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Nicolette Stasko
Spoon Bending: A Chapbook Curated by Kent MacCarter
There is no such thing as a good poem about nothing? What does that mean, exactly? And what’s all this about spoon bending anyways?
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Tagged Amanda Stewart, Andrew Riemer, Berni M Janssen, Bonny Cassidy, Dorothea Rosa Herliany, Elena Gomez, Elif Sezen, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Gig Ryan, Ingrid de Kok, Jane Gibian, Jennifer K Dick, Jodi Braxton, JS Harry, Kent MacCarter, Lee Kofman, Mark Rothko, Nicolette Stasko, peter minter, Susan Schultz, Tracy Ryan, Vona Groarke
Sendai
I Leave me I am late in my life and have seen many summers my mind now is only wreckage and waste once houses stood and people teemed a busy anthill watched over by the quiet dead rice paddies glowed …
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Tagged Nicolette Stasko
Portrait of Vincenzo d’Orti
from The Invention of Everyday Life Vincenzo d’Orti is a man who smells. Day in, day out, waking or sleeping his nostrils register the world and convey it to his simple brain. Like many, Vincenzo moves between thinking his life …
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Tagged Nicolette Stasko
A Plot
from The Invention of Everyday Life The novelist is feeling pleased. Having altered somewhat the original emphasis, his novel is going well for a change. It is now mainly about a young woman who becomes a recluse after her lover …
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Tagged Nicolette Stasko
Glasses of Water
from The Invention of Everyday Life The concerto on the record player stops. Marina is now dreaming of a trip she took to Milan with an orchestra — the long walk out of the city into the villages and fields. …
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Tagged Nicolette Stasko
Between Virtue and Innocence: In Defence of Prose Poetry
Each virtue responds to a specific form of innocence. Innocence is moral instinct. Virtue is prose, innocence is poetry. – Novalis Long before Romanticism, poetry was thought to whisper with a sound which was the sound of Nature purified; poetry …
