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Poems that challenge the depths of perception Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often containing thousands of soldiers, were done up in a confusing array of lines to perplex and distort the viewer s perspective (in this case, German submarines). Razzle dazzle was art attempting to hide life. Jamie Sharpe s Dazzle Ships is also concerned with art s relationship to life. It questions how we build poems from the material of mass culture. And in asking whether authentic modes of expression can be found in an increasingly automated world, Sharpe creates a poetry that is at once as disturbing as it is hilarious and as deeply profound as it is subtle.

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Publié par	Ecw Press
Date de parution	11 avril 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781773050089
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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DAZZLE SHIPS
Poems
JAMIE SHARPE

CONTENTS
SAINT PAUL IN MINNEAPOLIS/ CLEAN THE WAVES DEAD CALM
I
ENDNOTES
20/20 PROPHECY
AFTER 2020
MADE A CONTRIBUTION BEING YET ANOTHER CAUTIONARY TALE
THE ENGAGEMENT
SS P.K. SUBBAN BOBBLEHEAD
UNNATURALLY BALANCED
AUTHOR PHOTO
BEFORE DAD’S COOKIES, PAPA’S CHOCOLATE DUNK BRAZILIAN
POOR, DELICIOUS NINE
A RED CARPET FOR THE SUN WITH ONE REVIEW
EMBRACING THE PSEUDONYM/PYRAMIDS
POSTHUMOUS RECOGNITION
CUT-UP APOLOGETIC/ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TODAY
B-2
CONTINUITY ERROR
HIGH RIVER HIGH MASSACRE
THE MIDDLE PATH
CHATTERBOX
MARBLING & IMMORTALITY
OTHERWISE THE ILLNESS ONTO US/ACTOR AND THE WET PAPER BAG
SOTHEBY’S SWALLOWED THE WORM
THESE WORDS ARE A FRIGID -100˚ F
CROWN LAND
DENMARK PURE GOD’S GRACE & THE BLESSED ORB
CHOKING ON SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
BOLER
ONE MORE POEM FOR THE ST. LOUIS SPORTING NEWS
ONLY WANT APPLAUSE IN 10/4 TIME
SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES/RUSH TO THE MIDDLE
FAULT VODKA/BLAME JUICE
PROFANE FEET, WET CEMENT
BABY CAMOUFLAGE/IMPRINTS ON GLASS
GOOD-DAY, FRIEND
DOOR TO DOOR TO GRAVE/GIVEN EITHER I CHOOSE OR
PROCREATION
FRIDGE BECAME A CANVAS AND MAN REMAINED MEAT
PLATO’S DD-3
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA TEA COMPANY
ACQUET CLUB
HALF JACKS ON THE DANCE FLOOR
NOT IMMUNE UNTIL INFECTED
FEARSOME RETURN
II
NOTHING ELSE FROM THE PERIOD POSSESSES SUCH IMPASSIONED TONALITY
CAN REMEMBER NO POEMS OF MEMORABLE QUALITY
SORRY ABOUT SIS, DAD, BUT THE PHOTOCOPIER WON’T COLLATE PROPERLY
COINAGE OF EMOTIONAL EXCHANGE
THIS IS FOR ELDERLY CATS WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS. THAT WHAT YOU WANTED?
A FREQUENTLY OCCURRING, SHARED CONDITION WE KNOW LITTLE ABOUT
GOODS CONVEYED TO THE SCANNER WHILE THE REGISTER TABULATES MY TOTAL AND THE CASHIER ASSESSES MY WORTH
GUARDING, SLEEPING, DREAMING
UNSAFE, SINCERE APPRECIATION
DO NOT REVERE POPULAR MUSIC
I HAVE FANTASTIC LUCK WITH ENGAGED WOMEN
IN THE WORLD OF SEXY HUNGER
WINNER BEST BEACH PARTY FILM, 1957, THE SEVENTH SEAL
“MANLY” OBSCENITIES OR “FEMININE” HYPERBOLE?
AIN’T NO SHORTY WEAR THOSE SORRY-ASS BOWLING SHOES
X ON THE SCORE SHEET
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

SAINT PAUL IN MINNEAPOLIS
The Wuollet Bakery
on West 50th:
another world.
Coconut
in an apple strudel?
You know this dainty
monster, too , it seems—
hypocrite reader!—You!
My twin!—My brother!
Remade, I was: Down
and Out in Beverly Hills;
up and out in Salmon
Arm. Vulnerable and
dirty, I feather dusted
Hermosa Beach
like Holly-
wood polished
Pasolini’s Teorema .
CLEAN THE WAVES
DEAD CALM

I

ENDNOTES
“Chalk Outline”: At a reading, one of the authors described herself as a Confessional Poet . When pressed about the type of writing I practiced, I said, Alibis .
“Unearth a Late Renaissance”: Questions whether productivity is inversely correlated to the Dow Jones average.
“Cinderblocks Live”: About the time my mother hired Jesus to build a retaining wall along our back fence. His job was complicated somewhat in that he couldn’t let others see him work, or come by after to collect a cheque.
“Subjectivity’s Dead”: The title was taken from vandalism on the above-mentioned retaining wall. I spent an afternoon applying Goof Off to the tag, but a pale, pink ghost of the slogan remains to this day.
“The Forty-Six Page Haiku”: In retrospect, this isn’t haiku.
“Checked the Veracity of These Statements Against Their End Rhymes”: The poem doesn’t exist in this collection because a prominent American poet/novelist said that although he liked the title, the poem itself seemed, more conversational and slack & not up to the standards set by (my) best work .
“Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future”: Based on an ’80s toy/television cross-promotion about self-aware machines fighting humankind—a good idea!
“A Lipogram Signals the Death of U”: The concept was the creation of poetry without consonants. Writing, in the absence of talent, proved a larger constraint.
“Reading Anxiety”: Whenever I feel nervous about speaking in public I picture my wife, who’s a doctor and Beanie Baby enthusiast. I see her bringing life into the world and guiding it out. I imagine her smile, grasping a rare Lucky Ladybug. It doesn’t make me less worried, but makes my fear plush, pathetic. I am not an emergency.
“You No Scissor-Cut, Yes?”: This line spoken by my Ukrainian hairdresser. I responded, Yes .

20/20 PROPHECY
The day of the pink cross
pregnancy test I lugged our cat
into the alley and shot her
with a Super Soaker.
Removed the wireless option
on my pacemaker
to prevent terrorist attacks.
Excised empathy
for the same reason.

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