SHORT WORKS

A critical essay and a translation, illustrated by Michaux’s ideograms.
Signs in Action assesses what the encounter between Pound, Michaux, and Chinese ideogram might tell us about poetry as an act of making-and unmaking signs.

Sieburth quoting Michaux:
Later, the signs, certain signs. Signs speak to me. I would gladly draw them, but a sign is also a stop sign. And at this juncture there is still something I desire above all else. A continuum. A murmur without end, like life itself, the thing that keeps us going…I want my markings (mes tracés) to be the very phrasing (le phrase)  of life, but supple, deformable, sinuous.
 

Everything ambulates in Tom Whalen’s brilliant trilogy Maureen Owen

poetic fiction of the highest quality  ZYX

He thought first of the races, the hooves and mud burned into the air, of being blinded by the sun, his tiny hand lost in the sweat and history of his father’s.  Music came and went through the rooms, he followed, the course it took as best he could …That voice always always that voice, did he hear it now?  Yes.  It came and went with the days.  Rafters sliced the light that fell at his feet.

Winter Coat
A. What is it made of ?
Sounds left out back in the toolshed
where your father made you pray (more...)