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Round of Ribbons
Yoko’s Dogs Caution Tape Between the covers, a circle. opening page… you came to me in a dream– was it by train or photograph? good night, that is, good morning farewell, that is, hello scouring a burned pot thinking of … Continue reading
phanopoeia > montage > creation
Images sometimes stay with one for a long while (e.g. this cover from a 2005 catalogue for Lee Valley) before they rhyme with another that opens up the imagination (the back cover of Stanley Tucci The Tucci table : cooking … Continue reading
Testing Tautologies
There is a didactic element to Kit Robinson’s “Lyric Strand” in Writing 25 (1990). It sports the following few lines Sound is an antidote to words, meaning lies. It can be used to show that they are used and only … Continue reading
Ballot Bullets
Steve McCaffery in “Bill Bissett: A Writing Outside Writing” collected in North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973-1986 advocates a type of anti-reading that emphasizes concentration on the graphic and sonic elements of a poem, that is attention to the materiality … Continue reading
Shine
Robert Haas ends “Songs to Survive the Summer” which itself ends Praise with the following set of verses: all things lustered by the steady thoughtlessness of human use. Through the polish of use the objects in our daily lives develop … Continue reading
Retracing Sequence and Series
From “Cartouches” the 11 December 1977 entry (p. 215) in Derrida’s The Truth in Painting translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod. Retrace one’s steps, always, again, narrative/series [récit/série]. I am grateful to the translators for recording the assonance that … Continue reading
Repetition and Discovery
I have quoted elsewhere on the blog from Simon McBurney’s piece that appeared in Brick (Winter 2004) and my selection focused on the importance of following directions and how the order of gestures serves a mnemonic. See Order disorder. Following … Continue reading
Delight and Contemplation
Virginia Woolf’s biography of Roger Fry of course quotes the painter and critic himself. “One thing I can say for myself,” he wrote. “There are no pangs of jealousy or envy when I see someone else doing good work. It … Continue reading
Bushes of Constellations
Part of an endnote: ” […] At its most literal and modest, hypertext is a computer-mediated indexing apparatus that allows one to craft and follow many bushes of connections among the variables internal to a category. Hypertext is easy to … Continue reading
Fugue
An ornate baroque escapade, a drift towards mania, a flight into fancy, laying tracks. In French the artist and the mad person are not so separate as might be suggested by Edmund White on Genet describing solitary confinements: If the … Continue reading