Maybe it is somehow from being one encumbered with words that I moved to the visual presentation of these meaningless marks we have come to believe in, come to depend upon. Skeptical enough, I accept no answer, but my mother tells stories (tells a single story) about how I as a pre-literate child was enraptured by the printed word: How I would spend hours examining the textile of newsprint, the warp & woof of the word written & palpable. I cannot remember this (remembering instead the effect of picture books upon my psyche & dream), but I keep with me in the pocket of my mind a rubbed-smooth amulet of a rememory: a towheaded toddler, kneeling, head bowed, hands and nose against the rough pungent surface of the newsprint, examining the pattern for meaning.

The Latin alphabet provides us with the perfect self-mirroring quartet of letters:

db

qp

This set of letters appeared frequently in early concrete poems, sometimes imbedded in the contexture of the poem.
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This is a list of where I expect to be on the road in the future. If anyone knows of anything of possible interest to me happening in these places at these times, drop me a line, though I can’t be sure I’ll have the time for anything.

  • 3-5 October 2011: Buffalo, New York
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  • 19-22 October 2011: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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    1 October 2011
    The Grey Borders Reading Series
    Niagara Artists Centre
    354 St. Paul Street
    St Catharine's, Ontario
    Geof Huth, NF Huth, and Angela Szczepaniak
    8:00 pm


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