Everyday Reading by Chasar Mike;

Author:Chasar, Mike;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT014000, Literary Criticism/Poetry, HIS036060, History/United States/20th Century
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

drive, he sd, for

christ’s sake, look

out where yr going.4

Readers have long wondered whether “drive” is “sd” by the poem’s narrator or by the narrator’s friend—a moment of ambiguity created when both speaking voices slide together in the manner of Vanillaroma and Shellubrication and thus form, out of a superego (“look / out where yr going”) and an id (“why not, buy a goddamn big car”), an ego, as the first-person “I” or the contraction “I’ve” embedded in the word “drive” suggests; one might say that in “I Know a Man,” Creeley puts the I (or even eye) in “drive.” Or consider the last lines of Elizabeth Bishop’s 1965 poem “Filling Station,” which engages but stands in contrast to the aforementioned portmanteau words and commercial marketing strategies of automobile culture:

Somebody embroidered the doily.

Somebody waters the plant,

or oils it, maybe. Somebody

arranges the rows of cans

so that they softly say:

ESSO—SO—SO—SO

to high-strung automobiles.

Somebody loves us all.5

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