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Skinny Poem
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ISBN13: 9798287584078
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2025
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In 1965, Cornell University Press published A. R. Ammons's Tape for the Turn of the Year. David Leh-man writes, a meditation...skinny lines...which he typed on a roll of adding-machine tape, the width of the tape serving as the arbitrary but fixed restraint determining the shape of the poem....letting the typed-up tape spiral into a waste-paper basket.
Inspired by Ammons's great wit and lean method-short lines con-strained by the width of the adding machine tape-I composed a poem on a continuous 160-foot roll of adding machine tape. I used a fifty-year-old Hermes 3000 manual type-writer to type the poem. Written over a span of eight months during 2019-2020, this continuous poem is a chronicle-COVID-19, George Floyd, social protests-and of my own struggles with ageing, books I read during lock-down, and my on-going problems with philosophical mystifications. The ludic motivations for Skinny Poem-beyond the obvious homage to Ammons-was to prevent a roll of paper from be-ing used commercially in a gasoline pump
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