"There is a difference between fashion copy and our 'poems' which are imitations of fashion copy. There is a difference between a real fashion show and our imitation of a fashion show. We are interested in these differences in spite of the fact that we have tried to eliminate them.
"We want to show the difference between presentation and representation by bringing presentation and representation as close together as possible."
--Hannah Weiner, from "The Fashion Show Poetry Event Essay"
So, yes, I've been reading Hannah Weiner's Open House. I bought it at Bridge Street last October, and I'd been waiting and waiting to read it until I could actually read it with attention.
Recently I dreamed that Mark and I were in the last house I lived in in Sedgwick, Maine. Fish started floating out of the sky, and eventually jellyfish. A large apartment building space ship came down, and a military man said we had to come with him. I was skeptical, but also nervous about the fish in the sky. So I ran back into the house and grabbed an already-packed suitcase, and also Hannah Weiner's Open House. We got into the apartment building space ship, and things got weirder from there. The last part of the dream included Mormons and ballroom dancing.
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2 comments:
everybody has that dream.
and the one with dead fish in the bath tub.
and the one were military police are restraining a wild man while someone near you jumps off a ledge.
it's cold medicine.
Mmm, I've never had a dream with dead fish (or live fish) in the bath tub.
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