Folio #12 —
Between a thermometer and when water freezes
August 22, 2009
by Anne Gorrick
A chill intervened / titles of negation / and / altered
bleak underlined / standard colors
Their distress / slides / out of register
echo flails, falls down / her guise in / broken
refractions / grey glued neutrality
under pressure / smearing / thinned-out, stained
scraped residue / troubled a telling / example
stamped, dripped / her / accusatory physical sting
another piece of frozen, erotic / content
There were increas ing / instances of him
mirror / an insideout fold / Their surfaces rolled
around each other
The implied space in his thinking
Where did she put / her / narrative assemblages?
His sections appeared hinged / by diagrammatic
constructions
Marcel Duchamp: / an engineer of notes, indices
Anne Gorrick is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of I-Formation (Book 2) (Shearsman Books, Bristol, UK, 2012), I-Formation (Book 1) (Shearsman, 2010), Kyotologic (Shearsman, 2008) and An Extended Environment with Metrical and/or Dimensional Properties (E·ratio Editions, 2013). She collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce a limited edition artists’ book, “Swans, the ice,” she said, funded by the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is co-editing, with Sam Truitt, an anthology of adventurous Hudson Valley poetry: In|Filtration: A Hudson Valley Salt Line (Station Hill, Barrytown, NY, 2014). She curates the reading series, Cadmium Text, which focuses on innovative writing from in and around New York’s Hudson Valley. She also co-curates the online poetry journal Peep/Show with poet Lynn Behrendt, which is a “taxonomic exercise in textual and visual seriality.” Images of her visual art can be found at The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows. Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, New York.
