Friday, September 23, 2011

A POEM OF TITLES: ALEX CALDIERO





I have often thought that a simple list of titles of the books my friend Alex has written, in the order, for the most part, of accident, would make a good poem. Here's testing that hypothesis:


COW

BIOTEXTS


TOY BLOOD


IN TONGUES

VARIOUS ATMOSPHERES


THE MAP OF THE WINDS


LUCRETIUS AND THE WIND


IT RAINS EVEN ON WHO'S WET

SELECTED EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF THE GREEN LANTERN

A STORIA DI MASTRU VASTIANU AROUZZU / THE STORY OF MASTER VASTIANU AROUZZU

SEVEN BOOKS OF LOVE

BOOK IN FIVE SETS

5 FIVE POEMS

POEMS 98

POEMS 99


CORRIGENDA

FOR THE HOUSE

X-ING THE CALENDAR

OUR PRIVATE WORDINGS


AFTER THE TREE HAD FALLEN

THE LAUGHTER THAT WIL WAKE US ALL

SONNU A CULURI / DREAM IN COLOR

NOT DREAMING NOT DREAMED

IMPOSSIBLE INSTRUMENT

WITH VOICE MIXED

OR, BOOK O' LIGHTS

ILLEGIBLE TATTOOS

WAY AFTER BASHO

ISLANDER

A PART

I AM NOT ONLY*
*only Bruce Conner did not say this.

POETRY IS WANTED HERE

FROM STONE TO STAR

HISTORIES

RESPONSES

SOME LOVE

PINOCCHIO POEMS

BODY/DREAMS/ORGANS

ANXIETIES & CHEMISTRIES

PHILOSOPHERS STONED

SONOSUONU

THE FOOD THAT FITS THE HUNGER

LIKE WATER

EATING BREAD

SPHOTA PROBE

ARSE
POET
ICUS


and finally, for now, with the option of adding new titles as I find them, etc.



3 comments:

michael morrow said...

taking alex to new dimensions....font..format..titles become...and become and beomce...learning stuff continues to knock dick to dirt...makes the ride..expecially together...nice

Scott Abbott said...

michael, you mentioned fonts and i had to go back and change the fonts of the titles. alex uses ariel! and now they look good! thanks.

michael morrow said...

the cool thing about "education" is that the smallest details become vital to the overall expression...most importantly because tboth giving and receiving...thats why I love vulgarity....the best church talks happen in bars and brothels....where an "fuck" and "god damn it" take their rightful place as some of the most powerful words in language...any dialect...

That is some of the most meaningful information gleaned from 60 years of active church activity....especially having gone from catholic altar boy to nuclear submarine machinist....yeh...I survived in spite of myself and a working testimony of vulgarity!!!!