Monthly Archive: March 2010
whisper
Surfing from Brenda Coultas to Barbara Henning, and was rewarded by a quote from Alice Notley. THERE is too much of human material now everywhere: the world is covered with “the man-made.” None of...
no comparison
I saw him later, carrying around a strange sculpture difficult to describe, because there was no comparison to it in the natural world. Brenda Coultas, “The Bowery Project,” page 24 Speaking of traits that...
traits that shock us
Surfing somehow from Alicia Cohen to the mythology of the Tongva, I was rewarded by an interesting quote from Alfred Kroeber (whom I think of as the father of Ursula LeGuin). It’s long and...
“talking forest”
The Elm said this like a wisper Alicia Cohen, “Talking Forest,” ecopoetics 1, page 20 Like this a lot. Something about that word “wisper” is so attractive. What would a wisper be. I like...