Star
Concept
Originating
Directed
System
In the gaze
Circuit of the years
Vast darkness
Pain I hem in
I touch between my temples
Star
On the paper
Inferno
Allegory
A publication like this is
an opportunity to check on old friends &, for me at least, invariably brings
up lots of question as I ponder everybody’s work in turn, e.g.
What does it mean if the
reader doesn’t catch the
allusion? As in
Aaaaaalll night
he was a
Young Hegelian.
Young Hegelian!
RON SILLIMAN 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.
