Material Girl

Poetry. "The experience of MATERIAL GIRL begins in a field of distinct flowers—poems are ´the flowers of associational thinking,´ as Charles Bernstein teaches—each composition held in its own light, which it produces. Can the experiment ´express our peasant sufferings´? Can the beauty of the language be made to make things clear? ´Material Girl´ and MATERIAL GIRL abide in and arise from these questions, inhabiting them, moving through them, to the point of noticing, transmitting, ´the nation´s wild flowers bow gently // around our waists in the open.´ If the thing is that we have to learn how both to inhabit and escape, adore and destroy—well, now I feel sure that this is the thing, because this is what Laura Jaramillo teaches."—Fred Moten