"Liquid disproves you": Marianne Morris
A NEW BOOK FROM BARQUE PRESS, WHICH THEY WILL PROBABLY NOT PRINT by Marianne Morris
October 2006. 38 pp. / GBP £4.00 / USD $6.00 / Barque Press
Reviewed by Abena Sutherland
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An onrushing articulation - news cycle comment, opinion on US Abortion law, messy processes of not-selfing told in the perverse publicity of lyric flourish – which tends to run into framing grids of association, duality, asides, archly performed anxieties. The effect is of articulation and its containment cross-identified and scratched out in a careless manner just so, creamily over the top.
JEFF WALL & SHUT UPIt's abstracted by the force of these various contrary pulls which occur too fast; Jeff Wall's technique of synthesising a series of photographs into one unstable image? or "The spinning room." Perhaps the ongoing pullings and parings of Morris' articulations could be thought of as the discarded jammed–together husks of a recalcitrant staging of a voice which piles through various stimuli. No choice over, no choice in the matter.
Liquid disproves you by its very adherence to qualities
it has no choice over. In the matter. Continue to hurt
by efforts of your tongue over 'how your life is panning out'
coalesce into concerns thick as a swollen tongue
repeats itself in a toboggan-ride down Repeat Mount and pretty
face this one
is for the ladies steps in heels and that
our limbs are different lengths, it's one of those
irreparable sorrows, how that which satisfies you, physically
may leave your imagination dry as women
are knifed. Get inside the mindset of population control. [...]
Flies appear several times, particularly their "diaphanous" aspects, "the detached wings of insects attract me as I stop hoovering. . ." Is it their discarded envelopes like tiny bits of selves?
Maybe time to let the good guysGoes bang? The unaccustomed leaves the reader floating in the air; the point from which a free feeling is generated in any drama of public apparitions.
to the front of the queue at newsstands
get them faster the news
of screen-warring peroxide
adopters of fetishised
Live 8 poverty
while the poverty we have
not directly sanctioned
with pop music
and costly herd
goes bang all day long
(from "POP" MUSIC)
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LINKS:
[#] Stuart Calton, 'Letter to Marianne Morris' in Quid 15
[#] Morris reads at Archive of the Now
