tentava bonvicino
I spent some time with Etc today (by Régis Bonvicino, tr Odile Cisneros). First time I read through this, not much registered. Short stanzas, a slow wordiness, dot dot dot Stating the obvious is...
Category: Ecopoetics
random link for later
Typing “ecopietics” into Google did not yield much (except my own post, instantaneously (how do they do that?)), but this might be something I want to read more closely later… Christopher Arigo, Notes Toward...
inneresting, part 2
Still thinking about the book report. Kids have trouble with the book report because there is no context. If there is comparison, or a foundation, to provide context, it becomes more possible. Given that...
interesting
What is it about a book report? It automatically brings out this language: “It was interesting, but I didn’t like …” the main characters, the plot, the word choice, the form, the shape, the...
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...