Duncan on H.D.

The H.D. Book is at its core a polemic–elevating the female and the nonconformist and the heterodox against the institutions of men. One of these institutions was literature. Axé.

sabotage (n.)

1910, from Fr. sabotage, from saboter “to sabotage, bungle,” lit. “walk noisily,” from sabot “wooden shoe” (13c.), altered (by association with O. Fr. bot “boot”) from M. Fr. savate “old shoe,” from an unidentified source that also produced similar words in O. Prov., Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Basque. In French, the sense of “deliberately … More sabotage (n.)

On Bicycles

There is actual broccoli growing on my broccoli plants, and I am very impressed.  I also appear to have taken two days off. I took most of two days off last weekend, too, but it was for travel and excitement. These two days I: • slept until 10 AM • worked three hours in the … More On Bicycles

Mimnermos

Look: up every bone every sky every day every you– he goes working his way up blue earlobes from ocean goes thrown by rosesudden someone’s already tomorrow goes riding his bed of daysided gold goes skimming sleep countries from west to east until sudden rosestopped someone’s already earliness opens the back of the clock: he … More Mimnermos

Fragments

When dawn, wearing golden sandals, awoke me, I began to crawl, burning, shivering, to my uncurtained window; Migrating birds streamed over the dark sea.   Who can quench the ingenious fires of cruelty? I was dreaming of white-fetlocked horses conferring in a meadow When dawn, wearing golden sandals, awoke me.   On my stopped loom, … More Fragments