new from above/ground press: CERTAIN WORDS, by Steve McCaffery

CERTAIN WORDS
a septipartite structure investing the seven ideas of Hermogenes
Steve McCaffery
$5

The boredom of snow

which always falls

about your steps

each time you write

the word “flake”

and language greets its

philosophical  counterpart

to make up the terms

that science steals away

from each example.

Can you think

as far as simile

allows you and think

while metaphor

is pushing facts

into substitutions ?

Is this another way

to write about writing ?

to write when outside

an idea or as a subject

with a different direction

one to whom relating

phrases to neighborhoods

by using mirrors for doors

takes you back to where

you started ?

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

March 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Steve McCaffery is the author of over 40 books and chapbooks of poetry and criticism and his work has been translated into a dozen or so languages. A founding member of the sound poetry ensemble Four Horsemen, TRG (Toronto Research Group), Grand Satrap of the College of Canadian ”Pataphysics, and long-time resident of Toronto, he is now David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo.

[Steve McCaffery launches CERTAIN WORDS in Ottawa as part of his performance at the 8th annual VERSeFest, March 24, 2018]

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