Torsade Literary Space A Book Report from the Zero Income Front
My Curious Reading A Book Report from the Zero Income Front My impression is that, when the average browsing consumer considers the self-published novel, quality is not her concern. By this I mean the question of whether she expects to find quality. We might (it’s been done) correlate types of publishing […]
Sans Serif (poem)
Sans Serif She’s crushed her fingertip under a trunk lid One purple nail the adornment of her hand No rings and nothing else Just this, playing across the jacketless blank “I’m hating this,” she tells him She has a book with a hard grey cover Two gritted fangs forbid the […]
The Insular I: a poem’s point of view
My Curious Reading The Insular I People don’t like poetry. That of course is not universally true. True enough, though, that a lot of poetry you read (or glance over) launches like the voice of someone you’re stuck with in an elevator. I write poetry, and I too […]
My Curious Reading: Character Logic
My Curious Reading Character Logic Let’s begin by splitting a hair. E. M. Forster, in Aspects of the Novel (Harcourt, 1927), gives his seventh lecture on the theme of Prophecy. He introduces a metaphor: “song” to represent the voice of the prophet; “the furniture of common sense”, to […]