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Composition as Explanation

adam — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:42:10 +0000

On the flight out to Colorado, I was reading Gertrude Stein’s ‘Composition as Explanation,’ and decided to re-create the entire work juxtaposed on top of pictures. I wanted to experiment with my webcam, so I took some pictures with it. Here are the first few sentences from the essay. Not sure if I like it, or if it’s worth pursuing. Thoughts?

Created with flickr slideshow.

Two Portraits of Jamie Gaughran-Perez

adam — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:43:40 +0000

Portraits: live remixes of poetic (and other) performances; arrangements of language fragments for the discovery of new truths.

These two portraits are refined versions of sketches of one of Jamie Gaughran-Perez’s readings. Performed during “Via” at a Pyramid Atlantic reading, 2006.

A Poem for Buck Downs

adam — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:55:38 +0000

working
nine
to high
five
noon

we part
ache
and still
the found
day shuns
such nonesuch
freedom

a choice in
name only

either end point
still an end,
still

A Poem for Lisa Jarnot

adam — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:52:05 +0000

vehicles are only frames
we move ever more rapidly
between the trees
and what we say
continues and the trees
continue what we say
saying trees
once we know
and before then
saying trees only through moving
frames our childhood
love of trees and then love
of saying “also” to every
thing a tree
to climb to frame to ride
a special engine
for our love

A Poem for Bill Berkson

adam — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:47:09 +0000

logic
gates
abate
a bait
a wait
and switch
and see
a set
emerge
to match
that
swerve
to set
to first
faint glance
of mind’s
quick grasp