Novas Poéticas de Resistência: o século XXI em Portugal

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Erica Kaufman



"emptiness is form"

 


in this what's wrong picture

 

 

the samurai's complexion

 



swings a nunchuck in the face

 

of homeostasis, draws a bell

 



curve because there's no need

to expend energy with the voice



still in tact. the trick is to really

look for retinal notions



of hospitality or phrenological

statements like do we really need



that zoom in?
certain predictive

 

evasions allow for animal

 



consciousness, weather systems,

 

and what the model should look

 



like, her body a sort of system where

 

dropkick knocks the chin over the face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




"what is love"

 

 after elizabeth murray




in 1973 she drew steps

and i am a fan of thick oil

irredescent. of what the title

tells you. how the wood becomes

deformed again and again

she places hands where i least

expect them. keyholes obnoxious

and wrong. see them in green

apparently plexiglass fuschia.

so many things can come

out of a wall. blond hair.

legs. sliced anatomy. just

let the boat dock! i want to

take my queries and sun. 

 

 

 

 





erica kaufman is the author of
censory impulse (factory school 2009) as well as several chapbooks including civilization day (Open24Hours, Winter 2007). recent work can be found in Little Red Leaves, Aufgabe, and elsewhere. essays and reviews can be found in The Poetry Project Newsletter, CutBank, Rain Taxi, Verse, among other places. kaufman is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center where she explores the interstices between contemporary poetics and composition & rhetoric. she lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Baruch College and Bard College.

 

 

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