throw away the ladder
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...
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whereof one cannot speak
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...
perspicuous representation
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...
build your vocabulary
1. …Joron’s work is ever conscious of otherness, especially a kind of self-estrangement that makes for the ostrananie that gives poetry its uncanny endlessness. American Hybrid, a Norton Anthology of New Poetry, Andrew Joron...
humanimality
it’s fun to say
9th Big CLWN WR Event
11 June 2009, 7-10 pm Safe T Gallery in the D.U.M.B.O. section of Brooklyn 9th Big CLWN WR Event which will feature readings and performances by Holly Anderson, Joel Chace, R. Nemo Hill, Sheila...
nostos
In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the final part, during which Leopold Bloom returns home, is called the Nostos. ~wikipedia Eleven days in a row off work. And finished Chapter 16, starting Chapter 17. The question/answer...