Chords Philip Huff

Chords Philip HuffRaymond Crump Raymond Crumps poems were first published in The English Intelligencer a hugely influential avant garde worksheet that ran between 1966 and 1968. A chapbook was published by the EEDIN Press, Saint Louis, in 1970. Writing of these early poems J. H. Prynne praised Crumps delicate use of rhyme glances of sound as echoes of place & touch. Part I of Chords selects from this early work. Part II presents 20 new poems, written since 2009.

Haunted by Proust

we find ourselves in a clearing full of pulsing machines

whose floating silks she compares to reading

and takes apart his face in front of a giant mirror

a) a close translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

De poëzie van Liesbeth Lagemaat is meermaals bekroond

Minimal Odes

and always memorable

" Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view

Vertaald en van nawoord voorzien door Jan Mysjkin

then turns the game around with another rule” (Eliot Weinberger)

What others dismiss as broken