BY SINA QUEYRAS The Lyric Conceptualist has moved beyond the indigestible and the unreadable, in fact, beyond all gestures that have made pleasure the enemy of reading. The Lyric Conceptualist remains true…
Category: Essays & Fragments
Her writing lacks rigour. Her writing lacks analysis. Really? Cause from my perspective your reading lacks rigour. Your reading lacks imagination. Your reading lacks an open mind. As for what…
In which I recount reading Stein at Poetry Foundation and upon reflection, do so with altogether too many “I”s. Ick. Bad Poet. Bad. For the record, here is how I…
One of my central questions then, is can we really posit a binary that asserts a lyric impulse, or lyric creativity as opposed to what might be termed non-lyric, or…
See more of the charts over at the Vida site. Here’s a snippet from my reaction to last year’s count: I dislike the fact of women always having to hammer…
“The gatekeepers of literary culture—at least at magazines—are still primarily male.” If these gatekeepers are showing a gender bias, there’s not much room to make it up later. …
I am not who I thought I was. Without her, I have no idea. What will I do? What is that Sappho line about having two minds? Or Anne Carson’s…
Strangeness of the week. I find the song, and now this video, absolutely compelling. Unfortunately it’s a trailer for a game…and as games go it appears to be fairly predictable:…
On August 31, 2010 at 12:44 am New Orleanian wrote: In New Orleans we say We ain’t studyin’ about you On August 19, 2010 at 3:13 pm Sheera Talpaz wrote:…
In my 3rd “pulled off my shelves” column I discussed authors who produce work which consists of nothing but punctuation marks. These authors—typified by Goldsmith, Reuterswärd, Boglione and others—isolate the…
bill bissett’s work—for the past several decades—has been problematic. His lyrical voice is complicated by his complex idiosyncratic orthography. His concrete poetry intersperses dense typewriter-driven grid pieces with diagrams of…
A few years ago I was employed as a bookseller in Toronto, working my least favourite day around this time of year, Inventory Day. We had to scan every book…