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Symmetry: He Said, I Told Him
Section 5 of “The Fausto Poems” On Thanksgiving I took him home to my reservation and he wanted to ride horses. I don’t know how to ride, I told him. He said, I thought all Indians rode horses. On Christmas, … Continue reading
Precipitate (Noun)
A single line triumph. Making three look more. By way of enjambement. The concluding lines of “Rain, Rain, Rain” by Don McKay from Apparatus Who understands this tongue? No one. No one and no one and no one. … yet … Continue reading
once more more
Gillian Sze From “Panicle” in Panicle What do you see? Fog lurking along the street. What does it bring? A sudden surge of birds from around the corner. What do you hear? Shrapnel of wings. What do you call this? … Continue reading
Where Has Been There Will Be
This begins like a call and response and turns into a round and then closes with a synoptic clincher. Answer July … #386 Answer July – Where is the Bee – Where is the Blush – Where is the Hay? … Continue reading
Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Boys
In retrospect there is a hint of gender politics in Eric Partridge’s entry on “boys will be boys”in his 1964 compilation A Book of Essential Quotations. He adds to the quotation from Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Anthony Hope‘s gloss: “Boys will be … Continue reading
Vignelli Vignette
This scene in Design is One grabbed my attention simply because the artefact was handled by its designer as he told the story of its reception. Cup overflow was discussed as habit versus design flaw. Searching for more I came … Continue reading
Vocation
Robert Bringhurst makes a convincing case for taking up a vocation in a lecture given at the University of Victoria, British Columbia in 1998 under the title “The Vocation of Being, The Text of the Whole” available in The Tree … Continue reading
Glass Bead Game – American Style
Ivanhoe IVANHOE is a pedagogical environment for interpreting textual and other cultural materials. It is designed to foster critical awareness of the methods and perspectives through which we understand and study humanities documents. An online collaborative playspace, IVANHOE exposes the … Continue reading
Wish A Joke
I first encountered the joke in Jacques Derrida’s quotation of it in his eulogy for Sarah Kofman. He announces it well in advance of its citation and thus builds up anticipation and tension which is released when he quotes Kofman’s … Continue reading
Embrace
Mutsuo Takahashi. Poems of a Penisist. Translated by Hiroaki Sato (1975; reprinted by University of Minnesota Press, 2012). The volume opens with a poem “Dove” which establishes a to and fro between the speaker and the one we take to … Continue reading