Archive for the ‘Stephen Nelson’ Category
Entry 1066 — “Integration 1″
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
I’m posting this for two reasons: 1. I like it; 2. It startled me because what it did with a word is something I never thought of doing, and can’t figure out why I never have since I’ve done similar things to words, removing the top half of one and replacing it with the top half of another for instance (after seeing a poem by Ezra Mark doing that).
Seems very Byzantine, to me. It’s by Stephen Nelson, by the way. I stole it from the latest edition of Bill DiMichele’s tip of the knife–almost as soon as Bill posted it.
Meanwhile, another webzine in underway: the April edition of Hal Johnson’s TRUCK, guest-edited by John M. Bennett, with four pieces of mine in it, two of which I don’t understand. Well, don’t fully understand. John has so far gather over eighty pieces for the issue: a lot of good stuff!
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Entry 846 — A Pwoermd by Stephen Nelson
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Stephen composed this in a dream! I think that happened to me once.
I consider it primarily an infraverbal poem, because dependent on what happens inside it. But it is also a visual poem. What makes it terrific is that, as spelled, it is a double metaphor: for (1) shape-changing flexibility, and (2) a flood surging forward too quickly for its spelling to bother with correctness–but brilliantly describing it as well as denoting it. I got it from the Otherstream Unlimited site, where I called it “an instant classic.”
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