This Town Is Going Out of Business

By Joshua Clover

This article appeared in the November 3, 2008 edition of The Nation.

October 15, 2008

[This town is going out of business that I call my brain] [the public
space of my head got suburbed] [the heaven-heaped core
of capital-] [ized stars is empty now as sleep is full] [of new words for
new feelings like infrastructure-] [nostalgia or love-outside-the-
citadel] [the past tense is tragedy while the present tense is
comedy] [as all the empires and epochs have ended] [but for this
one and then only out here] [in the late districts of the imagination]
[in the old light of our pretty periphery]

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About Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover is the author of several books of poetry and criticism, including the forthcoming meditation on the politics of pop at the end of the cold war, 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About (California). more...
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