Mr. West - Sarah Blake Wesleyan Poetry Series

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       mr. west

      MR. WEST

       sarah blake

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

       WESLEYAN POETRY

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

      www.wesleyan.edu/wespress 2015 © Sarah Blake All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      This is a creative and original work of poetry about the poet’s life and her experience of Kanye West’s work and public persona. Kanye West does not authorize, endorse or approve of any of the material contained in this book.

      Excerpt in “Gaze” on pp. 89–91 from Catie Rosemurgy, “Variorum,” in The Stranger Manual. Copyright © 2010 by Catie Rosemurgy. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.

      Excerpts in “The Fallible Face” on pp. 28–30 from Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1995), 86, 92; and Totality and Infinity (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1969), 75, 178, 199. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Blake, Sarah (Poet)

      [Poems. Selections]

      Mr. West / Sarah Blake.

       pages cm. — (Wesleyan Poetry series)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7517-3 (cloth: alk. paper) —

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7518-0 (ebook)

      I. Title.

      Ps3602.l3485a6 2015

      811’.6—dc23

      2014035803

      5 4 3 2 1

      This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

      Cover image: Relief of the falcon god Horus at the Temple of Edfu in Egypt. Photograph © Olaf Tausch, from Wikimedia Commons.

      FOR kanne AND FOR noah

      CONTENTS

       “Runaway” Premieres in Los Angeles on October 18, 2010

       1

       JESUS WALKS

       Ha Ha Hum

       5

       Heartbreak

       7

       Like the Poems Do

       9

       Con Moto

       11

       Jesus Walks

       13

       The Week Kanye Joined Twitter

       16

       Kanye’s Digestive System

       17

       Seeing Kanye

       20

       THE FALLIBLE FACE

       Mythic

       23

       God Created Night and It Was Night

       24

       Kanye’s Skeletal System

       26

       The Fallible Face

       28

       This Is Not the First Time I’ve Wondered

       31

       In Song

       32

       So Kanye Transformed Himself, Producer to Superstar

       34

       DEAR DONDA

       Adventures

       39

       Kanye’s Circulatory System

       42

       I Want a House to Raise My Son In

       44

       On November 10th, 2007, Donda West Died

       49

       Dear Donda

       51

       Runaway

       53

       AFTERMATH

       Three Months, to the Day, before Taylor Turned Twenty, but Kanye

       57

       Aftermath

       58

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