April 2, 2016
Sound and Sensibility: or, How to Make Some Noise
My old high school French workbook carried the title Son et sens, or something very close to that, while my English textbook, in an odd coincidence, was called Sound and […]
May 27, 2014
Ars Prosaica: On Lines and Sentences
When I have a point to make, I write prose; when I have a sound to make, I write verse. This is a distinction based on ends. There is […]
February 4, 2012
On Ruinability: “Momentary” by A. E. Stallings
How small an alteration do I have to make to destroy the effect of your poem? Naturally, the test alteration has to be something a lesser, or less judicious, poet […]