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Reduplications Reduplicated
Andrea Cohen Nightshade p. 25 “Blizzard” [opening] All night plows plow. Snows snow. Lovers somewhere somehow love. Reminds me of Émile Nelligan “Soir d’hiver” which begins: Ah! comme la neige a neigé ! Ma vitre est un jardin de givre. … Continue reading
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Singular Praise of Reduplication
Nietzche from Human All Too Human again … It is an excellent thing to express a thing consecutively in two ways, and thus provide it with a right and a left foot. Truth can stand indeed on one leg, but … Continue reading
Simplifying Simplicity
Jean-Paul Bavard An appreciation for an early reader — associating a face to a name — hoping there will be time for the grain of the voice beyond the page https://www.facebook.com/pg/Jean-Paul-Bavard-1437022473044768/posts/?ref=page_internal Back in 1999 Jean-Paul Bavard mentioned and quoted my … Continue reading
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Discovery and Joy
I am currently reading (have currently read) A Hacker’s Manifesto by McKenzie Wark who is much inspired by Deleuze and Guattari. From my reading I note two sentences (order inverted by me) from section 060 … The virtuality of the … Continue reading
Homophonica
Michele Leggott Milk & Honey “tourbillon 1” I am arrested by a line and a reduplication of sound across meaning almost the lobe of l’aube a sliver of morning light comes to mind and the “lobe” becomes breast-like almost the … Continue reading
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Dual Duels
Would that English have a nice dual that was not first person plural which collapses the difference of the two (or more) into a collective identity. Even if there were a lexical means for referencing a dual, the verb inflexions … Continue reading
Marking Time Passing
One line from Brian Fawcett Permanent Relationships dewwet morning What is amazing here is the simplicity of the means (rearranging the inter-word spacing) and the richness of the suggestiveness thus generated. “Dewwet” evokes that moment where the droplets have begun … Continue reading
LIP GRAM
Lipogram: a text in which a given letter or set of letters is deliberately left out (Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics) Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book) by Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens) preserves the French in its … Continue reading
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Again After Basho
My earlier glonk noise on Basho’s famous frog-pond poem has some twins composed in 2001 and here reproduced for your aural pleasure: I pond, old old pond frog leaping in in ripple sound II rippling sounds from frog splash a … Continue reading
Broken Acrostic
Audre Lorde invites the reader to contemplate some unfinished business in the concluding lines of “Legacy — Hers” collected in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. Poems 1987-1992. A dying word becomes a task. your last word to me was wonderful and … Continue reading
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