NEW POETRY
 
Franz Wright
Jenn Morea
Ted Pelton
Susan M. Schultz
Amanda Nadelberg
Standard Schaefer
Matthew Cooperman
Ed Taylor
Coralie Reed
Gretchen Mattox
Mark Rudman
Ales Debeljak
Simon Perchik
 
 
NEW CRITICISM
 
Bendall on Wagner
Schroeder on Mullen
Thompson on Gibson
Minor on Tran
Rippey on Hannah

CORALIE REED : you can never get enough





23 Fashion Shows


1.
Hats off to recycled foreheads and bias-cut frowns.


2.
Protest coats that remembrance the eye.


3.
So long deciduous the oscillations oscillating.

4.
Remaindered visions of how collapsing space cheated us of the journey commensurate.

5.
A short film prelude featured Japanese anime models whose dresses mysteriously mattered.

6.
The beauty of bi-fold continuous, folding where it should not fold like crease memory.

7.

Postulated separate entities having all the properties of exact science.


8.
Hopsack garter belts referenced the robot trees. 

9.
Contretemps in the tradition of time-honored crapmanship.

10.
Intrinsic, the ties of the too-long married.

11.
Of such chromatic texts, we ourselves would starve.

12.
Looks inspired from wet, forsaking not the important role of our ongoing willingness to
glisten.

13.
Constructed perspectival distortion sacrificed the mimetic enclosure of landscape while retaining beaucoup elements.

14.
"The horizon always receding and manifesting itself only indirectly in the appearances of particular and empirical existence."

15.
Baffling dualism and the sacred addition of plaided velocities. 

16.
Unitards with precise details unclear.

17.
Youthquake informed by falsity.

18.
In each case, the message circuit attenuated in proportion to the thickening.


19.
The resulting result: Water lettuce bikinis.

20.

An example of transcendental metaphysics, something which the logical positivist is thusly opposed with his insistence that sensory verification is essential for the meaninglessness of lyrical statements. 

21.

Hazmat suits, test patterns.

22.
You can never get enough.

23.
Nice shoes.







25 Fashion Shows


1.
Expressed expressivity: "It" being what it was—a dress but full of other dresses.

2.
Tissue illusions stretched thin.

3.
Fashion diktat, multi-ply.

4.

Collision loomed as tacit metaphor for ideological nonproliferation, where facts were held back to ensure interpellation into the bland flux of inconvenience.


5.
Orb love from a slinky Berlin period?

6.
Causality, comparison, eventuality, and time—all occurring in the forehead, so pronounced and well-shaped.

7.
Snooty snoods and sarongs so wrong.


8.
Harried hairdressers finally achieved fashion détente over the secret sharing of micromist formulas.

9.
Fashion scavenging, at its delimited best, offered fresh regrets.


10.
A telestrated blank constituency made its way to get eyes.


11.
The law of diminishing return demonstrated in the form of morally relative stingy-brim bowlers.


12.

Cascades of body stretchers in consummated dreamsicle for those addicted to elongated legs.


13.
It's difficult not to take rebellion personally.

14.
Never a good look: Liquid transfer and home highlights.

15.
Obscene damascene.

16.
A sorrow manifesto of scepters for le tout Paris to see.

17.
Photoaged lints supporting a vision of our undercreature.

18.
Low-level associativity recalled so-called separates.

19.
Write it down: Splurge-worthy something-ness.

20.

Independent rear suspension, taking place on a level of linguistic receptivity inaccessible to intended meaning.

21.
Out-migration, cooling talk of a bully lace resurgence.

22.

Ecoimaginative time-sensitive plastics of maladaptive response.


23.
Translated: Bubble-wrapped Swiss temptations.

24.
The season’s next-essory: Seared conscience with side fastening bow.

25.
All the pretty children loves it.




 

 

(c) 2005 Slope. Slope is ISSN # 1536-0164.