Archive for October, 2006

the evils of new formalism

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

another Richard Peel bit of art
Ah, 1983. I was thirteen years old. My whole life was before me and had I just been hardened, say the word, “directed,” a little more I would have embraced free verse poetry as the radical and revolutionary form that it is and started name dropping […]

bujia

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Richard Peel rocks! I have to love someone who posts free art to the world. I found this monster on his webpage, which I suggest everyone go to and pick random images to download right now.
I think I shall name it Bujia, which I believe is Spanish for “spark plug.” I love […]

Yerevan Blues, no.1

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

life is so short and poetry so long … london underground graffiti, 1992.
And I am so glad there is so much poetry in the world! They say Romantic poetry is cliche in this post-post-post-modern world but I am all for it. When will schools start to teach Lord Byron again? And everything Langston […]

“Beaurocracy au Bleu”

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

My dear friend from Yakuts, Katya, sent me a new photograph she had taken. She called it “Beaurocracy au Bleu” and explained: It’s my friend, not me, but I like the idea … if you feel like beaurocracy can be a devasatatibe thing, emotionless, empty …

photo by Evseyeva Ekaterina, 2006
But not all […]

“tzaghi’k”// armenian for common flower [2]

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Do you ever get the feeling something is close to being the way you want it but not exactly? In the end I kept asking myself, “you go from flowers to highways and why?” There needs to be a map, a guidepost, some sort of marker for the reader to follow along with. […]