Poetry to an Exhibition “Dolores Haze Étude” On what inspired Nabokov to write Lolita. By D. Kaufman, from Olaf Nicolai’s “There Is No Place Before Arrival” at Kunsthalle, Vienna. MORE ⟫
Sonnets to Alan Greenspan GEFILTEFISHISM A sonnet in response to Maxwell Flaum’s This Week on Randspan: Origins (2014); a play on the short romance of Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan: "A non-altruistic roll in the hay / Of one (née) Rosenbaum, one future Fed / Rabelais, irrational, laissez-faire / Paraphilic, exuberant: Alan bled..." MORE ⟫
Sonnets to the 95-96 Bulls THE FRUEDIAN LINEUP A sonnet in response to Maxwell Flaum's The Brief Journal of D. Julius K. Rodman: "A definition from chess: ‘Solus Rex’ / Literally means: ‘Lone King’, to infer / That of Un’s case: Napoleon Complex. / A man really obsessed with Steve Kerr..." MORE ⟫
Sonnets to McEnroe IMMOVABLE CONNORS The following sonnet was written as a response to Maxwell Flaum’s essay, The McEnroe Connors Rivalry (a personal tennis Cosmogony): "A racket thrown, expletive deleted / A massacre, graves of ball boys, now slew / The U.S open: Jimmy, defeated /Match isn’t over, they’ll start, anew..." MORE ⟫
sonnets to the berlin philharmonic THE RAPE OF RATTLE A sonnet written as a response to Maxwell Flaum's essay, A Few Remarks on Daniel Barenboim as Iago (2014): "Odysseus kissing Ithaca's ground / Barenboim kissing Rattle’s rear / Their journeys end with a sucking sound / Envy of Iago, the madness of Lear." MORE ⟫
desecrating fine verse Wax Poetic #2: Puncuation I took liberties to molest fine verse, in the spirit of E. E. Cummings. I began by stripping all but a line’s punctuation. MORE ⟫
Seven Parts Ad Hoc Ostensibly Trochaic Octameter Stanzas in Seven Parts Partitioned with Seven-Letter Word Palindromes Aristotle, Dionysius the Areopagite, Saint Paul, Descartes, Wittgenstein. All non-poets. MORE ⟫
quietus est There must be a poem here somewhere Pictures: Pier Paolo Perilli. Words: D. Kaufman. MORE ⟫
DEPT. of 240240 Random Sonnets Combinatorial Sonnets for a Symposium The combinatorial sonnet sequence by the poet D. Kaufman, originally written for the Constellations Symposium, at the Technische Universität Dresden, is now published here. MORE ⟫
DEPT. of 240240 Random Sonnets “The Angry Combinatorial Pollock” The combinatorial sonnet sequence by the poet D. Kaufman, originally written as a response to Maxwell Flaum's essay "How to Restore a Pollock to Perfection?" Part of "The Pollock Report - A Mutual Investigation of Replicas in Poem and Prose." (2014). MORE ⟫
On Poetry “Maybe”, Annotated What springs to my mind / During this impromptu / Homo sapiens cryptographic rendezvous / Is how Eusebius reported / That Origen Adamantius / Followed Matthew 19:12 / And literally / Castrated himself. MORE ⟫
Dept. of 17297280 Random Sonnets A Combinatorial Sonnet Cycle For the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellows The combinatorial sonnet sequence by the poet D. Kaufman as farewell to the Akademie Schloss Solitude (2015). MORE ⟫
POETRY to gestation MAN HANDS ON MISERY I am sure that you took the opportunity / And delved into the wonderful clinical nomenclature / Describing all the rogue flesh and conduit vessels. MORE ⟫
POETRY to toilet paper THE LORD’S PRAYER An Edmund Waller couplet / In a beautifully bound tome. MORE ⟫
POETRY to Gustave Flaubert TRUE STORY Why / Why / Did Eleanor Marx / Translate / Madame Bovary. MORE ⟫
Marie Marie Hold on Tight “Cocktail Chatter on the State of Man” Should I put some punctuation / Onto the holes your absence left? / Should I declare it theft? / Or better yet: / A short vignette. MORE ⟫
Ballroom Blitz Prose for a Choreography The following piece, “Prose for a Choreography” (or “Crabs”), was written by Marian Kaiser, and later recored as soundtrack to the film “Pre-Enactment” by Margarete Jahrmann for Transmedial project… MORE ⟫
Poetry for Russian Composers “Gubaidulina” I’m spitting miasma There’s a choir of black seraphim Following me Humming a requiem. MORE ⟫
