9 Enigmatic Quatrains / 3 Stealth Couplets
1.
the feminine subject &/or
dispossession &/or
the posthuman &/or
are(n’t) we all postracial yet? &/or
the lure of technocracy &/or
freedom to fail &/or
an imaginary racism &/or
the fanaticism of the apocalypse &/or
a biography of ordinary man &/or
the feminine subject &/or
general theory of victims &/or
intellectuals and power &/or
the insurrection of the victim &/or
classification struggles
2.
clint eastwood’s america &/or
spike lee’s america &/or
alfred hitchcock’s america &/or
steven spielberg’s america &/or
martin scorsese’s america &/or
foucault now &/or
derrida now &/or
rancière now &/or
nancy now &/or
xenofeminism &/or
narcocapitalism &/or
why philosophize? &/or
playstation dream world &/or
persons and things
3.
human dignity &/or
dream notes &/or
abstracts and brief chronicles of the time &/or
the feminine subject &/or
old women in bloom &/or
the art of freedom &/or
eve escapes &/or
zero’s neighbor &/or
philosophical introductions &/or
five approaches to communicative reason &/or
the triumph of religion &/or
networks of outrage and hope &/or
search engine society &/or
a history of silence
Copyright © 2021 by Joan Retallack. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on August 30, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.