tHe mAgic typEwritEr (cleave poetics 5&6/19) by Dennis Kelly

CLEAVE POETICS 5&6 of 19

5.

“This is very
unprovoked thought”
—Clark Coolidge,
Postmodern Poetry:
The Talisman Interviews

          it opened—i caught it
 versions left over—over the edge
       they shifted—down the spinal cord
    all the hyphens—slouching like cats
           sniffing—soft paws on the carpet
   here in the city—craning their necks
getting a good look—thru the gate
       at the other—shape-shifter

6.

“the great
misunderstandings”
—Clark Coolidge,
Postmodern Poetry:
The Talisman Interviews

   it comes here—i don’t know how
      i say this—i’ve lost so much
planting hyphens—slanting it down
    how it grows—nobody knows
       beneath a—night sun moon
       blackness—dark at high noon
     it’s coming—undoing me

tHe mAgic typEwritEr (cleave poetics 3&4/19) by Dennis Kelly

CLEAVE POETICS 3&4 of 19

3.
“the energy of word art”
—Clark Coolidge,
Postmodern Poetry:
The Talisman Interviews

   cleaving—against it
seeing what—emerges
    writing—three-ways

   monsters—of the id
     ghosts—of the ego
   superego—doppelgangers

   the body—as movie
   dreaming—voyage imaginaire
  provoking—poetry

i’m starved—i’m hungry
    the way—poets eat poets
   language—cleave du jour

4.
“wait and see
what emerges…”
—Clark Coolidge,
Postmodern Poetry:
The Talisman Interviews

       what’s happening—with cleaves?
         the difficulty—talking about them?
         designing them—as 3 texts in one
        suggesting that—their meaning
          somehow comes—from a “complex”?

          when actually—the artifice of cleaves
performs simultaneously—paraphrasing
     the old surrealism—thru LangPo research
     into a new reading—worthy to be
        called American—parasurrealism…

tHe mAgic typEwritEr (cleave poetics 2/19) by Dennis Kelly

CLEAVE POETICS 2 of 19

2.

“I remember waking up one
morning with the look of that
page in my mind.”
—Clark Coolidge,
Postmodern Poetry:
The Talisman Interviews

i wake up—in the morning
with the page—in my mind
the layout of—the cleave
long-lines—becoming one

the cleave voice—sketching
provoking me—to visualize
the phantom page—again
the usual way—linking lines

the overall—arrangements
pages waiting—patiently
to be written—to be typed
creating them—back again

cleaving—the darkness
improvisational—incognito
fingers typing—magic keyboard
words of light—onto a screen

tHe mAgic typEwritEr by Dennis Kelly

CLEAVE POETICS 1 of 19

tHe mAgic typEwritEr
“It is a parasurrealism
that examines its own
lyrical structure…
a lively, dramatic
edginess, a visceral 
sense of “being there.”

—Charles Borkhuis,
“Writing from Inside Language:
Late Surrealism and Textual Poetry 
in France and the United States,”
Telling It Aslant:Avant-Garde 
Poetics of the 1990s 

1.

“How much of poetry is
unprovoked thought?”
—Clark Coolidge,
The Crystal Text

    what provokes—cleavage?
      that which is—blank?
     a new kind of—line?
         three lines—in one?

           how to be—simultaneous?
          three-way—at the same time?
       rearranging—past present future?
           writing it—into a new tense?

              picasso—does it
           juan gris—does it
        kandinsky—does it
             braque—does it

           but what—do they do?
        do they do—cubism?
or does cubism—do them?
        provoking—such cleavage?

(Previously here).