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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I&#8217;m totally jealous. </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kevin Davies</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;"> wrote &#8220;Lateral Argument&#8221; and I didn&#8217;t. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8220;Lateral Argument&#8221; is an as
yet unpublished poem that is circulating via PDF file, 20 pages of <span class="SpellE">shiveringly</span> brilliant writing. My first thought as I read
through this poem, composed over last summer, was: well, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what if </i>John Ashbery&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flow
Chart </i>&#8211; my favorite work of his &#8211; did have a beginning, middle &amp; end &#8211;
is <span class="GramE">this what</span> it would look like? Then I thought: well,
what if <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flow Chart</i> had a social
imagination, a politics? Or at least one that was coherent?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">These thoughts reminded me
of a comment Davies himself made in a footnote, one of four, to a letter this
blog ran on <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_11_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2383870156">November
1</a>. In the body of the letter, Davies argued that, contra </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Louis Cabri</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;"> &#8211; a poet with whose writing Davies shares more than
a passing affinity &#8211; &#8220;The first two generations of the </span><st1:place><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">New York</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial;">School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> . . . have had significant and widespread effects on vanguard Canadian
poetry of the past forty years.&#8221; In the footnote, he throws this argument into
a more personal context:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">In my own case, Berrigan was crucial to my education. The
first thing of his I read, in the year after high school (while working
desultorily at the local mill), was "Tambourine Life," in an
anthology at the local community-college library. This event was, I think,
similar to <a href="http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue4/text/prose/silliman1.htm">what Ron
describes when he first encountered <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Desert Musi</i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">c</i>: the sense that
there was a writing practice that could account for the vagaries and
particulars of the life I was living, one that was not tied to the prosody of
either the Romantics I adored or the academics I abhorred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In &#8220;Lateral Argument,&#8221;
Davies puts up, giving substance to the vision sketched out above:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Not all the fruit trees hate you &#8211;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Freud once attempted to purchase </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Mexico</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Darwin</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> feared
meteors and their possible connection to lichen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Mathew Arnold hated ducks, just </span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Italic;">hated
</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">&#8217;em.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Martin <span class="SpellE">Frobisher</span>
cooked and ate an entire cabin boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Jack Spicer invented the clap-on clap-off
lamp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Fatty Arbuckle faked his own death and ended
up running a go-cart track in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Alabama</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Goya lost his nose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">in</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
a practical joke gone very, very wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Backing slowly away from the bear, not
looking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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its eyes. <span class="GramE">Pretending to be asleep.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Ignoring the tornado.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
Refusing to acknowledge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
legitimacy of the mudslide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Not flinching &#8211; holding steady &#8211; when the
toaster<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">falls</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
into the bath. Glancing back, turning to salt, and not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">caring</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">.
Driving blindfolded on acid in the 70s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">Arguing for a lower
grade.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> Pulling the thigh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">hairs</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
of the opposing power forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The title of &#8220;Lateral
Argument,&#8221; it seems to me, is very literal (lateral). The poem is very much
built around the stanza as its primary unit, often changing shape as the text
moves from one to the next. At the same time, the stanzas themselves are
destabilized by a process of &#8220;carry over,&#8221; the last line/thought of the
previous one bleeding into the stanza following. The device starts at the
beginning, with an ambiguous refusal to demarcate between epigraph and the body
of the poem itself:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">&#8220;Persons exist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">as</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
practical ways of speaking about<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">bundles</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">.&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">&#8211; Paul Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">They awoke in a bookless world studded with
lean-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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performance artists interacting with electricity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Italic;">This must be the place</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">.
Evicted from elsewhere, here at last<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">not</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
rest but an apprenticeship in container<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">technology</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">.
A kind of music that, though apparently stopping,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">starting</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">,
stopping, more specifically never ends, thus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">displaying</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">
as virtue its greatest flaw. Successfully,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">irritatingly</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;">.
</span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Italic;">Who here has access to liquor?</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Several of these carry-over lines
break in ways that seem unpredictable &amp; </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">del</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">icious: &#8220;The image problem of vipers//is their
greatest asset.&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If there is a standard or
baseline stanzaic form here, it&#8217;s one that doesn&#8217;t really show up until the
fourth page &amp; doesn&#8217;t fully take over until the <span class="GramE">14<sup>th</sup>,</span>
where (as in the last part of the first quote above) almost every second line
is </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">ind</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">ented. Overall, this gives the poem a sense of homing
in, starting out with the broadest range of possible futures, gradually
arriving at a mode as though it were the dénouement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Davies has been an active
participant in the </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">New
  York</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> poetry
scene for so long that it takes some effort for me to think of him as Canadian,
although he has always maintained an active relationship with the poetry of his
homeland. &#8220;Lateral Argument&#8221; would be a wonderful poem wherever it was written.
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<br /><img alt="" src="file%3A///Users/Lynn/Desktop/silliman2a.jpg" / /><img alt="" src="file%3A///Users/Lynn/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.png" / /><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">RON SILLIMAN</span> has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(c) 2002-2019 by Ron Silliman.
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