Odd that after yesterday's post, I remembered an amazing conversation I had had with Beth on Sunday. We talked about poetry for a couple of hours at the Young Avenue Deli and one of the (many) conclusions approached was that "PostModernism" had, in many ways, led people to think that THE WORK was solely in critique -- finding out what was big and ( Read more... )

Saw Identity the other night.  Multiple personality sydrome is always interesting, even if fictional, as Joe says.  Made me think about what would happen if I fissured myself, what particle entities, what avatars, might fly free, find land and walk on their own.

Before, I have been

• The monocled and heartless Critic sitting, Germanic, alone in the ( Read more... )

Working in customer service -- even in a library -- you come across so many daft brains and unresponsive eyes -- that you can fall into thinking the entire world has forgotten how to think an interesting, crooked line, forgotten how to do anything but use their cash-eye coordination. Depressing ( Read more... )