Author Archives: Pearl

It’s a book I’ve fingered thru, even carried around bookstores, but in the end, hadn’t bought. The stepped light. The aching. Fragmentary. And deckle-cut pages. That physical touch alone brings me back decades, whispered privacy of written and read thought. Finally some moments of morning with Anne Carson’s translation, Fragments of Sappho. The side text […]

Tonight’s the last of Sandra Ridley’s workshops for the Tree Reading Series, held at 6:45 to 7:45, Floor 2A of the Arts Court on Daly Ave. Topic: On silence and risk. And reading works by Borges and Michelle Desbarats. People may bring their own poems to be looked at by the group. Upcoming Tree writing […]

Too much baldly straightforward creates its own kind of noise at all that is being left out. A lot going on allows more to come from the page and less from the reader? What is going on in the process of processing? Given more data, the organic patterns can lift out of the subset chosen […]

Of course, effectively, uptake matters, or pleasure of the partaking, not the label but, but but. What makes the difference between poetry and prose? One series I’m working on is peculiarly plot-driven. It hooks forward in a genre-fiction way. It has distinct voices and parts are not poetic even tho in form. It’s an odd […]

That ramble I made on women and literature is in a slightly modified form as the newest essay up at AngelHouse Press.