Raymond Farr
Raymond Farr is author of two free ebooks: Two Texts, and chainge (White Sky Ebooks 2010, 2011) as well as numerous books in print, including DRUNKER/holding ember (Blue & Yellow Dog Press 2010), and There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us (Blue & Yellow Dog Press 2011) as well as Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011). He is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog.
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The Whole at the Heart of Every Hole
The hole
Is a kind of model for
Forms of attention and exchange
(i. e.
the very beginning—
Think of certain movements of Zukofsky’s
“A”
a powerful circuit of
The book as a model
The book as…
Thom Donovan
The 12 O’clock at the Heart of Every Midnight
West of midnight
imagination’s meteoric
contradictions
make us human.
Urban alleys of
turbulent
rhapsodic
nocturnes
are post-
ganglion
Buzz Cola
on wild
turf.
Both in the absurdity of modern civilization
& the heart-stopping
beauty of
crinkly reality
you thought you knew.
Enter
the self-evident
as a wizardly lyric
unpins
a familiar quotidian
& us
wondering.
The Unwritten History at the Heart of Every Unwritten History
Simultaneously
Mirrors running between
Pre- and post-
As we pace frantically
Between
Begging in vain for poetry
Not to abandon
These poems
The earliest known
Poems
& yet the dialectic tension
Between
Is utterly contemporary.
Yet these poems are neither.
These poems are
Both essential & eternal.
The Document at the Heart of Every Undocumented Act
World
which, to some, may seem
simple
on the surface
first ½ using
Beasts as metaphors
are surreal realities.
Co-existence
inevitable collision
& ultimate
collapse
are here
examined
with birds suddenly become
the equivalence of digital photos—
up to the moment
descriptions of
what is happening
always stirring
*
The most overlooked
California
& moving voice
tirelessly
we test limits
of
the shepherd
of Being.
How queer
the damage—
internal
external—
also documents the persistence of
Beauty—
especially the dangerous beauty
found in
LOVE CAKE
celebrating
the long corridors of memory
& myth.
Instead
uncanny
urgency makes us realize
stone fires never really
go out.
*
In the theater of the
Moment most alive
In earth-quaking
Ekphrasis
every grid is narrative.
There is only
Necessity—the thrust of us
demonstrating
the way
in which the ox
becomes a significant
metaphor
infused with/eerily
adept at
history—
15th century to modern times.
A monument.
A monumental
work—
one hundred years of
solitude.
*
The fall of
ancient
language—
intelligent
refreshing
provocative—
however
tragic—
A smoking mirror—
A place that glistens
& humor—
these
poems are funny
yet meaty.
The Light at the Heart of Every Diamond
This reeling motet
feels like a
film
about the end of
the world
spilling into
other spaces.
Excited & joyous, while dying,
dragging one’s tired ass through a
desert,
hallucinating.
It feels like The Waste Land but the
footnotes
are fun.
I think of
these multiples.
I think I mean that stealth
is simply past tense
of steal—
a paradise of
one’s own
*
In verse—
a lover long dead
a story of
the nature of
the individual
the natural
world
weaves multiple sonic
pleasures at once
sharpens
the starkness
of the world of matter
& anti-matter
that stretch from
the sublime
to the violent
*
A soldier’s jeep
dwells in
pushing water,
arises as if in a dream.
& that sense of
dream—
long &
complex—
a metaphor of body, of breath, of heartbeat
blood & brain
of consciousness itself, time
& history
rendered in
language
in word hoard—
Anglo-Saxon
through
the beat or rhythm
of the word.
The Truth of Houses at the Heart of Every Truth
The assumption that
crystallizations of language probe our potential
erode or affirm
reality
or respond to
chance encounters
love, fear
reflection—
what states or what
actions
can make any one of
Us less real
than any other?
*
The tough elegance of
bleached bones
characterized by a taut
electric
sometimes blank
always compelling
sense of closure
validates
the bond between form
& meaning
ruminates on the nature of memory
recalling a
scene or work
of art
a coherent perception
informed by
cynics of a dark age—
a largely brutish
inhuman existence
a bearable
strangeness of what
Language pries open—
war between perception
& reality—
*
He took a cab.
He took a cab in a David Lynch movie—
unforgettable ride
of a lifetime.
Just…hailed a cab
You have the feeling
you will
get where you are going—
one way or another.
*
The world
swiftly
disarticulates
each witness
turn by turn imbedded in
the thing—
The wasteland of Eros’s
belched fire…
The truth of houses
achingly at a loss—a loss
intimate—even
the voice—a step backward
wrestles
perspective.
We
eavesdrop on the uncovering of
the present
better lived
sense of overhearing
a particular
yet eerily familiar
inner struggle.
*
In mnemonic
abodes
this evidence
exists by means of its words—
a blank beatific
exile while lingering in the cells of language
Interiors posted via a vivid singularity
The droning
stark imaginal
thriving
OF BONE is a book
brimming with marvelous
ghosts of
contemporary life
Shuttled between the tender
& the fantastic.
What I would easily call
the moment a feeling enters—
Black stone of
sunlight in
flowers—
A poetry that is a
geometry
of breath—
a cargo of lightRaymond Farr is author of two free ebooks: Two Texts, and chainge (White Sky Ebooks 2010, 2011) as well as numerous books in print, including DRUNKER/holding ember (Blue & Yellow Dog Press 2010), and There Is Something Missing in the Whole Transaction between Us (Blue & Yellow Dog Press 2011) as well as Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011). He is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog.
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