Category: Volume 1

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.

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....

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...

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....

Reading “The Kite” by Marcella Durand. Feeling resistance (not uncommon for me encountering a poem). The parentheticals are distracting, I’m wondering why use them, what are they for. I can’t stop thinking about Moby...

If I didn’t like poetry, and liked pruning, I might compare poetry and pruning, but as it is, pruning seems to involve a battle resulting in the sudden, violent death of very large entities....

Feeling I was too cavalier and quick to dismiss Bonvicino yesterday. Typical dumb American, unwilling to open to another language – that was part of it. Also, the thought of wondering why am I...