Both for him, & for the whole process & those who accept that challenge...
Doug
On 2013-02-01, at 2:03 AM, Michael Heller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Much sadness. This was written for Anselm when he was hospitalized in the summer of 2003
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> EVERYTHING TRANSLATES
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> for Anselm
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> To hear the fan go
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> to imagine air
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> filling whatever space
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> is before it, hot interior
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> of a cabin, half-helix
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> of the ear where sound tickles.
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> Cage shuts himself
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> in a still, sealed room
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> to hear his blood pound.
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> No purity like that
> for the translator letting
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> the world's noise enter,
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> an intruder banging on the door.
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> At least, half of the pounding
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> gets past the tympanum,
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> at least half of that reaches
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> to the heart which adds
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> that pounding to its own.
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> /from Westcliffe, 25/VII/03/
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> --
> Home page: michaelhellerpoetry.com
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> Recent books: This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 (Nightboat Books, 2012);Beckmann Variations & Other Poems (Shearsman, 2010); Eschaton (Talisman, 2009); Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the work of George Oppen (Salt, 2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Salt, 2005); Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2003). Available at bookstores, SPD and at Amazon.com
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> Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson: This Art Burning and other poetry, Benjamin (a music-theater work based on the life of Walter Benjamin), go to: http://www.efjcomposer.com/efjcomposer/Welcome.html and for excerpts visit Ellen's Youtube videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/efjcomposer
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> Michael Heller PennSound page: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.php
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