tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post177443823555061816..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: for we who are aliveUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-54079360810514954962017-07-15T23:40:01.264+10:002017-07-15T23:40:01.264+10:00I really enjoy logging and compiling the first lin...<br />I really enjoy logging and compiling the first lines of all the novels I read to determine what makes them special.<br /><br />^^<br /><a href="https://goldenslot.gclub-casino.com/" rel="nofollow">โกเด้นสล็อต</a><br /><a href="https://www.gclub-casino.com/baccarat/" rel="nofollow">สูตรบาคาร่า</a><br />^^Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-75476838864767428812017-07-10T05:59:14.518+10:002017-07-10T05:59:14.518+10:00I've messed with the online Queneau a bit. Unf...I've messed with the online Queneau a bit. <i>Unfollowing</i> reminded me of the Nanni Balestrini book I read earlier this year, <i>Tristano</i>, in that the experience of going through these detached-from-one-another units in bulk actually began to undo my habit of automatically trying to couple things. After the first third or so of each book, I could feel that habit start to switch itself off, as if it had been taught that it didn't have a point.<br /><br />It was back in place the moment I tried to read anything else, but for as long as I was in the Hejinian or the Balestrini it gave me a sensation of floating.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-27433381326319688012017-07-08T02:12:07.753+10:002017-07-08T02:12:07.753+10:00anti-closure, anti-summary; I like it. But not ant...anti-closure, anti-summary; I like it. But not anti-meaning, I think, at least on the side of the reader. You're familiar with the online version of Queneau's sonnets? I've been playing with that (or reading it/them, I guess) and it's impossible for me at least to not force a meaning onto the sonnets. Which I find pretty interesting (the urge to paint meaning over things, not necessarily the interpretations I come up with). Wait: I'm just rephrasing you, amn't I? Damn it.<br /><br />I do recognize this urge to create "meaning" from poems as probably a weakness in my ability to read poetry, a naivete. I'm a better reader maybe when I just see what happens in the poem. I'm waffling on the value of interpretation, I guess.<br /><br />It's interesting that Hejinian assumes we all have the same difficulty accepting death, a universal sort of difficulty.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-35989104346872369702017-07-08T01:05:29.467+10:002017-07-08T01:05:29.467+10:00I found it interesting that the idea of death led ...I found it interesting that the idea of death led her to a form of literature that was so similar to Queneau's infinite Oulipo poem book. And they both use sonnets. If there doesn't have to be a meaning-based connection between one line and the next then your sonnet sequence can go on for as long as you want to continue coming up with statements, jokes, word play, short impressions, or any other kind of sentence. It means the nature of the finished poem is going to depend very much on who you are: what kind of individual unit do you invent when the only constraint is that you have to make fourteen of them? I wonder if anyone's ever described the Queneau work as an infinite series of deaths.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-22832886267031394252017-07-07T02:01:53.748+10:002017-07-07T02:01:53.748+10:00I must say this is pretty impressive, an essay in ...I must say this is pretty impressive, an essay in the form of a search for the essay written by a previous reader of the book in hand, deconstruction and construction based on a stranger's underlining of text. <br /><br />Also, <i>The Unfollowing</i> looks interesting, so thanks for mentioning it.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com