The Rorschach Factory

Valerie Fox

Straw Gate, 2006 - American poetry - 86 pages

Poetry. "Valerie Fox's idiosyncratic and often hilarious poems, with their playful shifts of syntax and thought, are shadowed over by a mysterious grace.. [Here is] a guide to seeing the world in a new and brilliant way. This is a poetry of multiple pleasures and surprises, rigorous to the core yet forever blissful"-Lewis Warsh. Fox has lived and traveled around the world, teaching at several colleges and universities including Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. She is a founding co-editor of 6ix. She is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University in her home state of Pennsylvania and now resides in New Jersey.

Contents

• This is not my cousin: 9
• Venerable Women in Diners: 11
• Migration: 13
• The Revolving Sutra Library: 14
• Enchanted: 15
• Read Slow Over the Phone: 17
• Something Concrete: 19
• Psalms and Proverbs: 20
• THE ONE WHO LEAVES: 25
• Restrained Romanticism: 27
• Arrange in an Order: 29
• In Café Leopold: 32
• Mandala of Six Chakravartins: 35
• Offering Mandala: 36
• The Temple: 37
• Adulation of a False: 39
• Intruder: 41
• The Decor Imitates Nature: 42
• Youre No Axl Rose: 43
• ACCOMPLICE: 45
• Perfecting Daily Tasks: 47
• What Would Emma Goldman: 49
• Emmas: 51
• Cyclorama of the World: 52
• Will Support the Government After: 55
• In a World: 56
• Mine Shaft: 57
• How to Sell Marchs History of the World: 62
• UNREST: 65
• Asleep: 67
• The Unrest: 69
• Property Plot for The Voyeurs Handbook: 70
• A Long Time Ago: 72
• This accident death: 73
• Never Enough Charles Dickens: 75
• Life at the Rorschach Factory: 77
• The Authorized Short Life: 78
• Twenty Days Gone: 80
• Soul to Self: 81
• A Forgetting Game: 82
• Tennessee Williams during the: 83
• The Baptist Missionary to Africa: 84
• In the front seat: 86

About the author

Valerie Fox received her M.A. in poetry in 1986 from Temple University, and her Ph.D. (English) from Binghamton University in 1990. Her most recent book of poems is Bundles of Letters, Including A, V and Epsilon, a compilation written with Arlene Ang and published by Texture Press. The Rorschach Factory was published in 2005 by Straw Gate Press. Amnesia, or, Ideas for Movies, was published by Texture Press in 1993. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The World, Hanging Loose, West Branch, Phoebe, Printed Matter, No Roses Review, Poems Niederngasse, 5 Trope, Feminist Studies, and The Painted Bride Quarterly. She was one of the founding editors of 6ix magazine, a Philadelphia-based literary magazine. Currently she is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, PA. She currently edits the magazine Press 1, www.leafscape.org/press1, which features poetry, fiction, opinion, and photography.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Rorschach Factory
• Author: Valerie Fox
• Publisher: Straw Gate, 2006
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 30, 2008
• ISBN: 0977378640, 9780977378647
• Length: 86 pages