And then on the other side of the coin of the thinking around centos: If my words are worth nothing, why are you stealing them? makes the plagiarism-is-bad-because-work-went-into-things argument. Which asks for the respect of attribution. Part of that is courtesy of living in a system with others. But part of that is about ownership. […]
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95 Books for 2014, List 3, Vividly Living
I’m at least a dozen or so behind in my listing books completed. I’ll try to chunk these into smaller lengths so each instalment is only a few instead of pages of scroll. The Hottest Summer in Recorded History by Elizabeth Bachinsky (Nightwood, 2013) It feels more like a book than most, not in the […]
Cento and Self-Expression
A cento is a poem form where you also don’t use any of your own words. You have stacks of books that get passed around and perhaps on a 5 minute or 15 minute timer you grab and transcribe on your page. The object is to pull what stands out verbatim and move to the […]
Anthos
You may have already seen that Patrick White has died. He launched his last poetry collection two weeks before he died. He was the last Poet Laureate of Ottawa. When I was to see mom last she said she found a paper I left behind. A 1987 Anthos: White organized Anthos, the magazine (“The magazine […]
Having a (Nelson) Ball
It has arrived(!), beautiful little thing it is. Hand-bound in an edition of 100 by the talented Mr. Anstee. You can get Minutiae by Nelson Ball and a few other Apt. 9 Press titles via Etsy including William Hawkins, Leah Mol and an interview on the history of above/ground press.