backwords
Turning it around – “Can Poetry Destroy the World?” Imagining humans without language or with a different kind of language. Can language be the root destructive force? Has poetry contributed?
Category: Ecopoetics
poetry – pottery – puppetry
I went to a poetry reading this week featuring my friend Ralph Nazareth. He closed with “A Question for Vaclav Havel,” a short prose poem wherein he tries to ask Vaclav Havel whether poetry...
echo logical
unless I remember & recite The Whole Poem over & over inwardly (‘To Myself‘) in first light. Grenier, page 54 It’s the first light that gets me.
by hand
The next piece is an essay by Robert Grenier, handwritten. I love handwriting in publications. It is not that easy to decipher – I’m going to have to print it out and make notes....
roiling sky
What do we know about this piece? We know it is an excerpt from “The Conversation.” We know it has two speakers, a male and a female. We know it is set in contemporary...
moving information
Starting to study Kenneth Goldsmith and his piece in ecopoetics volumn 1, an excerpt from “The Conversation.” Getting more than I bargained for, saving myself in the nick of time from another absurd dismissal....
oil x 365
Product of Compression I thought that I would like to see what would happen if I learned one thing about oil every day for a year… Jennifer S. Flescher’s ecoblog about oil. First a...