Part 2 of The Grand Piano also very much ‘about’ love. Or maybe even more so. (more than part 1, I mean, although I can’t say that for sure until I look at Part 1 again. I read it in L.A. before falling asleep on Jen Hofer’s living room floor which was the best, I was exhausted though)

Part 2 also very much ‘about’ the formation of a (several) political Subject, a coming-to of the political, and through both Cities – the place a person works and moves around in and, again, the people with whom one is with, in the geo-political landscape, moving through it. The writers one is with.

Steve Benson’s writing on this particularly deft, compact, and LOVELY.

Carla Harryman’s brilliant working through Acker and other things (Frank Stella) ‘about’ Santa Barbara, the gory aggressive experience of having a body, surfing, education, painting, abstraction, ecological disaster. Having that thing where I want to photocopy her section and hand out to oh everybody all day today at least.

The other line percussing throughout – and now I can’t locate where it first appears – “discomfort marked the boundary”

All this fascination and admiration for the project and still prickly about how the story gets told and who talks into the record. There’s no corrective or fix or answer to this (and other, or all the) discomfort, no getting out of being caught in the problem of who tells how and who listens and what gets written in and what gets written out and who controls the Media of Particulars. Collective or not. I mean nobody gets out of that problem but I’m also glad that that these ten books got written anyways. (which is what ‘we’ do, right? “discomfort marked the boundary”)

I confess I’m itchy for Part 3 to arrive. Got me.

March 6, 2007 * 8:40 am

2 Responses to “And we have posted twice.”

1. alli Says:
   March 6th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

   Shoot, I’m itchy for part TWO to arrive. I thought SPD was all cutting edge and stuff?

2. Stephanie Says:
   March 7th, 2007 at 11:01 am

   For some reason (there IS a heaven!) Kit R. sent me what I guess must have been an advance copy??

   It’s SO GOOD. I think 2 is actually ‘better’ than 1, I am on a scare quote roll the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the late nineties…I promise not to do them with my hands in the air, though, in public.

   HEY ALLI LET’S [painted bird lake] it up?

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