or the simple two-liner:
In
I can’t find my pants.
printed high & to the right alone on its page.
There are moments in these texts
when it feels as if John Wieners & Joe Brainard have melded into one, tho
the eros of it all is broader in fact than that suggests,
more of a post-Burroughs, post-Acker pansexuality
with a glimmer of optimism:
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.
