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Satori in ViterboAuthor(s): John ForbesSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Winter, 1998), p. 22Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20154637 .
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SaTORI IN VlTERBO
Ken Bolton's approach to poetry makes any theory of performance
collapse and all serious critical
analysis impossible
?Dorothy Green
Let's make a theory of performance
collapse!
Pegged out on the road,
too old in our T shirts & jeans too young in our suburban respect . . .
"Hey, that's Art!"
"Non respirire" the Italian
X-ray technician sang
& "Don' breathe" the wardsman
whose brother lived in Melbourne
repeated like a chant
& I didn't,
stunned by the mountains
I could see out the window EXACTLY LIKE
the ones they told us were "only schematic"
in early Renaissance painting. That's when I knew
ALL ART IS LITERALLY TRUE & all serious critical analysis has the status of a dumped Mini Cooper
pushed out of the bus
in the penultimate triumphal scene
of Michael Caine & Noel Coward's
THE ITALIAN JOB, smashing down the precipice & bursting into flames,
finally coming to rest in the snow
thousands of feet below.
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