Synopsis
This book is a collection of poems which are lucid, compelling, and endowed with astonishing authority.
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About the Author
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1955, Raphael Rubinstein grew up isn Tucson and the San Francisco Bay area and attended Bennington College. Limited editions of his writing include The Scale of Commodes (1990 illus. Enrico Baj) and Poste Restante (1992, illus. Shirley Jaffe). The Basement of the Cafe Rilke is his first collection of poems. A volume of his selected art criticism is forthcoming in French translation from L'Harmattan (Paris). His first volume of prose, Postcards from Alphaville (1999) is available from Hard Press. He lives in New York City where he works as a senior editor of Art in America
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Foreseeing the false posture may be admirable
but who will there be to admire it
if all that such self-policing cultivates
are explanatory legends whose map was never drawn
Should we look forward then to a tomorrow
of vacation from punctilious demeanor,
to an unshaven embrace, a sloppy kiss,
a song we can count on being remembered?
Better perhaps to gain neutral ground,
adopting a lingua franca whose forthright cadences
rule out both distrust and trust,
a face never witdely known.
Days pass in a proliferation of visas
as something insists on staying visible,
infiltrated into the dissimilar world
it had once shadowed at a different distance.
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