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Adam Fieled

From Jacket Magazine Otoliths OnBarcelona No Tell Motel Nth Position the

Argotist Eyewear wood s lot

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ADAM FIELED

Adam Fieled is a poet critic and musician currently based in Philadelphia He has released threeprint books Opera Bufa (Otoliths 2007) When You Bit (Otoliths 2008) and Chimes (Blazevox2009) as well as numerous e-books chaps and e-chaps

SONG FOR MARIA

My scarlet letter let you inWe rallied on our separate bedsThe way to blue was flushed w ice

Your tongue possesses everythingmdash

(lighten mywatch my

blow my)

In any case the case is closedWe walk the streets a trackless train

My verdant prayer is yr own skinI canrsquot believe Irsquom free againmdash

Relaxmdash

Ice yr drinkmdash

Thinkmdash

Pursue a purpose lost in flameBecome the scum you dote on crab

The sky the ground the square you areThe realm of flesh is one long purgemdash

Mercy mercy mercyMercy mercy

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To John Tranter after reading Late Night Radio amp debbie

jaffeby Adam Fieled

[ poetry - august 06 ]

To John Tranter after reading Late Night Radio

Why write embittered by

black days You could scout the

sun rise sip coffee No ones picking

at your liver no heroic feats need

doing Noon could be pure gravy

nothing need not be filled w more

nothing All thats in the files

stays in the files all thats gone

brackish is in the ocean now

Whats not cream isnt vinegar

It could be iced coffee not Starbucks

debbie jaffe

amp that i must caesar arms curd

went down found mice shelf armor

machine wasp it up amp up amp up real

member a machine then head shot

she said she said feel linger cant

belly caesar belly debit giraffe red-headed purge to null urge two pull

eye belly belie ( )

Article copyright 2006 Adam Fieled

Site copyright 2003 nthpositioncom

design by terrene

day songby Adam Fieled

[ poetry - april 06 ]

amp this reflexivity right now how it bounds

how we are the sum total of our limitations

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we catch glimpses whats in the catching

whats beyond behind between purple fear

bodies randomly chosen for different reasons

dreams of form charades too bad but

always the knowledge if we are lucky of

scattered constellations in the world chewable

fragments progress only in patches must Do

Article copyright 2006 Adam Fieled

Site copyright 2003 nthpositioncom

design by terrene

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F r i d a y 2 5 J u l y 2 0 0 8

Poem by Adam Fieled

E yewear is glad to welcome Adam Fieled this FridayHe has released two books Opera Bufa (Otoliths 2007) and Beams (Blazevox 2007) Two books areforthcoming When You Bit from Otoliths this August and Chimes from Blazevox in 2009

For Dawn

As she held scissors stabbed my chairsLeft a hole for no good reason cause ICouldnrsquot say no that she is so darling this She knows as I blow smoke and her face wasAnd is unreachable a kind of moon a frightA graveyard orphanrsquos tired lament for a kindOf nakedness she wonrsquot allow not to me Though we tried my hands on her stomachTeeth bared it was that kind of holocaustAfternoon sunlight slanting onto the porch herMug some semblance of calm I jumped a yardThinking Irsquod won her at last

And so the table unfolds before usAshtray eye-beams and saucer-eyed sentences

Coats put on for the chill November windThat reaches around a kind of strong-armedCurse an anti-benediction as if some ruddyPope put a backwards rhyme on our spoons soThat nothing could ever be born from this trystBut a moon-child cast up into the stratosphereWithout reason for leaving the ground

Poem by Adam Fieled

Posted by Todd Swift at 941 am

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Back of a Car

Adam Fieled

Asinine as is this ass isass I zip down into zero

anal a null a void this is

Irsquom behind a behind that

sits smoking rubbing pink-tipped tender butt button

She watches me watching as

I go brown-nose in another

Only her car-ness averted by

eyes to a wall seems happyOnly she can stomach rubs

of the kind that want plugsSparked tank here comes

no come amp aggravation

Big Black CarAdam Fieled

Your middle tongue

(hers) man (me) riding

together I bitch (middlersquos middle) I tongue man

you her spacious it of you all of us canrsquot feel

a nothing I canrsquot Not

of this of you of herof all of this riding inwhat looks big black

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has tongue-room I

canrsquot feel a thing I feel

nothing of bigness black

fur interior her you Ride

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Adam Fieled

Sex and Nihilism

I was thinking as I listened to her

about Byronrsquos relentless nihilism

that only found out in intoxication

any kind of remedy for the things

she was telling me about abortions

and rapes and how no I wonrsquot go

home with you and how Byron

alone among the Romantics dealt

overtly with sex not just love like

Shelley or fantasy like Keats or

like Wordsworth the dull sheep

(of course Blake did too that creep)

and all the blokes in the bar were

staring at green eyes red hair

bust you know the kind that blokes

will stare at and I thought Byron

really caught something a seed a

kernel of what Nietzsche ran away

with I said please run away with

me and she laughed looked down

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has tongue-room I

canrsquot feel a thing I feel

nothing of bigness black

fur interior her you Ride

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Adam Fieled

Sex and Nihilism

I was thinking as I listened to her

about Byronrsquos relentless nihilism

that only found out in intoxication

any kind of remedy for the things

she was telling me about abortions

and rapes and how no I wonrsquot go

home with you and how Byron

alone among the Romantics dealt

overtly with sex not just love like

Shelley or fantasy like Keats or

like Wordsworth the dull sheep

(of course Blake did too that creep)

and all the blokes in the bar were

staring at green eyes red hair

bust you know the kind that blokes

will stare at and I thought Byron

really caught something a seed a

kernel of what Nietzsche ran away

with I said please run away with

me and she laughed looked down

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20090327

Adam Fieled

Sex and Nihilism

I was thinking as I listened to her

about Byronrsquos relentless nihilism

that only found out in intoxication

any kind of remedy for the things

she was telling me about abortions

and rapes and how no I wonrsquot go

home with you and how Byron

alone among the Romantics dealt

overtly with sex not just love like

Shelley or fantasy like Keats or

like Wordsworth the dull sheep

(of course Blake did too that creep)

and all the blokes in the bar were

staring at green eyes red hair

bust you know the kind that blokes

will stare at and I thought Byron

really caught something a seed a

kernel of what Nietzsche ran away

with I said please run away with

me and she laughed looked down

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into her beer and was finished

Adam Fieled is a poet musician and critic based currently in Philadelphia He has

released three print books Opera Bufa (Otoliths 2007) When You Bit (Otoliths

2008) and Chimes (Blazevox 2009) several chaps e-chaps and e-books as well He

edits the web-journal PFS Post and the blog Stoning the Devil and is a University Fellow

and PhD candidate at Temple University in Philadelphia where he teaches

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1 C O M M E N T S

Chris said

Adam I really like this This is really good work It fucking has your heart in it I really like it a lot

It speaks to the gut

-Chris

738 PM

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POET-EDITORS 16

Adam Fieled

Adam Fieled is a poet currently based in Philadelphia He has released three print

books Opera Bufa (Otoliths 2007) When You Bit(Otoliths 2008) and

Chimes (Blazevox 2009) and many chaps e-books and e-chaps His work has

appeared in journals like Tears in the Fence Upstairs at Duroc Jacket Great

Works the Argotist and in the ampNow Anthology from Lake Forest College Press

A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania he also holds an

MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University where he is

finishing his PhD

What is (or has been) your favorite editing project and why

My favorite editing project has been the series of Waxing Hot dialogues Ivedone on PFS Post with poets like Gabriel Gudding Robert Archambeau Barry

Schwabsky Steve Halle Amy King Lars Palm and Michael Tod Edgerton

Working with Gabe Gudding in particular was a tremendous challenge and an

honor and several of this series have been re-published in the UK print journal

Tears in the Fence

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On the Possibilities of Multi-Media Readings

In 2004 and 2005 a group of young artists who called themselves the Philly Free

School staged a series of performances at the Highwire Gallery in the now-

demolished Gilbert Building on Cherry Street Philadelphia The stated goal of these performances was ldquomulti-mediardquo as such they involved poetry music

fiction films and different hybridmutant versions of these What I want to

address specifically is the poetry aspect of these performances These seem

relevant to me now because multi-media presentations of poetry are to many

significantly more interesting than standard poetry readings which are (I would

argue) an impoverished form of public expression What constitutes the

impoverishment of poetry readings as public art events Letrsquos put the question in

different terms what does a poetry reading offer an average audience

An audience at a standard poetry reading is offered an anti-spectaclemdash a single

man or woman reading from sheets or a book often looking down at this book

while intermittently gazing up at his or her audience Why look at something or

someone static and (for the most part) inexpressive This is the first level of

impoverishment Then as to the contents of poems read in a public context are

most poems compelling enough as works of literature to merit public airing

The truth is that most serious poems do not read that well out loudmdash poems(good ones) contain enormous amounts of compressed data which necessitates

slow ocular engagement Lines that need to be read three or four times to be

properly processed pass with such rapidity in a reading context that they might

as well be Greek as English Moreover attendees have two optionsmdash to make an

earnest attempt to understand things instantly or to drift off into reverie The

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latter has consistently been my choice (and I have fortunately or unfortunately

sat through dozens of readings)

But the Philly Free School artists (of which I was one) started from the

presupposition that poetry could be mixed with Artaud that public poetry is in

fact better as a side-dish than as a main course and that the possibilities of

ldquospectaclesrdquo were (and remain) more exciting than more conventional poetry

contexts As such the Philly Free School shows (which were well-attended but

received little media coverage) presented in general little in the way of

conventional poetry performances poetry was mixed with video and music to

create novel effects I was proud to contribute to these performances because

they had not only young energies but principles behind them While I would not

deny that results were mixed (some ideas came off some did not) I have yet to

see another concentrated attempt to make poetry multi-media in a public forum

We were using artful language as texture the way a painter might use

brushstrokes and an inquiry into this usage (language-as-texture) revealed

untapped possibilities as regards making poetry interesting to audiences who

may or may not find poetry interesting to begin with

When language is used as texture as a constituent part of a spectacle that also

includes sound and images the audience (ideally) feels itself immersed or

engulfed in a dynamic collage as such this kind of performance is an extension

of the Modernist ethos Fractured things can be more compelling than wholes

this was one tenet that motivated Pound Eliot and the rest For an audience

sitting in a darkened room (and the Highwire offered two main spaces a

conventional gallery space and a warehouse space) this sense of brokenness

could be interpreted many ways but the essential thing for us was to present

something that was dynamic rather than static The most elaborate of these

presentations involved music images and poetry at once while it would be

reasonable to question whether the total effect was bombastic or not the

responses we received encouraged us to believe that what we were doing was

significantly more exciting than an average poetry performance Live poetry I

would argue only works as texture to begin with it is in the mix of things that

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live poetry comes alive In the specific performances that I was personally

involved with I did in fact read entire poems if I had it to do over again I

would not It would have been substantially more appropriate to read fragments

or even to improvise The video collages were put together from foreign movies

Internet music video and photography bits The musical elements alone were

entirely improvised Although I am proud of what the Philly Free School

accomplished it was merely a beginning Thinking about it now we could have

been much more rigorous Our ideas of spectacle were naiumlve and needed

development

What would a completely successful poetry spectacle in the Artaudian sense

look like Artaud of course became famous for his ideaideal of the Theater of

Cruelty a spectacle that confronts an audience with its own mortality in an

unflinching persistent way What kind of poetry fragments could add textually

to such a spectacle It seems to me that the poetry would have to be written

specifically in conjunction with specifically for the music and the images They

would have to function in other words dramatically as carriers of a certain kind

of drama just as dialogue in a theater production does What can poetry

contribute that mere dialogue cannot Poetry has in its arsenal a capacity for

incantatory power that dialogue does not an ability to build to create rhythms

melodies and cadences that dialogue cannot Anaphora is one method by which

this kind of fragment could work rhyme is another This is texture that creates

stimulation with other elements the potentiality for genuine spectacle cohesive

spectacle (rather than naiumlve haphazard spectacle) arises As to what the spectacle

addresses there is no real limitation other than the impulse to compel attention

hold it and overwhelm at once Certainly the apocalyptic conflicts in the Middle

East our flagging domestic economy and the status of the environment are all

fertile (pardon my irony) ground

Then there are things standing in the way of this kind of spectacle time and

budgets are big ones Many poets just skirt insolvency serious spectacle

(unfortunately) often involves serious funds The Philly Free School were lucky

with this more so than we realized the Highwire let us use the space for free

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(though they took a cut of the door) But to come up with ample space time and

funds is a real challenge which cannot be solved overnight It may come down to

a collective like the Philly Free School to make this happen if it does ever

happen To my mind it would be a tragedy if it does not There are in general

too few poetry readings that have any capacity to stimulate and too many that

wind up being ldquosnooze-festsrdquo The irony for one working in an experimental

context is that avant-garde poetry readings tend to be even more boring than

mainstream onesmdash abstruse poetry out loud which shuns narrative is more

difficult to follow and often registers as little better than gibberish But I will

simply say for myself that the desire to create a genuine spectacle with poetry

has not perished and I hope other kindred spirits are ldquowaiting in the wingsrdquo

Next Poet-Editor Thomas Fink

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latter has consistently been my choice (and I have fortunately or unfortunately

sat through dozens of readings)

But the Philly Free School artists (of which I was one) started from the

presupposition that poetry could be mixed with Artaud that public poetry is in

fact better as a side-dish than as a main course and that the possibilities of

ldquospectaclesrdquo were (and remain) more exciting than more conventional poetry

contexts As such the Philly Free School shows (which were well-attended but

received little media coverage) presented in general little in the way of

conventional poetry performances poetry was mixed with video and music to

create novel effects I was proud to contribute to these performances because

they had not only young energies but principles behind them While I would not

deny that results were mixed (some ideas came off some did not) I have yet to

see another concentrated attempt to make poetry multi-media in a public forum

We were using artful language as texture the way a painter might use

brushstrokes and an inquiry into this usage (language-as-texture) revealed

untapped possibilities as regards making poetry interesting to audiences who

may or may not find poetry interesting to begin with

When language is used as texture as a constituent part of a spectacle that also

includes sound and images the audience (ideally) feels itself immersed or

engulfed in a dynamic collage as such this kind of performance is an extension

of the Modernist ethos Fractured things can be more compelling than wholes

this was one tenet that motivated Pound Eliot and the rest For an audience

sitting in a darkened room (and the Highwire offered two main spaces a

conventional gallery space and a warehouse space) this sense of brokenness

could be interpreted many ways but the essential thing for us was to present

something that was dynamic rather than static The most elaborate of these

presentations involved music images and poetry at once while it would be

reasonable to question whether the total effect was bombastic or not the

responses we received encouraged us to believe that what we were doing was

significantly more exciting than an average poetry performance Live poetry I

would argue only works as texture to begin with it is in the mix of things that

7282019 Singles 2005-2013

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live poetry comes alive In the specific performances that I was personally

involved with I did in fact read entire poems if I had it to do over again I

would not It would have been substantially more appropriate to read fragments

or even to improvise The video collages were put together from foreign movies

Internet music video and photography bits The musical elements alone were

entirely improvised Although I am proud of what the Philly Free School

accomplished it was merely a beginning Thinking about it now we could have

been much more rigorous Our ideas of spectacle were naiumlve and needed

development

What would a completely successful poetry spectacle in the Artaudian sense

look like Artaud of course became famous for his ideaideal of the Theater of

Cruelty a spectacle that confronts an audience with its own mortality in an

unflinching persistent way What kind of poetry fragments could add textually

to such a spectacle It seems to me that the poetry would have to be written

specifically in conjunction with specifically for the music and the images They

would have to function in other words dramatically as carriers of a certain kind

of drama just as dialogue in a theater production does What can poetry

contribute that mere dialogue cannot Poetry has in its arsenal a capacity for

incantatory power that dialogue does not an ability to build to create rhythms

melodies and cadences that dialogue cannot Anaphora is one method by which

this kind of fragment could work rhyme is another This is texture that creates

stimulation with other elements the potentiality for genuine spectacle cohesive

spectacle (rather than naiumlve haphazard spectacle) arises As to what the spectacle

addresses there is no real limitation other than the impulse to compel attention

hold it and overwhelm at once Certainly the apocalyptic conflicts in the Middle

East our flagging domestic economy and the status of the environment are all

fertile (pardon my irony) ground

Then there are things standing in the way of this kind of spectacle time and

budgets are big ones Many poets just skirt insolvency serious spectacle

(unfortunately) often involves serious funds The Philly Free School were lucky

with this more so than we realized the Highwire let us use the space for free

7282019 Singles 2005-2013

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(though they took a cut of the door) But to come up with ample space time and

funds is a real challenge which cannot be solved overnight It may come down to

a collective like the Philly Free School to make this happen if it does ever

happen To my mind it would be a tragedy if it does not There are in general

too few poetry readings that have any capacity to stimulate and too many that

wind up being ldquosnooze-festsrdquo The irony for one working in an experimental

context is that avant-garde poetry readings tend to be even more boring than

mainstream onesmdash abstruse poetry out loud which shuns narrative is more

difficult to follow and often registers as little better than gibberish But I will

simply say for myself that the desire to create a genuine spectacle with poetry

has not perished and I hope other kindred spirits are ldquowaiting in the wingsrdquo

Next Poet-Editor Thomas Fink

Back to Poet-Editor index

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live poetry comes alive In the specific performances that I was personally

involved with I did in fact read entire poems if I had it to do over again I

would not It would have been substantially more appropriate to read fragments

or even to improvise The video collages were put together from foreign movies

Internet music video and photography bits The musical elements alone were

entirely improvised Although I am proud of what the Philly Free School

accomplished it was merely a beginning Thinking about it now we could have

been much more rigorous Our ideas of spectacle were naiumlve and needed

development

What would a completely successful poetry spectacle in the Artaudian sense

look like Artaud of course became famous for his ideaideal of the Theater of

Cruelty a spectacle that confronts an audience with its own mortality in an

unflinching persistent way What kind of poetry fragments could add textually

to such a spectacle It seems to me that the poetry would have to be written

specifically in conjunction with specifically for the music and the images They

would have to function in other words dramatically as carriers of a certain kind

of drama just as dialogue in a theater production does What can poetry

contribute that mere dialogue cannot Poetry has in its arsenal a capacity for

incantatory power that dialogue does not an ability to build to create rhythms

melodies and cadences that dialogue cannot Anaphora is one method by which

this kind of fragment could work rhyme is another This is texture that creates

stimulation with other elements the potentiality for genuine spectacle cohesive

spectacle (rather than naiumlve haphazard spectacle) arises As to what the spectacle

addresses there is no real limitation other than the impulse to compel attention

hold it and overwhelm at once Certainly the apocalyptic conflicts in the Middle

East our flagging domestic economy and the status of the environment are all

fertile (pardon my irony) ground

Then there are things standing in the way of this kind of spectacle time and

budgets are big ones Many poets just skirt insolvency serious spectacle

(unfortunately) often involves serious funds The Philly Free School were lucky

with this more so than we realized the Highwire let us use the space for free

7282019 Singles 2005-2013

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(though they took a cut of the door) But to come up with ample space time and

funds is a real challenge which cannot be solved overnight It may come down to

a collective like the Philly Free School to make this happen if it does ever

happen To my mind it would be a tragedy if it does not There are in general

too few poetry readings that have any capacity to stimulate and too many that

wind up being ldquosnooze-festsrdquo The irony for one working in an experimental

context is that avant-garde poetry readings tend to be even more boring than

mainstream onesmdash abstruse poetry out loud which shuns narrative is more

difficult to follow and often registers as little better than gibberish But I will

simply say for myself that the desire to create a genuine spectacle with poetry

has not perished and I hope other kindred spirits are ldquowaiting in the wingsrdquo

Next Poet-Editor Thomas Fink

Back to Poet-Editor index

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(though they took a cut of the door) But to come up with ample space time and

funds is a real challenge which cannot be solved overnight It may come down to

a collective like the Philly Free School to make this happen if it does ever

happen To my mind it would be a tragedy if it does not There are in general

too few poetry readings that have any capacity to stimulate and too many that

wind up being ldquosnooze-festsrdquo The irony for one working in an experimental

context is that avant-garde poetry readings tend to be even more boring than

mainstream onesmdash abstruse poetry out loud which shuns narrative is more

difficult to follow and often registers as little better than gibberish But I will

simply say for myself that the desire to create a genuine spectacle with poetry

has not perished and I hope other kindred spirits are ldquowaiting in the wingsrdquo

Next Poet-Editor Thomas Fink

Back to Poet-Editor index

previous page contents next page

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Jacket 40 mdash Late 2010

Jacket 40Contents

JacketHomepage

SearchJacket

This piece is about 2 printed pages longIt is copyright copy Adam Fieled and Jacket magazine 2010 See

our [raquoraquo] Copyright noticeThe Internet address of this page is

httpjacketmagazinecom40fieled-from-apparitionshtml

Adam Fieled

poems from Apparition Poems

1345

Two hedgerows with a little path

between mdash to walk in the path like

some do as if no other viable route

exists to make Gods of hedgerows

that make your life tiny is a sin of

some significance in a world where

hedgerows can be approached from

any side mdash I said this to a man who

bore seeds to an open space and he

nodded to someone else and whistled

an old waltz to himself in annoyance

1476

Days follow days off cliffs mdash

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do these things we do have

any resonance do they rise

into the ether or are they to

be ground down into pulp briefly making earth sodden

then dissipated dust scatteredover plains too vast blastedwith winds rains storms to

be counted or harvested

1480

How horrendous to realize thereare people in the world with no

soul walking zeros hollow spaces

dead end interiors permanentlyfrozen faculties how horrendous

to watch how they borrow words

of others to sound profound but

each echo reveals therersquos nothing behind it but the kind of charred

silence that comes after a corpse

is burnt mdash how horrendous howit makes some of us cling to what

we feel how we feel that we feel

and that everything we feel is so

precious specifically (and only) because it is felt and stays felt

Adam Fieled second from left

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Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia Hehas released three print books Opera Bufa (Otoliths 2007) When You Bithellip (Otoliths 2008)and Chimes (Blazevox 2009) as well as numerouschaps e-chaps and e-books including Posit (DusiePress 2007) Beams (Blazevox 2007) and The

White Album (ungovernable press 2009) He haswork in journals including Tears in the FenceGreat Works The Argotist Upstairs at Duroc CakeTrain and in the ampNow Awards anthology fromLake Forest College Press A magna cum laudegraduate of the University of Pennsylvania he alsoholds an MFA from New England College and an MAfrom Temple University where he is completinghis PhD

Copyright Notice Please respect the fact that all material in Jacketmagazine is copyright copy Jacket magazine and the individual authorsand copyright owners 1997ndash2010 it is made available here withoutcharge for personal use only and it may not be stored displayedpublished reproduced or used for any other purpose

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Adam Fieled Best of Sampler

1345

Two hedgerows with a little pathbetweenmdash to walk in the path like

some do as if no other viable routeexists to make Gods of hedgerowsthat make your life tiny is a sin of some significance in a world wherehedgerows can be approached fromany sidemdash I said this to a man whobore seeds to an open space and he

nodded to someone else and whistledan old waltz to himself in annoyance

Adam Fieleds Miscellaneous _______________________

Absurd perspectivesWilliam Hogarth

(10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764)

_______________________

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Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia Hehas released three print books Opera Bufa (Otoliths 2007) When You Bithellip (Otoliths 2008)and Chimes (Blazevox 2009) as well as numerouschaps e-chaps and e-books including Posit (DusiePress 2007) Beams (Blazevox 2007) and The

White Album (ungovernable press 2009) He haswork in journals including Tears in the FenceGreat Works The Argotist Upstairs at Duroc CakeTrain and in the ampNow Awards anthology fromLake Forest College Press A magna cum laudegraduate of the University of Pennsylvania he alsoholds an MFA from New England College and an MAfrom Temple University where he is completinghis PhD

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Adam Fieled Best of Sampler

1345

Two hedgerows with a little pathbetweenmdash to walk in the path like

some do as if no other viable routeexists to make Gods of hedgerowsthat make your life tiny is a sin of some significance in a world wherehedgerows can be approached fromany sidemdash I said this to a man whobore seeds to an open space and he

nodded to someone else and whistledan old waltz to himself in annoyance

Adam Fieleds Miscellaneous _______________________

Absurd perspectivesWilliam Hogarth

(10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764)

_______________________

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Adam Fieled Best of Sampler

1345

Two hedgerows with a little pathbetweenmdash to walk in the path like

some do as if no other viable routeexists to make Gods of hedgerowsthat make your life tiny is a sin of some significance in a world wherehedgerows can be approached fromany sidemdash I said this to a man whobore seeds to an open space and he

nodded to someone else and whistledan old waltz to himself in annoyance

Adam Fieleds Miscellaneous _______________________

Absurd perspectivesWilliam Hogarth

(10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764)

_______________________

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On Barcelona

Wednesday June 20 2012

Adam Fieled

fr The Great Recession

Chinese Water Torture

Chinese water torture thatrsquos how it

is today with these girls these schools

the IRS everyone He thinks this on

his bike as he swerves through the

city streets Last year he got hit broke

his shoulder He was still insured then

Now hersquos forced to just risk it Two

of the other messengers he ldquogrew uprdquo

with are now deceased He scattered

one of their ashes into the Delaware

on Christmas night Then he had his turkey

Fetching

Scabs sores pus mdash thatrsquos all she can think

about as she walks around in circles But

(of course) thatrsquos just my perspective I gave

her what I could (what she needs is money)

So two bodies are sitting in a crowded movie

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theater watching a foreign film about the

lives of terrorists Theyrsquore both tuned out

but have been told the film is excellent by

several reliable sources who consider them

like dogs mdash loyal anxious fetching

Fellating the Pickle

Everyone knows she has about two years

to live The blonde babe who runs shipments

sits smoking at the Esquire Bar with a guy

who still has the rat-tails he had at Cheltenham

How do you behave when you have two

years to live Well you might try making

your body a weapon You might bop around

shaking your hips so that no one might

touch Or fellating the pickle which comes

with your sandwich You might But as you

dance on nothingness someone watching

you is also watching his watch

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On Barcelona

Friday May 31 2013

Adam Fieled

Peanut Butter and Rabies

The aged woman with glasses doing charity work wants some charity herself The nights

at this place have been longmdash the kids get

disgruntled people arenrsquot bringing in as much

food as they used to If itrsquos another peanut

butter and jelly night she has to bear the brunt

All the kids see is a half-empty plate Her

husband wonrsquot come anymoremdash the atmosphere

is too strained The kids she thinks in spite of herself are like a bunch of dogs with rabies

And as she canrsquot tell they think the same of her

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On Barcelona

Friday May 31 2013

Adam Fieled

Peanut Butter and Rabies

The aged woman with glasses doing charity work wants some charity herself The nights

at this place have been longmdash the kids get

disgruntled people arenrsquot bringing in as much

food as they used to If itrsquos another peanut

butter and jelly night she has to bear the brunt

All the kids see is a half-empty plate Her

husband wonrsquot come anymoremdash the atmosphere

is too strained The kids she thinks in spite of herself are like a bunch of dogs with rabies

And as she canrsquot tell they think the same of her

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Every day itrsquos the same routinemdash

a few of these a few puffs of this

or that He reads from the prompter

high as a kite Everything he reads is

as he knows pure nonsense and even

high he canrsquot get comfortable with the

situation Itrsquos all too obviousmdash not

that anyonersquos out there to notice The

perks of local fame arenrsquot much anymore

But they drop the pills and the pot into

his lap to arrange the emptiness and

deadness of things He seems to see

receding into a greasy gray sunset

some notion of an ideal he once had

at least sometimes The smile freezes on

Wet Dream

He walks around in a bilious towering ragemdash

he canrsquot even stand the teenager selling him

cigarettes Nor can he stand the stacks of

newspapers the freezers full of soda the

rows of gum and mints Everything here

was made in a factory as was he only to

find in the last epoch of his life he was

alone the shelf he was on bare but for

him The teenager behind the counter

laughs at this old grump because his

father is even worse who canrsquot afford smokes

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Limekiln Pike

This in-crowd were always going on

escapades After a certain point I told

them they were like a bad show on Fox

She told me later the comment stung

If she really is dead and buried (thatrsquos

what the text said) Irsquom sorry Irsquom sorry

that having a few kids in this economy

killed her off My own version of

deadness re-runs The last time I turned

left onto Limekiln Pike I almost got

hit by a convertible full of kids

Abington Night

I keep imagining Abington at night

The sense in the air is this we canrsquot

be as far down as we are The guy

tending bar here (in this dreamed-

of place) is an old friend His angle

on the world (hersquos been married and

divorced) is satire But satire depends

on people being willing to laugh And

if I still sit in my car in the parking

lot of Abington High leering

at girls I can still laugh at that too

The Dairy Queen on Limekiln Pike

remains the same The girls still like

ice-cream in the summer-time right

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Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia His books include Apparition

Poems Chimes Opera Bufa and Cheltenham His books and press cuttings are

being archived by the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre London

previous page contents next page

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Every day itrsquos the same routinemdash

a few of these a few puffs of this

or that He reads from the prompter

high as a kite Everything he reads is

as he knows pure nonsense and even

high he canrsquot get comfortable with the

situation Itrsquos all too obviousmdash not

that anyonersquos out there to notice The

perks of local fame arenrsquot much anymore

But they drop the pills and the pot into

his lap to arrange the emptiness and

deadness of things He seems to see

receding into a greasy gray sunset

some notion of an ideal he once had

at least sometimes The smile freezes on

Wet Dream

He walks around in a bilious towering ragemdash

he canrsquot even stand the teenager selling him

cigarettes Nor can he stand the stacks of

newspapers the freezers full of soda the

rows of gum and mints Everything here

was made in a factory as was he only to

find in the last epoch of his life he was

alone the shelf he was on bare but for

him The teenager behind the counter

laughs at this old grump because his

father is even worse who canrsquot afford smokes

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Limekiln Pike

This in-crowd were always going on

escapades After a certain point I told

them they were like a bad show on Fox

She told me later the comment stung

If she really is dead and buried (thatrsquos

what the text said) Irsquom sorry Irsquom sorry

that having a few kids in this economy

killed her off My own version of

deadness re-runs The last time I turned

left onto Limekiln Pike I almost got

hit by a convertible full of kids

Abington Night

I keep imagining Abington at night

The sense in the air is this we canrsquot

be as far down as we are The guy

tending bar here (in this dreamed-

of place) is an old friend His angle

on the world (hersquos been married and

divorced) is satire But satire depends

on people being willing to laugh And

if I still sit in my car in the parking

lot of Abington High leering

at girls I can still laugh at that too

The Dairy Queen on Limekiln Pike

remains the same The girls still like

ice-cream in the summer-time right

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Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia His books include Apparition

Poems Chimes Opera Bufa and Cheltenham His books and press cuttings are

being archived by the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre London

previous page contents next page

POSTED BY MARK YOUNG AT 309 PM

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Limekiln Pike

This in-crowd were always going on

escapades After a certain point I told

them they were like a bad show on Fox

She told me later the comment stung

If she really is dead and buried (thatrsquos

what the text said) Irsquom sorry Irsquom sorry

that having a few kids in this economy

killed her off My own version of

deadness re-runs The last time I turned

left onto Limekiln Pike I almost got

hit by a convertible full of kids

Abington Night

I keep imagining Abington at night

The sense in the air is this we canrsquot

be as far down as we are The guy

tending bar here (in this dreamed-

of place) is an old friend His angle

on the world (hersquos been married and

divorced) is satire But satire depends

on people being willing to laugh And

if I still sit in my car in the parking

lot of Abington High leering

at girls I can still laugh at that too

The Dairy Queen on Limekiln Pike

remains the same The girls still like

ice-cream in the summer-time right

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Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia His books include Apparition

Poems Chimes Opera Bufa and Cheltenham His books and press cuttings are

being archived by the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre London

previous page contents next page

POSTED BY MARK YOUNG AT 309 PM

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Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia His books include Apparition

Poems Chimes Opera Bufa and Cheltenham His books and press cuttings are

being archived by the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre London

previous page contents next page

POSTED BY MARK YOUNG AT 309 PM

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