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    Rome a Mobile Home
    Rome a Mobile Home
    Rome a Mobile Home
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    Rome a Mobile Home

    By Jerry Estrin

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    Poetry. Illustrated by Norma Cole. "ROME, A MOBILE HOME makes good on its wonderful title: a pleasure and a warning. The sun never sets on the Empire's trailer/theme park. Estrin takes aim at our culture's tendency to reductive appropriation with laconic, fearsome wit. The famous (the known) are equivalent: Ceasar and Roger Maris. 'I will now be visible forever.' We are all implicated. This is where we live"--Rae Armantrout. "Jerry Estrin has devoted his work to a profound ethical debate with what we call history, consisting of those public places (and their times) in which a private person, wandering, most knows his or her presence--and absence. In the various and fascinating works collected here, intellectual motion is itself a position--or, one might say, a moral emotion. The result is a beautiful book--and one whose importance absolutely must not be ignored"--Lyn Hejinian. This book was originally published through the collaborative efforts of The Figures, O Books, Potes & Poets, and Roof Books. Born in Los Angeles in 1947, Jerry Estrin grew up playing in the back lots of movie studios. He received a B.A. in Russian History and Sociology from UCLA in the sixties, an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University in the seventies and an M.A. in Literacy Education from UC Berkeley in 1992. As founder and editor of the magazines "Vanishing Cab" and "Art and Con," Estrin was one of the west coast's most influential editors until his death in 1993. Jerry Estrin's books include A Book of Gestures (Somber Reptiles, 1980), In Motion Speaking (Chance Additions, 1986), COLD HEAVEN (Zasterle Press, 1990), and ROME, A MOBILE HOME (Roof Books, 1993). 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoof Books
    Release dateJan 1, 1993
    ISBN9780937804513
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      Rome a Mobile Home - Jerry Estrin

      ROME,

      A MOBILE HOME

      ROME,

      A MOBILE HOME

      Jerry Estrin

      THE FIGURES

      O BOOKS

      POTES & POETS

      ROOF BOOKS

      Copyright © 1993 by Jerry Estrin.

      All rights reserved.

      Design by Deborah Thomas.

      Cover photograph by Norma Cole.

      Author’s photograph by Laura Moriarty.

      ISBN: 0-937804-51-7

      Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 93-085179

      Jerry Estrin wished to thank the editors of Tramen, Ottotole, Everyday Life, Big Allis, Avec, O Books, Potes & Poets Press, and Writing where this and other work of his appeared.

      This book was published in collaboration by:

      The Figures

      O Books

      Potes & Poets

      Roof Books

      Order from:

      Segue Foundation

      303 East 8th Street

      New York, New York 10009

      or

      Small Press Distribution

      1814 San Pablo Avenue

      Berkeley, CA 94702

      800/869-7553

      CONTENTS

      Rome, A Mobile Home

      Citizen’s Dash

      Brace

      Counter Song

      Nudes

      ROME,

      A MOBILE HOME

      1

      Between each gesture of the arm and the ball castoff to some

      distant alley, the eye moves still, foreigner to the other talkative

      physical things, the imagination of each geographic sequel and

      great instrumental fusion with our own piece of mirrored

      breathing suggesting syntactical essences:

      Caesar’s army Caesar’s earphones Brutus’s valise Caesar’s saw

      Brutus’s arrow Brutus’s clothespin Caesar’s pin Brutus’s apple.

      Planets and chairs, wheels, Caesar’s syntax links up the spaces

      separating Roman cities, his signs hold up the stars: Sid Caesar,

      Jack Nicholson, Broderick Crawford, Benito Mussolini.

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