{"id":713,"date":"2010-02-08T14:34:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=713"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:34:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:34:34","slug":"utensils-in-a-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2010\/02\/utensils-in-a-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Utensils in a Landscape<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Utensils<\/a>
Utensils in a Landscape, Chris Edwards, Stray Dog Editions, Vagabond Press, 2001<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

Searching for something suitably disruptive in the landscape of Australia, where Jacket<\/i><\/a> is rooted, I found this. The first poem is made from sometimes misquoted bits of The Book of Common Prayer<\/i> and Burroughs’s “The Cut-Up Method …” With technical and abstract language, folklore, Mallarmé, and guy-on-guy action, the book offers all sorts of utensil viewing. And later, in “but me,” this reflection:<\/p>\n

My project, which began in
\none room of the abyss, soon spread toward a perimeter
\nyou can imagine, should you be inclined to do so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I usually prefer projects in which sources are altered sparingly and systematically – Craig Dworkin’s “Legion”<\/a> is a brilliant example. These approximate centos work, though. The invented language weaves with the appropriated, making it seem that Edwards could have done it all with his pen – or all with his scissors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Searching for something suitably disruptive in the landscape of Australia, where Jacket is rooted, I found this. The first poem is made from sometimes misquoted bits of The Book of Common Prayer and Burroughs’s “The Cut-Up Method …” With technical and abstract language, folklore, Mallarmé, and guy-on-guy action, the book offers all sorts of utensil … <\/p>\n

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