Poem of the Week:
"Early Style" by Joshua Clover

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Joshua Clover is the author of The Matrix (2005) and Madonna anno domini (1997). He is Associate Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, Davis, and contributes to the Village Voice and The New York Times. His book The Totality for Kids will be released in April by The University of California Press.

Early Style



Ruins is utopia

From the perspective of

Before melancholy

And sex at the level of

Language promenading

Around the littoral of first

Failures of the codex

Colored morning

Pointing out over this

Being being being-left-empty



Purchase at The University of California Press.
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