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...
Author: cednie
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...
too long
what does it matter that it’s long, really long, maybe too long, who knows how long is long it has it’s own internal swing I can’t modify it and I don’t want to share...
differences (one tsvetaeva, two translators)
Elaine Feinstein’s translation: Bent with worry Bent with worry, God paused, to smile. And look, there were many holy angels with bodies of the radiance he had given them, some with enormous wings and...
not writing, with words
lost lost lost my voice lost lone along these rainy highways blown out the window by the raucous crow caw radio lost I saw a tom turkey brown bronze bearded breast wandering in the...