Tag Archives: poetry
Peripetics
Peripetics by ZEITGUISED, 2009 This doesn’t get less interesting with repeat viewings, nor any easier to write about. I keep crossing things out. (via, well, a long story. Earliest showing on FFFF in April, then BruceS then MacT, and most … more…
links for 2007-08-19: Dilbert, Silliman
Dilbert: Coffee Swilling Beaver “I hired a coffee-swilling beaver to show you how to work faster” (tags: dilbert coffee-swilling-beaver humour comics) Silliman’s Blog much Beat-related linkage (tags: kerouac on-the-road literature creeley dylan)
Tuli Kupferberg reads from Snow Job
Shhh… you’ll wake the audience.
Raworth, Rusk, Dorn
Tom Raworth makes an appeal (NOTES » Thirty Years Ago) to conserve photographic records of figures of cultural significance on the West Coast in the mid 70s. Photographer Rob Rusk has fallen on hard times, his pictures out of circulation … more…
links for 2007-02-27: unchopping a tree
teaching stories: unchopping a tree “Start with the leaves, the small twigs, and the nests that have been shaken, ripped, or broken off by the fall; these must be gathered and attached once again to their respective places. It is … more…
links for 2007-01-15: William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams MP3s of 1940s readings (tags: audio poetry williamcarloswilliams)
links for 2007-01-12: Borges audio
Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse Audio CD six excerpts of Borges’ lectures at Harvard, 1967 (tags: borges mp3 lectures writing)
Dish with epigraphic decoration
Musée du Louvre This dish is one of the finest examples of the group of objects with essentially epigraphic decoration, produced from the tenth century onward in western Iran. The text is an adage: “Science (or magnanimity) are bitter-tasting at … more…
links for 2006-12-10: Schama on Waits
One from the heart | Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music Simon Schama eulogises Tom Waits (tags: Tom-Waits, Simon-Schama, music, poetry)
Happy Birthday William Blake
I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every … more…