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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://stephanieyoung.org/blog/"><span style='color:black'>Stephanie Young</span></a> has been having one <span class=SpellE>helluva</span> time lately. Not only is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/stephanie-youngs-bay-poetics-is.html"><span style='color:black'>Bay Poetics</span></a> </i>almost certainly the best anthology of new poetry we have had in 20 years, but her own <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=0974016748"><span style='color:black'>Telling the Future Off</span></a>, </i>published last year by the San Diego press <a href="http://www.tougherdisguises.com/"><span style='color:black'>Tougher Disguises</span></a>, is itself a classic &#8220;break-through&#8221; book of poetry. This puts Young in a position with regards to verse right now not unlike the one <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424060/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Scarlett</span></span><span style='color:black'> Johansson</span></a> has toward film or <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=7437"><span style='color:black'>Ryan Howard</span></a> has toward baseball. That&#8217;s the good news. The bad news is that, from this point forward, Young is going to have <span class=GramE>be</span> much tougher on herself, since she can no longer count on others to be reliable editors or critics. Since she is going to be able to publish anything that has her name attached to it, only Young can see to it that it&#8217;s the best possible work. The other good news is that, based on both of these books, she looks quite up to the task.<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'>Trying to describe the poetry of Stephanie Young is not easy. If anything, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Telling the Future Off</i> reminded me of Larry Fagin&#8217;s desire to read without expectation since just because you&#8217;ve read one poem by Young, you can&#8217;t presume that you know what&#8217;s going to happen next. It&#8217;s not just that she exhibits range from poem to poem, but that she shows a lot of range <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>within</i> any given piece. Here for example is &#8220;Things I Learned Among the Waters of Oblivion&#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'>Among the forms of recognition<br>
I chose the depressive&#8217;s headache<br>
or heavy food &amp; adolescence, loving you<br>
as a doctor in the opera, i.e.<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>bring the energy back now<br>
into your third parent.</i><br>
<br>
The taste in the scene was coming from my mouth.<br>
It was <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>previously. </i>Nothing ever went &#8216;all the way&#8217; inside.<br>
If I went there for one thing (apples)<br>
I&#8217;d come away with another (pages)<br>
or a buttonhole of what appeared:<br>
all that <span class=SpellE>youngsome</span> fleshiness<br>
subsumed within the higher education,<br>
one snake devouring another snake<br>
with a logo on their back of the tower<br>
at 57<sup>th</sup> &amp; International.<br>
<br>
Hours later, think to yourself how it all appears<br>
in the WRITERS NOTEBOOK<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
&amp; tearing your hair, with a great gnashing of teeth <br>
why must we say <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>slip </i>and<br>
<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>among the forms of recognition?</i><br>
<span class=GramE>Unless we are actually giving him the slip.</span><br>
<br>
The man lodged in my middle section<br>
always describes the girl out loud.<br>
It the part I remember most bitterly<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
hair up in a clip<br>
here it comes<br>
very pretty.<br>
<br>
The ocean doesn&#8217;t care if it is August<br>
then it is August. How we decided on<br>
the tower&#8217;s make &amp; then the radio<br>
went up in strips of orange colored cloth<br>
moving around in the air.<br>
What about this DOESN&#8217;T strike you as a hobby?<br>
The woman in the landscape<br>
bares her chest as well. Or straps<br>
fluorescent bulbs to her arms<br>
and goes out fighting. <span class=GramE>All production<br>
a magic production.</span> A line<br>
through the forms of protest<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the civic duty of having great tits<br>
and splendidly hard as rocks.<br>
<span class=GramE>Poles for legs to demonstrate<br>
what&#8217;s been done to the forest.</span><br>
When only scale changes: roses around the mailbox<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
my hand rendered with the same imprecision<br>
attaching itself to the mail, a soft focus<br>
to save us from being drawn<br>
again and again into the tail of an event<br>
we have seen depicted but cannot ourselves depict.<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'>Young represents a kind of poetry not really possible when I was in my 20s, drawing as it does from language poetry &amp; the New York School both, using multiple tones or something very close to discursive coloring in a way that is, at once, both painterly &amp; politically conscious. There&#8217;s not a single source for what is going on here &#8211; you can trace a great little sequence of allusions to Jack Spicer, for example in this passage &#8211; <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>very pretty.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
<br>
The ocean doesn&#8217;t care if it is August<br>
then it is August. How we decided on<br>
the tower&#8217;s make &amp; then the radio<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'>The first line echoes Spicer&#8217;s own quotation of the Peter, Paul &amp; Mary hit, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Lemon Tree, </i>the first line of the next stanza from Spicer&#8217;s own,<o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>This ocean, humiliating in its disguises<br>
Tougher than anything.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><br>
No one listens to poetry.<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'>From which Tougher Disguises takes its own name. The last line comes from Spicer&#8217;s theory of dictation &amp; the idea that a poet is a little more than a radio, albeit a counterpunching one. Writing like this requires a fair amount of knowledge on the reader&#8217;s part to be intelligible, as does the segue in the next two lines to Christo &amp; Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/02/jeanne-claudes-original-impulse.html"><span style='color:black'>The Gates</span></a> </i>project in Central Park. But do you need to know all, or any, of this? I think not. It is as easy to read, for example, &#8220;the tower / at 57<sup>th</sup> and International&#8221; as a generic reference to the uptown galleries in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Manhattan</span></st1:place></st1:City><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> as it is as the address of <a href="http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/CalMAX/Creative/1999/Fall.htm"><span style='color:black'>the Alameda County Computer Resource Center</span></a>. Or, as Young writes in &#8220;The Age of the Mercenary,&#8221; the one longer (or serial) poem in the book, &#8220;<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'>The usefulness of W.D. Snodgrass to this very poem<br> 
I anti-deny it<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>which, frankly, I seriously doubt.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> References like these function by invoking a level of specificity, but it&#8217;s the level, not the specific, that is the point. <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 there is an ur-spirit behind this writing, it might be Ted Berrigan, a member of the New York School 2.0 who also taught a number of the language poets, at both Yale &amp; Iowa City. While certainly Pound, Williams &amp; Zukofsky all demonstrated how to incorporate multiple voices into their poetry (much as Apollinaire did in  </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>France</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>), Berrigan&#8217;s stance toward the possible plasticity of tonal color is uniquely his contribution. In the introduction to his <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Collected Poems, </i>Alice Notley writes<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'>Ted&#8217;s poetry is remarkable for its range of tones of voice. He actively studied both &#8220;tone of voice&#8221; and &#8220;stance,&#8221; the range of attitudinal <span class=GramE>play</span> in human discourse and the projection of character. Here Ted&#8217;s professed model was Frank O&#8217;Hara, but I often find Ted more mysterious and more intense in both tone and stance. Not having O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s education or &#8220;class,&#8221; Ted therefore couldn&#8217;t be as traditional. He couldn&#8217;t call on a tone of voice from another decade or century as if he owned it, even though he knew exactly what <span class=SpellE>Whitmanesque</span> or Johnsonian was. He had to reinvent it for himself, from his working-class background and </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>University</span></st1:PlaceType><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tulsa</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> education and ceaseless self-education. <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'>Like Louis <span class=SpellE>Cabri</span>, whose poetry I&#8217;ve written about before as an extension of <span class=SpellE>Berriganian</span> techniques into politically engaged poetics, Young both gets this &amp; moves further down the line. She is not as overtly or conventionally &#8220;of the left&#8221; as is <span class=SpellE>Cabri</span>, but I wouldn&#8217;t call what I read here any less politically conscious than Louis&#8217; work, even if more politically suspicious. <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'>Young&#8217;s titles often sound like the captions in a kid&#8217;s book, or as a chapter title in a particularly episodic novel or film. &#8220;Today I Pull the Curtain on My Unseen Audience,&#8221; is the title of the piece the directly follows &#8220;Waters of Oblivion,&#8221; and before you&#8217;ve gotten into the body of the text, already an echo, this time of a transformed <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Wizard of Oz, </i>is at play:<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'>back you go<br>
through the low nineties of radio<br>
<br>
lower than miscellaneous<br>
for quick review<br>
<br>
low girls<br>
in a low car<br>
<br>
bouncing the horizon<br>
or spanning time<br>
<br>
you can smell<br>
with your forehead<br>
<br>
in the room of perpetual action<br>
and I bright blue<br>
<br>
I as blue as blue looks<br>
but never was.<br>
<br>
<span class=GramE>Blue as a piano truck<br>
of anecdotal evidence.</span><br>
<br>
<span class=GramE>Evidenced in parts.</span> Tired<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
hateful saying of things<br>
<br>
you should be too, of looking.<br>
&#8221;if he was going to marry anyone&#8221;<br>
<br>
in a falsified appearance<br>
of the word <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>niggling</i><br>
<br>
where there was none<br>
Sally in my arms<br>
<br>
moved<br>
and talked of mom<br>
<br>
to leaving the window open<br>
with moms in evening view<br>
<br>
reminder: moms: consumption<br>
a fine rot across the upper arms<br>
<br>
so the mom can come in and out<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 a radically different poem, even type of poem (one senses the possibility of flarf here, tho flarf, as ever, is difficult to prove) from the other. It&#8217;s a poem that appears to start in the middle &amp; end there also (albeit the latter suggests a joke, comparing mom with a cat) and where individual passages have almost the integrity (and malleability) of clouds in a spring sky &#8211; the low passage, the blue one, the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>v </i>sounds that appear to invoke mom, the truncated sentence about parts. Young is no less agile in her moves here than in the previous piece, but the end result is of a whole other order. <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'>Is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Telling the Future Off </i>a master-work? Not yet, tho it&#8217;s temptingly close. As I&#8217;ve written here before more than once, I respond positively to ambition, especially intellectual or aesthetic ambition &amp; Young makes me think of a great juggler who is already handling butcher knives &amp; flaming torches &amp; has decided to add tigers to the mix she is going to keep in the air all at once. It&#8217;s thrilling to watch her try, and it makes me hungry to read what she does next. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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