Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

Of theology, forms, and absence

Left: 'Exercises in Style,' © 1947 by Editions Gallimard. © 1958, 1981 Barbara Wright. Cover courtesy of New Directions Publishing Corp.

What writing isn’t conceptual? This is what a pundit might ask.

February 5, 2016

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Into-an-empty-swimming-pool-diving in love

Sommer Browning

a photograph of branches twisted into the shape of a person in an alcove — Ana Mendieta, Untitled from Silueta Series, Mexico, 1973-77

I am falling in love with a person. Isn’t falling in love one of the weirdest feelings you’ve ever had? I can’t say that it is pure joy. I mean we say FALLING in love for a reason. And, as you get older, falling is no joke. Forty-two-year-olds fall down and can break their body. But love falling is so much riskier! We really should call it plummeting in love. We really should call it into-an-empty-swimming-pool-diving in love. It feels like my realities are at stake. My sense of self. The view of my life from this angle — forty-two-year-old white mother poet lady.

With Jackson Mac Low: The Light Poems and other matters (personal, literary, political) 2003–2004

The Light Poems and other matters

An exchange of emails with Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg

Portion of the “light chart” by Jackson Mac Low

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