tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78594152011-04-22T00:31:57.979-04:00Occasional dispatches on the clusters, breaches, chains, gaits and physiological drives of one poet among many.KPrevallethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606833188734836151noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7859415.post-57828329057366288162008-07-29T13:06:00.009-04:002008-07-29T14:46:58.049-04:00

Laura Elrick's essay "Poetry, Ecology, and the Production of Lived Space" provides the conceptual framework for a poetic consciousness I am slowly embracing as a means to confront the radical shifts of the present ecological, social, political, personal, and ideological catastrophe.She writes:Perhaps Charles Olson meant to suggest just such a shift when he wrote that "what we [poets] have

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I used to believe that I could practice democracy by writing letters to the government, but recently I’m sensing that, in the future, there will be no one out there to receive them. This is the scenario of the future without letters: Hidden in the clouds, there is a floating castle. On a gigantic board, 1.7 trillion dollars in international assets move gracefully around, like fish in water.

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I am having some trouble understanding your logic, and just wanted to clarify something that you said in your press conference on August 21, 2006. You said, "We leave before the mission is done, the terrorists will follow us here."I believe what you are saying (or not saying) is that Iraq is a honey bowl for bees -- meaning that as long as the terrorists are hovering and swarming around Iraq,

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You are a great conceptual thinker, and I am concerned about the collective memory of our nation. Concerned, that is, that your invented scenarios are destructively meddling with our memories, and leading to the demise of this great nation. Now that you have entered a maze of your own design (a difficult conundrum, even for a man of great creative genius) I’m wondering if perhaps you can begin to

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Let's exercise just a bit of caution here. Yes Campus Watch has attacked the poet Ammiel Alcalay, and with him five other poets. But Campus Watch did NOT attack you. Just because you are a poet does not mean that you are being attacked. We're not some collective of pods. CHILL OUT. There are many reasons to write letters to Campus Watch. They write some outrageous things, and show absolutely no

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I would like to applaud you on the ingenuity of the fiction you are creating. The fiction in which you imagine a scenario, convince others that your scenario is a reality, elude direct questions about the reality of the scenario, stand back while the scenario unfolds disastrously, (unfolds, that is, just as your critics predicted) and then (and this is the beautiful part) defend your scenario as

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It's been a long sojourn since my last letter, but rest assured I've been working hard on my citizenry. I thought I would write a letter to anyone who would like to read it about George Bush's proposed "ownership society." I have some personal experience with "ownership" as I'm sure many people do. Knowing that I will receive no social security when I retire, I put my savings account in the

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Hello and thanks for your excellent blog. It's very informative and I hope John Kerry is paying attention! My idea is that the Kerry campaign (or if not him, then perhaps MoveOn) should host a series of "swing parties in swing states." Dick Cheney won't swing (as we learned from his wife's convention speech...) but perhaps American swing voters will! Get a local swing band, some good advertising

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As a young girl growing up in the 1970s, I remember that adults seemed very concerned about the future, and even remember a slogan that went something like, "Save the Planet for our Children." It was during the 1970s that scientists were predicting an increase in global warming that could, in fact, be avoided if we citizens began changing our consumer habits and corporations began changing their

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I certainly appreciate how your newspaper, along with the New York Times, is finally being reflective of the potential damage you may have done by publishing front page stories which were essentially Department of Defense press releases. But it's not too late! The story is still out there, waiting to be told. This is how I see it: The whole “Weapons of Mass Destruction” charade fills me with

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It's not because I vote "Democrat" that I question your attempts to sabotage the upcoming presidential election. Let me get this straight: you are campaigning hard in swing states to urge people to vote for Ralph Nadar because you think that voting for Ralph Nadar in this election will somehow, once again, offset a Democratic victory. (see link) I personally am not concerned that your efforts

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Dear Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: I am writing to alert you of the possibility that we are becoming our enemy. I read with great horror and disbelief, as I know so many other people did too, about the three children in Baltimore who were partially beheaded. It was quite horrific enough to read and watch the news about the American contractor and journalist and the foreign contractors

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Dear New York City Police Commissioner, Raymond Kelly: I have been reading with great apprehension about the ultra-high tech weaponry and gear that Homeland Security is planning on utilizing during the Republican National Convention, particularly to fend off protesters. (See: Treating protesters like Terrorists by Gwen Shaffer, The New Republic, July 22nd, 2004, http://www.stopftaa.org/

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Dear Richard Viguerie: I really enjoyed hearing your interview this morning with Brian Lehrer on WNYC. I certainly can appreciate your ingenuity in pioneering direct mail in the 60s and 70s, and how your efforts have provided a solid grassroots foundation for the conservative platform. But I must say that I am confused about a few things that you said on the show. Actually, I am a bit confused

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Dear William Bryk: I read with great interest your recent article, "The Conservative Case Against George W. Bush." Although I am unashamedly a liberal, my father-in-law and the majority of my family are Catholic and conservative. Although I think that the conservative platform ultimately endorses a kind of hierarchy in which poor folks stay poor and rich folks get richer, I do see that

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Re: "Experts Say 'Hero Syndrome Not Common Among Police'" by Damien Cave (New York Times, August 2) Dear Editor, New York Times: Probably the reason that Damien Cave had such a hard time finding experts to diagnose Joseph Rodriguez's bizarre behavior is because it is not hero's syndrome that led him to explode a bomb and then attempt to rescue people in the Times Square subway, but rather Post

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August 1, 2004 Dear President George Bush: I am writing to urge you to stop blocking lawsuits by consumers looking to seek damages from pharmaceutical companies that have blatantly injured them. This is just another example of how your administration consistently makes decisions that benefit large corporations, and not the American people whom you are supposed to be serving. I read in the

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