Variorum Cicatrix: Nixed

Your speech matches nearly another's lips [...] You are used by shadows, picked up at edges, lit by the thresh. Clark.Coolidge (1986)

Forthcoming on April 16, An Absence of Sea, a letter across time woven from dreams, intimacies, lived fragments, and remembered voices, where the self meets its double and those who echo within it. erratumpress.com/an-absence-of-… My gratitude to @AnsgarAllen and @press_erratum

Merleau-Ponty on the time of things: “This table bears the traces of my past life: I scratched my initials into it over here, and over there I left behind some ink stains. But these traces by themselves do not refer back to the past, for they are present…”

Hi, I’m screaming as the world of letters I love burns and I can do nothing to save it. Sorry if I can’t come to the phone right now.

I didn’t realise this was about sports, I liked it because I thought it was about, you know, Things, The World at Large, &c

Ballet does influence my criticism-- and how I think about art and life generally-- but no one in their right mind would pay me to dance. And that is so so freeing, because generationally, who amongst us has not monetised every other thing they've been moderately good at?

Oh you meditate? I curl wantonly into the soft crevasse of my duvet letting the fragments of my anxiety for the world coalesce into grand horrible theories until it all stops suddenly like a fever breaking.

It turns out the least comforting thing you can say to people upset about the decline of American society is “well, you know, this also happened to people in Tacitus!”

An announcement: my next book, THESE NEW FRAGILITIES, coming from @7StoriesPress in 2028.

Sometimes I can’t keep up with the literary squabbles. It’s just too much or too many. I love peacocks for their decadent strut but the roosters wear me out. The roosters in us are never happy unless they’re on top. And I resent that in any feathered cock.

So much of Proustian subjectivity— bemoaning his own lack of “will” as a critical part of the desiring subject— in this little chapter right here.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. - Simone Weil

Today is the 21st anniversary of the murder of US citizen Rachel Corrie by Israeli occupation forces. A brave woman who knew the meaning of solidarity. RIP Rachel. Palestine will be free.

Yvan Goll (translated by Paul Zweig)

Max Jacob, @Wakefield_Press. @Shadow2train, @acodrescu Black Widow Press, The Dice Cup, Too Late For Nightmares Prose and The Poem …wblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/pro…

People are now demanding I provide citations for my tweets. Not sure I like the way this is headed.

@bernardtjoy Any examples?

@PeteBSW1 What… you want a citation?

vimeo.com/26989328 (02:39) INFLATION {1928, Hans Richter; Germany}

vimeo.com/26989328 (02:39) INFLATION {1928, Hans Richter; Germany}

youtu.be/DWK5UTe_o0c (44:14) БАРЫШНЯ И ХУЛИГАН (The Lady And The Hooligan) {1918, Yevgeni Slavinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky; Russia} feat. Aleksandra Rebikova #blackandwhite