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Gossamurmur

Gossamurmur

BOOKS, CHAPBOOKS, AND COLLABORATIONS BY ANNE WALDMAN

On the Wing

O My Life!

Giant Night

Baby Breakdown

Memorial Day
(with Ted Berrigan)

No Hassles

The West Indies Poems

Life Notes: Selected Poems

Self Portrait
(with Joe Brainard)

Sun the Blonde Out

Fast Speaking Woman

Journals & Dreams

Shaman/Shamane

Sphinxeries
(with Denyse Du Roi)

Polar Ode
(with Eileen Myles)

Countries
(with Reed Bye)

Cabin

First Baby Poems

Makeup on Empty Space

Invention
(with Susan Hall)

Den Mond in Farbe Sehen

Skin Meat Bones

The Romance Thing

Blue Mosque

Tell Me About It: Poems for Painters

Helping the Dreamer: New & Selected Poems, 1966–1988

Her Story
(with Elizabeth Murray)

Not a Male Pseudonym

Lokapala

Fait Accompli

Troubairitz

Iovis: All Is Full of Jove

Kill or Cure

Iovis II

Kin
(with Susan Rothenberg)

Polemics
(with Anselm Hollo & Jack Collom)

Homage to Allen G.
(with George Schneeman)

Donna Che Parla Veloce

Young Manhattan
(with Bill Berkson)

One Voice in Four Parts
(with Richard Tuttle)

Marriage: A Sentence

Au Lit/Holy
(with Eleni Sikelianos & Laird Hunt)

Zombie Dawn
(with Tom Clark)

Dark Arcana/Afterimage or Glow

In the Room of Never Grieve: New & Selected
Poems, 1985–2003

Fleuve Flâneur
(with Mary Kite & Dave Kite)

Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble

Outrider

Femme Qui Parle Vite

Red Noir

Nine Nights Meditation (with Donna Dennis)

Martyrdom

Manatee/Humanity

Matriot Acts

The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment

Soldatesque/Soldiering (with Noah Saterstrom)

Cry Stall Gaze (with Pat Steir)

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Copyright © Anne Waldman, 2013

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Excerpt from “Book 1” from
Gunslinger
by Edward Dorn. Copyright 1989 Edward Dorn. All rights reserved.
Reprinted by permission of Duke University Press and Jennifer Dunbar Dorn.

Excerpt from
Tao Te Ching
by Lao-Tzu, translated by David Hinton
(Counterpoint Press, 2000). Used by permission.

Page xi
and
141
constitute an extension of this copyright page.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Waldman, Anne, 1945-

  Gossamurmur / Anne Waldman.

pages cm

ISBN: 978-1-101-59277-9

I. Title.

PS3573.A4215G67 2013

811’.54—dc23         2012040614

Designed by Ginger Legato

what are the limits of the body?

for
Akilah Oliver
poet, teacher, catalyst

(1961–2011)

Nevertheless,

It is dangerous to be named

and makes you mortal.

If you have a name

you can be sold

you can be told

by that name leave, or come

you become, in short

a reference, or if bad luck

is large in your future

you might become an institution

which you will then mistake

for defense. I could

now place you

in a column from which

There is No Escape

and down with The Machine

will always recognize you.

Or a bullet might be Inscribed

or I could build a maze

called a social investigation

and drop you in it

your name

into it—

Please! I implored him

you terrify me.

What then, I asked

is my case? looking into

the Odd toed ungulate’s eyes

who had his left leg resting on my shoulder.

The mortal can be described

the Gunslinger finished,

That’s all mortality is

in fact.


Gunslinger
, Edward Dorn

 

 

 

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