The Emperor Of The Installation Is Gone Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Little Rock, Arkansas United States of America

The Emperor Of The Installation Is Gone

Rating: 5.0

EPILOGUE

for Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

the emperor of the Installation is gone;

gone, mimics the chorus

defecting swiftly to the other side again

depending on who will win

but we are far from that now

searching every rooftop

dream by dream

for his disappearance

his widow weeping into every corner

of the displaced installation

that has taken wing

God help the Empress.

what is geography anyway

geographies

when we were visionary in our time

outside of time and history

shoring up the dreamlike never stationary

installation, installations

forever yearning for the angels to arrive

and meanwhile, erstwhile

forever amenable to every fairytale

whispered from the baseboards UP

escape velocity achieved

the colours blurring only slightly

through our tears.

mary angela douglas 15 july 2023

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Denis Mair 17 July 2023

For lucky readers who stumble on this poem, it would help to add a note mentioning the title of the first poem you wrote about Kabakov's installation piece.

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Denis Mair 20 July 2023

t's wonderful the way you've located the installation in a moment of disappearance, as if the final moment of its physical manifestation was a beginning. Kabakov's intention was launched into eternity... now it will continue to add more human meaning to Heaven.

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Denis Mair 17 July 2023

t's wonderful the way you've located the installation in its own disappearance, as if the final moment of its physical manifestation was a beginning, whereby its intention was launched...now it will continue to add more human meaning to Heaven.

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Denis Mair 17 July 2023

I'm going to recommend this poem to a couple of people, but in order to recommend them I must also tell them the title of your first poem about this installation.

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Denis Mair 17 July 2023

The way you've written this makes me want to write a series of poems about conceptual artworks that I love...that my memory keeps replaying.

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Denis Mair 17 July 2023

You have hit upon something very special about conceptual art and the medium whereof it is created! My memory goes back to several conceptual art pieces I love. Some of them are installations, and some of them are performance pieces and even proposals.

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Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Little Rock, Arkansas United States of America
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