Author: Catherine

a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author’s surroundings. The name is derived from two Kanjis meaning “to follow” and “brush”, and...

Wittgenstein’s Ladder, a poem by David Lehman Not much of a poem. And I have read that LW was not a machine gunner, nor a stretcher carrier in WWI, he operated a search light...

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Echoing in my head. What are the limits of that whereof one cannot speak? Can poetry mediate that limit? I wonder...

Offblog, I’ve been working on a perspicuous representation. perspicuus, transparent, from perspicere I like the term “clear” better. Also – “Weltbild,” a picture of the world. But all derived. A detached world. Which is...