Laura Jaramillo - The Savage Detectives Is Real

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Troubled relationship with machines / the tool is not life / poetry’s evolution into a visual or performative medium, away from the codex / Lisa Robertson / mapping subjectivity as its displaced across technologies, architecture, and clothes / clothes as costume / tragic relationship to lost objects / trash picking / indexing life through clothes / tedious dreams / daily life as more dreamlike than dreams themselves / the reflex to make noise into music / art should be just a little bit useful / the full utility of art as a nightmare / some but not total obligation to social reality / ambiguity can’t be let go of / insomnia on full moon nights / don’t mine the moon / Roberto Bolaño / fey social scene / blowing up a very serious poetry reading with ‘this fucking stupid old lady [the queen] has died’ / Wallace Stevens as extremely depoliticizing / The Savage Detectives is Real / Burning Sequence

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.

Check out Jaramillo’s work:

https://laurajaramillo-poetfilm.squarespace.com/

Hear Laura Jaramillo read with Marty Cain and Sara Sgro:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5NR2EgyA66T1U0ggla2jgt?si=a4756df7b5834512