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Stephen Rodefer

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BORN:            Ohio, November 1940   EDUCATION: 1959-63            Amherst College, Amherst Massachusetts, Art History & Literature 1963-67            Graduate Studies in Poetry and Literature, SUNY Buffalo, NY   One of the founders and current leaders of the Language Poetry Movement. First American writer to be sought out and hired by the University of Cambridge in England.  A literary genius who has taken up painting in his 60's as a way to incorporate form and color into his literary art. Rodefer currently lives in Paris and paints on found materials, including cardboard, canvas, paper and wood.                                                                             To  Any  Reader                   whose mind’s uterus is awash with Nietzsche’s semen                     Lasso sots-- sieze mistakers, peach sniffers, lazy boys             and hijack penthouse esprit de corpsers who travail             and noose our groceries with their amiable remedies             ejaculating mendicants nourished on vermin.               Our peaches are tits, our repentence laughter             Oui-Oui fashions on fat payments and our vows             we return Queer upon the bourbon train             crayoning vile eye leak to lather up our spots               On fever’s orielle lies MarilynManson tripled up             as he longs for Bercy meat for his enchanted tribe             and the mettle of Richet our volunteer, our son, eva             porates the entire fucking chimerical savannah with a match               Celestiel tarnation rips up our filament             O objects of repulsive things we treasure like repasts             upchuck the verse which denvers us to kindred oompas             across horrid sands to traverse the putrid fen               As a craven debauch will kiss and gorge on             any maryred tits of our best cathouse             so we volunteer Delphine on some clandestine alley cat             and press upon her forte mignon our best yokono grapefruit               Sir! raise the swarming ants like googled helmet worms             easing into our brains, our robot hippo camp, our vermouth             pur plink the people of Demuth when we blow bad breath their way             l’amour converts la mort-- kindred fluvia invisible, plaintive, absurd               If the vials, the mayhem, the rapiers and arsons of the General Rape             have not again embroidered replete our graphic work to come             the banal canvas of our piteous distinies can smack the monkey then             so our violin necks the mispelt difference stoned on Helen Jackie’s ma  regrets               Hardy people, feed the jackals parmassan, the lyceè is a panther             those apes, those scorpions, the vultures and those slime             all the galloping monsters who hurl their grog our way—rampant             through menageries inflammed with DeNiro pecadillo girls               It’s a lot like getting laid a bit mechanical but fucking plus             if you shake and shudder then heave and cry out loud to the globe             the feret cunts still volunteer their dirt to breeze you to it              and dance your ball joints mounted on their most available fiction               Well it’s a long us and the eye charges steep for each tear on her             you dream along while sexy UFO’s smoke your dearest hooka             and you thought you knew it all, been to lectures, earsucking the normal soup             of hypodermic critics, readers, ungainly in your reflection—Twins brother!                                                            24 02 05 SR Paris            Stephen Rodefer, photo by Robin Purves

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