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Vegetable Symbolism
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo. From the Earth: Chinese Vegetarian Cooking Scallions were chung, and were to be considered wise because the characgter for “wise” translated as chung ming. And why were they wise? Because scallions are long and hollow, and their … Continue reading →
Pet Metaphors
Robert Kelly introduction to Thomas Meyer The Umbrella of Aesculapius. Each age of poetry seems to have a pet metaphor drawn from other arts for an inward vision of its own nature; so in the sixteenth the stage, seventeenth the … Continue reading →
Shrapnel
An Exploded Sestina Myrmurs by Shannon Maguire Post-plague reading, reassembling the Myrmidons — a selection of ant troops/tropes winter is a virus that July hosts in her blue moon software jostling syllables not like not at all like collagelision each … Continue reading →
C R Y S T A L
Roland Barthes Empire of Signs trans. Richard Howard “The Interstice” is about food preparation (tempura) and makes reference to the Branch of Salzburg. Which is a reference to Stendhal on the crystallization of love. In the summer of 1818 Stendhal … Continue reading →
Writing Face Painting
Malinda Lo. Ash. There’s a scene where daughter and mother are preparing for festivities. It involves costuming and the application of make-up. And of course questions. “But how will I know if I see a fairy?” Ash asked again. “If … Continue reading →
Crystallised Thaw
Helen Humphreys has assembled forty plus vignettes about The Frozen Thames. Each story is unique and the time spanned goes from the actual 1142 to the virtual 1927 (the Thames didn’t freeze that year but Humphreys supplies an intriguing postscript … Continue reading →
Never Mind Cabin Fever
Hut. In The Albertine Workout Anne Carson strings us along. In appendix 33 (a) there is an explanation of what purports to be the difference between metaphor and metonymy. Since this question has arisen, here’s the difference: in a group … Continue reading →
Over Observation
Open Mind, 2014 Yoan Capote From a blurb: A labyrinth based on a drawing of the human brain in which people can walk through. As they walk around the maze, participants are metaphors for neurons transmitting information. This work inspires … Continue reading →
Beasts and the Nature of Prayer
Robert Bringhurst A typographic mind is just as alert to the invisible as to the visible. It is a mind with at least four feet: one in the visual, one in the manual, one in the lingual and one in … Continue reading →
Labyrinth in Labyrinth
Entrance Anne Carson. red doc>. His teacher at med school called him a minotaur who swallows other people’s labyrinths. Good I’ll do psychiatry he said. Centre Paal-Helge Haugen. Meditations on Georges de La Tour. Translated by Roger Greenwald. The simplest … Continue reading →