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ISBN10: 1936747464
ISBN13: 9781936747467
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Oct 23 2012
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781936747467
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Oct 23 2012
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Schizophrenia may be characterized by a surfeit of language, a refurbishment of our used up words with musical connections every day speech and sense cannot provide. These riffs are clangings, and Cramer imagines them into a poetic narrative that exults in both aural richness and words' power to evoke an interior landscape whose strangeness is intimate, unsteady, and stirring.
I hear the dinner plates gossip
Mom collected to a hundred.
My friends say get on board,
but I'm not bored. Dad's a nap
My friends say get on board,
but I'm not bored. Dad's a nap
lying by the fire. That's why
when radios broadcast news,
news broadcast from radios
gives air to my kinship, Dickey,
who says he'd go dead if ever
I discovered him to them.
I took care, then, the last time
bedrooms banged, to tape over
the outlets, swipe the prints
off DVDs, weep up the tea
stains where once was coffee.
Not one seep from him since.
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