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    Kyle Schlesinger Hello Helicopter 978-1-934289-37-2 "HELLO HELICOPTER *Hello Helicopter*. Or hello *helikos*? As Robert Smithson tells us of his Spiral Jetty film, not so distantly from Kyle Schlesinger’s poetics: “For my film (a film is a spiral made up of frames) I would have myself filmed from a helicopter (from the Greek helix, helikos meaning spiral) directly overhead in order to get the scale in terms of erratic steps."" Much after Clark Coolidge’s own “depositions,” and affinities as disparate as Larry Eigner, Larry Fagin, Frank Kuenstler, Bernadette Mayer, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Ron Silliman and Rosemarie Waldrop in Schlesinger's poetry language bifurcates geo-glyphically forming mantles (veils, plates) for a metapolitics of the person determined by intense logics of sense. Joyrides into exteriority, these lapidary (drilled, mined, refined, chiseled) texts find form in an “everyday” (read: actual!) practice made ambivalent by the twin indiscernible points of paramnesia and paronomasia, rushing upon History and the *instant* where “memory survives necessity,” forging “a fold between these folds / / then helicopter”. “It all comes down to this…”--literally. So dig it! “Fossils have terms of their own” and these poems endlessly propose, so carefully degreed. Thom Donovan " Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, scholar and proprietor of Cuneiform Press. Recent collaborations include a meditation on George Oppen's Of Being Numerous entitled Mantle (Atticus Finch, 2005) with Thom Donovan and a book about stencil graffiti entitled Schablone Berlin (Chax, 2005) with Caroline Koebel. Recent artists' books include Moonlighting and A Book of Closings. He is currently writing on Piero Heliczer, Asa Benveniste and the history and ontology of book burning.

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    Kyle Schlesinger Hello Helicopter 978-1-934289-37-2 "HELLO HELICOPTER *Hello Helicopter*. Or hello *helikos*? As Robert Smithson tells us of his Spiral Jetty film, not so distantly from Kyle Schlesinger’s poetics: “For my film (a film is a spiral made up of frames) I would have myself filmed from a helicopter (from the Greek helix, helikos meaning spiral) directly overhead in order to get the scale in terms of erratic steps."" Much after Clark Coolidge’s own “depositions,” and affinities as disparate as Larry Eigner, Larry Fagin, Frank Kuenstler, Bernadette Mayer, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Ron Silliman and Rosemarie Waldrop in Schlesinger's poetry language bifurcates geo-glyphically forming mantles (veils, plates) for a metapolitics of the person determined by intense logics of sense. Joyrides into exteriority, these lapidary (drilled, mined, refined, chiseled) texts find form in an “everyday” (read: actual!) practice made ambivalent by the twin indiscernible points of paramnesia and paronomasia, rushing upon History and the *instant* where “memory survives necessity,” forging “a fold between these folds / / then helicopter”. “It all comes down to this…”--literally. So dig it! “Fossils have terms of their own” and these poems endlessly propose, so carefully degreed. Thom Donovan " Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, scholar and proprietor of Cuneiform Press. Recent collaborations include a meditation on George Oppen's Of Being Numerous entitled Mantle (Atticus Finch, 2005) with Thom Donovan and a book about stencil graffiti entitled Schablone Berlin (Chax, 2005) with Caroline Koebel. Recent artists' books include Moonlighting and A Book of Closings. He is currently writing on Piero Heliczer, Asa Benveniste and the history and ontology of book burning.

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    Kyle Schlesinger Hello Helicopter 978-1-934289-37-2 "HELLO HELICOPTER *Hello Helicopter*. Or hello *helikos*? As Robert Smithson tells us of his Spiral Jetty film, not so distantly from Kyle Schlesinger’s poetics: “For my film (a film is a spiral made up of frames) I would have myself filmed from a helicopter (from the Greek helix, helikos meaning spiral) directly overhead in order to get the scale in terms of erratic steps."" Much after Clark Coolidge’s own “depositions,” and affinities as disparate as Larry Eigner, Larry Fagin, Frank Kuenstler, Bernadette Mayer, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Ron Silliman and Rosemarie Waldrop in Schlesinger's poetry language bifurcates geo-glyphically forming mantles (veils, plates) for a metapolitics of the person determined by intense logics of sense. Joyrides into exteriority, these lapidary (drilled, mined, refined, chiseled) texts find form in an “everyday” (read: actual!) practice made ambivalent by the twin indiscernible points of paramnesia and paronomasia, rushing upon History and the *instant* where “memory survives necessity,” forging “a fold between these folds / / then helicopter”. “It all comes down to this…”--literally. So dig it! “Fossils have terms of their own” and these poems endlessly propose, so carefully degreed. Thom Donovan " Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, scholar and proprietor of Cuneiform Press. Recent collaborations include a meditation on George Oppen's Of Being Numerous entitled Mantle (Atticus Finch, 2005) with Thom Donovan and a book about stencil graffiti entitled Schablone Berlin (Chax, 2005) with Caroline Koebel. Recent artists' books include Moonlighting and A Book of Closings. He is currently writing on Piero Heliczer, Asa Benveniste and the history and ontology of book burning.

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    Hello Helicopter

    Hello Helico

    pter

    Kyle ScHleSinger

    BlazeVOX Books 2007

    Copyright 2007 by Kyle Schlesinger All rights reserved Cover image: Nate Ethier Losing Face, 20062007 Acrylic on canvas 65 x 50 inches Collection of the artist LCCN: 2007931501 Grateful acknowledgement is made to the publishers of the journals in which the poems gathered in this book first appeared: Ambit, Antennae, Aufgabe, Combo, Conundrum, Drill, filling Station, Muse Apprentice Guild, and There. Moonlighting (2005) appeared as an artists book designed and produced by the author at the Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin Germany. Mantle (2005) was written in collaboration with Thom Donovan and published by Michael Cross Atticus/Finch Chapbooks. Thanks to Gregg Biglieri, Michael Cross, Thom Donovan, Patrick Durgin, Nate Ethier, and Luisa Giugliano.

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    Conversion Experience The precipice beyond the mirage resembles the courtyard in which you are standing. Somewhere someone is painting a name on the shutters. To identify optics Reversible Glossing the gaze. The sound of the latch locks sideways.

    Convex This trance still hollows here. Character in the crawl space shatters. Cups to remove the vertebrae. A stash is a flock for photographs. To convex is a plan of escape. Lattice brittles gray staggers splinters. Gardener dashes through the lawn to sing. To read without recollection is to utter in braille. The face carved into the stone is your own. The seal splits with ease fasting concordance. They enjoy the company of one another. The birthmark on ones back identical to the one that appeared on the others shoulder.

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    Mimesis Oceans radius Corneas A place for boats. The drip before a blush of embarrassment. Dread footfalls Approaching The mirage beyond the precipice resembles the courtyard when you are not here. Im still holding the phone.

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    Tourism Wet commas where pigeons walk conversion stops stuttering forth and back. The weight of the hive inside. Circling ease criture How pastoral to nod off in the shade soaked by sprinklers and precedence. And as the dog dies the sulk of the horizon does too. I am making a picture for a planet. I think Ill call it earth.

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    Ease Is in the elevator taking pictures of the wet comma marks. The shutter speed slows. The pigeons experience bronchial congestion. Karl Marx looks puzzled by the sound of their cough.

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    Discography Add a photograph to the pile. Hold the pinhole camera up to the mirror and let some light in. The birthmark backwards. Retina nerves Repeat Stack the deck.

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    Solitude Today must be a holiday. Come again soon. The trellis must remain pristine. Pink me please. Paint the hedges bright green again. Latch the latch on the corral. The child covered with algae. The coral must be pristine. Its already alabaster.

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    BigFoot: An essay on Abjection

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    The Bulldozer Operators Loose Their Superstition Scene I. August 27, 1958 Jerry Crew is in the wilderness. Standing near a bulldozer. Eradicate a parcel of land. Envelop an atmosphere or fibre. Irrigate the earth. Jerry Crew is in the wilderness standing near a bulldozer. If you wish to save a parcel of land remove a man from his bulldozer. He becomes discontent. Cannot see. Cannot see the separation, fails to distinguish. Distinguish the mantle from the earths core.

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    Cannot think remember without thinking bulldozer. Cannot speak bulldozer without thinking land. I cannot think of you without. Carve a word in the ground. Make a circle of white. Extract from the ther.

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