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Schaefer in A Tonalist Notes
Hey folks, I went to hear David Abel read at
Blue Danube the other night, saw Andrew there. I think David is
maybe an A Tonalist, too. Particularly, he writes as if "Every
step's on someone buried" and knowledge of this culminates
in "strata of disappearance" and seems interested in
what I think of as notions of place as it corresponds to the music
of a poem, or a sort of "world feeling," history or
memory as a place where sort of transhuman psychology takes place.
Sunset makes the windows
music lights the sequence
so there is a code
and a precipice--
the basin is inviting
as on a holiday
history seems poetic
grave
but sustaining--
a soapy taste on the tongue
independent of the music
or the prospect
Anyway, I didn't know David's work until then,
but I'm becoming a fan of his BLACK VALENTINE. One thing that
appeals to me is that it doesn't seem like a book written for
a particular audience (not that such a thing is bad), but he doesn't
seem to lament being trapped in particular language games or anything,
but is more interested in moments when "objects have their/
edges again."
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