Leslie Scalapino Dies at 65

I just heard via facebook that Leslie Scalapino has died, and then I saw that her Wikipedia page has been updated with the same information. Her work was consciously exploratory in ways that, as Charles Bernstein wrote on th eback of her recent selected poems, "take us beyond any dislocating devices."

from Floating Series 2

the crowd

returning when

the man - of their race, though

in the police - he'd

left the van

was immolated by them - on

a field

myself or

a person

aging and dying when

that's seen by

a setting

from - that

of - when

we were young

our

being

that

- as in

the middle

the man - who'd

come

and

with the bud of it

in

her still - when

she had

and - their

sense of the

city - as some

ideal spot

and - where

we're

not going to

be able to live