In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary pushes past the line and
the fragment and toward the sentence, the thought trying to
complete, the paragraph, a distinct passage. The poems, most a
single paragraph, are comprised of several of the many things a
paragraph is said to consist of, including, according to the OED:
"a distinct passage or section of a text, usually composed of
several sentences, dealing with a particular point, a short episode
in a narrative, a single piece of direct speech, etc." The first
poem in the project, though no longer the first in the book, was
written while reading Francis Ponge's amazing The Making of Le Pre,
which reproduces his notes toward the poem Le Pre alongside a
translated type-written transcription. The form of the
notes--crammed into every corner of the page, gathering
observation, research, reading, quotations, anecdote--suggested a
more inclusive way to think and write. The book, with its not-quite
50 prose poems, is also an imaginary completion, an echo or a
shadow or shade, of Baudelaire's planned 100 Petits poemes en
prose. The book, then, became a project only after the fact, or in
response to the fact, of the poems' emergence. The opening of each
section--the first few words from each poem in that
section--operate as a kind of descriptive table of contents for
each section and also a poem of sorts, as those chapter headings
often were novels of the past.
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