Steve Dalachinsky
Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His most recent books are Fools Gold (2014 feral press), a superintendent's eyes (revised and expanded 2013 - unbearable/ autonomedia), flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015), The Invisible Ray, with artwork by Shalom Neuman, from Overpass Press, "5-COLOR ASSORTMENT" Chameleon Too from Redfox Press, and FROZEN HEATWAVE with Yuko Otomo, from Luna Bisonte Prods. His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize.
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visage do(o)rma(n)t
1:12
bit green crowd red bit crowd
9:10 passing into 8:5-0
rowing beyond roof you are bit win el armie yufself
it is screaming this tempt of pointed light toned-down tragedy
to expand the boundaries yet keep the story short
to confine the boundaries yet tell an expansive tale
to be confined w/in the boundaries of the story
& tell us nothing new
i repeat bit the apple
he gave her reversal is technique
it can appear to float tho it is sinking
we look so much alike why bother to remember
if we try too hard memory will turn to relic
relic to mud mud to myth
i/deal it can appear to sink while it is floating
buoyed by memory
fueled by myth
weighted by relic
buried by mud
sand turned pen in sula homecoming gone
flower of birth the same man we are
it can appear to float while sinking
shiny lights outside the window blackboard revealing insides
outside the window
strings of the oud relic //// myth ///// memory
a sinking feeling that makes one float
(un) familiar melodies a round stick (tree) where the ancestors hang
the mingling of blood the mingling of blood
dark spot of possibilities / where the ancestors hang
tonight the moon hangs over you like a lost lamb / 10-10 has passed 9:50
Legend is not as it seems blood mingles I become Everything
uncharted territory road to ruin
the same face on different sides the same body
the dead man’s float in a flash flood
reducing my system to sewage to memory to relic to mud to myth
legend becomes voyage
a voyage that takes so long
nyc 12/4/04 lotus nuband/workman angelopolis/godard
Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite (Ugly Duckling Presse) won the PEN Oakland National Book Award. His most recent books are Fools Gold (2014 feral press), a superintendent's eyes (revised and expanded 2013 - unbearable/ autonomedia), flying home, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press 2015), The Invisible Ray, with artwork by Shalom Neuman, from Overpass Press, "5-COLOR ASSORTMENT" Chameleon Too from Redfox Press, and FROZEN HEATWAVE with Yuko Otomo, from Luna Bisonte Prods. His latest cd is The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (Roguart 2014). His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize.