8217;s hard to imagine, say, the Oppen of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Discrete Series </i>demonstrating so much play with sound. The Oppen of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This In Which </i>and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Materials </i>would think it distracting. But I suspect that Oppen would find Graham Foust too full of Stevens, and Joseph Massey not so much too full of Creeley, but rather focused on the wrong Creeley, the one of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Words </i>and <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Pieces.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>Which is why I think that the New Precisionism isn&#8217;t simply neo-Objectivism (even if I were willing to redact Objectivism down to the Oppen of the 1960s), although that may be one pole &amp; Oppen absolutely is an<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>influence on all of the writers I would identify as precisionist:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight: normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Disinvited<br> <br> </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The romance of<br> shipwreck &amp;<br> <br> inevitable an eighth day&#8217;s<br> fever, some<br> <br> Stratego mixed<br> w/ bits of necromancy<br> <br> &amp; so this mess<br> you&#8217;ve left,<br> <br> i.e. attachment<br> to one&#8217;s captor, e.g.,<br> <br> one pissed-off Tinkerbell,<br> or, c.f.,<br> <br> another day of nickels,<br> the countless fallen<br> <br> robins, et<br> cetera. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Cannonball,<br> <br> </i>the boy calls, &amp; then he leaps<br> overboard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>There are multiple games at play here, one of which might be characterized as Having Fun with Oppen, the difficulty being that &#8220;having fun&#8221; isn&#8217;t a phrase in the Objectivist Playbook at all. Another, even more pointed object of McCreary&#8217;s humor might be characterized as the twitchy, notational style that descends not from the Objectivists so much as the Projectivists, Olson, Duncan, Creeley &amp; Blackburn, with a look back to Williams &amp; to Pound. This starts with my beloved ampersand in the second line, then continues w/ &#8220;w/&#8221; in the third couplet (which [or wch] also raises the possibility that this is what McCreary means by &#8220;necromancy&#8221;), before slathering it on heavy: &amp;, i.e., e.g., c.f., et / cetera (that linebreak strictly for sarcasm) before closing on the final ampersand, every much a big splash at the end as that produced by the narrative boy. Are we supposed to hear <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>canon </i>in <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Cannonball</i>? I found it impossible not to do so, &amp; even typed it out that way the first time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>A text like this throws up many more questions than answers in its wake, which is (to my reading) one of its great attractions. If this were fiction, it would not be the perfectly woven rug of a Nabokov or Fitzgerald so much as a Philip K. Dick romp, spurting new ideas, new beginnings every few paragraphs until the reader is lost in possibilities. Yet &#8211; more like Nabokov than Dick &#8211; McCreary clearly loves control. Nothing here has been casually spun out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1'>So what if we plopped George Oppen down at the King of Prussia Mall? The shipwreck of teen culture might turn up an almost Dante-esque mode of the comedic &#8211; McCreary himself is not so old as to have forgotten (&amp; his twins will taken him back there soon enough), plus he teaches high school for a living, albeit at one of the elite private academies that dot the Philadelphia suburbs. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>A Fake Book,</i> the subtitle here, accentuates the irony. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_book"><span style='color:black; mso-themecolor:text1'>The term</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> comes from music, jazz specifically, for those print jobs that offer just enough detail for an adept to utilize as grounds for improvisation. What, in this sense, do we make of that title, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Undone? </i>That we are undone by our culture? That fake books themselves are often just loose sheets of paper, literally unbound? That what we are to read herein has a sketchy, improvisational relationship to the world(s) to which it alludes? Is the author here no more fixed than the ghost of Homer, or whomever is meant by &#8220;an eighth day&#8217;s / fever&#8221;? All-of-the-above, I think, and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><img height="372" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/0O39y8stwGCqciEfD4VpI4M4hA1lQKp7crS9jJNhVGtNvwPvbOzZaY0dL0MW7B7l9QzGxCfGe1pF6t-fd1XsnHC9-Cubwkacl8dldOLYJLOUBVyjvqAeGUY3jCQoGaUs8KfucmXPIq0swD4T8gB8OaN0DetIHFHANjVuJ3YkXZ6XjO6C%3Ds0-d" width="279"><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height: 115%'>Chris McCreary</span></i><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'><a href="http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00582/2007__01_Hollows_582782artw.jpg"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>Laurie Duggan</span></a> the other day <a href="http://graveneymarsh.blogspot.com/2010/05/objectivisms-children.html"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>struck a chord</span></a> I had not heard in a while, or perhaps more accurately the critical equivalent of a guitar string snapping mid-song:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:.5in'>Poets like Ron Silliman often enough claim Oppen, Niedecker, and Zukofsky at least for their own purposes. But the kind of chiselled, glyph-centred work the Objectivists produced &#8230; seems to me a long way from &#8216;the new sentence&#8217;.<span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint: 242'>As an alternative he points to three poets he enjoyed hearing recently in London, Michael Heller, Elaine Randell &amp; Robert Vas Dias. I don&#8217;t know Randell&#8217;s work, but there&#8217;s no question that Heller &amp; Vas Dias are just two of many poets who have found inspiration in the literary devices deployed by Objectivism, particularly in its earliest neo-Imagist phase. One would be hard-put to characterise Zukofsky&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>&#8220;A&#8221;, </i>Reznkoff&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>As Testimony </i>or <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Holocaust, </i>Oppen&#8217;s late work, or any of the long poems written by Basil Bunting as &#8220;chiselled, glyph-centered.&#8221; Similarly, one would be hard put to characterise the earliest writing by the Objectivists as neo-Imagist if by that one included the work Zukofsky chose by Kenneth Rexroth for the Objectivist issue of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Poetry, </i>by Pound&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Cantos, </i>H.D.&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Trilogy, </i>Williams&#8217; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Paterson, </i>etc. In neither instance is this question of heritage one of either/or, as if Michael Heller &amp; I were fighting a custody battle over the right to claim the influence of Zukofsky or Oppen. Rather, I&#8217;ve always thought that it was more a matter of both/and &#8211; there are many roads that one might take from Objectivism, as indeed there are many that can be taken from Imagism as well. Had Duggan read <a href="http://jacketmagazine.com/39/silliman-crow.shtml"><span style='color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242'>my own contribution</span></a> to the most recent <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Jacket, </i>he might see that I have my own roots not so far from that same &#8220;chiseled, glyph-centered&#8221; tree. And, had he noted the work, say, of Rae Armantrout or Ted Pearson or Kit Robinson, he would have had to have acknowledge that it is something that one can find quite often associated with language poetry.&#185; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>As do many, many others &#8211; say Robert Creeley, particularly in the work of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Words </i>&amp; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Pieces.</i> It&#8217;s no accident that Creeley in the 1960s (when those books of his were written) was one of the poets most audibly advocating a recovery of Objectivism from the disappearance it had suffered over the previous 20 years. Tho one might say the same of Robert Duncan, a poet who shared much with Creeley in terms of an aesthetic, albeit &#8220;chiselled, glyph-centered&#8221; was not one of them. And who was himself the poet most responsible for bringing back the reputation of Hilda Doolittle. Or Larry Eigner. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal>The value that Duggan is identifying here is an intense focus on precision within the construction of the free verse line &amp; stanza, and there is no question that it is one of the deep pleasures one can find in both Imagism &amp; Objectivism, as well as in more recent work such as Heller or Vas Dias. But I would argue that this value has spread out much further than that in recent decades as well, that one should not just limit this attention to precision only to a kind of neo-Objectivism but rather recognize the broader aesthetic of precisionism that includes many otherwise different poets. Some of the New Precisionists whose work I enjoy a great deal these days includes Graham Foust, Joseph Massey &amp; Chris McCreary. Might anyone confuse them with Objectivism, neo- or otherwise? Only carelessly. Do they read one another? I certainly hope so. As I hope they read the Objectivists, and poets like Michael Heller &amp; Kit Robinson, Donna Stonecipher &amp; Laura Sims. Are they in touch with one another? I have no idea. Do they constitute a movement? I think they would be the first to say no. What they do constitute, however, might just be part of a moment, one in which many writers &#8211; think of Devin Johnston or the brothers O&#8217;Leary or John Martone or Jonathan Greene, even Kay Ryan &#8211; in which what at first seems to be a poetics of minimalism exists precisely to magnify the etched qualities of precise poetics. Hence precisionism. All of this attention to the exact, occuring right now in a world of a blur, often feels like a political statement, a politics each of them shares dedicated to sharpness, to specifity. I would distinguish this from the so-called well-wrought urn of two generations ago by noting that this new generation, with few if any exceptions, explicitly rejects the glaze. It has, I suspect, less to do with craft than with ethics. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Next week, if I get the chance, I want to look at the work of Chris McCreary, who seems to me a test case because the language he deploys is the most figurative, and therefore the least &#8220;Objective.&#8221; But which, at its best, is as hard-edged as anything ever written by George Oppen.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:115%'>&#185; If my concern here were simply one of kvetching over Duggan&#8217;s too-narrow reading, I would argue further that the New Sentence represented an attempt to foreground some of the same values that he finds in Objectivism in the context of prose, and that the New Sentence never implied a devaluing of precision in the verse stanza at all. If anything, quite the opposite. But that&#8217;s a different, less interesting essay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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