Rose Knapp is a poet, producer, and multimedia artist. She has publications in Lotus-Eater, Bombay Gin, BlazeVOX, Hotel Amerika, Gargoyle, and others. She has a chapbook with Hesterglock Press and a collection forthcoming with Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She lives in Los Angeles. Her work can be found at roseknapp.net
I would describe my poetics as heavily influenced by Dadaism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. Chaotic and anarchic, while never completely abandoning the competing desire for consistency and coherent narrative logic.
Faux Haiku
Absinthe shots are improper America says France is tote in the desert
Lotus Fervor
Some psychedelics Unfortunately require A Civilized touché At times of untimely Intimidation press Pronoia & paranoia Blazed lips of death Voices echo etched In their own reflection Too little and you're Stuck in swarming Aristotelian static Statuesque Crowds Immortals without Identity or even Mosques of masks Hijabs fade off faces Knives slide silently Into the side of White demons And by the time Alexander has one Adversus Visigoths Too much machismo Conquered crushed Catatonic crusades Straight lines turn India he dies and The Eastern silk Devours itself All roads lead To Helios Roses burn Silver glints Slices smoke Into projections Some call history
Kalām Kosmologica
Shadows of stars Tearing themselves
Flittering over this Wasteland Cantos
de chœur Enfant Fountain heads
terrible splendor Millions of millennia
Darts down into Skyscrapers
Steels its art And artificial
Insanity back Laughing as
It powders Stardust
Onto our chic Slits into vains
Nirvanic Nihilio Jaded Genesis
درويش Darwish Darjeeling
Lmao like authenticated Tourist trap queen clichés On Hollywood Boulevard Thud from illiterate illegals Like they were desig Noted for these astro Logical streets solut Atrocious Atomisms Exist Sartre~Satirically Authentic denoting yet To be exploited by the Explorers explicating Explicitly political poems Are polemical poison say Our Greying Grand Ginseng Ginsbergs wacking each Other off on to illogical Argumentum empirical
Placebo & Place
Detritus of Detroit Slicks soundly along The Chicago subway A four buy four crashes Circa 1929 and Goldman Quickly & quietly tries To remedy the situation Until work without end Catholics hide Muslims & Jews while Protestants Largely continue on their Manifest of massacring The unfit & unwilling Until a Goddot never Appears and humanism Hunts back its pathetic rain
