frogments from the frag pool is a collection of poetry responding to Matsuo Bashō’s famous haiku “furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto” (8). This particular haiku is considered all but impossible to adequately translate, and consequently a small tradition of attempting to translate the poem has arisen. A relatively literal translation […]
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Fractal Economies (derek beaulieu)
derek beaulieu’s Fractal Economies is less of a collection than a cross-section. It collects only a fragment of beaulieu’s extensive forays into concrete poetry (poetry in which the physical form of the poem is foregrounded, and its meaning or content is relegated to a lesser position, or absent altogether), instead of being comprehensive. beaulieu’s work […]
A Haiku and an Interview: Jonathan Ball in Toronto Review of Books
John Wisniewski was kind enough to interview me recently, which reminded me of a haiku of mine that is also online in the same publication. (Best interview title ever? Well, I’ve had some good ones….) He had to edit for space, so I am posting the complete interview below in case you are interested. *** […]
My Proposal for SCP-001 (at the SCP Wiki)
Some time back, Christian Bök introduced me to the SCP Wiki, a collection of imaginative “Special Containment Procedures” that can be likened to a crowd-sourced archive-book. In the words of the site: SCP artifacts pose a significant threat to global security. Various agencies from around the world operate to maintain human independence from extra-terrestrial, extra-dimensional, […]