to say sooth
shoot a sty
soot to hay
so stay hoot
toy sash too
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
run silly man, run!
"Revolving Door. A sequence of objects." Ron Silliman
roving dojo quote
braces love's fence
do quiet organ job
once force evolves
quit gloved clover
of snob nosed jeer
Friday, May 9, 2008
this one is weird
blessed
(italics quoted from Robert Lowell's "Epilogue")
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme
horn tombs these deadly sculptures rest
why are they no help to me now
meet when a worthy holy open
I want to make
at man it woke
something imagined, not recalled?
her teeming daimons lead to cling
(italics quoted from Robert Lowell's "Epilogue")
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme
horn tombs these deadly sculptures rest
why are they no help to me now
meet when a worthy holy open
I want to make
at man it woke
something imagined, not recalled?
her teeming daimons lead to cling
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
One May
One May
"One train may hide another train" Kenneth Koch
(isnrbaahhuueeellllllltttttttt)
(isnrbaahhuueeellllllltttttttt)
one train may hide another train
I hint any or mean a tonier hatred
a harmony I aired another intent
mania into a thinner theory read
one train may hide another train
I ran hone a mythier nation tread
Saturday, April 26, 2008
lost in self-translation
james stevens fowler
jet owls fan me verses
ween marvels of jests
jewels of even smarts
men saw fevers jostle
jet owls fan me verses
ween marvels of jests
jewels of even smarts
men saw fevers jostle
nothing (and danger too?)
Nothing
I shah that nontheist dragon
in the tent tonight
attention to highroad has
thing tenth thinnest
hath ninth hottest hinting
hesitant danger too
"Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is" Wallace Stevens
I shah that nontheist dragon
in the tent tonight
attention to highroad has
thing tenth thinnest
hath ninth hottest hinting
hesitant danger too
Friday, April 25, 2008
just saying
to say this is just
this is just
to say
I jots thus
I stays
tis joust is
hasty
a joy sits
its shut
"This is just to say" William Carlos Williams
this is just
to say
I jots thus
I stays
tis joust is
hasty
a joy sits
its shut
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
beckett beckons /// title-shot
I've begun playing with the title of one of Beckett's french poems. This poses some further questions...as I will be translating the letters from french into english as well as from english into english. does any potential lingering of unity travel across languages? do we care? here's what i've stumbled through so far (ie not far yet)
Samuel Beckett
que ferais-je sans ce monde (what would I do without this world)
(the first is assembled from the french letter count; the second from the english count)
join cere safe semen squad
--------
wow I shit dull wood it thud hot war
que ferais-je sans ce monde (what would I do without this world)
(the first is assembled from the french letter count; the second from the english count)
join cere safe semen squad
--------
wow I shit dull wood it thud hot war
ODE// owed to emily
Tell All
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" Emily Dickinson
(isnrbaahhuueeellllllltttttttt)
(isnrbaahhuueeellllllltttttttt)
trust that bell
tall hell tune tilt
et trill but lull
thus talent attle
latent letters that
hull tell built
bull shutter lall
tenth thill tattle
[Each couplet contains the same exact same letters in count as the quote referenced]
Tell All(stock version)
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" Emily Dickinson
i
s
n
r
b
aa
hh
uu
eee
lllllll
tttttttt
quiverlance
By Any Other Name
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" William Shakespeare
(duhbrrwwnnttyymmooolllaaaasssseeeeee)
(duhbrrwwnnttyymmooolllaaaasssseeeeee)
a lude horny sass yet a
bow worn lamest melee
a bull mood seen ween
wary a holy street mass
less loose mutters been
warm whole any a day
[Each couplet contains the same exact same letters in count as the quote referenced]
first off
this was my first translation. the original line is my own.
each following couplet features the same letters in count as the italicized line. the final couplet was further broken - just cause - poetic effect.
and then great flashes of air
and then great
flashes of air
near flagrant
head of thesis
farside gathers
half one tan
aft handle her
a reason
a gift
each following couplet features the same letters in count as the italicized line. the final couplet was further broken - just cause - poetic effect.
and then great flashes of air
and then great
flashes of air
near flagrant
head of thesis
farside gathers
half one tan
aft handle her
a reason
a gift
|F'in-Oulipo|Foulipo|Foolipo|
I am about to babble in vague fashion.
This is the home of my latest oulipo fussing.
I've been writing poems from a sole sentence.
Previously, I've written a verbose line or two and
then rearranged the order of the words to further
describe some moment, the emphasis having been the
words themselves.
This time, I'll be looking at a shorter line with
which I will rearrange the letters into separate words,
the emphasis here being the letters. At this point, I'm
only starting, and as such, am not to worried about
"making overt sense". I am curious to see what comes of
"sense" as this all progresses though.
Too, I am thinking of doing tributes to some poets by
constructing a poem from the letters of some quote I enjoy
or don't enjoy. Maybe it won't be so much a tribute but
slander (kidding).
More immediately, my concerns float suspiciously around
the way re-worked wordage sounds - how by reconstructing
a line we may lose the meter or meaning of the initial
formation but gain a better appreciation to the sound and
smooth sense originally utilized by cluttering other space
with all those same letters. I leave one eye trained out
of focus though, left to spy what else comes from assembling
yet again language.
In the end, these will all be queer translations of a sort.
Thus, the title of this blog: In Rant At Loss
...did you catch that?
...Examples Soon Coming...
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