April 2019 – BIG OTHER

“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain.”

Happy birthday, Louise Glück! 76, today! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Poetry survives because it haunts and it…

Happy birthday, Vladimir Nabokov! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” “For me…

“We each of us brothers took up a fist full of nails and a hammer into each one of our…

Feeling the nausea rising, he ran out into the courtyard and vomited on a dwarf palm tree. —Michel Houellebecq …

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 76, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet, in my podcast with her…

Happy birthday, Kathy Acker! Here are some quotes from her writing. “At a certain point I realized that the ‘I’…

Happy birthday, Bob Kaufman! Here are some of his poems. Walking Parker Home Sweet beats of jazz impaled on…

Juxtaposition and parataxis are key techniques of composition across the traditional genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. The former refers…

Voiceover conversant with Before During After as much a screwdriver that made impersonating Red Yellow Blue auteur the glorifying test…

The Contraries Circle’s motion goes / against all endpoints. Rare area / roar. Space, a massless rigidity / /…