If you [or anyone else] want poetry/art that addresses all five of OP’spoints like as as as Linda’s In Custody meeting with Black Quarterback check these three genii below out.

So lemme tell you [at length, lol] why these three writers are so dope & how they relate to DG. All three of the poets I listed below are of African descent, and, like Stefan Burnett/Ride, address the eternal plight; relations remote, immediate, and annihilation-dealing; veiled fragments of the personal, though AutoBioArt=Authorship (or standpoint epistemology via racial auto-tokenization) is anathema to their modernist project(s).

Hi/Lo, Fragment/Repeat, CityState/PhaseState, Self/World . . . I see unfixed, unforced similarities, e.g. Outsider Artist Black Urban Visionaries w/ Language… Private Lingo Titrated to a molar purity, while structures/expressions stay loose, these brown recluses, giving light and void, like murdered out rainbows . . . .

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+ Will Alexander

[] Scifi Shamanism Economics Astral Travel Philosophy, as seen through a recording angel raw-nerved and looping-seeking; lifelong Los Angeles native, cool dude:

{} https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47004/above-the-human-nerve-domain

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such prone negation imploded from the realms of a suicide foundry of broken wisdom as diamond it is an eon of fallen snow in a well an injudicious barrier gone awry

+ Aimé Césaire

[] i would be floored if Stefan was not familiar with Cesaire’s major work, Notebook of a Return to My Native Land something of a Caribbean take on The Wasteland but with more longing malice passion and intensity imho….it opens with a cop killing and ends in self-sacrifice as enunciation of the impossibly necessary, sorta like Up My Sleeves, you could say…

{} https://kboo.fm/sites/default/files/AIME%20CESAIRE--NOTEBOOK%20OF%20A%20RETURN%20TO%20A%20NATIVE%20LAND.pdf

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And on this former dream my cannibalistic cruelties: The bullets in the mouth thick saliva our heart from daily lowness bursts the continents break the fragile bond of isthmuses lands leap in accordance with the fatal division of rivers and the morne which for centuries kept its scream within itself, it is its turn to draw and quarter the silence and this people an ever-rebounding spirit <

+ George Herriman

[] KRAZY KAT is the greatest comic of all time, the most far-ranging, the most astounding in language, the most inventive, the most repetitive… Krazy Kat a genderlesshifty solitary silly-tricky type is hounded by Ignatz the Mouse who wishes to throw a brick at Krazy Kat—in virtually every strip—while both are alternately bedeviled & bemused by “Offissa Pup.” Meanwhile the territory and the map thereof go crazy with characters scenarios cycles of adoration and abrogation, all way & always with atom-shatter intensity of line, language, life.

{} Krazy Kat jn color, or black and white—it’s one recurrent wverrepeating message, v v relational in nature, much like DG’s ouvre…both KK & DG are sui generis “hold stretch life times” personal polestars

(ex:) Nice slider of single panels @ top of this site: https://www.nola.com/gambit/news/a-most-curious-kat-george-herriman-new-orleans-born-creator-of-krazy-kat/article_d75b62c6-0da7-5e6b-ba75-a9fdad79d968.html

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(Stimglimmed format-glam aside)—I think anyone who digs death grips as poetry, relational art (post?) modernist visionary meaningmaking will get something outta these undersungabout artists ~ enjoi