Recently we had a hailstorm. The papers referred to it as winter storm.
And an unpredicted rainbow too.
Hailstones the size of blue berries filled the little patch of garden like it has been sp(r)ayed with fertilisers.
I was thinking of how it is easy for us to subtract something and still make sense but harder to think of addition of something to bring out another meaning.
I was thinking like if there's an opposite. Epenthesis is the linguist's answer.
A while ago I was thinking how will I teach my child of Sandhi where two words add and at the juncture a different letter comes in. Epenthesis seems to retain all the letters in most cases instead of gobbling up some letters as 'service fee'.
My mom was telling that padava thargathi (tenth class) is now being referred to as pado thargathi ((still) tenth class). Spoken is taking the matter in its hands from the written.
I am worrying about teaching difficult concepts in Telugu, my mother tongue to my child but I am far losing touch with it. Few years ago, my uncle said that it was my accent, I am holding onto each sound. But now I know it even in the construction, I am filling in a lot of letters to communicate what I like to say but it all come sout in words that do not belong to the language except for the main verb. Makes for a good laugh. But what will the child learn from my garbled utterances? And Hindi, it is so taking the back bench in the brain. I am putting in English while speaking Hindi afraid to take the liberty of modifying it like I do to Telugu. I have learnt written Telugu only till 5th grade. I learnt written Hindi from 6th to 10th grade. I learnt spoken Hindi as a kid but forgot it by the time I came to high school. When I relearnt it, I didnt do learn it alright(Elision!).
Net Galley Challenge
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Still describe
Two visual inspirations.
Blue Antelope and Orange Elephant got me started for the theme 'lush'.
The orange colour of the elephant reminded me of Hanuman
When I thought of the theme of lush, I couldnt think of anything but green, but now I think from what has struck me luscious in these pictures, any single colour in abundance has the same effect of submerging us in its hue.
Green lush is of nature, artists have defined lush in their own terms by the lusciousness of their imagination.
Monochromal flourishes
1. Blue antelope
With a buoyant
Web of blue
Antlers
Antlers poking
in different directions
Like birds of paradise
An artist settles
a white bird on
the head
two on the back
2. Orange elephant in the room
with gold floral patterns
matches the wallpaper
orange like
the statue of Hanuman
smeared with the sticky paste
While revising it, I stopped at the 'like' and was reminded of the shadows game. I then removed the description of the white birds and replaced it with
Writing Exercise:
When I saw the elephant picture yesterday I couldnt explain why I was taken with it. Today I looked at the blue antelope, a thing like that stays with you for a while. So I just described them. After that when I came to the like
, it was like stopping at a log in your way to look around more for something
the like was my passport to many other lines.
A like in a poem is the starting point of infinte things to be said. Massage the like which has a hold on half of the poetry world.
Blue Antelope and Orange Elephant got me started for the theme 'lush'.
The orange colour of the elephant reminded me of Hanuman
When I thought of the theme of lush, I couldnt think of anything but green, but now I think from what has struck me luscious in these pictures, any single colour in abundance has the same effect of submerging us in its hue.
Green lush is of nature, artists have defined lush in their own terms by the lusciousness of their imagination.
Monochromal flourishes
1. Blue antelope
With a buoyant
Web of blue
Antlers
Antlers poking
in different directions
Like birds of paradise
An artist settles
a white bird on
the head
two on the back
2. Orange elephant in the room
with gold floral patterns
matches the wallpaper
orange like
the statue of Hanuman
smeared with the sticky paste
While revising it, I stopped at the 'like' and was reminded of the shadows game. I then removed the description of the white birds and replaced it with
like fingers held in
the dark to cast
shadows
thumb and forefinger
join to form the head
and the rest antlers
Writing Exercise:
When I saw the elephant picture yesterday I couldnt explain why I was taken with it. Today I looked at the blue antelope, a thing like that stays with you for a while. So I just described them. After that when I came to the like
, it was like stopping at a log in your way to look around more for something
the like was my passport to many other lines.
A like in a poem is the starting point of infinte things to be said. Massage the like which has a hold on half of the poetry world.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Describe
In The ransom of red chief 0.Henry talks about a town called Summit.
It contained inhabitants of as undeleterious and self-satisfied a class ofpeasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole.
Describe humorously by changing the subject to an object reflecting the culture of the subject.
Welterweight
It contained inhabitants of as undeleterious and self-satisfied a class ofpeasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole.
Describe humorously by changing the subject to an object reflecting the culture of the subject.
Welterweight
When things go viral
World of viruses
The loom
Naica caves. Heard of Belum caves just now.
The discovery of virus by Beijernick is a goose chase story.
How do viruses move DNA between species and generate new genetic material?
The author's Emeral wasp works has been quoted in another book sex on six legs, unfortunately the subject of viruses lacks that charm.
The loom
Naica caves. Heard of Belum caves just now.
The discovery of virus by Beijernick is a goose chase story.
How do viruses move DNA between species and generate new genetic material?
The author's Emeral wasp works has been quoted in another book sex on six legs, unfortunately the subject of viruses lacks that charm.
Rev the food writing
Missionstreetfood
Zhaliang
Decision-making is more important to cooking than exact amounts, temperatures or times - Anthony Myint.
Anthony Myint's articles on food are creative. for example, the one reviewing NOMA.
Zhaliang
Decision-making is more important to cooking than exact amounts, temperatures or times - Anthony Myint.
Anthony Myint's articles on food are creative. for example, the one reviewing NOMA.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Readers of past
A room size
library
I have chosen
few books
The issuer is here
Have you read your
Bhaktin and Chekov
I adjust my answer
from Yes to
No (since its been a while)
The book without front cover
has philosophy on it
But philosophy is in between definitions
I show my choice of two
Reviews - literary magazines
library
I have chosen
few books
The issuer is here
Have you read your
Bhaktin and Chekov
I adjust my answer
from Yes to
No (since its been a while)
The book without front cover
has philosophy on it
But philosophy is in between definitions
I show my choice of two
Reviews - literary magazines
Brave mom
When you drive, you dont get to peek much at others sharing the road. But in the passenger seat you are a witness to all kinds of things. I saw a mom driving a happy kid. The kid was having an icecream in the car.
A good poetry book site
A good poetry book site
Alberto Alvaro Rios
In A man then suddenly stops moving, is not afraid to make a leap right in the first para, from a literal act of chewing a fruit to a long term act of mulling.
In A small motor, why does the poet say that there is an animal in him and that animal has hunger, why does he distance the desire by two levels? Also in the previous line it is a mechanical motor and then it becomes animalistic and then human.
In A small motor, why does the poet say that there is an animal in him and that animal has hunger, why does he distance the desire by two levels? Also in the previous line it is a mechanical motor and then it becomes animalistic and then human.
Every pencil is filled with a book
- Alberto Alvaro Rios
Every brush is filled with a scene
Every sword/gun a blood bank
injection a florentine of wellness
Every brush is filled with a scene
Every sword/gun a blood bank
injection a florentine of wellness
Indiana Review
A necklace of shells coiled her throat in Lynda Hull's poem
Corey Marks Interview
Belle Waring and a joint blog
On Fever, Mood and crows on pg 43 of Dark Blonde. In Crow Planet, crows have lifted another writer from depression.
Rebecca Seiferle
Alberto Alvaro Rios on poets.org, on ASU. In 'What abides' poem he draws on the 'walk' and extends it pliantly. In 'Aunt Matilde's story of the big Day', he starts writing about a remmebered day trying to be remembered on a day when nothing else is to be remembered and then extends it to years. In 'My Chili', Chili is so many things at once. Reading his poetry can give you many ideas on how to write.
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