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UPDATE! Coming Up on Interchange: “Later also headache”
The title of this post comes from Naomi Baron’s Words Onscreen which will serve as the basis of an upcoming Interchange program. “Later also headache” was a description given by a German respondent as to…
What Else Was There?
From Donald Hall’s Essays After Eighty, “A Yeti in the District.” The next day I got back to writing. What else was there? Well, there was anticlimax. When Linda and I returned to my house,…
A Nothing More Blank
Stevens and Frost “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long…
A Discernment: Frost or Stevens
To ask the question concerning he daemon is to seek an origin of inspiration. Whereas Robert Frost is possessed by an external daemon whose name is Loss, hence the power of Directive, Wallace Stevens undergoes…
Soldier-Sentimentalist-Poet
Two snippets from Ford’s The Good Soldier (1924). The word “sentimental” or some form of it occurs 28 times in the novel–a use for big data! ************ For all good soldiers are sentimentalists—all good soldiers…
This is 40: Will Johnson’s Best
In 2011 Will Johnson turned 40. In that same year his rock and roll project, the group Centro-Matic, released what I think is their best album (I might qualify this by calling it their most…
The Whole Pieces of Modernist Poetry
Stevens places a jar in Tennessee and Williams breaks a bottle and places it “between walls.” I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround…
fructus separati
Walking in the late evening with the sun still high we formed a kind of huckleberry party, you and I. Our choice of route dictated by access to berries. Rasberries planted on borders up against…
An Aesthetic of Possession
Walking past a green vine with a white flower growing up a street sign I reached out and touched the flower. I felt a very brief impulse to pluck it off the stem – laminectomy(VIP:…