Monthly Archive: October 2012

Galáxias

Reading about Haroldo de Campos’s Galáxias REFIGURING THE POUNDIAN IDEOGRAM: FROM BLANCO/BRANCO TO THE GALÁXIAS, Marjorie Perloff heavy compounding portmanteau words elaborate phrasing repetition unpunctuated no full stops, no complete sentences multilingualism the fantastic...

beebolics

beebolics bumblelogic dewdrenched colddazed dozing velcro’d to the cone bristles bristle

in the circle

From “Shaking the Pumpkin Revisited: A Range of Poems from the Indian Americas” My favorite anthology, a must to revisit often, especially this time of year. My understanding of poetry always comes back to...

curious reverberation

ecopoetics 2 – fall 2002 PREFACE TO FIELD GUIDE TO FERAL ORNAMENTS Roger Farr, Aaron Vidaver, Scott Ward At first reading – nothing. Or – just writing at the ragged edge of sense. At...

punctuation factoid

I had occasion to look up the name for these marks today. < < It is a guillemet. On the other hand, guillemots are any of three species of black-and-white seabirds.