Damp Blankets — John M. Bennett & {AN} Eel

2/13/2019

damp blankets

sieze the form your pillow
growls its nape or notes
replenished in a sticky robe
your outer bark the tongue
repels ,what folds it back a
churning laundered air a
list of chambers revolved in
doors a flood's approach
:its stumble wind ,or plas
tik fork broken in yr
final pages shaped what
nothing swirls yr sand
its outer nose deployed
and runny like your sleep

Image & Text: John M. Bennett
Sounds: {AN} Eel

5 Comments

Neal Retke

2/13/2019 10:32:26

Note :This recording was intended to be a relatively straight forward interpretation of the text, but my tech glitched out & I just went for it, ergo - Random cut up

Leslie Singer

2/15/2019 02:26:57

Thanks so much for posting this. It invoked the sounds of a poignant sea shanty. Lovely.

Neal Retke

2/19/2019 14:46:37

Ahoy ~ & Thanks Leslie ~!

Rafael González

2/15/2019 13:28:35

I loved it. You two are great. I'm going to take my recorder. Everything about blankets and pillows interests me a lot.

Neal Retke

2/19/2019 14:47:15

Kind Thanks, Rafael ~ Please post your recording !

JOHN M. BENNETT
OPENS HIS MOUTH

John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited
and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues.

He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing
Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries.

Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”.

His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University
(St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.
His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.

His latest books are:
- Select Poems, Poetry Hotel Press/Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016
- The World of Burning, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017
- Poemas visuales, con
movimientos con ruidos con combinaciones (with Osvaldo Cibils), Deep White Sound, 2017
- The Sweating Lake
Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017
- Olas Cursis
Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018

John M. Bennett & Nguyen Đao Claude - 5 S/M/O/K/E JMB after Ivan Argüelles after JMB

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