In discussing a passage from Alexander’s Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (1998), Eshleman wrote, “The desire in such writing is for a paradise of language, for the creation, in language, of a reality that uses particles from the observational world to foment interlocking nonsequitor constellations that ignite new constellations as they burst.” As Alexander wrote in the first paragraph of the work, “It is not with the steepness of vultures that I seek to procure an arcane stability in the void, but by the blending of halts and motions, like the vertical equilibria of fire, brought to an incandescent pitch of value.”
The poet Susan Howe, 77, at right, and her daughter, the painter R. H. Quaytman, 53, in Quaytman’s house, designed by the American sculpto...
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Birdie I am Birdie now I don’t know why. I squat at the edge of the top of our rowhouse & I’m without wings I think. Philadelphia isn’...
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Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) Because a razor cuts across a frame of film, I wince, squinting my eye, and because my day needs as...
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Filtering by Tag: Tree Tall Woman [Kills bugs dead.] Kills bugs dead. Redundancy is syntactical overkill. A pin-prick of peace at the end ...
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