May 2012
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“The trees are naked, oily with moonbeam nectar shot from lunar cannons, and in...”
– (via williamfclark)
Whoa!
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Because Whitman's birthday makes me feel fuzzy...
I want to direct you to my email address: thetargetbird(a)gmail(dot)com
I love email. Pritch and I wrote Consequences entirely through email*. Cordelia and I have had some nice back and forths. WulfJack and I have been having some good exchanges on authorial v. reader interpretations, compositional methods, bands we used to play in, and hip-hop.
The point is, I pay more attention to what...
hookedonsemiotics:
I’m kind of dreadful but somehow I ended up with the most marvelous friends
I feel this way, like, all the fucking time! May 31st should be declared “Whitmanian Declarations of Love for Your Friends” day or something like that. He woulda liked that.
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To You, again
after Walt Whitman
I want to use my books
to make paper mâchés of my friends.
I want it to say: I have read
the rituals of your honeycomb
the chords of your untweezed light rays
the hues of your hieroglyphic gait
the rhythms of your radiant heat
the frame rate of your masonry
the altitude of your laughs
the pathos of your sleep
most of all.
It’s a sorcery of likeness, of love...
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“Thee for my recitative!
Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the...”
– “To a Locomotive in Winter” by Walt Whitman
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“7.
It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and
father—it...”
– from “To Think of Time” by Walt Whitman
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Hey guys, it's Walt Whitman's birthday!
Here’s the game plan:
- grab your favorite edition of Leaves Of Grass
- go to your favorite park
- read the damn thing
- spend an hour yawping though the streets like you dgaf
- finish the day by celebrating and singing yourself like you should
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zannus replied to your post: Things that have taken away my dream jobs: That last one is a real bitch.
And yet, we keep coming back to it…
Things that have taken away my dream jobs:
- Meteorites
- Mass-produced fences
- The rapid decline of the bard as cultural necessity
- Inadequacies in space travel technology
- Reality
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A few fragments I need to get rid of
truth’s rhythm is too fast for
me
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the pyramid of windows meets the sun
steals purple out of blood
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the many L sounds leaving a dress
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dreams of people drowning a lake
dirtyreggae:
uutpoetry:
Heidegger on Poetry http://t.co/pcTFdoq9
Heidegger’s Poetry, Language, Thought is brilliant & so important.
This was perfect breakfast reading. Now I’m sad because my job isn’t poetry. Not even close.
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the synaesthete’s love poem
rabbit-light:
Yesterday, blue tasted like licorice. Even wind chimes caused dizziness; an ache of paper lanterns rotting from the acacias. Perhaps the L in my name makes you sad, evokes a film where a woman waves from a train. Or how this horizon wants to be a hymn. If you listen, you can hear the holes in the alphabet, sounds lit by the lamps of our bones. Perhaps with this page I...
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Love Anne Waldman's wordplay
Ghost toast!
Roasted toast!
God damn it, language is fun.
When language fails you
“i like just about any food except pees”
Or, something a human wrote that I laughed at. A part of me really hopes they actually are making a statement about how disagreeable pee is to their palate. How specific! How earnest! How self-aware!
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penamerican:
Jacket 2 has posted a long lost 1971 recording of Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman reading their collaborative poem “Memorial Day” at Saint Mark’s Poetry Project!
THIS SHOULD HAVE WAY MORE THAN 5 NOTES….
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“It’s funny when the mind thinks about the psyche,
as if a grasshopper...”
– “Grasshopper” by Rod Padgett
Man, it's hot!
I’d rather be back in Montreal than have to get back on the subway in this weather. The joys of commuting!
“You have to know that each adaptation will be different. What you’ve done before...”
– David Cronenberg on Adapting Unadaptable Books
Cronenberg! DeLillo! I will absolutely go see Cosmopolis when it comes out. (via ecantwell)
Excited for this — Cosmopolis is not only my favorite DeLillo, but one of my favorite books in general. Makes me wonder if this will open up the door...
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hookedonsemiotics replied to your quote: If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be… I hope you see as I do the NYS influence—the beginning of this poem so present in so many Koch and O’Hara poems
Well, duh…
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“If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal
to be personal and undesirable
to be...”
– “To A Giraffe” by Marianne Moore
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“A cup of coffee; afterwards a hymn.”
– Donald Justice, “Banjo Dog Variations”
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killingcharlemagne asked: Jon Lovitz
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wulfjack replied to your video: - “Accordion” by MF Doom Another “fact”: every… I do this as well with a lot of the songs I post.
When I take the time to seriously think about my writing tendencies and their origins, I realize a lot of them come from musicians, particularly rappers. Which makes my dislike for most slam poetry interesting, since it’s lineage from rap quite obvious...
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hey tell me things you associate me with →
I’m intrigued. And bored. Sorry, guys, I have no inner resources!!
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Although, I signed that letter Carlos Scott, not C.S.
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Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
missindenial:
Kenneth Koch
1 I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer. I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its wooden beams were so inviting.
2 We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.
3 I gave away the money that you had been saving to live on for the next...
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Pritch narrating his pursuit of foxes
Armed with Instagram, he trolls the grass.
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“INTERLUDE:
feelings I was feeling yesterday that didn’t make it into poems:...”
– From Novel In Which The Protagonist Is Drinking A Glass Of Water And Waiting For Ice Cream by David W. Pritchard.
To which I say, YES
timeimmemorial:
Prop up the “meaning,” take the trash out, the dog for a walk, give the old balls a scratch, apologize for three things by Friday—oh quiet noumenon of my soul, this is it, right? You lost the key and the answer is inside somewhere, and where are you going to breathe? The box is shut that knew you and all your friends, voices that could have spoken in your behalf… Why, what did...
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Man, some days just drain the life out of you
Mulling over the ramifications of bathing myself in coffee in the bathroom.
mull, mull, mull…
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hookedonsemiotics replied to your post: In the spirit of this post, here are some other… you forgot “how awesome it was hanging out with Pritch IRL”
No, no, I didn’t…
In the spirit of this post, here are some other things that amaze me:
- how quickly Pritch can write a poem from an anon ask
- how many of them he gets when he asks
- that my coworker has gotten photographed and, on a separate date, chatted with UNYPL (I’m a bit jealous)
- that there are probably tumblrs that I follow or follow me that I pass every day
- how many people travel via...
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“I’ll be back, I’ll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don’t want me to go...”
– Frank O’Hara, from “Meditations in an Emergency” (via proustitute)
This line (and Meditations in an Emergency in general) always brings Leaves of Grass to mind, especially:
“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
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lovestoryinterrupted replied to your post: I too am at work and well my day is BLAh to say the least and I am finding it rather hard to do anything other then make some tea… so what do you do to cure the Blahs? Well right now I am listening to Pandora I have a mix of some 80’s punk and folk going and I have a latte… I just want to be outside in the sun on the beach walking and writing… So how...
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lovestoryinterrupted asked: I too am at work and well my day is BLAh to say the least and I am finding it rather hard to do anything other then make some tea... so what do you do to cure the Blahs?
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deactiavtedhookedonsemiotics asked: Born To Run--great song or greatest song
Anyone have questions or something? →
I have a boring webinar in 10 minutes and could use some entertainment to make it through.
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