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Entry 579 — The Bleed 0.1

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

 A few days ago I got a beautifully packaged hard copy of the webzine, The Bleed 0.1, from its editor, John Moore Williams.  It’s a terrific overview of current visual and related poetry and art.  I got the hard copy because my computer wouldn’t let me view the whole magazine at its website–due, apparently, to the fact that I’m still on dial-up.  Anyway, Eric Goddard-Scovel has five infraverbal gems in the issue that became instant favorites of mine.  Here are two of them:

 

 

 

 

 

Minor quibble: I would have had one more numeral 1 and two less exclamation marks in “11!”

 

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Tuesday, 29 November 2011, 3 P.M.  Tennis in the morning, errands, then a nap.  After the latter, I felt pretty good, but was slow getting into any of my projects–after fairly quickly getting my blog entry for the day done and posted.  I just now took care of a very short exhibition hand-out.  I seem now to have 17 little comments on various poems of mine plus a Curriculum Vita ready for the show.  I’ve started to other hand-outs.  I’ve avoided my book so far, which has become a major drag.  But I expect eventually to get to it.

Okay, it’s two hours later.  I did a little futzing around with the section of my book I’m having trouble with, then went to bed for a little while.  Couldn’t really sleep although I’m sleepy and did doze off for a few minutes once or twice.  I tried to think methodically about my problem section, then abruptly concluded that I need a break from it.  So I’m going to stop work on it until I feel I’ll be able to get somewhere with it.   Maybe I’ll work on the essay I need to write in response to an essay of Jake Berry’s.   I should watch some tv, too, or something.    Get into another cumb Clancy novel . . .

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Entry 1279 — Cumminfluenced Itemgs from 2006

Sunday, November 24th, 2013

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Entry 3 — The Nature of Visual Poetry, Part 1

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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The image above is from the catalogue of a show I co-curated in Cleveland that Michael Rothenberg was kind enough to give space to in Big Bridge #12–with two special short gatherings of pieces from the show, with commentary by me.  I have it here to provide relief from my verosophizing (note: “verosophy” is my word for serious truth-seeking–mainly in science, philosophy, and history).  It’s also a filler, for I’ve had too tough a day (doctor visits, marketing, phoning people about bills) to do much of an entry.

It’s not a digression, though–I will come back to it, as a near-perfect example of a pure visual poem.

Now, briefly, to avoid Total Vocational Irresponsibility, back to:

the Nature of Visual Poetry

The pre-awareness is a sort of confederacy of primary pre-aware- nesses, one for each of the senses.  Each primary pre-awareness is in turn a confederacy of specialized secondary pre-awarenesses such as the visiolinguistic pre-awareness in the visual pre-awareness and the audiolinguistic pre-awareness in the auditory pre-awareness.  Each incoming perceptual cluster (or “pre-knowlecule,” or “knowlecule-in-progress,” by which I mean cluster of percepts, or “atoms of perception,” which have the potential to form full-scale pieces of knowledge such as the visual appearance of a robin, that I call “knowlecules”) enters one of the primary pre-awarenesses, from which it is sent to all the many secondary pre-awarenesses within that primary pre-awareness.

The secondary pre-awarenesses, in turn, screen the pre-knowlecules entering them, accepting for further processing those they are designed to, rejecting all others.  The visiolinguistic pre-awareness thus accepts percepts that pass its tests for textuality, and reject all others; the audiolinguistic pre-awareness tests for speech; and so on.  More on this tomorrow, I hope.

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Entry 995 — A Gem by Kevin Kelly

Saturday, January 26th, 2013

The following is a pwoermd Kevin Kelly posted to Spidertangle the other day:

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I like the way it makes me, at any rate, close to simultaneously strongly, sympathetically identify with the one whose heart throb is involved, and laugh at the poor jerk.  The lisp of the heartbeats is any excellent touch, too.  Not to mention the stuttering attempt to say, “the,” but not be able to.  Never has “heart throb” been so fully writ.

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Entry 620 — Getting Enough Sleep

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

A little while ago (it is now around 9 P.M., 9 January)  I was feeling good.  I attributed this to my having gotten two naps today, one of an hour, the other of one or two hours.  And I had gotten six hours of sleep last night, which is about as much as I generally get.  I had just about finished backing up my blog entries and was very pleased at how good many of my poems seemed to me when I noticed them during the process.  Unfortunately, I got the dates up my upcoming entries wrong, and in correcting them, lost what I had written for this entry.  That pretty much wiped out my mood.  I can’t stand screwing up like that, but I do it all the time!

 

 

This is a pwoermd I stole from Geof Huth’s blog–because it has become too sophisticated to accept comments from dial-ups like my computer, and I wanted to comment on it.  It’s by Jonathan Jones, lately of Brussels, but a citizen himself of the United Kingdom.  What I like most about it is that it’s lyrical–as too many pwoermds are not.  It wouldn’t be a visual poem for me, but an illustrated poem, except that I subjectively feel “apri’ll” is producing the wonderful colors of spring it is slanted into a portion of (through sheer will-power).  Hence, in my taxonomy it is an infra-verbal visual poem.

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