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Renee Gladman is an artist and writer preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, geographies, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and fiction. She is the author of nine works of prose and one collection of poetry.
Renee Gladman | FCA Grant Recipient
FRAGMENT UIT SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR
The balloon pops, the attention
Turns dully away. Clouds
In the puddle stir up into sawtoothed fragments.
I think of the friends
Who came to see me, of what yesterday
Was like. A peculiar slant
Of memory that intrudes on the dreaming model
In the silence of the studio as he considers
Lifting the pencil to
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and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
Allen Ginsberg • The Essential Ginsberg (Penguin Modern Classics)
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
poetryfoundation.org
Ode (poem)
en.m.wikipedia.org
“Ada, our ardors and arbors”—a dactylic trimeter that was to remain Van Veen’s only contribution to Anglo-American poetry—sang through his brain.