{"id":2054,"date":"2012-01-03T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2012-01-02T19:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T00:56:38","slug":"motes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/01\/motes\/","title":{"rendered":"Motes<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radical Books of 2011, 3\/10<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Motes,<\/a><\/i> Craig Dworkin, Roof Books, 9781931824446<\/a><\/p>\n

Short titles (or none) followed by hardly longer texts – the form is due to Bob Grenier’s A Day at the Beach<\/i> and his materially innovative Sentences.<\/i> Dworkin does something new, showing this is no one-trick pony and has use beyond a single poet. Zak Smith was the first to do a picture for every page of a novel (Gravity’s Rainbow<\/i>) only to be followed by Matt Kish’s 2011 demonstration<\/a> that the conceit had legs. Similarly, Dworkin innovates in Motes<\/i> by being the second<\/i> to try his hand at an unusual way of writing, and to show that it can amplify his different voice:<\/p>\n

>BRICK
\n>
\n>Buick<\/p>\n

Or:<\/p>\n

>MARGIN
\n>
\n>explanation of butter on the counter overnight<\/p>\n

While playing on Grenier’s everyday experiences, Dworkin’s motes take another turn, entering language and ordinary experience more deeply at times, as in the oddly compelling:<\/p>\n

>FOR THE WIDER GOOD
\n>
\n>I am tiger woods
\n>
\n>I am tiger woods<\/p>\n

Alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radical Books of 2011, 3\/10 Motes, Craig Dworkin, Roof Books, 9781931824446 Short titles (or none) followed by hardly longer texts – the form is due to Bob Grenier’s A Day at the Beach and his materially innovative Sentences. Dworkin does something new, showing this is no one-trick pony and has use beyond a single poet. … <\/p>\n

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