Phantom Anthems

Poetry. "Articulations aren't solely linguistic categories; etymologics locates 'articulation' within medical discourse as physiological points of juncture, or, simply put, joints. 'UNBENDING LEGS, agh, I'm getting /awfully / old / & / stands.' Overarticulation, hyper-extending the joints, amplifying the punctures, dislocates language out of its socket, initiating a kind of semantic-arthritic: 'a l w a y s h a p p e i e r.' Grenier's 'scrawl' poems emphasize the function of the fingers and knuckles while writing, occasionally shifting from the right to the left hand: a maximization of hand-writing. It's about time poets found themselves thinking in common with the doctors (from shamanists to William Carlos Williams). Rhetoric is anatomy."—Joshua Schuster