The Politics of Abstraction
In the green room of the poem
an artificial intelligence flexes
its wings. Protesting, the surrealist
logs out forever. There is always
at least one memoirist at the
space station without the proper
joker card. The nonconformists
stop all the clocks to gain access
to restricted areas. You keep
preparing for the superfiction
party. Each page of the party
is a quanta of data, a thing-
in-itself. The afterparty is for
reading science and fiction and
science fiction. On the moon,
a phone number is written
in dust. Maybe it is your number.
You are welcome. For this reason,
I change location. Now that
the symbol is neither a doorway
nor a door, the door opens
while the doorway opens into
everywhere. In other words,
nowhere is here. In conclusion,
my results are a potential spine:
the column of what is writing.
an artificial intelligence flexes
its wings. Protesting, the surrealist
logs out forever. There is always
at least one memoirist at the
space station without the proper
joker card. The nonconformists
stop all the clocks to gain access
to restricted areas. You keep
preparing for the superfiction
party. Each page of the party
is a quanta of data, a thing-
in-itself. The afterparty is for
reading science and fiction and
science fiction. On the moon,
a phone number is written
in dust. Maybe it is your number.
You are welcome. For this reason,
I change location. Now that
the symbol is neither a doorway
nor a door, the door opens
while the doorway opens into
everywhere. In other words,
nowhere is here. In conclusion,
my results are a potential spine:
the column of what is writing.
Thingie
in Lacan’s theory of desire where fantasy
requires the loss of what it thirsts
to attain
there is a wet slip
of the
tongue
when poetry
speaks it listens
glistens
like
I do
when you
write
thingie
requires the loss of what it thirsts
to attain
there is a wet slip
of the
tongue
when poetry
speaks it listens
glistens
like
I do
when you
write
thingie
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Amy Catanzano publishes poetry, fiction, poetic theory, and multimodal literary art, including web-expanded poetry. Often writing in parallel to cutting-edge physics, as well as the literary and artistic subcultures of the avant-garde, she is the author of three books with a forthcoming collection, The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics, from the University of Michigan Press. Drawing from invited residencies at scientific research centers such as CERN in Switzerland and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in New York, Catanzano collaborates with scientists in addition to her independent projects. Recipient of the PEN USA Literary Award in Poetry and the Noemi Press Book Award in Fiction among other honors, she is an associate professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
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