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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading Typologia, by Frederic W. Goudy Nervous Songs, poems by Paul Hoover The Secret Room, poems by James Laughlin Gutenberg, by John Man The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, by Breece D’J Pancake Suggested Listening Red Medicine CD, Fugazi Breaking Point CD, Freddie Hubbard Some Other Stuff CD, Grachan Moncur The Procrastinator CD, Lee […]
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A Fragmentary Poetics (Part Two)
Part One of this essay appeared in last month’s update. Click here to read Part One.— Z. I’ve read a lot about the poetics of the fragment, the poetics of the ruin. Most of the work in English deals with the Romantics, who loved plopping themselves down among the overgrown, broken walls of some medieval […]
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Mockingbird & Icon
I. Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos. An American passerine song-bird. “The many-tongued mime.” The Mimid family to which the mockingbird belongs includes thrashers — longbilled, California, & brown among them — & the gray catbird whose call is an incontestable meow. Adult mockingbirds have distinctive white patches amid dark gray wing feathers, topside & underside. When they […]
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from Some Mariners
alias James arm an alloy ambidextrous wonder yd never touch • • • ink a hinge here ‘n here ‘n mother make me limber • • • grappling iron your legs moor me in full tide whet against protean shoulders breath is fuel open your mouth seep into luminous prowl of sea night is […]
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11.04.02
As we near a season associated with — if not defined by — gift-giving, let’s not forget the practicality & joy of Cultural Society publications. Cheap, attractive, & ready-to-use right out of the bag, they are gifts that truly keep on giving. Of more immediate interest, we have this update photographs from Cary Conover & […]