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    “A persistence of vision which is both rare and essential” —Mary Ruefle In archipelago counterpoint, Marcia Arrieta's poems grow word by word, line by line, into a book that is more, much more, than the sum of the poems. They're the poems of a craftsperson, a builder, a sculptor whose material is the universe & everything that has ever been in it, from "the japanese poet & italian philosopher" through to "wild geese watercolors & mankind." Her poems contain insight, exploration, exposition; blend the concrete with the abstract; posit what might happen when you put A beside not-A or not-even-in-the-Alphabet & then discover if it does. She writes, almost as a credo: there is music within water. imaginary words. imaginary lives. invent. But underpinning that statement is an obvious knowledge & grasp of the principles of mathematics & how the universe relies on them, plus the flavor of journeys through both finite & infinite space & an enumeration of the things that are found there. Magic is always at its strongest when it is underlaid with truth & imagination. As it is here. —Mark Young Marcia Arrieta’s poetry gathers images, phrases, concepts, and states of being into a poetic collage in which direct sensuous experience is juxtaposed with the purely linguistic and abstract, revealing a tension between the ‘conceptual’ and the poetic image, which she usually draws from nature. Her poems are at once richly visual and thoughtfully engaging….In archipelago counterpoint Arrieta offers vivid and elegant poetic articulations embracing the totality of experience and discovery. —Ingrid Swanberg With Arrieta’s poetry, we’re left on the edge of understanding how to connect beautiful fragments. Her lyrical poems play with sound, meaning, line break, and form….she searches in archipelago counterpoint for a way to combine the disjunctive with the personal, the tentative direction with the story, and the results are poems that linger evocatively in one’s own words. —William Allegrezza Marcia Arrieta’s archipelago counterpoint points to language associated with delicate inventiveness—a brand of language providing whispering emblems, musical identities, and clarity of affirmed environment….Precise, reliable appreciation engages the reader and provides context toward a thoughtful devotion to expanding understanding. —Felino A. Soriano With archipelago counterpoint Marcia Arrieta makes clear her love of language and her uncommon poetic intelligence. Whether referencing string theory or mulling the answers “in the stone gathered from the leucadian shore” (—the site of Sappho’s suicide and of Homer’s Ithaca), her erudition and dexterity of style combine to charm and to reward repeated readings. A sort of tour guide to things writ large, archipelago counterpoint is Arrieta at her best. —Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino Marcia Arrieta is a poet, artist, and teacher, who has an affinity for islands, books, gardens, and travel. Her first book of poetry triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme was published by Otoliths in 2011, and she is the author of two chapbooks, experimental: (Potes & Poets Press, 2000) and the curve against the linear (Toadlily Press Quartet Series—An Uncommon Accord, 2008). Her work appears in Fourteen Hills, Catch & Release, Cold Mountain Review, Rivet, Ellipsis, Little Red Leaves, So to Speak, 13th Moon, Melusine, Truck, Posit, Ditch, Dusie, Poetry Salzburg Review, Abraxas, and The Last VISPO Anthology. She has an MFA from Vermont College. As a result of grants from Poets & Writers, she has led various poetry/writing workshops in the community. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal—in existence for over twenty-three years, and lives on the canyon in Pasadena, California. Book Information: · Paperback: 104 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-214-3 $16

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    “A persistence of vision which is both rare and essential” —Mary Ruefle In archipelago counterpoint, Marcia Arrieta's poems grow word by word, line by line, into a book that is more, much more, than the sum of the poems. They're the poems of a craftsperson, a builder, a sculptor whose material is the universe & everything that has ever been in it, from "the japanese poet & italian philosopher" through to "wild geese watercolors & mankind." Her poems contain insight, exploration, exposition; blend the concrete with the abstract; posit what might happen when you put A beside not-A or not-even-in-the-Alphabet & then discover if it does. She writes, almost as a credo: there is music within water. imaginary words. imaginary lives. invent. But underpinning that statement is an obvious knowledge & grasp of the principles of mathematics & how the universe relies on them, plus the flavor of journeys through both finite & infinite space & an enumeration of the things that are found there. Magic is always at its strongest when it is underlaid with truth & imagination. As it is here. —Mark Young Marcia Arrieta’s poetry gathers images, phrases, concepts, and states of being into a poetic collage in which direct sensuous experience is juxtaposed with the purely linguistic and abstract, revealing a tension between the ‘conceptual’ and the poetic image, which she usually draws from nature. Her poems are at once richly visual and thoughtfully engaging….In archipelago counterpoint Arrieta offers vivid and elegant poetic articulations embracing the totality of experience and discovery. —Ingrid Swanberg With Arrieta’s poetry, we’re left on the edge of understanding how to connect beautiful fragments. Her lyrical poems play with sound, meaning, line break, and form….she searches in archipelago counterpoint for a way to combine the disjunctive with the personal, the tentative direction with the story, and the results are poems that linger evocatively in one’s own words. —William Allegrezza Marcia Arrieta’s archipelago counterpoint points to language associated with delicate inventiveness—a brand of language providing whispering emblems, musical identities, and clarity of affirmed environment….Precise, reliable appreciation engages the reader and provides context toward a thoughtful devotion to expanding understanding. —Felino A. Soriano With archipelago counterpoint Marcia Arrieta makes clear her love of language and her uncommon poetic intelligence. Whether referencing string theory or mulling the answers “in the stone gathered from the leucadian shore” (—the site of Sappho’s suicide and of Homer’s Ithaca), her erudition and dexterity of style combine to charm and to reward repeated readings. A sort of tour guide to things writ large, archipelago counterpoint is Arrieta at her best. —Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino Marcia Arrieta is a poet, artist, and teacher, who has an affinity for islands, books, gardens, and travel. Her first book of poetry triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme was published by Otoliths in 2011, and she is the author of two chapbooks, experimental: (Potes & Poets Press, 2000) and the curve against the linear (Toadlily Press Quartet Series—An Uncommon Accord, 2008). Her work appears in Fourteen Hills, Catch & Release, Cold Mountain Review, Rivet, Ellipsis, Little Red Leaves, So to Speak, 13th Moon, Melusine, Truck, Posit, Ditch, Dusie, Poetry Salzburg Review, Abraxas, and The Last VISPO Anthology. She has an MFA from Vermont College. As a result of grants from Poets & Writers, she has led various poetry/writing workshops in the community. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal—in existence for over twenty-three years, and lives on the canyon in Pasadena, California. Book Information: · Paperback: 104 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-214-3 $16

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    “A persistence of vision which is both rare and essential” —Mary Ruefle In archipelago counterpoint, Marcia Arrieta's poems grow word by word, line by line, into a book that is more, much more, than the sum of the poems. They're the poems of a craftsperson, a builder, a sculptor whose material is the universe & everything that has ever been in it, from "the japanese poet & italian philosopher" through to "wild geese watercolors & mankind." Her poems contain insight, exploration, exposition; blend the concrete with the abstract; posit what might happen when you put A beside not-A or not-even-in-the-Alphabet & then discover if it does. She writes, almost as a credo: there is music within water. imaginary words. imaginary lives. invent. But underpinning that statement is an obvious knowledge & grasp of the principles of mathematics & how the universe relies on them, plus the flavor of journeys through both finite & infinite space & an enumeration of the things that are found there. Magic is always at its strongest when it is underlaid with truth & imagination. As it is here. —Mark Young Marcia Arrieta’s poetry gathers images, phrases, concepts, and states of being into a poetic collage in which direct sensuous experience is juxtaposed with the purely linguistic and abstract, revealing a tension between the ‘conceptual’ and the poetic image, which she usually draws from nature. Her poems are at once richly visual and thoughtfully engaging….In archipelago counterpoint Arrieta offers vivid and elegant poetic articulations embracing the totality of experience and discovery. —Ingrid Swanberg With Arrieta’s poetry, we’re left on the edge of understanding how to connect beautiful fragments. Her lyrical poems play with sound, meaning, line break, and form….she searches in archipelago counterpoint for a way to combine the disjunctive with the personal, the tentative direction with the story, and the results are poems that linger evocatively in one’s own words. —William Allegrezza Marcia Arrieta’s archipelago counterpoint points to language associated with delicate inventiveness—a brand of language providing whispering emblems, musical identities, and clarity of affirmed environment….Precise, reliable appreciation engages the reader and provides context toward a thoughtful devotion to expanding understanding. —Felino A. Soriano With archipelago counterpoint Marcia Arrieta makes clear her love of language and her uncommon poetic intelligence. Whether referencing string theory or mulling the answers “in the stone gathered from the leucadian shore” (—the site of Sappho’s suicide and of Homer’s Ithaca), her erudition and dexterity of style combine to charm and to reward repeated readings. A sort of tour guide to things writ large, archipelago counterpoint is Arrieta at her best. —Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino Marcia Arrieta is a poet, artist, and teacher, who has an affinity for islands, books, gardens, and travel. Her first book of poetry triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme was published by Otoliths in 2011, and she is the author of two chapbooks, experimental: (Potes & Poets Press, 2000) and the curve against the linear (Toadlily Press Quartet Series—An Uncommon Accord, 2008). Her work appears in Fourteen Hills, Catch & Release, Cold Mountain Review, Rivet, Ellipsis, Little Red Leaves, So to Speak, 13th Moon, Melusine, Truck, Posit, Ditch, Dusie, Poetry Salzburg Review, Abraxas, and The Last VISPO Anthology. She has an MFA from Vermont College. As a result of grants from Poets & Writers, she has led various poetry/writing workshops in the community. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal—in existence for over twenty-three years, and lives on the canyon in Pasadena, California. Book Information: · Paperback: 104 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-214-3 $16

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    archipelago counterpoint

    Marcia Arrieta

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    Buffalo, New York

    archipelago counterpoint by Marcia Arrieta


    Copyright 2015
    Published by BlazeVOX [books]
    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without
    the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews.
    Printed in the United States of America
    Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey Gatza
    First Edition
    ISBN: 978-1-60964-214-3
    Library of Congress Control Number: 2015937800
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    quest for/adaptive to environment


    wild domestic like sun bear polar bear and how they grew
    controlled free modernism in a sewing machine meadow tundra
    upholster intellects like couches books boundaries to climb
    trees claws sharp ripping seams tracing patterns cut the edges
    berries sweet grass insects nourishing warm against the body passages
    into quilts quiet rivers with salmon existential rosemary threads
    which cannot be knotted

    19

    intermixed

    nebulous insurgent
    you dream your life
    into invariables
    tidal friction
    astronomical friends
    illegible
    you plant trees
    the days are void
    in conversation
    you find a postcard
    Timeless Auras collages,
    sumi paintings, paper sculptures
    thereafter solemn
    books become situations
    at any moment you might disappear
    intuitive
    a thread will unravel
    sword, shield, owl, rose

    20

    to some extent
    *
    the letters seem to be disappearing
    *
    my feet become the roots of the oak
    *
    i am looking for a satisfactory conversation & then a bit of silence
    *
    oblique seizures in an attempt for consciousness
    *
    the designs are in a shattered clock
    *
    bewilder imagine enclaves sober
    *
    there are gaps
    *
    a strange person made of bags stranded on the freeway encourages me to move on

    21

    the bookcases need cleaning or sometime life is exhausting

    outlaw
    document walks stunned embankments cathedrals outside dust
    exclamation displaced offshore wildfire contingent outline peace
    nomad existence in the dunes in the castle bridges & windows
    landscape paintings monasteries abbeys remember astronomy

    architect
    holes envision eclectic trees translucent isles rocks winds & calm
    captured patterns designs thus preventing build the light infinite
    reconstruct possibilities rethink mountains inside the square
    cyclical motion the poetics the construction imagination memory

    22

    tenuous the threads


    clock threads indeterminate language wash the clothes balance the socks
    the reindeer is tied to a lamppost
    equalize the perimeter between/around two heads semblance of eagles
    semblance of pines white blanket in winter
    extreme the responsibilities green light red light blockades tapestries
    wander down tranquil equate absence with denial unravel illumination

    23

    reading muraki on a calendar. trying to understand time.

    *
    the light comes in slowly. gradually. not always.
    subtle realization the surreal. dreams. desires. instincts. dramas. survival.
    *
    we go shopping for trees.
    *
    birds & thoughts.
    the owl is hidden on the island.
    *
    the rim of the world.

    the street of miracles.

    the wind tunnel.

    a wireless grid.

    *
    travels within/
    travels without.
    *
    through the empty corridors.

    24

    clocks & dragonflies.

    small drawings of time.

    within the cries of the subway


    bach. "the elf king."
    water sprite.
    how does complication
    exactly work?
    could you define your life?
    remember to plan for your next trip.
    imagine mountains. gardens. walls lined with books.
    avoid trifling conversations.
    know the island & the gyrfalcon.
    exit to the sea.

    25

    refraction ideal
    Refraction of a Spherical Wave at a Plane Surface
    Robert E. Wood
    Physical Optics
    the container of pink paint is upside down.
    Suppose a spherical wave originating at 0 to be refracted at the plane
    surface AB.
    blue waves on canvas. yellow suns.
    The evolute of the hyperbola is the caustic of the refracted wave, in this case
    virtual of course.
    the red paintbrush floats.
    wave-front. radiant point.
    concept time. concept space. unconventional.

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    letters

    paper boxes. cabooses. long rides in the night.


    today rilke appearshis face collaged as a mirror.
    we discuss the earth in spring. metaphor reflection.
    short journeys of the soul. abstraction the ordinary
    quite unordinary. like trees in a meteor shower
    or old poems found in a book of art.

    27

    walking through content


    pleasure hidden art words falling water theorems & abstractions
    zero times two silent configurations analyze dust threshold sun
    far think something speak internal/external annihilating juxtaposition
    clouds without moons taste one another conscious to leap disguised
    sheltered window & light edge dynamic symmetry water balancing
    terraces & grace rhythm & spirit the twigs the leaves the feathers & stone

    28

    parallel forces & their effect


    orange butterfly on the planes wing.
    the wind. the waves.
    old footsteps. the japanese poet & italian philosopher.
    alleys of glass. alleys of broken books.
    are the eclipses of the sun & moon
    the result of shadows?
    real. inverted.
    real. virtual.
    farther away.
    behind the mirror.
    bird footsteps.
    refraction.
    pebbles. sticks.
    branches.

    29

    one red blossom/moving clouds


    i read of intrigue. runes. the clock manual appears. i have no clock.
    dandelions & winter. the origin of spectra. there are questions i wish to ask you .
    the answers are unimportant. we play word games. nothing compared to the wind.
    or the snow even. last time i saw youyou were surrounded by incredibly bright light.
    perhaps it was because the corridor was dark & deserted. was the apple left in front of
    my door symbolic?
    my head has become a daffodilit is bent by the force of the rain. i have no idea
    what spectra is. perhaps spectra is a secret, which combines all & nothing. are we
    an experimental test? you mentioned surreal. i mentioned light. in between there is
    sculpture & a thousand poems & drawings. the trees bend in wind.
    Studies of other spectra by Kayser and Rung, Rydberg and others showed that the lines
    could be sorted out into overlapping series, converging to heads on the short wavelength side. Some of the series had a common point of convergence.*
    like a ginkgo leaf or snowflake carried in a birds mouth.
    *from Physical Optics by Robert Wood

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    revolution
    pensive chaos. love.
    indeterminate.
    we travel to the andes.
    einstein speaks of how the starlight bends around the sun.
    i wind a strand of hair around my finger.
    you look for a yellow pencil.
    squares triangles paths
    around & through we must travel.

    31

    avalanches & snowdrifts


    minutes & hours
    snowflakes
    where is my golden ratio book?
    tonight i will go in search of the moon

    32

    continual
    rationals
    irrationals
    poetry
    space
    islands
    iceblink:
    a glare in the sky
    over an ice field
    imagine
    sun

    33

    a broken pencil. taped.


    *
    i read about the string theory & gems from madagascar. there are blue
    stars pasted here & there. i remember x/y. descartes attempts to speak
    to me. i do not understand. is cognition necessary? we never speak.

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