The Real Made Up

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The theme of imitation—a facet of humanity which affects all actions and speech—forms the central focus of this imaginative collection of poems. The degree to which imitation is never just a simple act of copying but rather a source of play and performance is explored, as is imitation’s ability to serve as a source of power for any subculture. Populated by real and imaginary interviews with people on the street, this compilation also echoes the words and works of other authors, with creative and thoughtful results. Copyright......Page 4 Contents ......Page 5 Inconsistent Machine Reproduction......Page 11 Scarecrow ......Page 15 Bill McGillivray’s Cap ......Page 16 Randomized Oxford Exploration 17 ......Page 17 Sorus ......Page 18 Joanne’s Medium Format Camera ......Page 19 Karikura Gives Advice ......Page 22 Sieve ......Page 23 Mark Bradley’s Plasma TV ......Page 24 Untrained Machine Voice Recognition: Joanne ......Page 26 Socratic Communication Problem of the Twenty-Second Century ......Page 27 Peter’s Complete Shakespeare ......Page 28 Four Electronic Handwriting Recognitions ......Page 30 Antique Silver Box ......Page 32 Bill McGillivray’s Trophy Deer ......Page 33 Randomized Oxford Exploration 3 ......Page 37 Hammer ......Page 38 Joanne’s Mother’s Friendship Ring ......Page 39 Karikura Asks for Bread ......Page 42 Letter from California ......Page 43 Peter’s Mining Claim ......Page 47 Untrained Machine Voice Recognition: Mark Bradley ......Page 50 Mimetic Resonance Imaging......Page 51 Mark Bradley’s Wife ......Page 55 Randomized Oxford Exploration 8 ......Page 57 Tragus ......Page 58 Joanne’s Nissan Altima ......Page 59 Untrained Machine Voice Recognition: Bill McGillivray ......Page 60 Hunt (Wallace Stevens in the Kootenays) ......Page 61 Bill McGillivray’s Pellet Gun ......Page 62 Randomized Oxford Exploration 81 ......Page 64 Sparrow ......Page 65 Dr. Plaza’s Idea ......Page 66 Karikura Digs ......Page 70 Signal, Response ......Page 71 Bill McGillivray’s Antique Rifle ......Page 72 Randomized Oxford Exploration 9 ......Page 74 Letter from South Florida ......Page 75 Mark Bradley’s Truck ......Page 76 Untrained Machine Voice Recognition: Corporal Jensen ......Page 78 Ingredients for Certain Poems by Al Purdy ......Page 79 Remote Memory Invocation......Page 85 Karikura Sees a Blackbird ......Page 89 Peter’s Mutt ......Page 90 Abandoned Roses ......Page 92 Randomized Oxford Exploration 10 ......Page 93 Nicole’s Children’s Happiness ......Page 94 Winter, Montréal ......Page 96 Randomized Oxford Exploration 73 ......Page 97 Corporal Jensen’s Old Time Skates ......Page 98 Hyperbole for a Large Number ......Page 99 Randomized Oxford Exploration 41 ......Page 100 Nicole’s Abstractions ......Page 101 Helium ......Page 102 Three Short Poems by Karikura ......Page 103 Corporal Jensen’s Afghan Rug ......Page 106 Raccoon ......Page 109 Untrained Machine Voice Recognition: Peter ......Page 110 Joanne’s Vibrator ......Page 111 Draught ......Page 112 Randomized Oxford Exploration 54 ......Page 113 Nicole’s Photographs ......Page 114 The Bay of Fundy ......Page 117 Karikura Translates a Song ......Page 118 The Last Eloquence of Uncle John ......Page 119 Acknowledgements ......Page 121