tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448800191930915270.post8595193305058078815..comments2023-11-30T03:41:57.433-05:00Comments on This Cruellest Month: The "something" thingNathan Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08783782494546767453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448800191930915270.post-20000584805161273012007-07-12T11:35:00.000-04:002007-07-12T11:35:00.000-04:00I've been waiting for a Bernadette mayer poem that...I've been waiting for a Bernadette mayer poem that I liked, and this is it, second stanza less the first of course. I'm surprised you didn't make the obvious (perhaps too obvious) connection with the "I do this, I do that" style of O'Hara, Berrigan, etc. This is maybe a basis from which Mayer playfully elaborated, and also your dsicussion of the use of a "fluid" pronoun reminds me of Tom Clark'ssteve robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714025342869446899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7448800191930915270.post-24751737679383840592007-07-12T09:18:00.000-04:002007-07-12T09:18:00.000-04:00Nathan, I don't know if you've already made this c...Nathan, I don't know if you've already made this connection, but this seems very relevant to Mac Low's "The Pronouns," with its weirdly both specific and general instructions, like:<BR/><BR/>"I do something consciously,<BR/>going about & coming across art.<BR/><BR/>After that I boil some delicate things<BR/>while doing something under the conditions of competition<BR/>& going under someone or Kasey Mohammadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13353259413006470925noreply@blogger.com