89. sleek, sophisticated and very slippery

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"I kept on falling like a tower that sees its birds fly off" --V Nezval, tr Rothenberg & Sovak, from Poems for the Millennium, Volume One (1995)

Best title in the history of words. More.

storm before morning
so faraway from the story
anger's banked embers
no closer to a cure
compass north & casus belli

"Rare among the Beats in recognizing that the transparency of oral and written language was the last bastion of the humanism he opposed, Ginsberg is a good, even surprising, example for Watten to read as a pre-Language poet. However, better examples, I think, can be found in Melvin B. Tolson (his torqueing of received lexicons) or, even more obscure, in Russell Atkins’s reversion to linguistic devices excised from popular usage."