Monday, March 12, 2012

Dina and Dan Employ the Language of Wallace Stevens As Political Outrage


If it wasn’t elegizing personal preoccupations, then it was a knack for the confused turn, as if among complex phrases, the true thing would feel itself move outward, away from its first appetite, to reach something alternately structured that would relieve its demands. For dawn comes from a dark place and the innocent might suffer it, yet another kind of clay, limpid and chilly, no one else but the fatal you apprehends, may be enough to remake the world. First one gesture with quick fingers then a decent shape for whom we might destroy the chants of night. Through the final rages of its firing the dark, such as your eyes urging forward, flows, and is what we enter when we are ready to stalk from door to door in the village nearest our base. Taxed by the values and shades of the ominous gesture, we asked what was there that we could take. But were we actually the reason why it happened. One breathes in a mountain cave the air smashing over the city. One knows through raging, the air in emptiness, even if afterwards we recognize it as a banality, without seeing the tattery books aflame in a dumpster. An image of ourselves? Are we a thousand men in one radiant conflagration? The commercial for itself tells us to pack our bags. We hurry then. An opalescent jar searching for its treeless hillside. What had gone out of the world as they moved forward in it they tallied, freeing things from blanks and gaps. Thus we celebrated the power to muddle and absorb the objects of the senses, sink them deep in a world of nourished things and annulled things. A voice was mumbling. Is this the new sacrilege? The leaving out, to stuff the ear, down atmosphere, the helicopters feasting on the air, every object and idea comprised in their fuming wilderness. The uroboros, the mobius strip. Yet there is always the chance that the first act would be misspeak, leaving out the surprise of its violence, then another. 

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