poems as blueprint-- for monument (akin to Watts Tower in LA) but very playful, constantly interrogating language and its latent possibilities. A blueprint for what might become of language? Or how he envisions it being used? (Drawing the parallel between Watts tower and language, if this is the case-- broken things or things cast aside collected and used to make something 'whole'?) A monument to this created history? "about" Eurydice, Orpheus, KS, biblical imagery (psalms used as found text or written through as 'palms')
Look here at an excerpt from Beam 30, The Garden
...they sing
sense's
struck crystal clarities
to knock the knees
(or scarlet hollyhock, against a near blue sky).
No end of fountains lost among the shrubberies full eye may bare.
Fixed stars
with fireflies jam the lilac.
Much, much detail of color-- and beautiful language ensues. He has a sharp ear (a soft ear? whatever) and his language is punchy-- but not sure what the purpose of this project as a whole is?
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