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Deter Gently
For Giles who loves soap Reading After Jack by Garry Thomas Morse, I am struck by his genius for translation and invention offering us a complex chain of chemical traces to reread Jack Spicer and beyond his “After Lorca” to … Continue reading
Carriage
Jeanette Winterson. Weight. Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is … Continue reading
Foot Work
For a certain generation of gay men, we read with recollected pleasure set pieces that describe the collective and ecstatic experience of a night of dancing. Set pieces like the one below: Twice so far that evening I’d arrived at … Continue reading
Word of the Day
Alison Bechdel in Fun House has a pane which I thought was a typescript of a term paper with a floating text box obscuring part of the text of the “term paper”, said floating text box encapsulates a tender remark … Continue reading
Stretching for Allusion
I wonder how some lines in a poem by Tim Dlugos play out if you don’t connect with an allusion to Raymond Burr’s character, Perry Mason, in Ironside. The gestural quality transcends the allusion: Like wheelchair detectives we reach for … Continue reading
Intestinal Intertextuality
A whole chapter of Saints and Scholars by Terry Eagleton is devoted to a description of Dublin. This bit might remind you of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Irish style of defecation would be regular and efficient, brief in duration to … Continue reading
Annotating Double Takes
Natty Bumppo is a name I first encountered in John Bruner’s The Shockwave Rider where a very intelligent dog is so named. That dog at one point encounters a mountain lion named Bagheera whose name I recognized from Rudyard Kipling’s … Continue reading