A Gesamtkunstwerk for My Brother
Joanna Grant
long and lank
[G., f gesamt
it was not
his hair lies
total +kunst-
always like this
along his
werk work of
once I could
unshaven jaw
art.] In
the
have explained
he knots it
aesthetic theory
who Rilke was
he braids it
of Richard Wagner but
now
bedecks it
(1813-83), an ideal there
are
with rubber bands
work of art in
no others
and shining things
which drama,
for him;
chosen for color
music, and other
he is God
and conductivity
performing arts
and congregation
they plug him
are
integrated
and archangel
into the mainline
and each is
and major
where Rilke's
subservient
to prophet;
Teutonic angels
the whole.
is this love then
breathe into him
.
to profane
the names and
Listener
6 Oct.
this solipsistic
numbers of
517/3
Whether
temple with
all living things
Gascoyne saw his
the labels and
this music
poem in the light
dull neutrals
is not for us
of
a Gesamtkunst- of lucidity,
of
creatures of
werk I'm
not
pharmacology?
mud and dust
qualified to say.
Is it love
to
he directs the
.
rend the veil
leaves in
A Supplement to
and raze the
tabernacle choirs
the Oxford English
outer walls?
songs of pure
Dictionary,
vol. I, Is this
love I
light and color
A-G. Ed.
R.W. ask
myself
statues wholly
Birchfield. Oxford:
as I swear out the
sound the word
At the Clarendon
warrant?
all words
Press,
Is this love?
made flesh
1972.
This is love.
Originally published in Volume 3, Offbeat (August 2004).
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