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Sunday, March 18, 2012

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.

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.
Sex on six legs

Earwig

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
Men of our time

The border is what joins us

- Border lines, Alberto Alvaro Rios

The fence conjoins us
Cosmos contains us

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

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.

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

Indiana review

Larissa Szporluk
William Dickey
Albert Goldbarth
Sharon Cumberland
Joshua Mckinney
Diane Seuss Bakerman
Peter Cooley
Angela Shaw
Malinda Markham
Matthew Lippman
John Surowiecki
Julia Kasdorf
David Rivard
Devolution of the nude

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.
An incomplete life

A person who knows her work to be done. But what if the available time does not let her finish the job along with others that need to be done.

A way to balance will and responsibility.

Utility & futility

When we think about a thing, if we were to write of it, we first think what it does.

A good ad

At the mail box, was a sheet with things on sale, probably by a person moving. It was in a row column format of pictures of inline roller skates, gas cooker, blinds, printer, vacuum cleaner and others, mentioning their condition and price. When I went in the evening, I think it wasn’t there.

Former poet

While reading Indiana Review Volume 18, Number 1 (Spirituality & American writing), I came across Neal Bower’s ‘Faith at the turn of the century’. I didn’t get the poem but was interested in reading other poems of his. A look at his profile revealed that he calls himself a former poet.
Neal Bowers
what happens to a former poet when he next sees his muse again?

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Boxed letters

1. Write a poem from the words in a crossword

2. Write a poem from the letters on a scrabble board

3. Write clues for words in a crossword or a scrabble game

Joy of poetry in everyday life

Most of Jane Shore's poems in That said appeal with their non-jarring shock value of their novelty in terms of subject matter.
Her three line stanza, short line poems almost never work.
In `The Russian doll' title lent to cover photo poem, we see amorphous thoughts put into words snug just like doll inside a doll.
In `Tender acre', by using the word `bargello' for the patterns on a snake, she is the poet whose eternal task is to get the right word for a thing.
There are vague references to fairy tales and folk tales in some of her poems.But fairy tales make a direct reference in a poem where the poet plays out all the stories with her daughter. I like the series of poems in which she writes about her daughter. Especially in `the sound of sense', recognizing her daughter's learning to read as the sounding of various meter elements again shows her poet eye/ear.
From here on, the poems star her family members. Within the everydayness of the poems are experiences which the readers can relate to in different stages of life. Sometimes the endings - like one of her toy going mute while she grows up finding her voice - offer boomerang twists to the poem.
There are many things a beginner poet can learn from these poems. Her expression of a feeling in an anti-feeling holds the tension of the conflict on the page. In 'sh-t soup' poem the metaphors are not just limited to linking two words but the whole poem - recipe of a dish to that of a life.
when she writes 'A voice called out "This is your room.This is your bed"' in 'dream city' poem, I feel pushed to find out the voice of every inanimate thing, not an inanimate voice but lively with inflection.
In one of the poems she describes fortune cookies as lips with the white paper as a tongue. This reminded of the 'oracle'. Such coincidental extensions leave the readers with possibilities of extending every metaphor they meet.
The Manual of painting and calligraphy

Jose Saramago's interview

I chose something else over Lower River. This TNY excerpt should give me an idea if I did right.
Interesting book site and another