Noah Eli Gordon

• SOME INFORMATION ABOUT FORTY YEARS OF EXISTENCE

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• 1. Minuscule blossoms
• 2. Light
• 3. Verticality
• 4. Sleep, mostly
• 5. Tumescence 
• 6. In which the villain’s wardrobe belies his goodness
• 7. Insecticidal sheen
• 8. Early ostracism
• 9. Divisive stirrings 
• 10. Lessons in gravity & aggression
• 11. An X for each empty square
• 12. Masturbatory camaraderie
• 13. Burgeoning addiction to nostalgia 
• 14. Pugilism
• 15. Fruition 
• 16. Moves to South Florida 
• 17. Thrusting & lunging, mostly
• 18. Minimal fame
• 19. Stoicism perfected
• 20. Buys a suit to circumvent liquor laws
• 21. Anarcho-syndicalist leanings develop
• 22. Psoriatic deflation of vanity
• 23. Romanticism
• 24. Carbuncular affliction 
• 25. First book completed 
• 26. Disappointment
• 27. Minimal fame, again
• 28. Computers
• 29. Moves to Denver 
• 30. Briefly considers switching mediums
• 31. Drops out of PhD program after three weeks
• 32. Gainful employment
• 33. Irreconcilable differences 
• 34. Love
• 35. Alcoholic bliss
• 36. Walks often around the city without encountering others
• 37. Replication 
• 38. Briefly switches mediums
• 39. Dionysian failure
• 40. First exposure to “irretrievably broken” as legal term 

NOAH ELI GORDON is an associate professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado--Boulder, where he teaches courses in creative nonfiction, publishing, and poetry, and currently directs Subito Press. His collection The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom was published by Brooklyn Arts Press; other books include Novel Pictorial Noise and The Frequencies.