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of a period that must end."--Frank Bidart 

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THE YEAR OF

4/22/2015

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It was the year of the shoplifter the shape-shifter, the un-chaperoned shipwrecked when nothing and nobody belonged to anybody because everything was re-sculpted and bifurcated like a Jewish soul.

It was the year of burglaries and break-ins and stolen glances, drive-by sleuthing and the secret secreted itself into veiled readability. And nothing was on lock down as Loc. Cit. loco citato forever repeating itself in infinite reproducibility. Deduce was wild.

It was the year of living dangerously living on the edge when the dissenter did not hold. And entry was all-access in a synnexes of excess axes of non-censored sensoria and all was defiled, re-filed and fluid to be slopped up like a spongy mélange, étrange, so Ponge; where all was re-roped and groping at what’s proper (propre) improper impropriotous, riotous like an aporetic Propp opera.  

An eerie year of the gift given with no giver, there for the takin’, the taken, a token, a present which kept representing itself stealing into all conversation, all out on parole, with far flung tongues swung hungry stretched along agon, longing to belong, belonged without belonging, belonging only to a long lost langue.

--Adeena Karasick

Adeena Karasick is a New York based poet, media artist and the author of seven books of poetry and poetics, most recently This Poem (Talonbooks, 2012) and The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan (NeoPoiesis Press, 2014). She teaches Poetry, Critical Theory and Performance at the Pratt Institute and is co-founding Director of KlezKanada Poetry Festival and Retreat. http://talonbooks.com/authors/adeena-karasick

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    Hi. I'm Joanna Fuhrman. This is a prose poetry/flash fiction blog in conversation with my  serial prose poem "The Year of Yellow Butterflies" (The Year Of Yellow Butterflies, Hanging Loose Press 2015). I had fun writing these poems about fads and trends from imaginary pasts. If you would like to add your own section, write me and I can post it (along with a short bio). Start with "It was the year...."  
    "In this extraordinary book, Fuhrman seamlessly oscillates between illusion and reality, childhood and maturity, the animal kingdom (a "babbling...walrus," a "creaky bird," a "bunny rabbit") and technology ("a baby's rebooted brains," "Virgil's internet").  She gives new life to the prose poem.  The Year of Yellow Butterflies is killer--not only Fuhrman's best book to date, but her most poignant.  "--Noelle Kocot

    "With the impish charm of an illusionist and the dazzling patter of a tummler in a Borscht Belt resort, Joanna Fuhrman suspends our expectations in The Year of Yellow Butterflies, sending us head over heels into zones of cosmic and technological bafflement and sudden parabolic grief....in this book full of brilliant predicaments and pleasures."—Rachel Loden
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