Universe
Universe
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Universe is a long poem about exemplarity. Here, for example, hair-cutting, the wearing of hats, and soviet bacilli stand in for questions about consent, social conventions, and racism. Taking these substitutions largely from texts on moral philosophy, the poem rewrites them in and out of their original contexts. In this new, all-the-more exemplary world of pushing and shoving, someone has wronged someone. But who? The revenge is combinatory, and the lines are short.
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From the apology for feeling in the Radioheadesque title to the ungoogleable narrative that closes the book, Okay, Okay is resolutely not an invitation to share an inside joke or an appeal to intellectual vanity. The feelings may be borrowed, quoted, distorted and inverted; they may take time to come into focus; nevertheless, they are real and strange and there every time the book falls open.
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Other UDP titles from Diana Hamilton here
Audio performance of poem for Publishing House
Video game collaboration with Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford
Excerpt
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If you stop me
from cutting
your hair,
there is a sense
in which
you are interfering.
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But, since you are entitled
to determine
whether I cut your hair
or not, you do not
wrong me.
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I make your trip to the store a waste.
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I buy the last quart of milk
before you
get there.
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