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| EROSIONS LOUIS ARMAND sydney: vagabond press, 2000 (poetry) |
| from EROSIONS MORPHOLOGICAL FORECAST a movement which stops short of conversion: the long night is followed by alarming disappearances-strange machines gather on the periphery ... wind machines, drought machines, fire machines-the floodplain stretches out like an open intestinal tract- the excrescence of rivermud & red soil as incipient breakdown reaches outwards in a metadiscourse of geographical re- distribution-"internally fissured realities" stark & membranous, a landscape of dismissed objects posing as moratorium on the intentional fallacy-articles of faith rend- ring inoperable chemical bodies or hamorrhaged in utero & downgrading the imagined self as neurasthenic, symptom- an assemblage whose elements are co- alesced through disposability, synthetic & modularised as natural extension of the aberrant idea-though what stands for permanence is no more than seasonal flux reduced to sinecurves, stationary & op- positional wave patterns cut in the weathered sandstone, bordering the inland (like) a shoreline out-distancing itself & trans- figured through margins of error-other variables-counting back in a monotonous obsessive derivation ("events casting their shadows before") to the incipit vita nuova written in calcinated flesh & crows hanging over the corpse-to-be, like inverted commas describing its solvency (c) LOUIS ARMAND, 2000 |
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