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Aspects of Poetics (Part Two)
This piece was originally presented as a talk to the Chicago Poetics Seminar. Part One appeared in last month’s update. Click here to read Part One. Bloch’s “the unfated,” Musil’s “anticipatory scent,” these are suggestive rather than prescriptive terms. How might they help in thinking through a new poetics? As David Kellogg reminds us in […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading Killing Rage, Eamon Collins Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type, by Geoffrey Dowding Winter [Mirror], poems by Paul Hoover The Fleuron Anthology, edited by Francis Meynell Letter Forms, by Stanley Morison Suggested Listening Sing the Troubled Beast CD, Bastro Thirteen Years CD, Alejandro Escovedo Rickets & Scurvy CD, David Grubbs […]
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06.23.02
Well, another month has passed & so arrives another update. This one contains poems by new contributor Joel Bettridge, & Jason Ian Moriber. We’ve also got part one of an extended prose piece by Michael Heller & photographs from Cary Conover. Other news is that (I know, I know) we should have Pam Rehm’s chapbook […]
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Aspects of Poetics (Part One)
Originally presented as a talk to the Chicago Poetics Seminar, we will be posting this article in two parts, the second of which will appear in the following update. (By “poetics,” I’m thinking of one of the basic ways we take this word when applied to poetry, a proposal, a manifesto, a theory….) Proust sets […]
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curling up
curling up so numb not to feel the night and falling asleep there
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Conjunctions
the earth rolls over careless for the most part the same variations in tone and reflection what’s hidden remains a city’s collapse its patterns of arrangements entirely with movement being what it is take heart and rejoice nights toil upon us wanes without our knowing what it means to be here the the of fissures conversations held […]
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Postscript
I don’t want children ever yours in particular my house is of the smallest kind unkempt dim and poorly built and can’t take such occupations it amounts to little and so on and so on undertaken slowly what would be left or not at all each minute as they say for now unmentioned as ever I […]