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Cadence
Robert Creeley in conversation with Ekbert Faas (Towards a New American Poetics: Essays & Interviews) reminisces about Beckett — his voice and his way of speaking, selecting words while moving along with pauses etc. He spoke in this very, not … Continue reading
Precision Proofing
Billy Bragg “Rotting on Remand” on Workers Playtime 1988 I said there is no justice As they led me out of the door And the judge said, “This isn’t a court of justice son This a court of law.” Interesting … Continue reading
Affinities
I am reading a book by Mutlu Blasing entitled Lyric Poetry: The Pain and Pleasure of Words. It’s a bit dense in parts. Clunky of sorts. But it does meticulously propose with unctuous prose what the “I” intentionally constructs as … Continue reading
Lief To Be Alive
Charles Bernstein in the introduction to Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word in a description come injunction invites the reader to enter into a site of openness. The most resonant possibilities for poetry as a medium can be realized … Continue reading
Tuneful Origins
There is a certain whimsy in the recitation offered by Jean-Jacques Lecercle in The Force of Language of the various speculations about origins. Indeed, among the theories of the origin of language, one will not only find the ‘bow-wow’ theory … Continue reading
Rebar Feathers
from “Fletched” in Phil Hall. The Small Nouns Crying Faith A flower no I mean one who unplucked flows the o as in holy not ouch I adore how in reading this line the mind is forced back by the … 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
Materiality of Language
One of the best examples of the materiality of language at work has been provided by Adrian Miles in a posting to the Humanist discussion list. Humanist 26.663 “digital materiality” A simple example I use with undergraduates. In a lecture … Continue reading
Eros Voice Echo
D.A. Miller in Bringing Out Roland Barthes has but two bottom of the page notes. Although pages apart they can be read in unison. The second is a longish quotation reporting on the quality of Barthes’s voice. Guy Scarpetta, having … Continue reading
Kindred Activities
I was no doubt thinking of thaumaturgical properties when I characterized inscription and incantation as parallel under the rubric of mobilité du signe inscription: leaving trace incantation: pushing out talking When I meditate upon this further, I come to realize … Continue reading