the haze loop

a frame from Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, which is quite the spectacular movie. this image of a…

Wed, 31 May 2023 20:20:10 +0200

a frame from Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, which is quite the spectacular movie. this image of a small resin Buddha under the rain calls for a pause.

Fri, 26 May 2023 19:45:13 +0200

Margaret Atwood, One More Garden, from her (1981) True Stories. the last stanza is tattoo material….

Thu, 25 May 2023 15:00:18 +0200

Margaret Atwood, One More Garden, from her (1981) True Stories. the last stanza is tattoo material. fuck the future indeed.

Wed, 24 May 2023 15:29:57 +0200

Denise Duhamel, A Nap On The Afternoon of My 39th Birthday. i wasn’t able to trace where this text first appeared. the scan up above is from David Lehman’s anthology Great American Prose Poems.

Linda Pastan, from An Early Afterlife, as photographed by Peege

Sat, 20 May 2023 16:05:18 +0200

Linda Pastan, from An Early Afterlife, as photographed by Peege

Ada Limón, from Sharks in the Rivers

Sat, 20 May 2023 15:53:48 +0200

Ada Limón, from Sharks in the Rivers

i don’t remember where i did read about this poem. maybe it was Rachel Zucker teaching it in one of…

Thu, 18 May 2023 16:26:37 +0200

i don’t remember where i did read about this poem. maybe it was Rachel Zucker teaching it in one of hers? anyway: there’s a nice piece by Denise Duhamel here; of course, I still had a long way to go

Bianca Stone from her latest What Is Otherwise Infinite. Bianca just won the Vermont Book Award

Sun, 07 May 2023 15:41:31 +0200

Bianca Stone from her latest What Is Otherwise Infinite. Bianca just won the Vermont Book Award

Old Flame by Lewis Warsh from Elixir. somehow, because there’s only the present / like a movie…

Fri, 05 May 2023 09:19:27 +0200

Old Flame by Lewis Warsh from Elixir. somehow, because there’s only the present / like a movie played backwards / with a cast of thousands / hanging on for dear life is one of the most poignant images ever

a frame from Paul Kalkbrenner playing his version of Feed your head at Tomorrowland in 2018

Mon, 01 May 2023 19:50:28 +0200

a frame from Paul Kalkbrenner playing his version of Feed your head at Tomorrowland in 2018

Carrie Shipers, MANAGEMENT RESCINDS A SHORT-LIVED POLICY

Mon, 01 May 2023 16:51:59 +0200

Carrie Shipers, MANAGEMENT RESCINDS A SHORT-LIVED POLICY

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:24:11 +0200

CA Conrad, from Ecodeviance - Somatics for the future wilderness

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:00:45 +0200

CA Conrad, from Ecodeviance - Somatics for the future wilderness

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:04:19 +0200

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:57:09 +0200

and also: this is time. life passing

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:55:30 +0200

and also: this is time. life passing

Reversible Poem in Dishwater, by Emily Lee Luan (picture by Megan Pinto). see also: Notes On…

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:56:29 +0200

Reversible Poem in Dishwater, by Emily Lee Luan (picture by Megan Pinto). see also: Notes On Reversing

All of his books share the hope of transposing prose into the empyrean of pure sound, where words…

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:43:36 +0200

All of his books share the hope of transposing prose into the empyrean of pure sound, where words can never correspond to stable meanings, but can merely indicate the energies underlying an attempt at stabilizing meanings, and the bitterness that ensues when those attempts inevitably fail

Thank you Ida for being you, for your restrained and necessary poetry, for that Uruguayan memory…

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:39:23 +0200

Thank you Ida for being you, for your restrained and necessary poetry, for that Uruguayan memory that fills this cold apartment in Paris with birds.

(Julio Cortázar to Ida Vitale)

(it more and more feels like a correct assumption)

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:41:11 +0200

(it more and more feels like a correct assumption)