dbqp: visualizing poetics: January 2015

A Poetics #102: Ossature

Everything is a poem. Everything is some ossature of information. The breathing may be gone from some, but the breathing once was there. The webbing of structural bone remains. The outline of meaning endures.

ecr. l'inf.

Jan

Unfathomableness

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If you imagine, for a moment, that there is a world so solid and firm that you can understand every part of it, you are thinking of anything except these poems, which twist perception, textual meaning, and expectation into the shapes of balloon animals controlled by the optical illusion that is the gift of sight itself: We see only when that part of us that perceives the visual, that p

Jan

Subfractionalism

A photograph is a fraction of a vision. At times, a fraction of a fraction. A photograph is an angle without a plane. A slice of sight. A subtraction from wide-eyedness. A memory recalled but depthless. The edited viewscape. What is left when the ignored is left out.

A word is sometimes a part of a word, a fraction of a thought's thought. It changes in the editing of it. We see by slicing away, hear by listening to the narrow corner, read by not seeing it all.

A sight begins before we see it.

Jan

#101: Perforated

The performance is not the poem; the poem is the performance.

ecr. l’inf.

Jan

dbqp: visualizing poetics

visual poetry, the textual imagination, and personal experience

A Poetics #102: Ossature

Unfathomableness

Subfractionalism

#101: Perforated

Allah Akbar