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XAM by Ann Bogle
with Lithokons by mIEKAL aND
2005, 28 pages, 8.5x11, b&w $6, color $20. Postage included.
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ISBN 0-9770094-1-0 | ISBN 978-0-9770049-1-1
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When I wrote XAM: Paragraph Series in 1998, I was in those cities and
locations cited in these passages. I see the pieces as related prose
poems. A prose poem, as I have practiced it, is two pages or fewer in
length and uses language, rather than temporal events, as the first
given. Glimpses of action, person (not as in fiction, “character”),
and scene may also appear in them. Prose poems are less calculating
than fiction and less tightly crafted than a short story or short
poem; they are less pre-meditated. Perhaps they are more rhythmic.
—Ann Bogle
from XAM:
The “letter for today” are 26 with unmarked umlauts and accents, the
Minnesota diphthongs we mock while mocking ourselves for talking
Texas. Fringe. The letter for today was “f.” Freezing, friggin’
frigid temperatures. Mittens, hat. Long “a,” sideways: “a”-squat.
The letter for yesterday was “s,”often mistaken for “f” on the
telephone, out of context: “f” as in “Frank” because one would not
say “srank”; “s” as in “Sam” because there is no such thing as
“fam.” We took the fam to the zoo. We forgot to eat this morning, so
we were all fam. Frank Sinatra was the most fam of all the lounge
singers (in a big way). One would not say, “We took the Sam to the
zoo,” or, “We forgot to eat this morning, so we were all Sam.” One
would not say, “Frank Sinatra was the most Sam of all the lounge
singers (in a big way).”
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