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Michael Davidson: Four Poems from Bleed Through, plus one other

Jerome Rothenberg

BAD MODERNISM

Suddenly all is / loathing (John Ashbery)

and there’s plenty to be unhappy about

if I can just get the reception area festooned

in time for their arrival, paper cups

and those little plastic whatsits so that,

April 16, 2014

If a poem could exist on a rocket ship traveling at the speed of light where, in Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, space compresses, mass increases, and time slows, what kind of poem might it be? According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which applies at cosmological scales in contrast to his earlier theory of special relativity that applies at local scales such as the solar system, profound distortions of spacetime would have to occur in a universe where the speed of light is constant.

April 16, 2014

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Duncan at Harvard in 1977

Michael Davidson: Four Poems from Bleed Through, plus one other

Physics of the impossible