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January 17, 2018
 

from “feeld”

 
Jos Charles
Jos Charles reads from "feeld." Recorded for Poem-a-Day, January 17, 2018.

About This Poem

 

“This was the first poem I completed for the project that would become feeld. The effect of the poem was meant to be a kind of stitch-work achieved by juxtaposing concrete references (from Internet speak, phenomenology, technical writing, identity politics, poststructuralist jargons, etc.) within a more compact, plain-spoken syntax. One of the things I was excited by with this project was the poem’s capacity to, rather than define its particulars, blot them out, foregrounding gesture, traces, lines. This forces, at least for me, a stepping back to consider the poem as a placement of competing spaces, material possibilities, and histories, within language, than an argument or conclusion.”
—Jos Charles

 

Jos Charles is the author of feeld, a winner of the National Poetry Series, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in September. Charles resides and works as a tutor in Long Beach, California.

 

 

 

Photo credit: Cybele Knowles  

 

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January Guest Editor: Kaveh Akbar

 

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