Archive for June, 2006

heading east – lubec

June 28th, 2006

This Easternmost town (and Easternmost community) in the United States (the Easternmost city is Eastport), also claims the Easternmost Point in the country. Sail Rock, just offshore from the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse and Quoddy Head State Park, is the most easterly part of the U.S. not covered by water (although it certainly receives its share of sea spray!).

from Quoddy Loop site


irome no kasane

June 27th, 2006

color combinations deemed fashionable in the Japanese Heian era:

chart
another chart
page from The Takata Institute of Japanese Imperial Classical Costume

idea: books with layered pages based on the different color combinations


tibishi

June 25th, 2006

Literally “poetry inscribed on the wall,” tibishi has been an important form of composing and disseminating poems in Chinese literary history. The space for inscription is actually not limited to “walls”; poems written on cliffs, rocks, doors, windows, rafters, and even snow fields also belong to this genre. At inns and roadside pavilions, where travelers usually stop for a rest, there were even special kinds of “poetry boards” set up for the convenience of the poetically inspired.

from Yunte Huang — Angel Island and the Poetics of Error [PDF]
ubuweb ethnopoetics


nature printing

June 25th, 2006

painted feather

leaf    maple leaf    mushroom

images from COLLAGE WORKSHOP
with steven daiber
intima press studio on the square, June 3
see also: nature printing society


commentary on APR issue

June 23rd, 2006

  • doesn’t seem like they are trying to sell magazines with the cover photo
  • it ought to be easy to find recordings of cante jondo but it is not
  • OLENA, my heroine, is the subject of a whole article! Yay yay

“i” thinks there should be new ‘new sexualized and radicalized poetry of the self”,

aprweb.org current issue


first post in a long time

June 17th, 2006

less terday
o more to more o