K.I. Press's Blog, page 12
February 2, 2012
"As a prosewriter of the longbook, I go off into the past, the future, the imagined world. The Poet..."
"As a prosewriter of the longbook, I go off into the past, the future, the imagined world. The Poet alights in the right-now time, and stays in the special/ordinary moments. If I were to make an hour for poetry every day, I would change my life."
- Maxine Hong Kingston, To Be the Poet
- Maxine Hong Kingston, To Be the Poet
February 1, 2012
"Not so long ago, those who could read were few. They had a rare skill, and what they did – staring..."
"Not so long ago, those who could read were few. They had a rare skill, and what they did – staring at odd-shaped marks and reeling off a message written by someone far away – was regarded with awe. No wonder that, in the popular imagination, books and magic went together, and the kind of magic thought to be involved was frequently sinister. The Devil, like lawyers, was thought to go around with a contract – a big black book, which he was always pestering you to sign in blood."
- Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
- Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
January 31, 2012
rhamphotheca:
Hyla baudini (now called Mexican Treefrog,...
Hyla baudini (now called Mexican Treefrog, Smilisca baudinii)
A&B. Costa Rica C. Jalisco D. Nicuragua
from Reptilia and Batrachia, 1885 - 1902, Batrachia - plate 71, by Albert Günther
January 30, 2012
"One has to get going. This is what writing is, starting off. It has to do with activity and..."
"One has to get going. This is what writing is, starting off. It has to do with activity and passivity. This does not mean one will get there. Writing is not arriving; most of the time it's not arriving. One must go on foot, with the body. One has to go away, leave the self. How far must one not arrive in order to write, how far must one wander and wear out and have pleasure? One must walk as far as the night. One's own night. Walking through the self toward the dark."
- Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
- Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
January 29, 2012
January 28, 2012
"Even conventional psychotherapy will tell you that in order to be happy, it is not what you add to..."
"Even conventional psychotherapy will tell you that in order to be happy, it is not what you add to your life that counts, it is what you take away. Writers have known this on some basic level since writing began: the more you add (money, material objects, obligations, even recognition), the less is left for you to nurture the solitude you need to continue with your writing. Or, if you do continue writing anyway, you may, writers are quick to suspect, not be writing as well; your work may not be as real and as true as it would if you kept your integrity and your freedom."
- Kristjana Gunnars, "The Art of Solitude," from Stranger at the Door: Writers and the Act of Writing
- Kristjana Gunnars, "The Art of Solitude," from Stranger at the Door: Writers and the Act of Writing
January 27, 2012
"Well, as I've said, our readers have to be performers, so they themselves have done work in order to..."
"Well, as I've said, our readers have to be performers, so they themselves have done work in order to decode these messages on the page. Because they are involved, they become our partners. They've brought themselves to it. That's the extra dimension about which we know nothing."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing by Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer
- Kurt Vonnegut, Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing by Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer
January 26, 2012
eileenede:
Montreal Bunnies flying the flag for Playboy outside...
Montreal Bunnies flying the flag for Playboy outside the Montreal Expo '67 Conference Center.
My own notes (kipress): When I saw this photo I had to repost. I did a project once when I was freelancing that involved compiling and publishing a whole bunch of Expo '67 photos, and I sure wish I'd seen this one then!
January 25, 2012
"Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in uncreative moments. In creative..."
"Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in uncreative moments. In creative moments try to make use of it as one more means of grasping life. Cleanly used, it too is clean, and one need not be ashamed of it; and if you feel you are getting too familiar with hit, if you fear this growing intimacy with it, then turn to great and serious objects, before which it becomes small and helpless."
- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
- Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
