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Preview of TOR April reader Zoe Skoulding
Becoming Post Avant
The thoughts of Steve Waling:
“It was a pressure in my head that made me finally admit that I was whatever kind of poet it is I think I’ve become. I had a failing poem that annoyed me so much, as a last resort, I cut it up. Lo! A light came down from heaven illuminating the path I must follow… or something… Rather, I discovered that I didn’t have to do the whole thing straight, that going the crooked route was just as interesting.”
More here. See Steve’s reading for The Other Room in February here.
Preview of TOR April reader Ian Davidson
Preview of The Other Room reader February: Holly Pester
The second introduction to our three February readers: Holly Pester. Click on the links.
Next week Steve Waling.
Poems
Criticism & more poetry
Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions: Fact Sheet
Fact sheet below.
See more emblems at onedit – LINK
Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions:
Fact Sheet
“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.” –Franz Kafka, Diaries
“In my life the furniture eats me.” –William Carlos Williams, Spring & All
EMBLEM
Invented in 1531 by a Florentine legal scholar named Andrea Alciato, the emblem is a tripartite structure composed of a motto or epigram (generally moral in theme), an icon (often referred to as the emblem’s ‘body’) and a commentary on the two in prose or poem form. Many emblems made variations on this formula.
ARMCHAIR EMBLEM
The upholstered emblem or armchair emblem incorporates only the epigram/motto and image tension of the Renaissance emblem but retains its conceptual gist and glyphic structure.
PROSTHETIC MOTTO
An aspirational embodiment or transcorporation for the body-image. “Building the muscles of mind’s legs.” Enhanced mobility via an ingested foreign body.
TRANSCORPORATION
A translation from one body to another. An ingestion or introjection.
WALKING DEFINITION
An indoor walking stick that defines constituents of the built interior as allegories of mind. A measure. A ‘getting underway’ instrument, frequently ‘left around.’
BUILT INTERIOR
An indoor pedestrian structure comprised of mobile furniture for the solicitation of thinking. An allegory of mind.
SOLICITATION
The directed rousal of thinking through upholstered didactic prompts or forms (an intelligent furniture).
FORMS
Ornaments of thought. Including: the glyphic (static—the emblem); the mnemonic (transcorporable—the prosthetic); the definitive (the Walking Definition).
FURNITURE
What is lived with. “The relation of with.” Any instrument or form housing information intended to be absorbed by accompaniment.
–THOMAS EVANS
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is
Guardian Reveals ‘Top Ten Poetry of the Noughties’
In its festive merriment and review of the culture of decade The Guardian takes a closer look at what’s been important over the last ten years in the world of poetry.
1. Miles Champion Three Bell Zero
2. Christian Bok Eunoia
3. Tim Atkins Horace
4. Peter Manson Adjunct: A Digest
5. Tom Raworth Collected Poems
6. P. Inman Ad Finitum
7. Ron Silliman The Alphabet
8. Tom Jenks A Priori
9. Caroline Bergvall Fig
10.Jeff Hilson (ed.) The Reality Street Books of Sonnets
Jeffrey Side interviews Kent Johnson at The Argotist Online
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