Well, maybe Rosé won't read you a poem, but since i have a book full of his stuff and seeing as how we're such good buddies, i'm gonna go ahead and let you see a piece of, as Rosé recently wrote:
"a stanza from canto 7 which I am furiously working on..."
This bit just happens to be about Tony, so maybe Rosé won't sue
me for putting it up here pre-publication as it were...
The pyramid, designed for star ascension
A late and famous unknown thinker says
Is a perfect model of the fifth dimension
He learned some secrets in mysterious Fez
His spirit spins in heavenly suspension
While his ashes ride the salt sea of Cortez
His sides so split with laughing; I know he'll need a suture
As he goes madly dancing up and down the future
Rosé
I thought about that "The pyramid, designed for star ascension"
and decided it went well with a 3 dimensional depiction of a Koch Fractal i
imaged back in about 1993. Tony and i sure did a lot of lip-flapping about the
nature of the structure of perceived reality, and pyramidal, diamond ascension
was one of his pet perceives.
Right below is what that dimensionalized Koch fractal looks like - usually you
see it in a 2D representation. Well, this IS a 2D representation, but it's a
2D representation of a 3D representation - i mean, ALL the math is there and
we could wheel it around and look at it any old which way - even inside looking
out, and THAT's different. Tony and i could talk about this for a while ... until way after dinner got cold and the ladies have retired for the night in disgust at our puerile yattering about the unknowable
Here's what the cover of Rosé's new book looks like. It's one of my friend Jim Wrinkle's digital drawings and all of us are pleased to see it on the cover of this book of really pretty damn good poems.
[Synergetic Press 2001. www.synergeticpress.com]
I don't see how - what with that sample and a peek at this spiffy cover
- you could not want to scoop up a copy of this book. Rosé has got a
few stashed away in the family vault and if you contact him at:
I don't anticipate that it would be a big hassle to arrange
to purchase a shiny new copy of this very contemporary (and IMHO, extremely
readable and accessible) poetry. Give it a try, you'll be glad you did.
Matter of factual - try clicking this cute button
and go right to the new improved Site Rosé and browse some poesy
And now that you've got to the bottom of this page, you can click