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these months speak years – many new things – to be completely current with
present events – living the news as it happens – with no time lag – now it’s
difficult to become a spectator again –
what counted was the immediate – objective justification was impossible – for
what I was doing – theoretical questions useless – when I make theory for
others – I end up not believing it – immediate action justified immediately
in its entirety – uncomfortable position but real –
for months no writing – impossible to reconcile the two – ()
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(“in words,” “transdada,” and “transsubmutation”), which functioned as
sites (“nonlocation locations”?)2 for her reporting and commentary on
news/current events, poetics, community and literary resources. These blogs
are still accessible online and the conversation is most certainly not over. In
Bharat jiva, an unpublished manuscript, sie writes:
“erasing the without end” is gut-wrenching and takes aim in both a positive
and negative direction – there is the imperative to end the potentially
endless “war on terror,” but there is also our world (without end?) facing
irreversible environmental damage. This is an uncomfortable position. What
is also present in this passage is the internal struggle inherent in “writing
nonlocation location”: the body as microcosm writing itself outward. “No
Gender”3 is an uncomfortable – and admirable – position. What edwards
consistently tackled in hir work is the difficult task of writing these various
positions into being. This kind of embodiment is “uncomfortable but real”
and an act of no small consequence.
NOTES
. Paul Foster Johnson, editor’s note in EAOGH issue #, “Queering Language.”
[http://chax.org/eoagh/issuethree.html].
. kari edwards, editor’s note, ibid.
. In an obituary for edwards, Stacy Szymaszek wrote: “If you asked kari
to sign one of her books she often scratched out the title and wrote in ‘No
Gender’” (Poetry Project Newsletter #, February – March )
. See Raymond L. Bianchi’s introduction to the feature section of this
issue, page .