The bloody boy’s filled the bloody bath with bloody snakes, again!
Blogging the Hugos: The City And The City
[Note: many of the ideas about the border as heterotopia come from an as-yet unpublished paper by Maureen Kincaid Speller,…
Guy Davenport on E. E. Cummings
I’m in the middle of reading Davenport’s Every Force Evolves a Form. And after being treated to his treatment of…
Guest Post, by Todd Zuniga: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” —Voltaire
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Laura van den Berg
“My mother was always surprised by time.” —Joy Williams, “Escapes” A beautiful sentence from an exquisitely heart-breaking story that…
A Mad Tea-Party: An Essay-Collage
[The following is a talk I gave at Buzzer Thirty in Queens for an exhibition called “…no right to assume…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Dawn Raffel
“The woman, who is me—why pretend otherwise?—wants to love a man she cannot have.” —The opening salvo of Diane Williams’s…
Guest Post, by Peter Selgin: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
“I had a hard-on so big I thought it would pick me up and throw me out the window.” –From…
Video poetry: the prequel
I’ve been meaning to write a series of posts about video poetry, but it’s proved tricky to find the right…