Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy
from CONTINUATIONS
Section LVI
Douglas Barbour, poet, critic and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta, has published many books of criticism and poetry, including Fragmenting Body etc. (NeWest Press/SALT 2000), Breath Takes (Wolsak & Wynn 2002), A Flame on the Spanish Stairs (greenboathouse books 2003), Continuations, with Sheila E. Murphy (University of Alberta Press 2006) and, most recently, Wednesdays’ (above/ground press 2008). He was inaugurated into the City of Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame in 2003.
Sheila E. Murphy's most recent book publications are The Case Of The Lost Objective (Case) from Otoliths (2007) and the above-mentioned Continuations. Forthcoming from Blue Lion Books is Murphy's Collected Chapbooks, featuring works published in small formats from 1981 to 2002.
Murphy resides in Phoenix, Arizona, where she founded and coordinated for 12 years (with Beverly Carver) the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series, featuring the commissioning of poets to create original textual work in response to visual art included in traveling exhibitions.
The University of Alberta Press book is the initial 25 sections of this extended collaborative work by the two authors.
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from CONTINUATIONS
Section LVI
moved beyond ends or fin
ales allied or fans
tactically overwhelmed by
turns of eventual shadows shot
across affronts standards
roaming into empire defiles
ale stand (when in Rome)
the empire waistlines file in
by the dozen less one urns
of proffered root fizz
front for shadowy
ends-means conversations merely
tactical finagled shot put
put out of thought less horror
orisons over such edgy
trajectories to ward in
telligence televised token
theologged fogged ruins
(burial) grounds for plain tiffs
quality of thinking mirrors
quality of feeling choice of edges
wards off purity as if
and only manufictive theo
clogged the ruined passage
ways and means for deeper breakage
blocked age thinged into
morrow sorrow narrowed
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inked authority thrown a
way pre munitions burn out
out the row to under oar's
author' sin neru nit y
soroptic urns hold utmost
marring done in
ink way atop
the surface facing topmost hinge
turned awry / burned away
all (l) inks sustained
wretchedness befallen
angels of dealt
doubled nothings slapped down
all taken tokens cellar blown
tainted laps around the ink
well temper(ed) ken en
liven double-dipping into urn's gelatinous
cell wreck slated for
an on-the-town night for
a species once considered wry
auspices wan since concerted lies
announce brown outs / core
services belated torn lives
rubbled gripping onto worms vertiginous
hell / trip entered in an
faint / collapsed foundering link
blasphemy’s grip allows no syllables
to sing a once delicious vice
comes tired and rips the body’s heart
from glow a power assumed has lapsed
reverts to late rote jousts to hell
alone and under cover as imposed
to cover but / what happen
ing now rote rout(ing) through
metamorphing tale told
physical loss of eye
s clear knowledge to fall
off a base meant
as compliment how low
disguised as high
can greed shove
the collective mind into
those depths beneath
the finite ground
ground in
to unmoored sand
which or witchery packed
impossible tricks of perspective
parsed as past re
turns of a screw up upended
specter of lack a rickshaw
brisk although unfeasible
hacks along street accustomed
and pronounces pending
patter rue the day
which has to happen
stance of ready mess
to run / a way of cop
ink spilled
crock or dial-up response
only one chosen
only one answer / given (up
domestic steadiness garnering
legitimate supplies parallels
pillage (increasing
ly the object of attention
in which nothing's given
all is stress and lopped off the (in) common
such fields as open aired
queries queered by silence
s meaning inferred / incurred
dogged fogged clogged
drains or throats / wha
where cant be stated stayed
tears in fur request
repair mid-air steep
les s field than incursion
while plan ts number in
the milliscopic
(looked-for statements dogging)
best laid trans parenting
stand(h)ard s lowering
to fields fragmented speech sub
tends / a deflocked
following embarrassed by new new
s untold / caught beyond the crook
tantamount to lockdown
rooks in place the flock is full of t
ending reach
low flying guards
rend plans
to lower standards field a quest
set all at half massed generations
mire and blood
soaked / smoked
across eras / how it hangs there
above or floating black
toward beaches pennants (no penance signed
in contrast, oak holds
signal trespass in its girth the half of it
leeches from unspecified sources
(lack preempts silver stealth)
(here lies a roster that details
a mantra long forgotten)
oaths mis-taken token
memory loss its something
stupid in repose
d questions grown ever
more thick / a canopy of bays branching
leafing universes left behind
some of the simplicity's staid
but underneath grow
quest ions revered if heard
the plexi-view from upper
registers bequeath to the adventurous
rhymed branching to the left of pose
lay about way out error stretched
beyond belief
s battered heart heat
seeking misses massive
runs over bearing res
pons epic asinine arch lie
bear mark(et)s aspic
art contrapts sketching t
race eeks out a way
through / to plump error’s arch
enigma ma matrix
having mainly wool
pull
lead covers all radiant redemption
a traction at temptation
s door a way out in
sight / stretched right
eousness on
economic bounded
rafts one li berates
the in vocation from
profession listen to the dictates
of imperial
neglect the headache pounding
the heartache foundering
as imperium im presses
placates a who
re armament as proviso
desired de serve
returned racket rocketing back (lashed
sockets blank now visibly (de)pressed
(close) down
played once too
many times presumes a s(p)iring
deservedness
the market wholly without raiment
Douglas Barbour, poet, critic and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta, has published many books of criticism and poetry, including Fragmenting Body etc. (NeWest Press/SALT 2000), Breath Takes (Wolsak & Wynn 2002), A Flame on the Spanish Stairs (greenboathouse books 2003), Continuations, with Sheila E. Murphy (University of Alberta Press 2006) and, most recently, Wednesdays’ (above/ground press 2008). He was inaugurated into the City of Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame in 2003.
Sheila E. Murphy's most recent book publications are The Case Of The Lost Objective (Case) from Otoliths (2007) and the above-mentioned Continuations. Forthcoming from Blue Lion Books is Murphy's Collected Chapbooks, featuring works published in small formats from 1981 to 2002.
Murphy resides in Phoenix, Arizona, where she founded and coordinated for 12 years (with Beverly Carver) the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series, featuring the commissioning of poets to create original textual work in response to visual art included in traveling exhibitions.
The University of Alberta Press book is the initial 25 sections of this extended collaborative work by the two authors.
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