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16 August 2004. Okay, back the the subject of this blog, poetry--in particular, an image from Guy Beining's The Compact Duchamp Amp After Amp:
I discuss it briefly in my column for the November/December issue of Small Press Review: ". . . here's what's on one page: 'nail the mOOn/ spike the sun,/ run harvest thru red vest of money,' in a white rectangle. Grey background. Below the text, an illumage ('picture,' in Grummanese) of two of the Egyptian pyramids and mostly nothing else. Above, to the right a strange image of a woman whose torso forms a triangle mirrored by a similar triangle formed by the woman's crossing legs, cropped at the knees; to the left, a photo of a smiling girl looking through what seems the back of a chair. Much else. Hard to pin down but fossilescent, to me." To this I would add that much of the page refers to other pages in the sequence, and that it all makes sense to me as a celebration of the triangle trigonometrically, psychosexually (as representative of a woman's pubic area), and astronomically--and of eternal Nilean fertility. "Fossilescent," by the way is a reference to Nicholas Virgilio's pwoermd, "fossilence," which I also touch on in my column.
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