The Hand: Prose Poem with Music

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Visual Poems can be Read Closer than They Appear: Commentary Series on Jacket2.org

I love the idea that if I write about something that I'm doing elsewhere on the internet here on this blog and that on that other thing has a link which sends people here to check out my blog, they are confronted with the announcement and the link for the place that they just came from. They could click back to that and then, seeing that there is information there about the blog return here. Wash, rinse, and repeat. They could be stuck in some kind of semiotic perpetual loop. At least until fossil fuel runs out, they wear down the keys on their keyboard or their fingers break free and board ten independent rocketships to Jupiter.

That said, I'm writing a commentary series on Jacket2.org entitled LANGUAGEYE, concerning the close reading of visual poetry. You can get to it here.

And to save those who go there from finding the link to this blog and clicking back, here's an idea. Just click on the air with those pre-liberated fingers and your imaginary mouse and -- hey presto! - you're back here again. Welcome. Long live the clickable. The redirected. The prime directive. The Moebius detective (just now, my new favourite character.) And welcome back. And again.

Here's the first piece on Jacket2.org.

Here's the second, about some of Dan Waber's work.

The series will run for three months -- May to July.

Hope you enjoy it.

Postnational Pwoermd Writing Month

singingular

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Unquoteanational Pwoermd Riboflavin Mantua 30

“uote’s”

"'("['{'mean't]'s}")"'s?"

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Motsbertnational Pwoermd Wraithing Musth 29

Le mot juts


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Elephanational Pwoermd Riding Monster 28

normale

thememes

elephantom

sususususurration

poetryst

Hinterlandtional Pwoermd Raiding Mist 27

rest:art

humanimist

humanymist

huemany

humminganist

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thounds of þilence & þibilence

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Beyond Erasure

I was thinking about what was the next stage of erasure texts and/or blank texts. And thought of silent letters and those letters that are not pronounced (eg. the second f in daffodil.) 

So I took Wordsworth's "Daffodils" and erased all the letters and punctuation and physically cut out the silent letters. So silent even the paper can't pronounce them.

The first image is the silent letters marked as black rectangles. The second is the cut-outs. (I accidentally  inverted the image.)

Invisualnational Pwoermd Raking Man 26

Intuitnational Pwoermd Ribbiting Math 25

hmmwork

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www.www.www

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humandbeing

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différince

Embernashnull Pwoermd Robing Meant 24

symymbol








dumbfoundland







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Shakespeare: Supreme Masterpiece and Proof Definitive by Pierre Henrion

This truly remarkable pamphlet explains through definitive and supreme analysis that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare. Or that Pierre Henrion is a master visual poet and Kabbalist-style reader. (The English text appears also in French, but it has not been scanned here.)

Ampersonational Pwoermd Robing Minx 22-23

ʼn-“n’t”'s 

’m’rsa’nd 

 innersand 

 ampersonation 

 ampersound 

 anpersamd 

 &mpers&d

&personator

ambersand

&

amdersanp

Enfinationationationational Pwoermd Whiting Monk 21

infinight

enfinity

unfinity

profinity

skyrie

kyrie elision

Innertubal Pwoermd Righting Moonth 20

inner national pwoisonerd moonbeam 19

heart[sic]

Idiot savant-garde

xxxoooxxx

Ggod

nounmenon

mu(sic)

un&less

heardattack

artvark

tubercool

wingfall

animinimal

aniniminimal

ininimicable

ininimitable 

inminimall

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HEALING MACHINE

Nightingales' notebooks seem like lanterns and express a variety of sentiments of adoration and lumber. The parrot, mainframe, jackdaw, jailer, jerk, trailer and bullfinch. The parson, jack-in-the-box, jazz, statistic, and bullock and the exquisite little canary, the pupil of my friend Mrs. H------. The mainland, jalopy, jerkin, stationer, and bumble. The poet, indeed, not only of its misquotes, but of statesmen and canoes.  The war bled its words. The wonderful quiet of Prince Maurice of the Cemetery, that responsed almost rationally to promiscuous questions. Granite then, this falcon of merger, this failure of mend, it is clear matters may dream; and may I mouth the shoreline.

We have heard these night-sleeves while the cage was asleep, the same weal we sometimes utter in our birthmarks, a circumstance where, ”Dreams their teeth repeat.'

We have observed these nimbus-sorrows, driftwood birds, sunburn and superstar. On the night of the 6th April, 1811, about ten o'clock, trench warfare was heard in the garden going through its usual song more than a dozen times very faintly, but distinctly enough to be stabilized. The nightshirt was colleague and frosty, but might it not be that the mutiny was dreaming of sunbonnet and superpower? Aristotle, indeed, proposes quiet.

internal pwoermd wrongdoing monument 17

Interminable Pwoermd Yarn Mop 16

gongngngngngngngng

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songngngngngng

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silens

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Answernational Pwoermd yashmak mope 15

Answerve

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Centernagonal Pwoermd Reckoning Manx 16

Impertinenantional Pwoermd Scribing Musth 7-15

designature

solemnemonic

asole

knowledgnomic

psalomn

salmonuminous

salmonophony

psalmon

eeyeeyeeyore

æiæio.

laughoti

otionwaves

th2oughoti

th2ought

thoughoti

lighghghoti

demoticondemn

stonement

phewphangled

oulipwoermd

charactor

wordinance

wordnance

wordance

songtoadodgical

forcedthought

pineforced

thoughthguoht

throughuthguoht

postpwoermd

languescape

landescape

lexicontinent

landscrap

landscrape

landreading

writonguage

HAMMER

nothing
to hammer

nothing
to hammer

nothing
to hammer

nothing to
hammer

nothing to
hammer

Because Birds


we keep history in trees
and breathing


a computer written
by the ocean


or the wind
by the sea


all songs thought
the perfect thought


a hole in something
what a card trick does to fingers


the mouth a synagogue
filled with bread and doubt


shadows because hands
because birds