Seriously Subversive

Feb

27

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Feb

22

• Spelling by Margaret Atwood

  My daughter plays on the floor
  with plastic letters,
  red, blue & hard yellow,
  learning how to spell,
  spelling,
  how to make spells.
  
  *
  
  I wonder how many women
  denied themselves daughters,
  closed themselves in rooms,
  drew the curtains
  so they could mainline words.
  
  *
  
  A child is not a poem,
  a poem is not a child.
  There is no either / or.
  However.
  
  *
  
  I return to the story
  of the woman caught in the war
  & in labour, her thighs tied
  together by the enemy
  so she could not give birth.
  
  Ancestress: the burning witch,
  her mouth covered by leather
  to strangle words.
  
  A word after a word
  after a word is power.
  
  *
  
  At the point where language falls away
  from the hot bones, at the point
  where the rock breaks open and darkness
  flows out of it like blood, at
  the melting point of granite
  when the bones know
  they are hollow & the word
  splits & doubles & speaks
  the truth & the body
  itself becomes a mouth.
  
  This is a metaphor.
  
  *
  
  How do you learn to spell?
  Blood, sky & the sun,
  your own name first,
  your first naming, your first name,
  your first word.

Feb

20

• "A poem is not about; it is out of and to. Passionate language in movement. The deep structure is always musical, and physical—as breath, as pulse.”
  -Adrienne Rich, from “Permeable Membrane"
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Feb

19

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  What have we done?

Feb

19

• "A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of. It takes on a life and a will of its own. It might have proceeded differently — towards catastrophe, resignation, terror, despair — and I still would have to claim it. Valéry said that poetry is a language within a language. It is also a language beyond language, a meta-medium — that is, metabolic, metaphoric, metamorphic. A poet’s collected work is his book of changes."
  Stanley Kunitz, from a 1982 interview in The Paris Review (via proustitute)

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Feb

18

• "All poets write in a foreign language, even when they are monolingual. And all fine poets are translators: they translate the world for us. That is, they explore it by refusing to pigeonhole it.”
  -Ilan Stavans from the interview “True Poets Don’t Belong to Any Country"
  (via ahuntersheart)

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Feb

18

• the-grand-narrative:

  Wow, just wow. I love this! Would die for gypseeyo’s talent! 

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Feb

18

• 

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Feb

18

• the-grand-narrative:

  “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ”history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.” -Hunter S. Thompson

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Feb

18

• Wordless Interview with Shaun Tan

  reduxockham:

  Amazing Australian artist gives interview without words.
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