kafkaesque
“Kafka epitomizes one aspect of this modern mind-set: a sensation of anxiety and shame whose center cannot be located and therefore cannot be placated; a sense of an infinite difficulty within things, impeding every...
Monthly Archive: June 2004
letters
I wrote letters last night, handwritten, for the first time in a long time. It felt — fluent. I felt taken back to a more innocent time, a more whimsical, carefree self. I forgot...
poetics
S wrote that she rarely talks about her poetics on-list. This remark stuck with me. One, that she would rarely talk about it, and two, that she HAD a poetics. Do I have a...
nonlinearity in literature
Some thoughts on Nonlinearity in Literature I eagerly clicked on this link. The words excited me. I felt disappointed when I read there about techniques such as flashback, reversal of time, branching paths, shuffling...
zone
A bit of collage “Zone,” magnified. I discovered a technique I enjoy – making an image and then exploring it for details I like with the magnification tool.
the art of bitter tastes
Greenwich Village, after the war. Anatole Broyard ran a second-hand bookstore. I’m enjoying his memoir, Kafka Was the Rage. It’s more about sex than books*, but I’ll quote a bit about the books. “But...
a black stone
From Black Stone 42 by Dale Smith (Skanky Possum): “The dishes are clean though, and I steal these moments to write, free of the day’s mundane gravity, its irritating beauty and sweetness, and hard...