The Inconsistency Principle

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Clarity & Obscurity

Your brain is listening to you



Haiku Metaphor

The End of Nature

Purity, Restraint, Stillness
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"I shall here write my thoughts without order, and not perhaps in unintentional confusion; that is true order, which will always indicate my object by its very disorder. I should do too much honor to my subject if I treated it with order, since I want to show that it is incapable of it." - Pascal, Pensee 373
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  • Reveilles (Salt)
  • Huidobro's Arctic Poems (Toad Press; translation)

Some of My Poems on the World Wide Web

  • Scud
  • InDigest Magazine
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  • GutCult 1
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  • Agni
  • Mustachioed
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  • Verse Daily - Inside the Body
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Poems Elsewhere

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  • Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel 2nd Ed.
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  • Court Green
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  • Circumference
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My Blog List

  • the chicago poetry calendar
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  • Toad Press
    We are so excited about our 2026 chapbook selections! We're putting the final touches on our two exciting titles: LOOPHOLES, poems by Tamara Štajne...
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  • Eyewear
    *A Hollywood film poster that shows the best and worst of America in one product* Nothing made by humans is all good. Of all the verities that have been a...
    3 weeks ago
  • New York, Provence, Poetry
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  • The Wonder Reflex
    *Isn’t a sonnet a lot like a curry?* You start with a template that everyone claims to know, adjust it with pride or irreverence, and try to strike a bal...
    1 year ago
  • SCOTUSblog
    [image: The Future of SCOTUSblog] Dear SCOTUSblog readers, As one era ends, an exciting new one begins. SCOTUSblog is delighted to announce that it has b...
    1 year ago
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    1 year ago
  • Poems and Poetics
    Jerome Rothenberg & Javier Taboada an omnipoetics manifesto, *from* Pre-face to a Hemispheric Gathering of the Poetry & Poetics of the Americas “from ori...
    2 years ago
  • The Best American Poetry
    We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The editor of N...
    2 years ago
  • Bike Snob NYC
    Owing to cascading back-to-school schedules I make my return to typing words into the internet incrementally, and to that end here's a short post alerting ...
    6 years ago
  • Bewilderment Inc.
    *See a more detailed list of the readings for my fall 2019 tour below. I will be updating this as more dates firm up in the coming weeks. Additionally...
    6 years ago
  • Mom, JD
    Happy Screen-Free Week 2019! Well, it’s the night before the official start to Screen-Free Week & I thought I’d give a shout-out for what has become an ann...
    7 years ago
  • How a Poem Happens
    Lana K. W. Austin’s poems, short stories, and reviews have recently been featured in *Mid-AmericanReview, Sou’wester, Columbia Journal, Zone 3, Appalachia...
    7 years ago
  • Samizdat Blog
    Rejoice! The latest issue of *Chicago Review* has dropped, and in it you'll find new writing about Fernando Pessoa, FLARF, and Basil Bunting, as well as...
    8 years ago
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    We've been very proud to feature the work of playwright and Ontological-Hysteric Theater founder Richard Foreman since very close to our site's inception...
    8 years ago
  • Jill Magi's Blog
    I usually write something after finishing a book and after having some fairly sure thoughts about what I’ve read. This time, with Elizabeth A. Povinell...
    9 years ago
  • Small Animal Project
    Newborn photography is a very exciting project not just for fun but for making sure your baby’s history is documented at its best. In this project, you nee...
    9 years ago
  • The Page - Poetry, essays, ideas
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    9 years ago
  • Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi?
    A messenger from my great-aunt's house, that's my grandfather's sister, walks into the house and tells me I have been invited to eat grapefruit and that I ...
    9 years ago
  • The Forest and The Trees
    Jill Maji's *Labor* (Nightboat, 2012) Jill Magi describes her book *LABOR* (Nightboat, 2012) as "A fiction ... / An installation / A handmade employee ha...
    10 years ago
  • The Danny's Tavern Reading Series
    *IF YOU ARE IN LA* *Saturday April 2nd* Crêpes San Frontières *5PM-7PM* *Featuring poets:* *John Beer* *Carmen Gimenez-Smith* *francine j. harris* *Aaro...
    10 years ago
  • delirious hem
    Askance the bar’s red lights I glamorize, lean back in my sat aside sauvignon blanc the parquet flooring and Nancy Sinatra’s boots am...
    10 years ago
  • Flying Guillotine Press
    And here's an attempt to explain the project... Originally, I put out a call to a number of writers who work in different genres to engage in a colla...
    10 years ago
  • INFREQUENT UPDATES ON THINGS YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT
    "APPLAUSE," world record performance at the Walker Art Center's Open Field from Dustin Luke Nelson on Vimeo. My performance of APPLAUSE at the Walker Ar...
    11 years ago
  • Nothing to Say & Saying It
    John Cage, “In a Landscape” Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages” Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues” The Twilight Zone Theme Babylon 5 Theme Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...
    11 years ago
  • Dialogue's End
    Amelia Bentley and Toby Altman talk dissolving occupations, mysticism, Philadelphia, the slave/master//form/discipline debate, and, of course, poetry. ...
    12 years ago
  • RescuePress
    1. Could you tell us the name of a book you love, and why? Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson. I love that this book challenges the expectations of the re...
    12 years ago
  • The Unruly Servant
    The poet doubts words, doubts permanence, doubts time. The great poet doubts doubt. It is only because the great poet doubts that the great poem is writ...
    12 years ago
  • Ashes :: Ghosts :: Rubies
    So I have taken this here blog out of digital mothballs to participate in a self-interview project that Jenn McCreary of Ixnay Press "tagged" me for. So I...
    13 years ago
  • Holy Land
    Below is a link to a 2 minute Video Trailer for my Book "The Moon's Jaw"--- (note: not for the squeamish): you can find my new visual/sound art here at ...
    13 years ago
  • A Tonalist Notes
    14 years ago
  • The Allen Ginsberg Project
    Andy Clausen & Allen met in Berkeley in 1968 and the two fast became friends. Allen was a huge fan of his poetic style and did what he could to get him...
    16 years ago
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