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Happy early Birthday, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1828 - 1882

Happy early Birthday, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1828 - 1882

Tatsiana Kartavitskaya, Valzhyna Mort’s mother

(Source: poets.org)

Mark Jarman and his mother, Bo Dee Jarman.

Mark Jarman and his mother, Bo Dee Jarman.

Toi Derricotte and her mother.

Toi Derricotte and her mother.

Juan Felipe Herrera and his mother, Lucha Herrera Quintana.  .

Juan Felipe Herrera and his mother, Lucha Herrera Quintana.

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Opening to On the Road, by Jack Kerouac—on the original benzadrine-influenced-typewritten-scroll.

Opening to On the Road, by Jack Kerouac—on the original benzadrine-influenced-typewritten-scroll.

from Notes for Echo Lake, Michael Palmer

fullstopart:

They had agreed that the sign was particular precisely because arbitrary

and that it included the potential for (carried the sign of) its own dis-

solution, and that there was a micro-syntax below the order of the sen-

tence and even of the word, and that in the story the subject disappears it

never disappears. 1963: only one of the two had the gift of memory.

Equally one could think of a larger syntax, e.g. the word-as-book propos-

ing always the book-as-word. And of course still larger.

Beginning and ending. As a work begins and ends itself or begins and re-

begins or starts and stops. Ideas as elements of the working not as propo-

sitions of a work, even in a propositional art. (Someone said someone

thought.)

That is, snow

                       a) is

                       b) is not

                                   falling - check neither or both.

poetrysociety: Certificat de réfugié for Czesław Miłosz via Yale

poetrysociety:

Certificat de réfugié for Czesław Miłosz via Yale

Leslie Scalapino. Photo by Tom White.

Leslie Scalapino. Photo by Tom White.

Allen Ginsberg, at the wheel. 

Allen Ginsberg, at the wheel.