Jacket 34 - October 2007 - Angela Carr: Six Poems from the Rose Concordance

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Angela Carr: Six Poems from the Rose Concordance

This piece is about 3 printed pages long.
It is copyright © Angela Carr and Jacket magazine 2007.

The Rose Concordance translates and organizes lines in the keyword index to the 13^th century poem, Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris. The lines are fractures of epic sentences.

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to left haunting no avail

of the font to left haunting no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail

of the font to the fountain no avail
of the font to the fountain no avail
of the font to the fountain no avail

of alarm and fountains

that i isolated and romanced this fountain
reading in the nakedness of self-contained spray
such diffuse words
how i love words
if this word is a hood
episodically thrust downward to reveal “fountains”
i recovered from this
the fountain is a hood
soft material fountaining
i obsessed over its advantage
i understood fashion anew
as one single movement into depths of earth
sex’s humectant randomness alarmed me
i mirrored the rhetoric of employment
in this tactical handshake
we are “friends”
the sparkling stones of the fountain have scraped my palms

of critical and naive confusion

let’s say that in this presocial fountain we splash freely
i’d like to naively delete the deiform source
make a critically naive and
complicitous gamble with humanism
of the prefeminist fountain, gushing is essential
existence is an aromatic crease
credulous and rich secretions
and now in my hands an encyclopaedic gathering
such confusions
such praise as circulates in critically fleshy fountains
inferentially junked theologies in a pile on the floor
inferentially junked theologies collecting attributes on the floor
choosing abjection is a stance of defiance?
is this the critical substance of drank?
your art given as fleshy keepsake?

of the attribute

fashion wants to discover essential attributes
its movement like archaeology
i said one direct motion downward
no you said that’s drilling
would you develop this metaphor, comparing archeological sites with oil rigs?
my interest is in accidental attributes
neither to abuse accidentally nor to mesmerize
when i take off my gloves in spring
when i write to her in vain
and the vanity of cities

of the fountain

come puiz ou come fountain
eating light or eating fountain
come une fontaine soz une pine
soz le pin la fontaine assise
under a pin this fountain satisfies
soz le pin clear and sane
and when il vint a la fontaine
qu’il musa a la fontaine

of the fountain it is the end
of the fountain hurries me
of the fountain clear and sane
of the fountain would have been fountains
of the fountain under the pine
of the fountain seated under the pine
of the fountain hurries me
of the fountain it is the end
of the fountain reflects me
of the fountain is flesh
of the fountain through love
of the fountain if you come

Angela Carr lives and works in Montreal.
Her first book, Ropewalk, was published in 2006.

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