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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of all of writing&#8217;s illusive
qualities, none invokes more magic &#8211; at least in the sense of requiring a leap
of imagination that transcends all immediate physical evidence &#8211; than <span class="GramE">does</span> depiction. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It was
a dark and stormy night.</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You looked
into my eyes.</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inside his vest, the
bomb <span class="GramE">exploded,</span> shrapnel, blood, bone and flesh spewing
about the plaza. The apple rested on the table, next to the wooden mallard. </i>All
of the homilies put forth by various library and publishing trade groups as to
the ability of literature to &#8220;transport the reader&#8221; to new &amp; unimagined
places are predicated upon this capacity of language not merely to refer to a
world of objects, but to do so in a manner that is socially internalized (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">learned behavior</i>) as an equivalent for
the process &amp; experience of sight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If
sight would be language&#8217;s privileged sense, it has also been a dimension hotly
disputed. It was Zukofsky&#8217;s thesis in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bottom:
<span class="GramE">On</span> Shakespeare </i>that the Bard of Avon was
responsible for the deep cultural linkage between the two: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Writing after Shakespeare few remembered:
eyes involve a void; eyes also avoid the abstruse beyond their focus. Today the
literary theologian reads Shakespeare and oversees his own spruce theology.
There is also the latest derivative verbalism after Shakespeare&#8217;s savage
characters &#8211; forgetting while it curses others&#8217; intellect, in behalf of eyes,
that the curse has become the feigning eye of the black dog intellect. <span class="SpellE">Clotens</span> and <span class="SpellE">Calibans</span>,
Shakespeare&#8217;s tragic theme that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love
should see</i> flows around their words and shows them all the more their
sightless tune which does not find its rests so as to draw breath or sequence. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Note that &#8220;rests&#8221; is plural.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today, there exists one
literature on the gaze, that penetrating look that entangles desire with power,
another on the spectacle, on all the roles of reification. &amp; from Stein
onward, a new literature of opacity, of the immanence of the signifier, has
offered an alternative vision.* <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8220;Starred <span class="GramE">Together</span>&#8221;
is a three paragraph prose poem by Jena Osman that looks intently at the
process of looking &amp; the concomitant phenomena of perspective &amp; point
of view. The position it stakes out is unique &amp; worth examining. That it
stakes out a position is itself noteworthy. Osman, as with her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain </i>co-founder Juliana Spahr, is a
writer intensely concerned with a poetry that has a critical function &amp;
edge, the sort of text most likely to bring out snarling from &#8220;black dog
intellect&#8221; intent on saving poetry for the feigned purity of uncritical
emotion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But it is the role of the
person that is in fact at stake. The poem telegraphs the core of its concerns
in a terrifically condensed first sentence: &#8220;A glance hits an object or person
and pins it down like a star.&#8221; This sentence itself could be taken as a model
for the poem, as so many of the larger text&#8217;s devices and strategies are
employed simultaneously here. The most obvious is a Brechtian device that I
want to be especially careful in discussing, as it&#8217;s just the sort of thing
that a &#8220;dog intellect&#8221; would be most apt to misconstrue, perhaps even
willfully. Let&#8217;s call this device <span class="SpellE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">depersonification</i></span>. The agent or noun phrase that is the
literal subject of this sentence, &#8220;A glance,&#8221; has been removed from any human
(or otherwise sentient) context, abstracted precisely so that it can be
examined as a process without our being distracted in the most literal sense by
some charming (or not) foible-ridden setting, the person. The implicit question
&#8211; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who glances? &#8211; </i>is not answered
because it is exactly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>the point.
The verb, or rather the first verb, is notable for its implicit violence &#8211;
&#8220;hits.&#8221; Now one finds the person tucked into the conjunction that is the object
of the sentence: &#8220;an object or person.&#8221; It is no accident which item comes
first in that pairing. After the conjunction <span class="GramE">comes</span> the
send verb phrase, &#8220;pins it down,&#8221; one that will invoke butterfly collecting for
some readers, wrestling for some and target practice for others. The final
analogy, however, is completely unpredictable given what has come before: &#8220;like
a star.&#8221;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Like a star</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">.
Incongruous as the phrase is in the context of the first sentence, it returns
us to both the title and to the Cecilia Vicuña epigraph:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A
constellation of darkness<br />
another of light<br />
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A gesture to be completed<br />
by light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Light is what enables sight
to be embodied. In this poem, Osman will use the stars as light, as
constellations, as mapping tool and as repository of human narrative. She will
write, near the very end of &#8220;Starred Together,&#8221; &#8220;When you look at a
constellation, you draw the points together with your own lines.&#8221; But the
problem of the poem is that, as the second sentence states, &#8220;The actual moves.&#8221;
Between these two poles, Osman brings in other tropes: cinema, homelessness.
The poem constantly constructs the possibility of seeing only to undercut via
another perspective already inherent in what has been laid out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The result is a remarkable
text, remarkable in part for its sheer density &#8211; Osman can get more complexity
into two pages than most poets get into 20. Reading it, I find two aspects that
push my own thinking </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">furth</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">er than it has previously gone. First is a concept
for which Osman makes claims:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The narrative
drive is what clings to the actual moves; the narrative drive persists through
the fragmentation in which seeing occurs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The narrative drive is a
concept that invokes psychology, but not one that I personally recognize from
that field. If accorded the status of a drive, narrative in this sense of
joining elements together to create coherence is much <span class="GramE">more<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>(</span>or perhaps much deeper) than the
parsimony principle of cognitive linguistics. Is it eros, the death wish, some
combination? I&#8217;m not certain, but the way Osman puts the concept out there in
this poem makes me want to mull it over in more depth than I have done before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The second aspect is Osman&#8217;s
strategy, implicit but clear enough even in the first sentence of the work, of
deliberately avoiding any personification of the text. The word &#8220;I&#8221; never
occurs, replaced most often by &#8220;you&#8221; and occasionally &#8220;we.&#8221; In fact, the only
instance in the text in which we do &#8220;hear&#8221; the narrator function
self-reflexively, it&#8217;s in both quotation marks <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> French: &#8220;&#8217;Voyeur? <span class="GramE">&#8211; <span class="SpellE">C&#8217;est</span>
<span class="SpellE">Moi</span>!&#8217;&#8221;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here Osman is working
through the problem of sight, the gaze and that mutual penetration that is
recognition, but recognition in the <span class="SpellE">Althusserian</span>
sense of ideology**. That last sentence I quoted about &#8220;drawing the points with
your own lines,&#8221;**<span class="GramE">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>leads</span> directly to the end of the poem:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But when
someone catches your eye in a direct grip, there are no more stars. You might
shake your hands at the sky as the light crashes in, we&#8217;re pinning you down.
You might shake your head to clear it, <span class="GramE">then</span> step
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8220;Starred Together&#8221; refuses
to escape the problem of <span class="GramE">Others</span>. It&#8217;s a testament to
Osman&#8217;s integrity, that the poem doesn&#8217;t evade the problem. Nor does it offer
us a way out, easy or otherwise. &#8220;Inside&#8221; is exactly not a solution. The word
&#8220;Together&#8221; in the title is not there by accident.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I suspect that Osman&#8217;s
intellectual integrity on this question of the person is part of what creeps
out <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seattle Times </i>reviewer Richard
Wakefield. Characterizing &#8220;Starred Together&#8221; as &#8220;a belabored amalgam of clichéd
ideas and limp prose,&#8221; </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wakefield</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">
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the first four sentences of the poem, including &#8220;While sitting in the box,
images from a window are stolen from the street.&#8221; He comments:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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She doesn't, apparently, have the taste to
delete an excruciating line like that last one: What is "sitting in the
box"? Her grammar seems to say it is "images," but how can they
be "stolen from the street" WHILE "sitting in the box"? <span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Osman&#8217;s poem is hardly &#8220;limp
prose,&#8221; though </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wakefield</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s phallic trope is worth noting. Working through the
problems of representation within ontology could only be seen as &#8220;clichéd
ideas&#8221; to someone for whom the idea itself is off limits. In addition, the objectification
of interiority (housing, rooms, theaters, &#8220;the box&#8221; &#8211; Osman seems to omit only
Plato&#8217;s cave) is hardly the readerly conundrum that </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wakefield</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> pretends it to be. The idea that </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wakefield</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> cannot understand how images can be &#8220;stolen from the
street&#8221; &#8211; let alone recognize how delightful its play on scale is &#8211; suggests
that he will find &#8220;The perversion of your own observation,&#8221; the reference to
voyeurism, &amp; &#8220;the corruption of your own detached look&#8221; later in the poem
equally opaque. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is true that &#8220;Starred
Together&#8221; may confound the willfully illiterate reader, so there is a perverse
poetic justice in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wakefield</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> selecting it to demonstrate &#8220;why there are so few
poems here &#8230; (in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.simonsays.com/book/default_book.cfm?isbn=0743203860&amp;areaid=33">The
Best American Poetry, 2002</a></i>) that are even readable.&#8221; The poem is
focused right on the problems of taking responsibility for the pragmatics of
reference. Blaming the poems displays </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wakefield</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s position well enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part of me wants to take </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wakefield</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> to task for such critical malpractice. But another
part would love to understand what it must mean to live inside a worldview that
could come to these conclusions, finding complexity more or less the way the
Amish do electricity, as though it were something unintelligible &amp;
threatening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>To claim that such work is
unreadable is to concede that you cannot read it. Some of the contributors of
the writers in this &#8220;unreadable&#8221; collection include </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rae Armantrout</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein,
Anselm Berrigan, Tom Clark, Clark Coolidge, Diane <span class="SpellE">Di</span>
Prima, Ted Enslin, Elaine <span class="SpellE">Equi</span>, Clayton Eshleman, Ben
Friedlander, Gene <span class="SpellE">Frumkin</span>, <span class="GramE">Forrest</span>
Gander &amp; Peter Gizzi, just to pick from the top of its alphabet.+ So what
is Wakefield saying? If you take him at his word, here is a professor of
literature who also is the poetry reviewer for a major American daily newspaper
who proclaims in print his own inability to read. His sad situation invokes the
very issues that Osman&#8217;s poem addresses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">* My own
essay, &#8220;Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World,&#8221; in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://roofbooks.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100484640">The New Sentence</a></i>
can be read as a contribution to the history of this debate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">** Tho
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">*** I can
imagine another reading of this work in which I would push much harder on the
idea of one&#8217;s &#8220;own lines,&#8221; given my own sense of how helpless most of us prove
to be in the context of our socio-historical positioning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The fourth issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.poetry.org/">The
Electronic Poetry Review</a></i> is now live and includes a talk that I gave a
couple of years ago at the annual confab of the Modernist Studies Association, <a href="http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue4/text/prose/silliman1.htm">&#8220;The Desert
Modernism,&#8221;</a> focusing in part on the question of why William Carlos Williams
would have chosen to write a poem in 1951 that would lead to the famous, if
somewhat abashed, affirmation of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As I so often do when
thinking about the history of poetry, I try to articulate a social context for
Williams&#8217; sense of isolation, which I do partly in terms of Objectivism:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">The early 1950s was the nadir of Objectivism.
Zukofsky, completing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">&#8220;A&#8221;</i> 12 in 1951,
would not touch the poem again until 1960. <i>Some Time</i>, Zukofsky's
gathering of his shorter works between 1940 and 1956, contains just 33 poems
for its seventeen years. In her bibliography of the composition of these works,
Zukofsky's wife Celia notes that, in 1954, the only poetry he wrote were two
sections of &#8220;Songs of Degrees,&#8221; one a nine-line valentine, the other &#8220;William /
Carlos / Williams // alive!&#8221; George Oppen hadn't written anything since 1934.
Charles Reznikoff was self-publishing and the collection <i>Inscriptions:
1944-1956</i> takes up only 30 pages in his <i>Complete Poems</i>. Lorine
Niedecker had published just one book and that with a publisher in <st1:place><st1:city>Prairie
  City</st1:city>, <st1:state>Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>; she would not
publish another until Ian Hamilton <span class="SpellE">Finlay</span> brought out
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Friend Tree</i> in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in 1961. &#8220;The Spoils,&#8221; which Basil Bunting wrote in 1951 was his first major
piece of poetry since 1935 and last until 1965. He wrote just three odes, as he
called his shorter poems, in the 1940s and none in the 1950s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The talk in general and this
passage in particular provoked a most interesting and thoughtful email from </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Eliot Weinberger</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, which he has kindly given permission for me to
reprint here. I don&#8217;t agree with everything he says but he&#8217;s got me pondering the
need to re-vision the 1950s in particular beyond the canonic box that is </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Don</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">ald Allen&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New American
Poetry. </i>Here is Weinberger&#8217;s perspective:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Along with the silence/invisibility of the
&#8220;objectivists,&#8221; you should add Rukeyser, who published no new books between
1948 and 1962. WCW told a depressed Reznikoff to keep writing, no matter what,
so <span class="SpellE">Rezi</span> wrote the novel &#8220;Manner Music.&#8221;</div>
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I think you underestimate the presence of Pound who,
though locked up, was writing a zillion letters a day and entertaining endless
visitors. It's also a period of the first standard editions of <span class="SpellE">Ez</span>: 1948, Cantos; 1949, Selected Poems; 1950, Letters;
1953, Translations; 1954, Literary Essays. Then in 1954 you have the Confucian
Odes and in 1955 Rock-Drill. He couldn't be more visible, however immobile.</div>
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I also wonder about WCW's isolation. If you look at
his letters and essays from the time, he's praising (and is in contact with) a
lot of poets: Lowell, Eberhart, Roethke, Rexroth, Harvey Shapiro, MacLeod,
etc-- besides the New Americans you mention (Creeley, Olson, Ginsberg) and the
honorary New American, Corman.</div>
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Also in the period you have Rexroth&#8217;s &#8220;Signature of
All Things,&#8221; &#8220;Dragon and the Unicorn&#8221; and &#8220;Beyond the Mt&#8221; (reviewed by WCW).
And Patchen had books from ND, Jargon, and the first City Lights pocket
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I'm as guilty as everyone else, maybe more guilty,
but I increasingly wonder whether we're all not prisoners of the <st1:personname>Don</st1:personname>
Allen taxonomy. The problem is that Allen overlooks a (small) sort-of
generation between the objectivists and the New <span class="SpellE">Amers</span>:
Rexroth, Rukeyser, Patchen, etc. And the anthology wars c. 1960 obscured
genuine affinities, at least in the early 50's. Lowell considered himself a <span class="SpellE">Poundian</span>; he loved WCW; everyone remembers his famous &#8220;raw
and the cooked&#8221; as referring to him and Ginsberg, but in fact, RL thought he
was one of the &#8220;raw,&#8221; compared to Wilbur etc. WCW and Roethke are not in
opposition, etc. It is forgotten that Origin was pitched on two poets: Olson
and Bronk, whom no one would put together any more. And the Allen obscured
genuine hostilities: Joel Oppenheimer used to tell about Beats and Black
Mountaineers getting into fistfights at the Cedar Tavern.</div>
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Is WCW in 1950-55 more isolated
aesthetically/personally than anyone else, or himself at any other time? Snyder
says somewhere that in the spiritual wasteland of the 50's one would hitchhike
a thousand miles just to have someone to talk to. Outside of a few small
groups-- like the SF <span class="SpellE">Ren</span> and the Black <span class="SpellE">Mteers</span> who were actually at Black Mt (unlike the <span class="SpellE">Blk</span> Mt group in Allen) and the inner-circle Beats-- how
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Could the proverbial Martian be able to sort the
poems c. 1950 of Levertov, Eberhart, Roethke, <st1:city><st1:place>Duncan</st1:place></st1:city>,
Rexroth, etc into &#8220;avant-garde&#8221; and &#8220;establishment&#8221;? Maybe there's a new
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