Corona

by Bruce Andrews

Genres: Poetry

ebook

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Bruce Andrews is an experimental poet, performance artist, literary theorist & recently retired (after 38 years) left-wing professor of political science. As Musical Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers, he has created sound designs and, in performance, live mixes of music & text for over two decades of performances.Most recent of a dozen or so big books is last year’s "You Can’t Have Everything… Where Would You Put It!", followed by a chapbook, "Yessified (Sally’s Edit)" celebrating the Andrews Symposium and its expanded archive, online at www.fordhamenglish.com/bruce-andrews, with links to interviews, performance texts, poetry, collaborations, and critical essays on his work. Another online archive (and interactive project) materialized on April 1, 2014 as a curated 25 hour ‘twitter sculpture’ [Twitter.com @BruceAndrews25h], a 300 poem sequence.

Reviews

[M.W.P.M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

  peel off
 the white
 inner portion
 a vortex

 dislodge

 passport venom




 i'm huddled
 in a liturgy
 garnering

 those syllable oars




 traipse
 not yet cautious
 flowers
 can be mixed
 for at least one hour

 build your trap as low




 all clothes
 an angle
 with the shore

 ammunition about the
 size of

a variety of
 make up two thirds of a flask




 tipped
 lobes




 take off running




 the legs:
 muslin jewelry

strip the inner
 bark from the trunk




 mix the juice
 with water

flesh
 snare

 just try to dislodge it




 grubs
 mice
 seeing my eyes the fabric

clear self
 parachute





 sola come one all
 flesh bouquet
 eight inches apart
 a woven radar
 jaw festival

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