Another bit of the read this year pile, a stack of read I missed mentioning before: Nelson Ball‘s Three Letter Words (a reprint by Press-Press-Pull in 2014 of the 2006 book) is a mouthercize where there are tables of lists of possible words, and English words mixed alphabetically so they start to merge. san sen […]
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95 Books for 2014, list 5
Let’s see, where did I leave off? Or start where I am and work my way back? Among the books finished this month. Works and Days by Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999) This was a quick but absorbing read. He had organized his poems as an abcedarian, only so far as subject […]
95 Books for 2014, List 4
It’s like this. I was thinking little photo shoots with clusters of books and stuffed animals. (And making it more complicated than necessary. What fun complications can be.) I was keeping all the read books in a read-it stack. As weeks passed, the stack got buried, toppled, raided, mixed up with new or partly read […]
On fragments
Jennifer K Dick’s fragment project got an addition of mulling from rob mclennan, The fragment allows for the distractions of easy narrative and straightforward patterns to be abandoned for the sake of the collage or even collision of lines, phrases, stanzas and even poems to shape into something that couldn’t easily be explained, but somehow […]
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 […]