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Global Joke
Play on an expression figée nets an interesting double take. GAME VS. REAL There are typos all over the word. Jason Christie. Canada Post. (Snare Books, 2006) And so for day 1454 06.12.2010
U.N.
un discounting the dropped words (and the mangled French words in the English translation in a quotation from Georges Perec [1974] “Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year … Continue reading
rorrim
nathalie stephens (Nathanaël). Mirror. Book. Page. Turn. If by chance we speak to mirrors, it is perhaps less for narcissistic reasons than out of a desire for dead time separating us from the battering voices we carry. I turn the … Continue reading
sans Hypatia sans
In a message to a friend, I mis-transcribed the title of the poetry collection as Le Spleen de Pouchkeepsie instead of “Poughkeepsie”. That “C” should have been a “G”. It just so happens that the typeface is Hypatia Sans and … Continue reading
Know Knot
Beyond annoyance accidentals can trigger speculation. Take the McClelland and Stewart 1968 imprint of Black Night Window by John Newlove. The poem is called “There Are No Innocent People in Vancouver”. It begins: We all know that, or something like … Continue reading
Of “uv”
The poetry of bill bissett is marked by non-standard spellings that make phonetic sense. This of course poses a bit of a challenge for machine processing. As observed by Christian Bök in “NICKEL LINOLEUM” (Published in Open Letter: bpNichol + … Continue reading
Breeding Bread
Petite trouvaille. Stephen Collis. “Another Duncan Etude: Empire and Anarchy” in in W [dix] a Duncan Delirium published by the Kootenay School of Writing Dante’s thought can be seen to be a breading ground of democracy. I imagine a lot … Continue reading
Perception Capture
From “Hyperboarding: From Aristotle to Brenda Laurel and on…” by Heikki Salo comes this lovely and telling typographical instance: In real world we perseive [sic] and distinguish objects and their relations – this is also true of abstractions like thoughts … Continue reading
Chance Catches
A note book entry dated July 30, 1997, produced under the rubric of DICE INCISIONS In trying to explain […] to […] I’ve come across an interesting if not highly intriguing formulation: the producting [sic] of randomness in a literary … Continue reading