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I needed a magnifying glass because the weight of the typeface lent a blurring affect given the tight leading.
Them's the brakes. Care gives in to bebop pleasure.
Use a concept to pull the hat out of the rabbit.
Don't be a harness for your own dreams.
Greg Evason
If there is any doubt about the technical term "bearing down" it would be dispelled by one look at the cover of Penny Chalmers (Penn Kemp) Bearing Down (Coach House Press, 1972).
In the upper right corner are some thoughts of the season (unattributed)
Easter is no time for argument.Which thanks to the World Wide Web we can ascribe to Frederick B. Speakman, author of sermons, in fine fettle for presenting an argument ("Easter is no time for argument" is itself an argument).
Lilies don't argue; they bloom.
Springtime doesn't argue; it comes.
Music doesn't argue; it sings.
Beauty doesn't argue; it beckons and points.
Love doesn't argue; it outlives our griefs.
They don't talk baby talk like visitors do because it is hard to understand.There are are more reproductions of hospital literature from the chaplain this time in which are interpolated other bits of unattributed sentimental poetry. For example
When they read to us, they don't skip or mind if it is the same story again.
Said the Robin to the Sparrow:Both the hospital literature and the interpolations are in Courier, the ubiquitous typewriter typeface. We are faced with the question: did the poet place these in the spaces or were they found there? The one clue, layout of the interpolations in a perpendicular position, doesn't apply to all the space cramming instances. All do share a crowding effect. There is quoting going on. Who is doing it remains uncertain. I vouch for ironic insertions by the author given the wry wit exhibited in a number of the birth poems all the while bearing down.
"I should really like to know
Why these anxious human beings
Rush about and worry so.["]
[which we trace to Elizabeth Cheney]
From the bookstore Good Egg in Kensington Market, a receipt that provides a little graphic oval. A nice touch.
Tim Cestnick writing in The Globe and Mail provides us with a found poem. The list has enormous poetic potential (imagine for example the mere recitation of names (from an old-fashioned telephone book) — very Homeric). And this list culled from an entry about medically expenses (not) eligible for tax purposes bring us into the ambit of the body in its vulnerability.
Medical expenses. The problem here is that, while the list of eligible medical expenses is growing slowly, there’s still much that can’t be claimed – and people push the boundaries. You can’t claim the costs of practitioners not recognized by your applicable provincial authority. Nor can you claim vitamins, natural supplements or over-the-counter medications, recliners, non-hospital beds and certain supplies such as rubbing alcohol, bandages and shoe inserts.See what happens with some lineation:
DWR trawling through John Williams's Augustus recorded these on a slip
TautenedThe image is particularly haunting because it communicates with a certain eloquence a certain lack of facility with language — a palpable tension.
Tongue
Tension
From nine first lines
The light foot hears you at the edgeNine Blue Moments for Robin. Michael Boughn
Thickened light and liquid earth
Grail quests in times of plague
Instabilities of interminable
Fiery inclinations toward obscure
Indications of ripened peaches
The light at the end of unforeseen
Circulations of vanishing conversations
Protean racket intercessions were always
[…]The line breaks and enjambement along with the diction and vocabulary evoke what is elsewhere in the suite of poems referred to as "scholarship and cosmos teeming / with the sense of a kiss that never / quite ends because its beginning / was impossible".
ashes. Peacock flesh from old
poems preens in reflections flashing
with clearly discerned intrusions
of glory eruptions eschewing
finely boned displays of self
determined perfections for the sheer
joy of raunchy instigations
and unheard of worlds written
asunder.
[…]
From the Glossary of Fish Names in Jane Grigson Fish Cookery
Nannie Nine Eyes (sea lamprey: eel)Pure Found Poetry
Nanny nose (soft clam)
Nanny shad (gizzard shad; shad)
Nassau grouper (grouper)
Native oyster (oyster grown in UK, Ostrea edulis)
Navaga (cod)
pages and pages apart is found a description to describe language under pressure
The wire, the wire, the why are, the why are. The why are we here? Listen there was time.which instantiates what our poet earlier expressed in a finely allitertive phrase: "tumorousness of nurture"
Found poem.
I've come from himFrom trans poet, Gwen Benaway Passage.
and how close to me
he remains.
someone, somewhere,
will look for me and
I will be found
[T]here is no guarantee that all sentences of the text can be traced back to one and the same world, or to the same universe.And as we learn here, pronoun reference can shift. Pavel reminds us "referential behavior includes a creative, risk-taking aspect, as well as a tendency to settle down into conventional patterns."
In these days of full text searching, the reading of indices is no longer an habitual activity. It is not however difficult to appreciate the indices prepared with the care and preserved in tomes such as The Book of Knowldge: The Children's Encyclopedia Volume XX (1929).
Following on the standard alphabetical index and the poetry index (by author and first lines), is the "School-Subject Guide" which has an "Applied Science and Industry" section which has as its first subsection one devoted to "Food and Its Sources". Its listing reads like a found poem.
A Grain of SaltThe "Food and Its Sources" subsection continues with a list of Things to Make which references recipes and experiments found throughout the volumes of the encyclopedia and that listing is followed by Wonder Questions.
How Coffee Comes to Us
How Fish and Oysters are Taken
How Flour is Made
The Story in a Tea-cup
Where Sugar Comes From
The Worlds' Bread and Butter
Bees and Wasps (The makers of the purest sugar)
Crabs, Lobsters and Their Kin
The Great Cattle Family (Animals that feed and clothe us)
[...]
What makes us hungry?Trolling through the index is like reading a map, imagining where to go. With Volume and Page Number functioning like a URL. And easily absorbing time and attention.
Does the brain need food?
Why do we cook our food?
[...]
