An Interview with Ron Silliman
“I think writers are always realists. I think Joyce in Finnegans Wake is a realist. What is interesting is the question of what’s real.”
Five Poems
“I looked in the mirror
and liked what I saw.”
The Astronomer’s Dream: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
“What if cinema was a branch of metaphysics?”
Two Poems
“Don’t say beauty say the beautiful”
Epithalamium
“now and then
you were
at the delta of living”
Gazing Fixedly Upon Infinity: Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp
“The black of the infinite and the blue of stellar transition, heaven, the cosmic sea, are balanced in contrast by the white of the moon-sphere, the soap bubble pipe, and the ghostly border which both separates and connects the lower portion — the physical realm — to the stars above.”
Sor Juana
“Metaphor is sin she thinks, foot-deep in snow. God’s love is ever.”
Subtle Bonds of the Encounter: Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) / bpNichol (1944-1988) / Ibn Arabi (1165-1240)
“What if metaphysics was a branch of cinéma fantastique?”