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    Jared Schickling Zero’s Blooming Excursion 978-1-60964-001-9 "Zero’s Blooming Excursion seems a trans-bifurcation of voice, some cacophonous unity of strange symbols, visual, aural, intellectual, collaborating in the emergence of something deeply spiritual: The awakened human mind dealing with the chaos, projecting the Arabesque patterns of its own movements. If one is to be literate in the realm of Zero’s merged pineal glands, one must make sense of its seams, as much a painting to make sense of (the repeated Chagall) or puzzle to construct (the chemistry and mathematics) as a poem to read, a critifiction seducing its reader into numerous re-reads, each one producing different patterns and forms of pleasure, the very embodiment of Calvino’s ideal of multiplicity. Bizarro science, invisibility cloaking, numerology, Kabbala, lots of trivial news and obscure data (like patent backgrounds), all add up to a paranoid yet valid approach to the cosmos which seems to subvert or counter its own overt nihilism. Schickling’s book is a brilliant success. —Chuck Richardson Zero’s Blooming Excursion has “a hundred mouths,” and each mouth speaks at once. With combinatory precision, Schickling brings a redactive resonance to the face of the page. Erasures zero in on what’s important. Headlines, statistics, equations, weather reports, thought bubbles are more than frames. They are the forms of our common thinking. Reading Zero’s Blooming Excursion is like hovering above one’s own body while living; it’s unsettling ecstasy. Read this book and you’ll “find yourself next to yourself.” —Sasha Steensen This is a book I had to struggle my way through. Often I wondered, what is going on here? Slowly it dawned on me: Jared Schickling has devised a poetics that oprates like an ecology. It is, among other qualities, indifferent to whether I understand it or not—and the poems are no more concerned with what you or I think of them than rocks, moss, lichen, yucca plants, or clouds care whether you admire their shapes or scrape your knee on their sharp edges. I respect that. It’s tough, bracing, and worth the effort. It may take years to catch up to where these poems are taking us. —Andrew Schelling " Jared Schickling’s poetry, criticism, translation, interview, review, collaboration, has been published or is forthcoming in The Argotist, Bombay Gin, Big Bridge, The Café Review, Circumference, ecopoetics, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, KNOCK (2006 Ecolit / Green Art prize), Literary Imagination, Matter Journal, Otoliths, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Word For/Word, the anthology 1000 Views of “Girl Singing” and elsewhere. He has three other books, Aurora, submissions, and O (BlazeVOX [books] 2007, 08, 09), and is an editor at Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), Mayday Magazine (online), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).

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    Jared Schickling Zero’s Blooming Excursion 978-1-60964-001-9 "Zero’s Blooming Excursion seems a trans-bifurcation of voice, some cacophonous unity of strange symbols, visual, aural, intellectual, collaborating in the emergence of something deeply spiritual: The awakened human mind dealing with the chaos, projecting the Arabesque patterns of its own movements. If one is to be literate in the realm of Zero’s merged pineal glands, one must make sense of its seams, as much a painting to make sense of (the repeated Chagall) or puzzle to construct (the chemistry and mathematics) as a poem to read, a critifiction seducing its reader into numerous re-reads, each one producing different patterns and forms of pleasure, the very embodiment of Calvino’s ideal of multiplicity. Bizarro science, invisibility cloaking, numerology, Kabbala, lots of trivial news and obscure data (like patent backgrounds), all add up to a paranoid yet valid approach to the cosmos which seems to subvert or counter its own overt nihilism. Schickling’s book is a brilliant success. —Chuck Richardson Zero’s Blooming Excursion has “a hundred mouths,” and each mouth speaks at once. With combinatory precision, Schickling brings a redactive resonance to the face of the page. Erasures zero in on what’s important. Headlines, statistics, equations, weather reports, thought bubbles are more than frames. They are the forms of our common thinking. Reading Zero’s Blooming Excursion is like hovering above one’s own body while living; it’s unsettling ecstasy. Read this book and you’ll “find yourself next to yourself.” —Sasha Steensen This is a book I had to struggle my way through. Often I wondered, what is going on here? Slowly it dawned on me: Jared Schickling has devised a poetics that oprates like an ecology. It is, among other qualities, indifferent to whether I understand it or not—and the poems are no more concerned with what you or I think of them than rocks, moss, lichen, yucca plants, or clouds care whether you admire their shapes or scrape your knee on their sharp edges. I respect that. It’s tough, bracing, and worth the effort. It may take years to catch up to where these poems are taking us. —Andrew Schelling " Jared Schickling’s poetry, criticism, translation, interview, review, collaboration, has been published or is forthcoming in The Argotist, Bombay Gin, Big Bridge, The Café Review, Circumference, ecopoetics, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, KNOCK (2006 Ecolit / Green Art prize), Literary Imagination, Matter Journal, Otoliths, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Word For/Word, the anthology 1000 Views of “Girl Singing” and elsewhere. He has three other books, Aurora, submissions, and O (BlazeVOX [books] 2007, 08, 09), and is an editor at Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), Mayday Magazine (online), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).

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    Jared Schickling Zero’s Blooming Excursion 978-1-60964-001-9 "Zero’s Blooming Excursion seems a trans-bifurcation of voice, some cacophonous unity of strange symbols, visual, aural, intellectual, collaborating in the emergence of something deeply spiritual: The awakened human mind dealing with the chaos, projecting the Arabesque patterns of its own movements. If one is to be literate in the realm of Zero’s merged pineal glands, one must make sense of its seams, as much a painting to make sense of (the repeated Chagall) or puzzle to construct (the chemistry and mathematics) as a poem to read, a critifiction seducing its reader into numerous re-reads, each one producing different patterns and forms of pleasure, the very embodiment of Calvino’s ideal of multiplicity. Bizarro science, invisibility cloaking, numerology, Kabbala, lots of trivial news and obscure data (like patent backgrounds), all add up to a paranoid yet valid approach to the cosmos which seems to subvert or counter its own overt nihilism. Schickling’s book is a brilliant success. —Chuck Richardson Zero’s Blooming Excursion has “a hundred mouths,” and each mouth speaks at once. With combinatory precision, Schickling brings a redactive resonance to the face of the page. Erasures zero in on what’s important. Headlines, statistics, equations, weather reports, thought bubbles are more than frames. They are the forms of our common thinking. Reading Zero’s Blooming Excursion is like hovering above one’s own body while living; it’s unsettling ecstasy. Read this book and you’ll “find yourself next to yourself.” —Sasha Steensen This is a book I had to struggle my way through. Often I wondered, what is going on here? Slowly it dawned on me: Jared Schickling has devised a poetics that oprates like an ecology. It is, among other qualities, indifferent to whether I understand it or not—and the poems are no more concerned with what you or I think of them than rocks, moss, lichen, yucca plants, or clouds care whether you admire their shapes or scrape your knee on their sharp edges. I respect that. It’s tough, bracing, and worth the effort. It may take years to catch up to where these poems are taking us. —Andrew Schelling " Jared Schickling’s poetry, criticism, translation, interview, review, collaboration, has been published or is forthcoming in The Argotist, Bombay Gin, Big Bridge, The Café Review, Circumference, ecopoetics, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, KNOCK (2006 Ecolit / Green Art prize), Literary Imagination, Matter Journal, Otoliths, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Word For/Word, the anthology 1000 Views of “Girl Singing” and elsewhere. He has three other books, Aurora, submissions, and O (BlazeVOX [books] 2007, 08, 09), and is an editor at Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), Mayday Magazine (online), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).

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    Zeros Blooming Excursion

    Jared Schickling

    BlazeVOX [books]
    Buffalo, New York

    Zeros Blooming Excursion by Jared Schickling Copyright 2010 Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America Book design by Geoffrey Gatza Cover art, untitled, by Alec Maslowski First Edition ISBN: 978-1-60964-001-9 Library of Congress Control Number 2010906696 BlazeVOX [books] 303 Bedford Ave Buffalo, NY 14216 Editor@blazevox.org

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    Zeros Blooming Excursion


    he loved to address having seen him his new man years which is invisible covered, redacted i fear not what man but found can do unto me

    Old Glory i Fable


    FABLE?

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    note from his Text

    Patrick Lowther.

    The dreadful and curious thing is that men, despoiled and having nothing, must long most for that which they have not and so, out of the intensity of their emptiness imagining they are full, deceive themselves and all the despoiled of the world into their sorry beliefs. It is the spirit that existing nowhere in them is forced into their dreams. The Pilgrims, they, the seed, instead of growing, look black at the world and damning its perfections praise a zero in themselves. Each shrinks from an imagination that severs him from the rest.

    One within a silence where none can speak The war that matters is the war against the imagination some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow for weariness the rest tossed and reeled and danced seemed To do alone the work no one can do alone

    There is no longer any credible way interior, pastoral refuge If reality were not absolute from the annihilations of culture communication would of course be impossible

    contract, follow the money

    OLD GLORY i

    there on the filthy waters

    There was here and there a little knot, and a few stragglers a few yards higher up; but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity, unity, and life of that one busy highway.

    MERGER OF THE PINEAL GLANDS HURON herons nest


    ABOUT THE TIME O THE FIRST

    way o the peer EARS QUOI FIRST wilder roach, way beneath the bottles Would be bogged down in helping WALLEYE CONSIDERED help caked A MARKER
    SILURIAN JUVENILE

    HARVESTs

    port
    OF CLEAR WATER

    E R

    WHERE LAMPREY WERE BEINGPOISONING STAGE


    T = (1/n)(2L/(gd))

    sand jammed GRAPHIC aurora DEPICTING A SUM sands arched along PROPAGATING WAVES the red OPPOSITE DIRECT ions purple and blue
    GLACIERS LEE

    TRAVELING

    FLAG modified for arbitrary depth:

    smelt clap yolks LICKED leaching GULLS near its anus

    helping or

    T = 2(2L /(gTANh(h/L)))

    not helping lays less COSMOGONIC eggs whitish at the beach

    the rod tood rustwave come down ABOUT THE TIME OF THE FIRST HARVESTs Carousel, scaffolding, kid, grass what was olcott nightlife some LODGES deepened IN THE BAY o AN OCEAN BUT THE LAND REBOUNDING RELEASED released high water level undermining break waterthe people pissed their piers BUT THE TILT AMPLIFIES THIS where arrowheads trapped CAUSING LOSS TO PROPERTY OWNERs Other implement steadies
    EFFECTS

    in somerset coalstack yr barges by truck in stock, backyards


    POTENTIAL, EPIPELAGIC t + 2m if amortized BENZAPYRENE O(log n)

    LEAD MIREX MERCURYs GERMs OLDe fart niagaras be wonder theres amish?

    banks
    TETRA

    ARApronounced CHLORID B E

    CARBON E E E

    doych sic MITE

    carried someWEE

    natural seiche rhythm


    GRAPHIC DEPICTING A SUM

    catalyzed cocoon drills FILAMENTOUS


    DANCED

    11

    miNUTEs

    NEWTs ALGAE beached

    smelts
    OM

    banished light break waters ZEBRA help toronto 2 ALL LONG THE SHORE shores peer speck GERONIMO garbage men striking there CLOGGED THE PIPEs BOATs DEAD IN THE DOCK helped its mosquitoes, kingfishers, man deemed no mate wade IN POOLS WHERE THEY BRED now
    MUSCLE

    constraintsseen from barker

    nor a diner that survives dreams coffee, French coalstack freed om no dream fry a barge enters the lake special Can pay a tax
    SOMERSET

    witnessing every day permit billow in sun parts of a process of the 9 hours away, alien ginkgo leaf abounds fad for sidewalks 3

    America soon plucked the bird of the spirit. America soon killed the belief in the spirit. But not the practice. The practice continued with a sarcastic vehemence. America, with a perfect inner contempt for the spirit and the consciousness of man, practices the same spirituality and universal love and knowing all the time, incessantly, like a drug habit. And inwardly gives not a fig for it. Only for the sensation. The pretty-pretty sensation of love, loving all the world. And the nice fluttering aeroplane sensation of knowing, knowing, knowing. Then the prettiest of all sensations, the sensation of understanding. Oh, what a lot they understand, the darlings! So good at the trick, they are. Just a trick of self-conceit.

    old glory zeros blooming excursion

    Of course, the best part of the game lay in keeping up pure appearances. 2001

    LITTLE DREAM OF WEDDINGS ALREADY PERFORMED 4

    exchanging of 2 borrowed pens rung oak trees rope wit native ink plucked paper corn no railroad through such ground germans and dutch farmed apple seeds vic the noisy digger hence we names change brought we here todays judge all love beer ostensible as early morning iron bolts. in the oak hence bushels horses corral skies radiate from the lake like own falls, refurbished chilean cider arc, several white seats breaking bassinet

    after 27 years Betty Rubble debuts Flintstone vitamin; Curaeao gaining limited form of self rule Status Aparte; U.S. budget crisis fourth month; Clinton approves resumption of many government operations; Father opens Criterion Theater New York City 52 performances; coach Don Shula announcing retirement; Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs. WI Gabba; $65.2 million British lottery 3 winners 2-3-4-13-42-44; 16th United Negro College Fund raising $12,600,000; Crazy after You closes Shubert Theater New York City 1622 performances; blizzard buries eastern U.S. at least 50 deaths; 1st time in 25 years no one elected to Baseball Hall of Fame; Israel frees some Palestinians; Chile signs treaty with UK and Northern Ireland for the Promotion and Protection of Investments with Protocol amidst ongoing disputes over Antarctica land claims while Iron Maiden plays live; Spanish court indicts General Augusto Pinochet; Jimmy Johnson announcing a new coach Miami Dolphins; Space Shuttle STS-72 Endeavour 10 launches; Russian troops arriving in Bosnia to joint U.S. operations; Holiday closes Circle in Square Theater New York City 49 performances; Liselotte Neumann Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions; Swinging On a Star closes Music Box Theater New York City 97 performances; baseball owners unanimously approving inter-league play; Lisa Marie Presley New York divorcing Michael Jackson; NHL approving Winnipeg Jets move to Phoenix; 46th NHL All-Star Game East beats West 5-4 Fleet Center Boston; Australia defeats Sri Lanka 2-0 World Series Cup; U.S. Female Figure Skating Michelle Kwan; WPAT FM New York City radio station switching to English-Spanish; 53rd Golden Globes Mel Gibson Nicole Kidman John Travolta; Karrie Webb LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament; U.S. male Figure Skating Rudy Galindo; Chris Cairns scores 120 96 balls 10x4 9x6 Test New Zealand vs. Zim; Senate ratifies major arms reduction treaty; Les Miserables opens Music Hall Theatre Duisburg; 15 day-old siamese twins separated; Sarah Morales survives Sarahi dies; 70th Australian Womens Tennis Open Monica Seles beats Anke Huber 64 61; Catherine Roskam 1st New York female Episcopal bishop; France nuclear testing Muruora Island; Germany 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day; Shiv Chanderpaul scoring 303 Guyana vs. Jamaica Kingston; 84th Australian Mens Tennis Boris Becker beats M. Chang 62 64 26 62; Hello Dolly! closes Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City 118 performances; Super Bowl XXX Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 Tempe Arizona; Super Bowl MVP; France ending nuclear tests; 23rd American Music Award Garth Brooks; 6,138th performance Cats London surpassing Broadways longest-running A Chorus Line; last day Test cricket for David Boon

    on leave, between deployments

    73 dead Sri Lankan suicide bombing; Ali Landry 22 Louisiana 45th Miss USA; NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 20-13; Heidi Fleiss beginning 7 year jail sentence; NFL Cleveland allows Art Modell to move franchise to Baltimore; leaves Browns name behind; WYNY-FM New York City changing calls to WKTU-FM; IBMs Deep Blue defeats Gary Kasparov; 46th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 129-118 San Antonio Texas; Howard Stern will be making film Private Parts; Iroquois Bancorp wont disclose $1.1 million pre-tax loss on the sale of certain classified commercial mortgage loans; Rent opens off-Broadway; Yankee Energy sells its interest in Iroquois Pipeline; Gary Kirsten 188 for South Africa vs. UAE Rawalpindi; 1st full ODI for Netherlands Cricket World Cup vs. New Zealand; Nolan Clarke ODI debut Netherlands age 47; 1st full ODI for Kenya Cricket World Cup vs. India; Daytona 500; Tendulkar 127 Indias Cricket World Cup vs. Kenya; Howard Stern Radio Show premieres York Pennsylvania WQXA 105.7 FM; Soyuz TM-23 launches orbit; Halle Berry divorcing David Justice; Bus Stop opens Circle in Square Theater New York City 29 performances; STS-75 Columbia 19 launches orbit; Mark Waugh 130 World Cup vs. Kenya; 207 with brother Steve; Rajindra Dhanraj taking 9-97 for Trinidad vs. Leeward Islands; Cuba downs 2 U.S. planes; Meg Mallon LPGA Cup o Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open; Father closes Criterion Theater New York City 52 performances; Rajindra Dhanraj taking 16-167 for Trinidad vs. Leeward Islands; Mark Waugh 126 World Cup vs. India; 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morisette; Kenya defeats West Indies all out 93 Cricket World Cup

    UN EMPLOYED SKY PEOPLE brutality every thing alarms, begin the news.
    KARAHKWA YOTAHALA 5

    explodes under the sun during the day a voice his own grackles under the stars night sleep neighbors TEHALIHWKHWA such times GE:GENH for in earth which hed like whose bowels trees round whose heart, deliver eye 35 neighbors
    RANW:RH VERMONT, RATKHTHUHS

    neighbors

    neighbor

    for the goodness

    farts quiet

    2001, thinking back, that one busy highway the myth itselfs its footnote

    as the mouse sun off moon lit SKA

    technological centers of earth else it cant awake one phalluss 35 VERMONT (big window) To convert to a dawns approach a bug caught in its webs screen convert dawn

    still cracking Windowsills (threshold never counts to go out (YOTAHALA. KARAHKWA. nor hes in his dreams if not for the sun of the day, Lockports Work, could have been visible not for profit thereby hed zip his pants CHR or GS were stalling He takes up its razor now combing, his head OJI:TGWA: were stalling UCHITKWHNEH

    HO:NHGWEH AGO:NHGWEH

    fogged like something burns star, dim, effect 35 VERMONT (its little

    HATNOTHA

    + mirror

    dice May YAKUKW round this mornings belly hell return to this later -ish, showers DELPHI (bankrupt)(scabs) INC ensuing world, not my job 6 like most wages insides, dont ruin it reflecting on the neighbors unfairly
    J:STA:

    reasonable, confidence electroencephalography 7

    I:SE:K

    (swallowing. catatonia.)

    6 7

    constraintas housed in lockport at Olympia, tomorrows Phidias looks, measures, preparing, lowercasecontracted, subtext, (sculpted, plastic) of the Golden Ratio, uppercase

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