I was a cadaver in a copse until a cop arrested me. I was a convict in a jumpsuit until I jumped bail. I was a hitchhiker under galactic moon dust until I saw the sun. I was the sun as it rose and I shone on my dead self. I was a copse under the sun. I was a convict and a copse. I was all of this until I learned that you are what you see. I was what I saw until I saw that my eyes were shut. I opened my eyes to a kind of vacancy. I opened my arms to delinquency. I do not see anything now, and it rings.
An edition of Opera Bufa
(2007)
Opera Bufa
1st edition
by Adam Fieled
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“How can a prose poem be a comic opera? Take the following ingredients and stir: Chopin, Maria Callas, Baudelaire, Pluto, Orpheus, the Court of Ferdinand, Amherst wafer-eaters, Dante, Cleopatra, and Valium. Mix in a dollop of desperation, two dollops of perversity, and a small drop showmanship, and shake violently, as though in the midst of a fit. You have entered into a new realm; a foreign habitat; a fresh and unholy Opera Bufa. You may remain as long as you like. You may even sing along. The author, Adam Fieled, suggests exiting at the first sign of nausea, unless you find nausea pleasing. Oddly enough, some do.”
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Opera Bufa is American poet Adam Fieled's first full-length print book, initially released by Mark Young's Otoliths in 2007. It is a cycle of sixty prose poems meant to constitute a comic opera in text, and has been taught at Loyola University in Chicago and elsewhere.
Portions of Opera Bufa appeared in the fourWeighteen print anthology from fourW Press, at Charles Sturt University in Australia, and in Parisian print journal Upstairs at Duroc (issue 9).
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