CELLULOID SALUTATIONS - An Oxymoronic ODE to LESLIE SCALAPINO - Or: A POEM FOR THE EMPTINESS IN ANIMAL’S BELLY

Sep 28, 2026

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A poetry collection by Elizabeth Block centered on celluloid “salutations” and oxymoronic address. The work foregrounds absence, time, memory, sight, and expectation through epigraphs and lyrical sequences, including sections such as “Make Haste, Slowly,” “Like Automatic,” and “Mean Old Soil.” It also features playful typographic experiments, quotations, and forms like letters, haiku, and sonnets, culminating in a set of erasures and reprises.

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CELLULOID SALUTATIONS

I: Make Haste, Slowly

II: Like Automatic

III: STREWNPACKEDCINDERWHATEVERLIGHT

IV: MEAN OLD SOIL

V: PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY, AND De MORGAN’S THEOROM

VI: WHAT IS AN OPEN HEART?

VII: AN OXYMORONIC LETTER, or CAN I PLEASE HAVE MY CELLULOID BACK?

VIII: Elizabeth Block Erases Elizabeth Block

IX: The Celluloid Sonnets

X: MOTHER LOV

XI: REPRISE

XII: The Leaking Celluloid Person Haiku—

ELIZABETH BLOCK 粪Strand Bao Store $8.00Block/Cellu SalutationsPOETRY9789922216031 # CELLULOID SALUTATIONS (AN OxYMORONIC ODE TO LESLIE SCALAPINO)OR:A POEM FOR THE EMPTINESS IN ANIMAL’S BELLY Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/celluloidsalutat0000bloc CELLULOID SALUTATIONS CELLULOID SALUTATIONS (AN OXYMORONIC ODE TO LESLIE SCALAPINO) OR:A POEM FOR THE EMPTINESS IN ANIMAL’S BELLY ELIZABETH BLOCK 9120 Copyright C2014 Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced withoutthe publisher’s written permission,except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey GatzaCover image:Amanda Hughen,Electroembryonic,acrylic paint,ink,and pencil on mylar,6x6 inches,2009 First Edition ISBN:978-1-60964-122-1Library of Congress Control Number:2013945255 BlazeVOX [books]131 Euclid AveKenmore,NY 14217 Editor@blazevox.org | publisher of weird litle books
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blazevox.org | | --- | B!azcVOX "There are three times—a present of things past,a present of things present,and a present ofthings future."For these three do exist in the mind,and I do not see them anywhere else:thepresent time of things past is memory;the present time of things present is sight;the presenttime of things future is expectation.If we are allowed to use words in this way,then I see thatthere are three times and I admit that there are." —St.A,from the Confessions of St.Augustine “Prose is a house,poetry a man in flames running quite fast through it.” Anne Carson,red doc> "(For with all her knowledge of history,Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anythinghappened)” —Lewis Carroll,Alice in Wonderland Tbis book is for my busband and my daugbter Table of Contents: I: Make Haste, Slowły………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………13 ……………………………………………………………15 Make Haste, Slowly…………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………25 II: Like Automatic…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Seeing Automatic (like Automatic Writing)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………27 On Being Un……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………32 llness of the Text……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 interventions……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………39 Optical Character Recognition………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………40 I'm not there……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………45 Spring recumbent……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………49 “But I beneath a rougher sea”………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………51 Side-to-Side………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………52 Graphical Interchange Format ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………56 “an opium-eater is too happy to observe the motion of time”………………………………………………………………………………57 II:STREWNPACKEDCINDERWHATEVERLIGHT…………………………………………………………………………63 Strewnpackedcinderwhateverlight…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………65 IV:MEAN OLD SOIL…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………71 Mean Old Soil…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………73 V:PARSLEY,SAGE,ROSEMAREY,AND De MORGAN’S THEOROM……………………………………79 VI: WHAT IS AN OPEN HEART?…………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………87 VII: AN OXYMORONIC LETTER,or CAN I PLEASE HAVE MY CELLULOID BACK?………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………91 AN OXYMORONIC LETTER,or CAN I PLEASE HAVE MY CELLULOID BACK?………………………………93 VIII: Elizabeth Block Erases Elizabeth Block……………………………………………………………………………………………………95 IX: The Celluloid Sonnets…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………11 (untitled\#1,clunky,like loading a camera)……………………………………………………………………………………………………

FAQs

What is the main theme suggested by the title “Celluloid Salutations”?

The title frames the collection as a series of greetings built around “celluloid,” pairing surface form with something inherently unstable or unreal, while emphasizing contradiction and emptiness.

Which structural sections are included in the table of contents?

The table of contents lists sections I through XII, including “Make Haste, Slowly,” “Like Automatic,” “Mean Old Soil,” “What is an Open Heart?,” and “An Oxymoronic Letter.”

Does the book include multiple poetic forms beyond standard poems?

Yes. The contents indicate letters, sonnets, and haiku, alongside recurring reprises and typographic/visual experiments.

Sep 28, 2026

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