Juliana Spahr
response (1996)
after 3 pages: response
response is 2 pages of introduction after 1 page: introduction
response is 18 pages of responding in 5 sections after 1 page: responding
response is 7 pages of thrashing seems crazy after 1 page: thrashing seems crazy
response is 5 pages of documentary after 1 page: documentary
response is 21 pages of testimony in 5 sections after 1 page: testimony
response is 21 pages of witness in 10 sections after 1 page: witness
after response: 1 page
response in response
introduction:
response is/& telling
response is/& approaching mass through patterns
response (as?) Satanist/victim/stalker/self/alien/collaborator/artist/poet
response (is?) awry
response (is?) fault of mind
response is/& plea - who/where to?
respond to Spahr here. Indicate words that are/signify/indicate the speaker's response:
"I am confused about what I believe or disbelieve. If I believed or disbelieved what to be or not to be as I remembered it or made it up or experienced it or dreamed it then what else or nothing else about my past or my present is true or false?"
response is/& formulation of aphorisms
introduction as response:
response is first a question
response is introduction is initiation is needle is sudden realisation
response incorporates vague (heard? read?) voices
response (Spahr's poetic) continues thought, restores thought from fragment, translates verbally non verbal communication in around under verbal communication/plea. This process, not formulation.
responding:
response is sectioned: is this sectioning temporal or spatial or conceptual? I: This is a place
response (Spahr's poetic) is unstable and blaming government/terrain is held with not blaming government/terrain for unstable language. This holding is stable and unstable and blaming and not blaming. It cannot bear (not even buildings). Is it a question or a statement.
response is thoroughly read by us
response is thoroughly read by us and the political content is noticed, subtlety is noticed.
response is culture
response is preferred
Mark Wallace in a review originally published in the Washington Review now here, observes Spahr's use of square brackets as 'markings [that] suggest specific images, but more significantly suggest that those specifics are more generic than specific. Paradoxically, the desire to control experience through a narrative that can give all things specific names leads to a circumstance in which the capacity to control through naming makes all specifics irrelevant.' These markings, as taught to us by Spahr as we progress, enable Spahr to point, so
____the question [role of art in the state]
points it does not do this
____the question is role of art in the state
and does poetic response to response mark
an unreal world called real because it is so heavily metaphoric
response is/& excess
response is these images
these examples of response
why do we respond resistantly to some images and not others
respond is/& refigure/refuse
respond (as?) return
Madame Bovery responds to Anna Karenina
in Spahr's [possible responses to what is seen what part of Spahr's images or Spahr's sentences are response, who in or outside of (then Spahr?) Spahr's images is responding: WHERE and WHO
response (as?) art
response gives or is given
response (as?) writing
what happens as response responds to response responding to response response response respond respond respond
claiming controlling possessing response
in response (Spahr's poetic) is this a formulation: stutter is nation
respond as/after question
responding as response:
response is a verbal trying to shed specificity
response offers up image and offers up to us image
response (Spahr's poetic) in relation to source
the danger of words on a page is that they are not photographs or video
the fear of not viewing video or seeing a photograph
the danger of seeing it in front of you
the fear of not seeing it in front of you
the plea of words on a page is that they are easily made
the plea is easily made
the plea is dangerously invisible
the plea is dangerously static
the plea is visible moving and safe
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