Jeopardy

by Bruce Andrews

32 pages, Chapbook

Published January 1, 1980

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]

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were
what
were
whole
what
wasted
words
want
waiting
whose
travel
there --
tips,
threats,
necessary
noise
nothing
needed
noise
noise
not
order
one
other's
direction
don't
could
choice
come
chest
combustible
elements
existed
empties
rest
enough
expected
how
hand
hypotheses
have
heard
home
having
head
here
had
having
openly
picture
persuasion's
physical
promises
names
name
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outside
one
other's
often
order
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graves
known
living
lift
level
lights
matter
might
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means
makes
me
might
matter
suitably
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sticks
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unchanging
appreciate
address
always
answer
anxiously
attention =
ashes
advance
clothes =
can't
cried
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conditions
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pronouns
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chief
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doubt
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details
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desiring
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threshold
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throat,
thickness
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about
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alone
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will
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words
without
counting
choice
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clouds =
face
father
firmly
face
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fashion --
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different
didn't
describe
distinctly
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fixed
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him
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meaning
more
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precautions
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phrases
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since
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shut
solid
sides --
strangers
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blue
bodies
better
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beside
begins
blows
being
bed
barn
becomes
bicycle
bowels
branches
dig
breath
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darkness
expanse
halls
launched
late
memory
least
mouth
me
manner
memory
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opposite
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as
attention
addicts
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alone
assistance
denying
demands
doesn't
deeper
devoured
delicate
dialogue
dealing
charming
drowns
doubt
dilating
consciousness
even
expanded
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features
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possible
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poetry
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over
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presentation
places
perpetual
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sea
stars
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somewhere
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shut
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regret
quick
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finding
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affection
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before
accuracy --
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behind
attacks
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abandoned
breath
damage
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deceitful
disposition
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everything
enough
eight
suppose
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what
voices
would
voice
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questions
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speaking
spared
reflection,
resolutions
ready
rose --
restored --
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mental
must
anything
associate
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anxiously
abandoned
ashes
beginning
dream
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draws
hits
I
interval
passion
peevish
words
you
what
you
when
you'll
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with
waste
teeters
stories
should
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set
speculation
bursting
space
bursting
stop
search
smack
drawing
divisions
close
cause
content
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case
creatures
continuous
digression
duration
crossed
count
crumpled
doomed
crown
cold
coming
calm
conscience
compelled
close
craze
falling
form
flight
flies
feel
end
fingers
faithful
announced
beginning
among
bent
under
verb
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sleep
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source
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place
particular
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respects
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with
words
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bothering
describe
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consequence
child
child
creatures
eloquent
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you
associate
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desired
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spectacle
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voice
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sea
rebukes
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suitably
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perhaps
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know
pretend
indefinitely
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say
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drops
chief
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direct
confusing
desired
circumstance
waiting
sight
swim
clouds
deserted
confidence
difference
while
uvular
called
curious
corresponding
known
I
inside
light
leaves
mechanical
deprived
depraved
charging
far
matters
less
making
murmurs
pleasant
length
redistributed
darkness
comes
capable
famous
everlasting
it's
see
strange
it's
keep
invention
listen
logical
forced
fatal
found
face
flowers
father
from
end
end
explanation =
local
fit
four
slides
family
furnished
evolve
required
find
reminding
false
fling
see
filling
suited
formation
ends
hungry
forward
hairless
local
maim
moving
flush
exist
meant
miles
fire
old
official
finds
remedy
fast
air
face
most
latest
ratified
reference
recursive
light.




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