Joseph Gordon Macleod
Hesperornis
From Tether 4, page 33
HESPERORNIS
Alone, therefore of loneliness unaware,
Spreads her webs on the cake-ice igneum
Vast. Over her dazzled retinae
Hood draws for shield from the helian
Glare by green wave unalleviate
Cast. Stretches supper vertebrae
Ere mayhap lamineous wanderer
Palaeolithic armoured amphibian
Fast below her lazy vigility
Bolting escape. Alert on a pinnacle
Sole raised point of level monotony,
Mastering all (all as yet unaërial)
Gnashes teeth as saws that reciprocate,
Hungry for prey from proved inability :
Drastic, divine, has braved omniominous,
Dared what the poets dare, victorious
Over age-static exposed floor-denizens.
Last of her age, the urge of the coming,
Urged, is becoming First of the future,
The hope that achieves what Men call failure,
The past.
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Tether 4 contains Salomo Friedlaender’s musings on the work of George Grosz; poems by noted German poet Durs Grünbein; a poem by English Modernist Joseph Gordon Macleod; Erik LaPrade’s look at the peculiar papier-mâché works of Otis Burger; Mark Ford’s translations of two episodes from the draft of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus; an interview between painters Elliott Green and Catherine Murphy; John Reid Currie’s melancholic poetry; Paul Grimstad exploring the number 42; early photographs by Diana MacKown; Kreg Hasegawa’s curious short story; Paul Maziar’s look at pastry chef portraits by Chaim Soutine and August Sander; Barry Schwabsky’s recounting of an experience with the Farnese Sarcophagus; a portfolio of Paula Wilson’s vibrant paintings; Erica Van Horne’s prose poems; John Yau, Carol Szymanski, and Siv Støldal's playful bee keeper costume collaboration; and Francis M. Naumann’s unraveling of the fantastically cryptic Dada poems by Walter Arensberg.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
32 color and 34 black and white images
Item Weight : 0.69 pounds
Paperback : 156 pages
ISBN: 978069219455351800
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2018)
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