Bartleby's Wastebook
by Andrew Zawacki
Book 4 of the Particle Series
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2. vii. 50
Fire this morning in the row houses lining Rector-street. Panic among the police force, smoke still visible, billowing, from further down here at the island’s tip —
— Whoever within those
rooms may be Dying,
or untimely reposed
among the
Decease,
I go with you, my
Innermost, as a Song
engulfed by Singing,
in this world that is not
world Enough
& is not
not
a World
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| Bartleby’s Wastebook |
$7 |
| Particle Series |
$50 |
andrew zawacki is the author of three poetry books—Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia)—and of the chapbooks Arrow’s shadow (Equipage); Georgia (Katalanché), co-winner of the 1913 Prize; Roche limit (tir aux pigeons); in motion from the Meridian, a collaboration with artist Jennifer Schuberth (Dusie Kollektiv); and Masquerade (Vagabond). His work has appeared in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande), Walt Whitman hom(m)age, 2005/1855 (Turtle Point), The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (Iowa), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner), and other anthologies. Coeditor of Verse and a former fellow of the Slovenian Writers’ Association, he edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s new and selected poems, Without Anesthesia, due in fall from Persea. His translation, from the French, of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck. Zawacki teaches at the University of Georgia.