Olchar Lindsann
Olchar Lindsann is a co-founder of the Post-NeoAbsurdist network, has published around forty books of poetry, translations, critical theory, and avant-garde history, and has performed sound poetry across the US and UK. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press and the journals in-Appropriated Press (contemporary avant-garde poetry, theory, and performance documentation) and Rêvenance: Hauntings from Underground Histories (translations and studies in 19th Century progressive counterculture). He recently published the third volume of the ongoing avant-epic poem Arthur Dies on Luna Bisonte Prods. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia where he teaches at a progressive alternative high school and co-organizes the AfterMAF Festival, and maintains several archives dedicated to various aspects of the contemporary and historical avant-garde.
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Touchnot
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“laps us and marks upon our brow a sign of dust. His words ex”
–Adrienne Monnier, Valéry in the Rue Odeon.
“ouched the black masses with a grace o”
–Ambrose Bierce, The Passing Shadow.
“ther a secret or a delirium”
–Ivan Arguelles, The Undefined.
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touch
not the liri in their laps ,touch
not such lips to wingnut –touch
not the secret thrisk that slides
massed like to dragging urchins
wherefore chunks a sign of frisk
for therefore
whimpers massed in fragrant manticores
conflate her words with costco ,wherefore
paired for blackout-catachism, risk
silk flambeaux for canvacs, care for
shimmer-naught but chlorides
lest
ye brow the rattles where they nestle, lest
rather than dream-pumped marrow
the mark leaks grace-beads dustfed ,lest
my saltlick penchant furrows
we ex the axles whence a hieratic drowns ,lest
foresight jambs the ovular
clavicle
wherein our wispened
nervefire sp
asms
at a touch
or and past or all waltzing
ringing pacifier or and in on in on or into marigold lake
of or in and it swaying cantatas
or of and lachrymose seams
it melodion ringlets or and of serious madrigals
fathomless
accordion
or if and or why or and it of or porpoises
lyric for and or it of and or seahorses
and the meadows of dulcimer
and the bedrock of gyroscopes
and the starboard of hesitant
and the streaming of opulent
and the or of it of or and carotid carotid of and or in and of it or and it
yes
Wholly Roman emPyre
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“lf to be lifted by the hair of the head, without exp”
–Lewis Clarke, Narrative of the Sufferings...
Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky (1846)
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Barbarossa drooling ruddy
clementine oer lapdog synods
flaccid fugitive where swords sing placid
Blaster-hacks or whipped in portions
to pavia to lexington to genoa to louis
ville venice to milan to the gorgeant
ohio writhen slimpacked syntax defibrillation
wherein chains de
grammified orbit
feather in leur blearing reign
crimson frederick spit the first
burning the disjunct harper
whilst the ferry imperial
drowns
like an egg
Ambulator Dust
in the penultimate angle of tissue
the wing flutters like a lung hidden underneath the rosebush
wheels
rotate leap dust fretboard masthead chain-link repstrog in the forest's mute refrigerator
one can trade in crimp for stone
where a nosebleed like a delicate wrist is seething with soothing
and finally a wisp is smiling with its ear to the sllipscride perambulator
anywhere like a pinpoint loathe to touch the tongue like dust in gold
really the fire is merely a species of soft fur
bring the grass a breakfast of forgotten
an anguish of wheels
spread out upon a sail
and we will all smile
and the wind will break the shadows back
and things will dance
ecstatic
Municant
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“rough this generation silence
and speech may appear and through
it the dead realm may rise then fa”
– The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit
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ere truly A table
sus ,ruly as, pended
EE s, peaking en numb
erical EEE dans ether
f ,loating ,dippdwing
existed or EEEEE merged
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“ . . . no . . .”
– A Table
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I wilit I tapslice I query I remble
hover ex- being ,or hang ,chaunt
Up table Up where Up table Up who Up table Up
O ex- ,OOO it ,plasmic w, hisperd OOO
in herit ,atavist ,air flickd ,s lent . . .
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A
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E E E
I I I I
U U U U U U
O O O O O O O O
being who exi”
– The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit
Olchar Lindsann is a co-founder of the Post-NeoAbsurdist network, has published around forty books of poetry, translations, critical theory, and avant-garde history, and has performed sound poetry across the US and UK. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press and the journals in-Appropriated Press (contemporary avant-garde poetry, theory, and performance documentation) and Rêvenance: Hauntings from Underground Histories (translations and studies in 19th Century progressive counterculture). He recently published the third volume of the ongoing avant-epic poem Arthur Dies on Luna Bisonte Prods. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia where he teaches at a progressive alternative high school and co-organizes the AfterMAF Festival, and maintains several archives dedicated to various aspects of the contemporary and historical avant-garde.
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