Andrew Maxwell's Blog, page 7
September 1, 2013
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That poetry is significantly aspirational.
August 29, 2013
August 24, 2013
Real Curses
Α stipend of consciousness.
Accountancy
'A fragile person with a floating consciousness. There are many of these.'
August 18, 2013
47
That the poem refutes the longing to redeem it.
46
That poetry is to imagine unenforceable principles.
Propinquities
Its intimacy is unattributed.It's intimacy that is unattributed.It's intimacy is that it is unattributed.
On the Mother's Side
Knowing a quiet root, the mother refutes the profane with a sidewise glance. * "Mothers are like that" – always unattributed, but only occasionally in scare quotes.
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A bifocal faith: I believe you, so long as you are what you are.
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That the total poetry is inevitably disciplinary.
August 17, 2013
Careers
Fictions speciate too, to displace and supplant where the mind will not behold an ecosystem.
Like Andrade's hummingbird, a "flying prism", displaced in turns by the mall rat. As accompanists, there's still here the off-crust of our musical world. Then the invention takes root – the mall rat first a soprano, then eventually a director.
Like Andrade's hummingbird, a "flying prism", displaced in turns by the mall rat. As accompanists, there's still here the off-crust of our musical world. Then the invention takes root – the mall rat first a soprano, then eventually a director.
