Directory

As a continuing part of Robert Fitterman’s epic Metropolis poem, which examines the consumerist urban landscape through found language, “Directory” is exactly that: a directory from an unnamed mall, looped with poetic concerns for form, meter, and sound. Fitterman’s listing of a mall directory purports to be as numbing, dead, and dull as the mall experience itself, hence expressing truth in the non-expressiveness of his linguistic subject matter.