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    Public Domain

    By Mónica De la Torre

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    Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "PUBLIC DOMAIN is First Rate, worthy of Rerereading and Full-Tilt Gesamkunstwerke Treatment, and, rest assured, will never rest. Which is to say: the interplay of text/orality, theory/playfulness, concrete/lyric appearing in every form imaginable/heretofore unimagined, adds up to the most adventurous Conceptual Mystery Poem I have ever read/performed. I cannot imagine poetry without her"—Bob Holman. Mónica de la Torre writes about art and culture for publications in Mexico and the U.S. and is the author of the poetry books PUBLIC DOMAIN, TALK SHOWS, and Acúfenos. She is co-author of the artist book Appendices, Illustrations & Notes, available on Ubu.com, and co-editor of the anthology REVERSIBLE MONUMENTS: CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN POETRY with Michael Wiegers. She translated the books Poems by Gerardo Deniz and MAUVE SEA-ORCHIDS by Lila Zemborain. She is senior editor at BOMB Magazine and lives in Brooklyn. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoof Books
    Release dateNov 1, 2008
    ISBN9781931824309
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      Public Domain - Mónica De la Torre

      Public Domain

      Public Domain

      Mónica de la Torre

      Copyright © 2008 by Mónica de la Torre

      ISBN-13: 978-1-931824-30-9

      ISBN-10: 1-931824-30-4

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2008935480

      This book is dedicated to Bruce Pearson

      Cover image: Holly Zausner, stills from Unseen, 2007,

      Super 16 mm film. Total running time: 16 minutes, 32 seconds.

      Acknowledgements: Thanks to the editors of the publications in which earlier versions of the some of these works were first published: Achiote Seeds, Belladonna, Pierogi Press, The Portable Boog Reader 2, Tin House and Words Without Borders. Thanks also to Michael Scharf for inviting me to develop a collaborative project with Sujin Lee for a reading in conjunction with the exhibition How Soon Is Now? at the Bronx Museum of the Arts on June 20, 2008.

      My deepest gratitude goes to The MacDowell Colony for providing me with invaluable resources to complete this work.

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      Table of Contents

      Is to Travel Getting to or Being in a Destination

      The Crush

      The facts

      More facts

      Letters Are What Is in a Name

      Ten Steps to Follow the Sound

      Found: We can learn from a tree how to exist in ecstasy.

      Green & Franklin

      Hearsay

      A Way Out of the Negative: Attempts at Communication

      Telephone Cryptomessage

      Nice to Meet You: Kill Your TV

      Exterior, Day

      I’m So Lonesome I’m an I

      Nothing to Do

      Imperfect Utterances

      Plosive Letter

      Deflation or Sibilant Sibyls

      Cease to Stutter, Singsong

      Monolingualism of the Other

      Target Language

      Strangled Speech?

      The March Papers

      $6.82

      Selfhood.com

      Doubles

      Is to Travel Getting to or Being in a Destination

      1. The next poem was inspired by something I overheard at the Buffalo Bill Grave & Museum in Lookout Point in Golden, CO. My partner and I were on a road trip to the Grand Canyon and came across a sign for the exit to the grave, so we decided to check it out. All I knew about Buffalo Bill came from The Beatles’s song. Show biz wasn’t off the mark: on display at the museum were films and posters advertising Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, featuring cowboys and Indians, Mexican vaqueros, Arabian riders, Japanese soldiers, Irish lancers, South American gauchos, and Russian Cossacks engaging in marvelous feats, sports and pastimes. A group of tourists was standing next to me. Miren hijos ¡nuestros paisanos! the father said to his kids. He was happy to show them pictures of his countrymen.

      Buffalo Bill died in 1917. The poem, called The Hanged Man Game, is a couplet made of nineteen letters in the first line, and seventeen in the second.

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      2. This next poem is called A place is a container of places. For this road trip I was telling you about we had a very good map of

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