Let It Be Broke
Published on 2. March 2020
134 pages
978-1-945588-62-4 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in Ed Pavlic's Let It Be Broke are ignited by sonic memories-from Chaka Khan on the radio to his teenaged daughter singing "e;Stay"e; at a local cafe-that spark a journey into personal and ontological questions. Pavlic's lyric lines are equal parts introspection and inter-spection, a term he coins for the shared rumination that encourages some collective deep thinking about the arbitrary boundaries that perpetuate racial and geographic segregation and the power of words to transcend those differences. In an epiphanic moment, Pavlic recalls a quote shared by a former teacher as "e;a hammer made of written words,"e; and how he held "e;onto those words / as if they were steel bars and I was dangling over some bright black deepness."e;
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 2016 Summer Equinox (Police State) Revision: John Donne
- i. A What Film
- All Along It Was a Fever
- ii. Documentary Shorts
- Aesthetics: Quixotic Truth Serum
- Boomerang and Yo-Yo and our Denial-Which Might Be More a Refusal-of the Inevitable Criminality of Consciousness
- Achronological, a Chronology
- "Someone's Getting the Best, the Best, the Best of You . . ."
- June 19, 2015, I Remember Driving Through South Carolina, Twice, to Pick Up My Daughter on June 18, 2015
- Subtitles: Love as Social Refraction. "I See You." Or, Evidence that Rihanna Has Been Reading Her Baldwin
- "With Grief With Fury With Action"
- Don't Ask: A Questionnaire
- Instructions for Building an Alternative Fact Assumptions of Which, as We Know, All Arise from the Basic Modern Philosophical Principle: "White is Right"
- Written April 27, 2015, in the Blank Pages at the Back of Bolaño's A Little Lumpen Novelita
- The Rational Limits of Adoration According to Prince Rogers Nelson
- iii. The Interspective Lens
- The Interspective Lens: A Conversation-
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
