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Notes II (from The Dream of Gravity)

Mark Povinelli

II.

Please, My Missive: Unscrew the locks from the
doors!/Unscrew the doors themselves from their
jambs!, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass; Epigraph,
Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

Confetti Gun Explosion: A “confetti gun” he made
exploded…, Alan Feuer, Building a better Apocalypse,
The New York Times

Commerce: beautiful soup, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland

A Delay: A Delay, Marcel Duchamp, The Green Box


Humanity: fiery furnace, William Blake, America a
Prophecy

Knockout: mule had the blind stagers, American Folk
Song, Traditional

Confessional: Silly Season, Robert Heinlein, The Year of
the Jackpot

Starvation: Muscarol, Edmund Spenser, Muiopotmos: or
The Fate of the Butterflie.

Vatican Call: confection of the visual, Edward R. Tufte,
Visual Explanation

Lost Wax: Étant donnés, Marcel Duchamp,
Étant donnés: 1.La chute d'eau. 2. Le gaz
d'e'clairage; the wolf shall live with the lamb,

Dead Sea Scroll #4Q57

Mark Povinelli was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Louisiana. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Houston and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Syracuse University. He is the author of Hunting for Box Turtles, Disconnections, and Gram Water, an exploration of image as verse.

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