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Logical Family Migrations
A bridging metaphor. A resonant myth in the context of the novel. Friable when lifted out. “They migrate like birds,” Anna explained. “They’re the only butterflies that do. But the distance of their migration is so enormous—thousands of miles—that they … Continue reading →
Pumped
In the perspective of an admitted “catharsis addict”. Dirt is liquid. And writing and reading are a conduit for bodily fluids. A book, like a TV, drains me of my wishes and fears. I hook myself up to the book … Continue reading →
Long Deep Breath
I have a bone to pick which is in keeping with the themes explored in Ceremonies for the Dead. Just what is the book designer trying to convey? The leading goes all wonky towards the end of a number of … Continue reading →
Stasis and Flight
They are by temperament different. By métier, poets. Both attentive to detail. Sandra Kasturi in Come Late to the Love of Birds, just before her homage to Ursula K. Le Guin, has a poem, “Bird Logic”, which ends in a … Continue reading →
Unfolding
From the best lines one can construct a found poem only to entice reader (using the best bait) to find from where these morsels have been captured and gathered. dry as dream-water Its last sound folds into the origami air … Continue reading →
Copy, Paste, Paste
From HyperMnemonics – MetaMimetics some thoughts about the features of the text editor software Emacs. One of the joys of working with Emacs is the buffer. The user can select and paste from many blocks of copied or cut text. … Continue reading →
Algebra Builds Homes
I have blogged before about Sachiko Murakami’s online poetry project http://projectrebuild.ca and now I have the pleasure of quoting from the book Rebuild. Let the home stand for us Let the beauty of our form be complex. Let our complexity … Continue reading →
Metaphor as Shaper
Doreen Maitre in Literature and Possible Worlds quotes Max Black the metaphor selects, emphasises, suppresses and organises features of the principal subject by implying statements about it that normally apply to the subsidiary subject Max Black “Metaphor” in Proceedings of … Continue reading →
The House by Robin Skelton
Quoting in full and risking copyright infringement of this poem by Robin Skelton. It opens In This Poem I Am: Selected Poetry of Robin Skelton edited by Harold Rhenisch. Very fitting for the beginning. It is entitled “The House” This … Continue reading →
Turing on States and Instructions
Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence “The Spirit of Truth” p. 107 note The arguments also implied two rather different interpretations of the machine ‘configuration’. From the first point of view, it was natural to think of the … Continue reading →