The Oh Oh
Beatriz Hausner
$6
The Goddess is Moved to Utterance
The goddess is moved to utterance. Three plus Seven times she
Raises the Hour to One. She Returns and loosens the clasps For
the Hour is now at Eight a.m. on the Third day of the Eighth month.
By the sea did you see the goddess, First Born of the Froth
the waves rise on the Sixth month with you: I stand in Amazement.
Three times Three is Nine and we are Returned to each other again
changed and the parts that are earthy and dampened with penetrant
moisture are changed to bodily Flesh. On the Fourth day of the tenth
month Am I born again year after year reminded of life of one from
the Two and two from the one. Four plus Zero remains four even
as all is Changed at every recurrence of Four. The Body grows
the seX not and yes and Careless the heart. Four. Yes and
no because Four corners do not equal Four corners at Once though
they might. Does the age of prestidigitation equal Seven? Yes
it does. Birth Day it is as all days are days of birth even this Fifth
day of the ninth month when access is given to the boundless world.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
June 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
[Beatriz Hausner launches this title in Ottawa on August 7, 2025 as part of the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch at RedBird Live; tickets available]
cover image: “Mirage,” Susana Wald and Ludwig Zeller
Beatriz Hausner has published several poetry collections, including The Wardrobe Mistress (2003), Sew Him Up (2010), Enter the Raccoon (2012), Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020) and She Who Lies Above (2023), as well as many limited-edition chapbooks. Her books have been published internationally and translated into several languages, including her native Spanish, French, and most recently Greek. Hausner writes extensively about surrealism and her translations of Spanish American surrealist poets have exerted an important influence on her own writing. She has edited journals and magazines, including Open Letter, ellipse, Exile Quarterly, as well as many of the books published during her tenure as a publisher of Quattro Books. She is the editor of Someone Editions, and its current project French Letter Society. Beatriz Hausner was President of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission. She lives in Toronto where she publishes The Philosophical Egg, an organ or living surrealism. Currently, with Russell Smith, she curates and runs the lecture series Soluble Fish.
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