August 28, 2012
Short Takes: Dickinson in the Digital Age
“Mad people = people who stand alone + burn,” wrote Susan Sontag in her journals. “I’m attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.” Read some […]
July 24, 2012
It’s more than Greek to me: on visual translation
I’ve written in the past about typography and materiality—how the physical elements from which language is forged can influence, govern, or dictate its semantics. The relationship, though, is complex; there […]
May 2, 2012
On Conceptual Poetry
No Conceptualist Poet has yet come up with a concept as mind-bogglingly difficult as mine: Create a poetry that exploits existing grammatical and syntactical paradigms (sometimes as deceptively simple […]