{"id":7325,"date":"2021-11-15T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2021-11-16T21:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:54:32","slug":"anthony-mellors-canto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/7325\/anthony-mellors-canto\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Mellors: Canto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The supremely important thing is that we should not lose sight of the poetic reality through being too meticulous in our search for the right interpretation&#8217;.\u00a0\u2013 Umberto Cosmo<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Look, the main thing is that I don\u2019t come a cropper!&#8217; \u2013 J.Lacan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>channeling<br \/>\nconcrete the water<br \/>\nless concrete<br \/>\nadheres<br \/>\nto an aesthetic of failure<br \/>\nthe success of it<br \/>\navoiding downcycle<br \/>\nflanging &amp; print-through<br \/>\ndue to the accumulation of<br \/>\ntramp elements in secondary metals<br \/>\ncascading yet<br \/>\nthe value of the upcycle<br \/>\nwhich remains to be seen<\/p>\n<p>precycle saturation of<br \/>\ndata processing<br \/>\ndelivered straight to your front door<br \/>\nunpatterned circle on the back<br \/>\nthat once held a label<br \/>\nchicken supreme<br \/>\nstill around in timewarp<br \/>\ndiet of paste and weak tea<\/p>\n<p>Ah, Beatrice (Laura)<br \/>\nyellow of the sempiternal rose<br \/>\nKnitting Banksy <em>multum in parvo<\/em><br \/>\nwhat herbs<br \/>\nfor a plague doctor\u2019s beak<\/p>\n<p>that\u2019s what my heart yearns for now<br \/>\nmother\u2019s pride<br \/>\nmore crumbs than bread<br \/>\nstuck in the machine<\/p>\n<p>prevents<br \/>\nparts from moving<br \/>\nto push something with difficulty<br \/>\ninto something else<br \/>\nsliding on bottom algae<\/p>\n<p>if there\u2019s anything around here<br \/>\nyou think you can use. are<br \/>\nyou really an orphan like us?<\/p>\n<p>I am cold &amp;<br \/>\nit <em>does<\/em> feel like winter<\/p>\n<p>we are homeless &amp; work<br \/>\namong strangers<br \/>\nwe are stars, we are nameless<br \/>\nspeaking in cyphers<br \/>\nmirrors mirroring mirrors<\/p>\n<p>the mantra is structure<br \/>\nsubstance, accident, &amp; mode<br \/>\na simple trick to become fluent<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Anthony Mellors specializes in mid-century interiors. Recent written work\u00a0includes\u2019Modernism After Modernism\u2019 in Alex Davis and Lee Jenkins, eds, <em>A History of\u00a0Modernist Poetry<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2015), \u2018Eurydike\u2019 in <em>Snow 7<\/em> (Spring 2019),\u00a0and Steven Hitchins\u2019s <em>Canalchemy<\/em> Microanthology (2019). Excerpts from <em>Winter Journey<\/em>\u00a0appeared in Junction Box 15. Latest project is <em>Red Cills Three: Poems of the 2010s<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Click here to go back to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/7392\/contributors-and-links-to-pages-4\/\">Contributors and Links to Pages 1 &#8211; 4<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canto &#8216;The supremely important thing is that we should not lose sight of the poetic reality through being too meticulous in our search for the right interpretation&#8217;.\u00a0\u2013 Umberto Cosmo &#8216;Look, the main thing is that I don\u2019t come a cropper!&#8217; \u2013 J.Lacan &nbsp; channeling concrete the water less concrete adheres to an aesthetic of failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[64,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/images-2.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1U9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}