The Descent of Alette

Alice Notley's 'The Descent of Alette'

Andrea Quaid

To reimagine a genre can be to imagine a better world.

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For Robert Kelly

[From The Stars in Mindless Space: A Deeper Image. Later & Uncollected Poems. In Progress.]

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

No world more clear

than what we see

Know Future

Queer mythopoesis, or, How Eliot's "Waste Land" failed us

Robert Eric Shoemaker

A man stands in a field of yellow grasses under a blue sky, trees framing him. — Robert Eric Shoemaker; photo credit Olivia Welsh.

This post serves as a coda to my Jacket2 blog series on magical poetics by engaging with my own writing and magical practice.

At this year’s Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, which is a one-hundred-year-old occult gem of magical poets and thinkers, renowned critic Stephanie Burt asked if poetry has a future. By this she meant, "can poetry imagine a future?" mostly leaning into a sci-fi future-imagining for queer folks, as well as everyone else.