Preface - Electronic Poetry Center

What I find particularly interesting is that not only do many language poets
subvert language, like you have properly noticed Lorde doing, but they make a
sort of intervention into language. They try to change its structure. If we are to
make any kind of intervention into history, this seems to me a model we can
work with.
Maybe the apexers are working with this. Maybe not. I don’t know. I will say at
this point that I think folks tend to discount manifestoes. Must be some sort of
American anti-intellectual thing. The fact that both the language poets and the
apexers wrote manifestoes is all to their credit as far as I am concerned. If we
have learned anything in the last few years of NEA/NEH controversy after
controversy it is that the people doing the work had better take the time to
define themselves before someody else, like Lynn Cheney,does.
From: Ira Lightman
Subject: apex of the m
The truth of a process makes sense to and among those at the end of the
process, where the transcription of thought on the page is a clean mirror to both
writer and readers, writer as s/he writes, reader as s/he reads; the book
unwritten is the look that speaks volumes between and among such.
This so rare that most of us do in the name of more, ever more, vocal and
verbal, dropped out of empathy then yanked back, the lack of us in "you-you"
the vocation of study, time out.
Oscar does not believe that art is being and thought is ugliness. He says so as in
his day was no art and thought. Those who use Freud as if he were himself as
benign and liberational as they do what he did not put sex against the ban on
sex, power against stable.
Such sects! Lift up hearts, prey on. The dream can only create if sleep is not for
the provision of rest, o day for rest and night for study. Bade the body. The
good faith goads the intellect setting the church of our agenda which, fulfilled,
burns. We digest the stone and break into a jog.
Dream breathing. Think, your very heart beating is bleeding and the blood next
to come is bleeding into your heart, the oxygen is bleeding to become blood,
the folks with beating blood are beating the air only. Dream wing.