Showing posts with label attitudes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attitudes. Show all posts

Objection

Our days are not numbered. Have you tried it?

On Dancing

Be confident and glad.

Don't live as if you have a face of rotten teeth.

Actuaries at Peace

Anything is the measure of joy.

The most important thing is not to die.

Propositional Syntax

  • I have carried this image to you for so long.
  • I have carried this image of you for so long.
  • I have carried this image for you for so long.

Mere Words

That minority is the life of poetry, and also its cruelty. We know this, while holding to the curse.

It can't possibly be an epithet –– but an essence.

Domains & Intents: 7

Ludwig in the manic phase: "Visual space has essentially no owner."

And that's exactly what I want to know -- what essentially has an owner.

  • This ruthless space without attribution.
  • This "disputed language."
  • As if one, a prior art.

Domains & Intents: 6

  • Propositionality.
  • Portability.

Ætiology of the Snark

Niche is my curse.
Curse is my niche.

...

Always the soft boys.
Always the arts.
Always the grapevines.
Always the hirelings.

Publication is not origin.

Domains & Intents: 5

  • Difficult subjects.
  • Plain language.
  • Promises.

Domains & Intents: 4

  • The limitations, or collective punishments, of invention.
  • The foundlings of enterprise.
  • Henry Vaughan's invocation of a "dirty intelligence."
  • The idea of the vernacular; a vernacular of ideas.
  • What I will choose to love, and what I will choose to know.

Untoward Arguments

Poetry can be made propositional, not to make
a better poetry, and not to marry novelty
to decency or progress, but to argue a life

that remainders nothing short of poetry, an act
of breaking in, and to our own callow house.

To argue a life made not mean by synopsis
but frank and more wild by a typical result.

Domains & Intents: 3

The poem and the publication.

Science and populism.

Domains & Intents: 2

What publishing and poetry have in common, fundamentally?

No clue. 

It's like a forced marriage of mathematics and cantaloupe.

Domains & Intents: 1

Of interest in poetry:
  • Forensics.
  • Unbounded propositions.
  • Renovation.
  • Priorities.