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Portrait and Landscape
It is perhaps evident that orientation influences the flow. The plane affects the pace of reading. I am reminded of Wasssily Kandinsky’s remarks on the basic plane (BP) in Point and Line to Plane. At all events, certain forces of … Continue reading
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Acorn
Part of Carla Hartsfield’s poem “In the Garden” is quoted as an epigraph to David Livingstone Clink’s “Knots and Hollows” collected in his Shapeshifter (2004). Spent the afternoon crouched in the belly of an ancient tree. Climbed up there on … Continue reading
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Leaf Note Drop
Mark Truscott in a sequence from Said Like Reeds Or Things entitled “IT WAS” conducts the reader on a tour of what can be accomplished by small incremental changes coupled with tactical page-turning. The poetic sequence is printed towards the … Continue reading
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Florilegium
Some of the epigraphs to various sections from H.L. Hix Chromatic Spinoza (Ethics) Desire is the very nature or essence of every single individual. Wittgenstein (Remarks on Colour) How must we look at this problem in order for it to … Continue reading
Morals, Legacies and Books
Patti Smith about the recording of Horses at Electric Lady. From her memoir, Just Kids. Jimi Hendrix never came back to create his new musical language, but he left behind a studio that resonated all his hopes for the future … Continue reading
Garamond for the Millennium
My copy of this short but illuminating article is a photocopy, clipped. From internal evidence I know of its having appeared at sometime in EyeWire – no indication of time or place. One sentence is highlighted in pink marker: Ms. … Continue reading
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The One, the Set and the Historical
I’ve visited Richard Boston in the foreward to The Guardian Country Diary Drawings by Clifford Harper (2003, Agraphia Press) and focused on the acquiring a “narrative quality”. Here is the passage given more fully The Country Diary drawings are intended … Continue reading
A Smile at A Smile in His Lifetime
Joseph Hansen has his lead character visit a home from his past, a home that time has ravaged. He steps into the room where he slept. Damp trash lies in the corner where his bed was. There are books without … Continue reading
Inveighing
I almost think that the succession of poems in the complete poetry of Catullus is meant to weary the reader. Invective succeeds invective to the point of tedium. And then, the concluding poem ends with a taunt addressed to Gellius … Continue reading
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Surprises
Edmund White concludes his memoir My Lives with a rich evocation of friendship whose final words are Being predictable is one unforgivable sin in a friend. And he has so nicely arranged the book so that strangers and friends can … Continue reading
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