Norma Cole's recent volumes of poetry include MOIRA, Contrafact, and Desire & Its Double. A slide-text piece, "SCOUT," is forthcoming from Krupskaya Press in CD ROM format. Her translation of Anne Portugal's Nude is forthcoming from Green Integer, and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France, selected and translated by Cole is forthcoming from Burning Deck.
"A another killer app..."
A another killer app
B whose clear purpose was to break the tyranny of the perimeter
C as like a striking clock
D rem praesentem motion added, poised
E "intervals," we are the shape memory alloy, ultra-resilient, available and lit up
F our outlooks shape what we see and what we can know
G but when science and culture conflict, culture always wins
H room for difficulty, complexity, resistance, as in "please let me be misunderstood"
I in terms of the generation of a new system's generations of systems
J "And they're at the gate!"
K the glass roof's suspension of disbelief
L miniaturization and shapeshifting covers for shyness and a bad stammer
M Elizabeth Carter 1717-1806 Translator, linguist, poet. Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. Wrote Poems Upon Particular Occasions and Poems Upon Several Occasions. Wrote for Johnson's Rambler. They were friends for fifty years. She is occasionally an index entry in biographies of Johnson. Current editions of Richardson's Clarissa credit her poem he used in his text, although he did not in the first edition. He later apologized. Find her spectacular translation of Epictetus, [freed slave and Stoic philosopher whose discourses were written down by Arrian, his pupil].
N brave new superior user existence
O escaping this flatland is the essential task of envisioning information
P to teach the reader to think recursively
Q the angle of the reader permits the next layer of data to be read
R books are a social product as are the libraries that hold them
S Hey sis, is freedom from memory freedom from sociality?
T in the psychotropics the means of production are
U the sublime has been defined by philosophers in terms of formlessness and experience at the limit of what can be apprehended
V at what point does reading become bedroom painting?
W most evolutionary novelty arose and still arises from symbiosis as in acid heat lover + swimmer + oxygen breather → the subtle swimmer, causer and target, unable to swim and to divide at the same time
X by reader's standards
Z within the retinal frame
Note
cf. Walter Benjamin, Norma Cole, Arthur Danto, Bei Dao, Ray Jackendorff, Christopher Kool-Want, R.C.Lewontin, Lynn Margulis, Bonnie McDougal, Frank Stella, Edward R. Tufte