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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Ott/Ott-Gil_04_Moon-does-not-run-on-Gas_Frequency_2004.mp3"><span style='color:black'><u1:p></u1:p>Gil Ott</span></a> Tribute &amp; the First Annual <a href="http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Ott/Ott-Gil_05_Stingere_Frequency_2004.mp3"><span style='color:black'>Gil Ott</span></a> Book Award<u1:p></u1:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Sunday, June 3, </span></b><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="16"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>4:00 pm</span></b></st1:time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Rained out by the Nor&#8217;easter on Tax Day, we&#8217;re gonna try this again because it&#8217;s worth doing right. Ken Rumble (</span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>) &amp; Rachel Blau DuPlessis (</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Italy</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>) will have to join us in spirit this time around, but Linh Dinh has been added to the roster. This makes me especially happy since Gil is the person who first turned me onto Linh&#8217;s work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So let me reiterate: more than any other individual, Gil Ott is the person responsible for the strength of the poetry community in </span><st1:city><st1:City><st1:place><span    style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City></st1:city><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> over the past 30 years. His skills as a poet &amp; prose writer, as an editor, publisher &amp; arts administrator, as a community organizer, and as a friend, proved to be a unique combination. A small &#8220;d&#8221; democrat, Gil led by example, usually denying that he was doing anything other than just being himself. <u1:p></u1:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>One way to carry on Gil&#8217;s work and his name is to publish a work each year that demonstrates the same principles Gil worked so tirelessly for in life. <a href="http://mappemunde.typepad.com/"><span style='color:black'>Tim Peterson</span></a> is the recipient of the First Annual Gil Ott Book Award for his book <i><a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/peterson.htm"><span style='color:black'>Since I Moved In</span></a> </i>(Chax Press, 2007), selected by series editors Charles Alexander, Eli Goldblatt, Myung Mi Kim and Nathaniel Mackey. <u1:p></u1:p>It is, as I noted <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-was-i-believe-walter-benjamin-who.html"><span style='color:black'>here</span></a>, a great selection. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>We will also be celebrating Gil <span class=SpellE>Ott's</span> work and life directly. Those participating include:<u1:p></u1:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Alicia <span class=SpellE>Askenase</span><br>
Julia Blumenreich<br>
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Linh Dinh<br>
Ryan <span class=SpellE>Eckes</span><br>
Kristen Gallagher<br>
Eli Goldblatt<br>
Chris McCreary<br>
Jenn McCreary<br>
Bob Perelman<br>
<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Joshua Schuster<br>
Frank Sherlock<br>
Ron Silliman<u1:p></u1:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Click <a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/ott.htm"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Traffic.</i><br>
Click <a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/gallagher.htm"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Form of Our Uncertainty, </i>a festschrift for Gil.<br>
Click <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Frequency.html#Ott"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for 2 audio clips from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Frequency, </i>including &#8220;The Moon Does Not Run on Gasoline&#8221;<br>
Click <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ott.html"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for audio from a tribute to Gil at Writers House.<br>
Click <a href="http://www.whyy.org/phlproject/gilbio.html"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for a video of Gil.<br>
Click <a href="http://banjopoets.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> for Gil's last interview.<br>
Click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Ott"><span style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> at WIKIPEDIA, they're looking for help creating Gil's page.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:right'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This blog note lovingly plagiarized from <a href="http://caconradevents.blogspot.com/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>CAConrad&#8217;s</span></span><span style='color:black'> Upcoming Events</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-style:normal'>.</span></a></span></i><span style='color:black'><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'>It was, I believe, Walter Benjamin who, writing of photography, first distinguished between titles and captions. Titles, in Benjamin&#8217;s model, name the whole of a work. Applied to poetry, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Cantos </i>is a title that arches over everything in Mr. Pound&#8217;s &#8220;great acorn of light.&#8221; Captions, on the other hand, focus on something specific <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>within </i>the work and call it forward, the way a newspaper caption of a photograph identifies something &#8211; perhaps the name of a person &#8211; within the picture. The title of David Ignatow&#8217;s best known collection, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Rescue the Dead, </i>is that also of a single poem therein, 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;color:black'>Finally, to forgo love is to kiss a leaf,<br>
is to let rain fall nakedly upon your head,<br>
is to respect fire,<br>
is to study man's eyes and his gestures<br>
as he talks,<br>
is to set bread upon the table<br>
and a knife discreetly by,<br>
is to pass through crowds<br>
like a crowd of oneself.<br>
Not to love is to live.<br>
<br>
To love is to be led away<br>
into a forest where the secret grave<br>
is dug, singing, praising darkness<br>
under the trees.<br>
To live is to sign your name<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
is to ignore the dead,<br>
is to carry a wallet<br>
and shake hands.<br>
<br>
To love is to be a fish.<br>
My boat wallows in the sea.<br>
You who are free<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
rescue the dead.<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'>Ignatow&#8217;s last line is narratively &#8211; even thematically &#8211; ambiguous, but emotionally clear &amp; powerful. The result was one of the great poems of the last century &#8211; indeed, the poem that Ignatow was trying to write his entire life &#8211; there are dozens of poems of his that can be read as attempts to do this one thing, and this was the time when he nailed it &amp; completely got it right. By using a name that functions as a caption to both poem &amp; book, Ignatow takes the reader right into this one key &#8211; I almost want to say <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>sacred </i>&#8211; moment. <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'>What brings this distinction between titles &amp; captions to mind is another, very different but equally brilliant book, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/peterson.htm"><span style='color:black'>Since I Moved In</span></a>, </i>by <a href="http://mappemunde.typepad.com/"><span style='color:black'>Tim Peterson</span></a>, just out from <a href="http://www.chax.org/index.html"><span style='color:black'>Chax Press</span></a> of Tucson &amp; the winner of the first annual Gil Ott Award. Made possible by a generous donation by Julia Blumenreich, herself a wonderful poet, Peterson&#8217;s manuscript was chosen the editors of the Gil Ott Award series: Charles Alexander (the Chax of Chax Press), Eli Goldblatt, Myung Mi Kim &amp; Nathaniel Mackey. Peterson&#8217;s book is, as I feel certain Gil would have agreed, the perfect way to initiate such a series.<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'>Peterson&#8217;s book is 90 pages long and both begins &amp; ends with lengthy sequences that one might have expected Peterson to choose if he were to pick an individual poem as a name for this volume. The first, opening the book, is &#8220;Trans Figures,&#8221; a series of 15 very distinct poems in which the narrator is divided somewhat schizophrenically between the person &#8220;I&#8221; and a third person referred to variously as &#8220;it&#8221; or &#8220;the voice.&#8221; All of the poems, in one way or <span class=GramE>another,</span> focus on the question / risk / process of being in drag, sometimes in tones that are hushed, descriptive, exact:<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'>In heels and a skirt, an elegant gesture of the arm<br> 
like this, a certain sweep of the neck<br>
into necklace, the voice is trying to manifest<br>
itself. It leaves its apartment after dark<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
wondering if its neighbors will see it passing,<br>
crossing the lawn, the tap of its heels<br>
the only sound in the parking lot.<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'>Sometimes quite the opposite:<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'>Ankle ogle black stocking struck<br>
Match much must<br>
<br>
Catch sash ash pretending to wilt<br>
Silt into urn torn<br>
<br>
In remnants film or fine pilgrim<br>
Grim nest behave<br>
<br>
Have any knee given a film spot<br>
Not down, or strut<br>
<br>
But in underneath sundry watch<br>
Mesh haunts<br>
<br>
Delirious finger funded injury<br>
Naughty <span class=SpellE>naughty</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 actual subject of &#8220;Trans Figures&#8221; is risk, emotional risk, risk of embarrassment, risk of rejection. Consider, for example the role of negative capability in the following:<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'>Don&#8217;t put on nail polish when you have to drive 120 miles.<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'>Don&#8217;t wear anything that looks too <span class=SpellE>slutty</span>.<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'>Don&#8217;t use too many abstractions.<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'><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:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Don&#8217;t <span class=GramE>walk<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>anywhere</span> alone late at night.<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'>Don&#8217;t tell anyone what you&#8217;re really doing this afternoon.<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'>Don&#8217;t slouch; walk briskly.<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'><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:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Always buy lipstick that&#8217;s the right color for your complexion.<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'><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:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Don&#8217;t get too prosy when you could say it concisely.<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'>Don&#8217;t let your knees spread open when you&#8217;re sitting down.<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'>Don&#8217;t wear anything that makes your shoulders look bigger than your waist.<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'><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:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Don&#8217;t be redundant.<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'>Don&#8217;t tell anyone what you&#8217;re really doing this afternoon.<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'><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:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Always ask the other person about him or her self first.<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'><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:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Don&#8217;t make gestures that look too &#8216;<span class=SpellE>draggy</span>.&#8217;<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'>Don&#8217;t aspire to be a &#8216;real boy&#8217; or a &#8216;real girl.&#8217;<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'>Don&#8217;t use anaphora; it&#8217;s annoying.<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'>Don&#8217;t believe him when he says &#8216;I&#8217;m laughing <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>with </i>you.&#8217;<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'>Don&#8217;t be intimidated by men with bigger muscles.<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'>Don&#8217;t begin lines with a preposition.<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'>Don&#8217;t &#8216;swish around&#8217; or &#8216;camp&#8217; if you want to be convincing.<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'><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:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Don&#8217;t censor yourself.<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'>Don&#8217;t be ashamed of your body.<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'>Don&#8217;t present your body in a way that makes you ashamed.<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 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Don&#8217;t wear tank tops if you have a thick neck.<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;Trans Figures&#8221; is an extraordinary work because it takes so many chances, is so knowledgeable not just about itself (and the poet about himself) but about poetry as well. This ultimately is the high formalism of the post-avant <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>and </i>a deeply personal (and personable) poem all at the same time.<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'>No less effective is the volume&#8217;s closing sequence, &#8220;Spontaneous Generation&#8221; &#8211; my first thought on reading this title was that it would make a terrific name for a book as well, which is, in fact, what brought me to thinking about this more deeply. &#8220;Spontaneous Generation&#8221; consists of 28 prose <span class=GramE>sections,</span> one or two paragraphs each, over a space of 12 pages. In addition to the paragraphs &amp; sections, divided by asterisks, the page also is a unit of the poem here. This isn&#8217;t the standard run-to-the-bottom-&amp;-turn-the-page sort of prose. Rather, each is organized as a unit all its own. <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 same drama of the physical  body that partly inscribes &#8220;Trans Figures&#8221; is the focus for this final piece, which seems constantly amazed at the idea that these different body parts can cohere &amp; function as tho whole:<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'>The creek breeds life out of death; predilection, orange peels, the remains of <span class=SpellE>housecalls</span>, holding out lungs to breathe with, fiber-optic eyes to see. It feels ashamed of you &amp; not your reflection.<br>
<br>
<span class=GramE>Poor philosopher, poking in the dead stream with a twig.</span> You have been projected behind yourself on a screen. Your reflection stymies all efforts at recognition. They see this part of your, machine. Not flesh, not what you tried to do. <br>
<br>
*<br>
The other side of that is bright. <span class=GramE>Body of light, of solidity and change.</span><br>
<br>
These parts of me I cannot deny: the space I sit in, the left arm muscle moving into the neck causing headache, colophon of sorrow from another time. Made manifest, a bulb opens in the street.<br> 
<br>
*<br>
<br>
I heart the big office with pants on and a rolling stream of people moving through it. Confined to me by my papers, rent and its functions of living seem normal. <span class=GramE>Firm black line on a sheet of acetate.</span> I heart my bee balm in the window, my bourgeois rings.<br>
<br>
Nothing pilfered, nothing gained. <span class=GramE>Stagnant, almost.</span> Though I move through space with shopping bags, the strain animates them. Makeup cracking as it fails to fit the mouth beneath it.<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'>Yet <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Since I Moved In </i>is named for neither of these two sequences, but rather a single-page, single-stanza poem that appears immediately  after &#8220;Trans Figures,&#8221; its lines space slightly further apart than is the case with some of the other poems here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>starting to feel like a real room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>or would you say that&#8217;s traditional<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>almost typed &#8220;<span class=SpellE>toom</span>&#8221; then corrected it, Enlightenment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>saner and saner, alligator, bars on windows, nut<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'>At one level, many of the lines here have that found or overheard quality, as if each line came lifted directly from some other source, a contemporary descendant of Apollinaire&#8217;s &#8220;<span class=SpellE>Lundi</span> Rue Christine.&#8221; At a second, the poem is talking to itself  as it goes along, Frank O&#8217;Hara style, Peterson plays with typos. At a third, he&#8217;s directly addressing the reader &amp;/or a loved-but-absent other. At a fourth, there&#8217;s a narrative just slightly occluded here, one that lines up the tale of Orpheus &amp; Eurydice with lovers moving in together. It&#8217;s a poem that feels almost thrown together &amp; yet has so many planes intersecting one with another &#8211; what, for example, is one to do with all these allusions to technology, 
especially since the word in the poem that has to carry the greatest weight is <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>interface</i>?<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 &#8220;Rescue the Dead&#8221; three or four generations back, &#8220;Since I Moved In&#8221; is a poem that comes together with a slam bang finish. As a name for the book as a whole, it&#8217;s certainly more caption than title. Yet unlike Ignatow&#8217;s poem, it&#8217;s <span class=GramE>not the apotheosis of Peterson&#8217;s craft, not even necessarily typical of the book&#8217;s shorter poems, which offer considerable range</span>. One thing it does is to take some pressure, if  that&#8217;s the right word, off of the two longer sequences <span class=GramE>here,</span> one doesn&#8217;t read the book as extending outward from an initial masterwork that defines the collection, nor as leading up to the symphonic crescendo of the last long poem. The tone of the title suggests something personal, even intimate &amp; provides just enough context to carry a narrative flavor. That in a way seems very much the kind of risk that Peterson is taking, and wants to be taking, in all of the poems here. This is a post-avant text deeply committed to emotion &amp; to personal honesty: try to imagine a Clark Coolidge text that begins <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Match much must<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'>and I think you can without too much difficulty. Try to imagine a Coolidge lyric that ends on <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Naughty <span class=SpellE>naughty</span> </i>and   think it&#8217;s impossible. Peterson shows repeatedly here how such poetry can exist in the very same text. It&#8217;s both a daring and a remarkably subtle performance, especially coming from a poet who is still in his twenties. This book is both a thrill and a delight.<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'>More than any other individual, Gil Ott is the person responsible for the strength of the poetry community in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Philadelphia</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> over the past 30 years. His skills as a poet &amp; prose writer, as an editor, publisher &amp; arts administrator, and as a community organizer, proved to be a unique combination. A small &#8220;d&#8221; democrat, Gil led by example, usually denying that he was doing anything other than just being himself. <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'><a href="http://mappemunde.typepad.com/"><span style='color:black'>Tim Peterson</span></a> is the recipient of the First Annual Gil Ott Book Award for his book <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.chax.org/poets/peterson.htm"><span style='color:black'>Since I Moved In</span></a> </i>(Chax Press, 2007), selected by series editors Charles Alexander, Eli Goldblatt, Myung Mi Kim and Nathaniel Mackey. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Ott"><span  style='color:black'>HERE</span></a> at WIKIPEDIA, they're looking for help creating Gil's page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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