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latex of our lives
Kaushalya Bannerji A New Rememberance (Toronto: TSAR, 1993) “THIS IS NOT AN ELEGY” What to say when a friend becomes a corpse […] And what life is this? The constant vigilance or weariness. The latex of our lives stretched to … Continue reading
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Reading Howe
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time “Reading Ovid” Marie Howe The thing about the Greeks and Romans is that at least mythologically, they could get mad. If the man broke your heart, if he fucked your sister speechless then real true … Continue reading
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like playing a video game: ohsoprecisely
Kaushalya Bannerji ~~ A New Remembrance ~~ “World War” There is a headnote that gives us place and time of composition: “written during the Gulf War of winter 1991” These are the concluding lines and I note the “ohsoprecisely” accurate … Continue reading
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Sounds of the House
Kaushalya Bannerji ~~ A New Remembrance ~~ “My Dida’s House” The poem ends with a stark image of a gender divide. My world was always one of communicative women, harsh-voiced or sweet, and silent men appearing like fullstops at the … Continue reading
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Riposte
F.R. Scott in The Dance is One has a poem answering McLuhan’s The Mechanical Bride. It is entitled “The Miniaturized Groom” and is a series of short statements about the adage the medium is the message. Scott quips that McLuhan … Continue reading
Piscine Delights
From the Glossary of Fish Names in Jane Grigson Fish Cookery Nannie Nine Eyes (sea lamprey: eel) Nanny nose (soft clam) Nanny shad (gizzard shad; shad) Nassau grouper (grouper) Native oyster (oyster grown in UK, Ostrea edulis) Navaga (cod) Pure … Continue reading
The Print, The Step
Two lines from #121 in Daryl Hine &: A Serial Poem […] As if each moment were a monument […] Not every happening qualifies as an event. Two lines that bring to mind for me the subtle art of Jeff … Continue reading
Cross-stanza Sonorities
Walter de la Mare. Peacock Pie “The Cupboard” I love the suggestiveness of rhyming “me” with “key”. And I particularly am thrilled by how the rhyme is carried over the stanzas. I know a little cupboard, With a teeny tiny … Continue reading
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BTW Lullabies
Reading Daryl Hine &: A Serial Poem I came across a passage that echoed in my mind with a reading of Gjertrud Schnackenberg Heavenly Questions. First #60 from the Hine book Immured in a single-occupancy cell, Each day indistinguishable from … Continue reading
seeing as apparent memories but occurring only as speaking
Leslie Scalapino The Weatherman Turns Himself In Spectacle floats location. And in the mode of locating flotation here is a set transcribed with some lineation. Landscape is event, as if one’s action were seen outside one. “Landscape is event, as … Continue reading
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