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Title: kari edwards
Post by: Frederique on 23 May, 2011, 16:31:28
kari edwards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Edwards) (1954 - 2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist, winner of New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002); was the author of have been blue for charity, BlazeVox (2006); obedience, Factory School (2005); iduna, O Books (2003); a day in the life of p., subpress collective (2002); a diary of lies, Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002); obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS, xPress(ed) (2002); and post/(pink), Scarlet Press (2000). edwards' work has appeared in numerous publications, such as anthologies Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted leaf Press (2000), and Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text, Pyriform Press (2002); as well as been exhibited throughout the United States, including Denver art museum, New Orleans contemporary art museum, University of California -- San Diego, and University of Massachusetts -- Amherst.
kari died of heart failure at age 52 on 02 December, 2006.


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kari edwards
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Title: kari edwards, can I do this spiritual drag
Post by: Frederique on 23 May, 2011, 16:32:48
kari edwards, can I do this spiritual drag

can I do this spiritual drag, collective agony wishful thinking, fearful peek-a-boo actuality about to be read in unapologetic disinterested participation against fantasy without benefit familiarity, remembering distortion, forgetting drudgery necessary to consume anything cement sorrow, surrounded by transfer credit surcharge immortal siege ideology, submissive to appliance bodyisms in doubt in the face of stupidity—oops—knowledge, derivative of skin, bones, eyes and the rest, opposite abrupt aggressive remoteness here to serve another ascendant say-so? I tremble in doubt, divided by multiple entry points and explosive content wrapped in rambling overlays sent to the council on commentary, and without exception the animation either frenetic or dull, shifts to no options left, recognizing useless hope in the face of bomb holes caused by numbering digits..


Source: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/239498

Title: kari edwards, obedience: 136
Post by: Frederique on 23 May, 2011, 16:33:49
kari edwards, obedience: 136

there is only infinity of jealous passion
tireless devotion walled in blindness
multiple poverty of substance
a poverty of property
a discourse of laughter
an action cutting across the self
stripped of
nothing but its fiction
of a fiction
of an absolute
timeless external organ
thing least compromised.


Source: http://www.moriapoetry.com/edwards340.html

Title: kari edwards, the day shifts
Post by: Frederique on 23 May, 2011, 16:34:58

kari edwards, the day shifts

the day shifts, we talk to each other the way we talk to each other, the luster fades, our bodies fill with sap, there is a shift, joy reappears before another personal narrative burns to a heap of citations, continuing in complicated machinery, becoming blood knots in space, both the living and dead surround the present has been. I open my eyes in the full force of fear and hesitation, frozen in passing passageways with endless permutations, subjected to violence, stupidity, and love.


Source: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/239496