John Maeda said, As we both have an arts background, the word “integrity” has special meaning. She said resolutely, “Integrity equals consistency.” Ah, interesting odd tidbit. Internal consistency is my nemesis. Consistency, aka “voice” – those subjects, attitudes, moods, syntax, lineations, cleverness ratio, densities, language register – which some aspire to, to make it seem […]
Category Archives: Poetics
VERSeFest Day 5: Factory Series
The matinee event for 2pm on March 14th was a Factory Series event with Markotić and McElroy who both work with components of language more than starting from components of story. Their work in poetry seems more whole person some how instead of using the heart as a morphine pump while the rest atrophies. They […]
Dedication
Book dedications don’t go as far as they used to. See, p. 101 of Owen Gingerich’s The Book Nobody Read, Peter Apian’s Astronomican Caesareum was truly astronomy for an emperor’s eyes. Dedicated to Charles V of Spain, it won for its author, an astronomy professor at the university in Ingolstadt, the right to appoint poets […]
On form and magazine function
ConduitCanada has an interview with Bardia Sinaee. It’s worth a full read. Here’s a couple snippets, On “the resurgence on form poetry”, Form never died or even faded, it’s just been mutating. How do we define or pin down the form of Berryman’s dream songs? I don’t think early post-modernism threw the formal baby out […]