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Bruce Andrews
What’s the Word:
An Essay on Reading, for Louis Zukofsky’s Centennial, words from his _‘A’ 1 – 24_ and _Complete Short Poetry_
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There will have to be a | a13 292 |
Or: that cannot be praiseless | a12 162 |
… thinkglimpsing | csp 344 |
… An observer’s irrelevancy | csp 41 |
had so much to do with so little | csp 228 |
… if these lines were broken | a18 394 |
As the eyes | csp 198 |
hear with their | a24 581 |
who see with their ears | a24 581 |
Music avoids impossibility | csp 77 |
The sound and pitch emphasis of a word | a24 575 |
lower limit speech | a14 349 |
For you I have emptied the meaning | csp 81 |
Look in your own ear and read. | csp 213 |
to “tune in | a24 568 |
to let it become a movement of sounds. | a24 566 |
Alliteration often equals anyone can stutter | a13 277 |
… — choràl out | a14 354 |
… how song’s exaction | a9 108 |
… Sounds are too volatile for | a18 395 |
Desire mates tone: | a13 301 |
… Shut up! | a21 505 |
Says you! | a24 773 |
Attention! | a24 671 |
The nonsense recorded its own testimony | a24 723 |
Figure it out | a13 302 |
‘I read poetry, and I enjoy it | a6 26 |
… read, not into, it: | a22 528 |
the words of an insoluble sentence | a24 771 |
… — impossible’s | a23 563 |
— tries, as is said, to breathe the “literal” meaning with him. | csp 243 |
… annunciate a reference, | csp 284 |
… I don’t delight in semantics | a18 398 |
Only the notes that see, | csp 213 |
… in brute delicate trembling | csp 17 |
And yet I wonder and am stunned — | csp 127 |
To be undone again. | a12 162 |
Hot n’ bothered? | a6 33 |
… whose tizzied head | a23 544 |
I am taken aback by a difference | csp 124 |
… (thoughts’ torsion)! | csp 65 |
suspend judgment (likely impossible) | a22 521 |
He has no human tendency to squawk, | csp 117 |
never so overbearing or sure | a22 525 |
… the body figures, not | a22 529 |
An effervescence makes them retreat | csp 138 |
Practicing word sleight — | a6 22 |
… deprived echo, | a23 542 |
Forms only in snatches, | a6 22 |
the story must exist in each word or I cannot go on. | a24 769 |
As if their little lines and wretched effects | a13 278 |
The glaze of mind | csp 44 |
To startle minds with abstractions | csp 129 |
but the letters are there and seem to exude thought. | a24 581 |
In a state of desire . . so as to . . care better . . just facts | a13 283 |
… undreamt judgment | a23 562 |
… ’ll echo . . of guide-rules | a23 557 |
Who now? | csp 246 |
propound a law of ‘all’ | a23 558 |
… , I a | a23 559 |
The mind moves the body | a12 188 |
Tape recorder — tape reason — is that my voice | a13 288 |
Isorhythm — I — so rhythm a13 281
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paper-thin throat poet narcissus | csp 345 |
… self-taunt | a5 18 |
. . for my own more ready reference, | a8 101 |
closed on the lip | csp 156 |
… Pride false to its own voice lolling | a18 396 |
Antimacho | csp 312 |
I speak to myself most often | a12 130 |
Our bodies know more than our heads | a13 301 |
… what for | a22 526 |
But senses confused | a24 577 |
… is matter and thinks | a12 164 |
my readers to be and with such hands as might | csp 252 |
… to solicit precariously? | csp 256 |
By intermittences | a12 190 |
Flesh the organ of touch; | a13 270 |
Heart us invisibly thyme time | csp 325 |
Hear it tease question | csp 334 |
… — the hot tease, errant pulse of animate heart! | csp 282 |
Okay, I have some dictation first. | a24 705 |
Philosophy moves | csp 126 |
… , all of us divided as our ears — | csp 280 |
I want to resign | csp 117 |
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P.S. I want to resign. | csp 117 |
Heart disciplines the head | a13 274 |
… — wisdom most sensitive | csp 181 |
Mind, don’t run to mind | csp 213 |
as the breath blown follows a breath drawn in — | csp 155 |
| a22 509 |
. . beyond the laboratory brain . . | a22 534 |
pleads feed and feed back — | a22 509 |
… electrical cranial charges | csp 71 |
| a14 344 |
… ‘talk no rule to | a23 559 |
illusion is slow | csp 212 |
and the sudden jolt are also | csp 71 |
| a13 297 |
Really whether his or mine, what’s that to me | csp 250 |
I have to reread several times | a12 215 |
There is no whisper but vibrates | a10 113 |
desire speaks’ ‘not for them | a23 560 |
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not the dreampistol of philosophy | a24 624 |
Having outlived self-offense | csp 110 |
And the | csp 217 |
| a22 520 |
… the | a18 397 |
Shall whose writing be on paper | csp 50 |
What are those songs | csp 81 |
No one to | a14 350 |
And they not I who work | csp 109 |
The foci of production: things reflected | a9 106 |
the jumble of order | csp 72 |
| a9 106 |
… How the brain forms its visions think- | csp 11 |
You’ve got to use things, | a6 33 |
Choice by lot’s no insight, | a22 524 |
melody is not alone | a15 366 |
lower limit body | a14 349 |
lower limit dance / | a14 349 |
the battle of diverse thoughts — | csp 68 |
so increscent | a19 429 |
Impingements on things, boundlessly | a13 265 |
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If I turn pages back | csp 128 |
You’ll have to see how they do it | csp 116 |
‘pleasures do’ wit’s joys accord: | a23 560 |
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Among strangers — there was always the practical | a6 38 |
… unbridled harange maybe | csp 344 |
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… preordained packed hearts | csp 290 |
… echo echo serious | csp 339 |
possibility of a convocation without summons, | a24 731 |
… Light is | a9 106 |
… disarmed enamored readiness | a23 555 |
Magnetic hearts — | csp 120 |
kiss: constant please | a22 511 |
… pact is pubescence | csp 350 |
Seems the exception moved | a13 292 |
seconding heart-chords’ dictate | a23 559 |
… head-on-head | csp 350 |
growing together hush one heart. | a23 537 |
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dissonance winked conceived acting together | a22 529 |
Radiations of quickest economies | a13 278 |
… as causes disposing our loci, | a9 106 |
but someone before him | csp 222 |
membral loopings | csp 316 |
of some unexpected person taking part in one’s expected | csp 102 |
… and to pulse | a12 126 |
… , magnanimously ours, | csp 251 |
I am no longer myself | a24 760 |
But the simultaneous | csp 73 |
my dictionaries—heart | a14 335 |
Events listening to their own tremors, | a6 27 |
All the questions answered with their own words | csp 223 |
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