A friend recently alerted me to a post at Geek System (“Found Poetry in Magic: The Gathering Cards”): a fellow named Adam Parrish made some short poems by blacking out selected text on Magic cards: You can find more of Parrish’s poems here. He says of them, “[s]ome of these turned out well, some not [...]
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The Dominant and the Longue Durée
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annales School, Ben Marcus, Bob Perelman, Brian McHale, Brom, Dick Tracy, fantasy, Fernand Braudel, Frank Frazetta, Jen Bervin, Ken Edwards, Language poetry, longue durée, Modernism, opera, parataxis, postmodernism, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Ron Silliman, Shakespeare, Shrek, sonnet, Stephen Moore, the dominant, The Lord of the Rings, The New Sentence, Ulysses, Wordsworth, Yury Tynyanov, Yvor Winters on March 6, 2010 | 23 Comments »
It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although maybe it wasn’t replaced until 1901; it must have taken a while back then, in those days before cellular phones and email, to “get the memo,” as we say today. How long did it really [...]
Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Morse Code
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Appropriation, Jen Bervin, Morse Code, NETS, Shakespeare on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this site where the Bard’s sonnets are reduced to strings of digital bits. Here’s a description of the project: Here are Shakespear’s [sic] Sonnets in morse code at 7, 13 and 20 words per minute. I created them to help me practice for my General Class amateur radio (Ham Radio) license. I found [...]