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Michael Lee Rattigan is a poet of a clarity spent in the relative formedness of the mind-body’s attentions. The intense world of feeling he evokes in the poems of ‘Liminal’ feels, to me, like something of a refreshing change in … Continue reading →

In response to utopian intellectual labour conservative rejoinder attempts to answer its energy according to portraits of constraint, according to honoured reputations in the canon. The latter, always holding up the inert, like the weight of hardened rum obstructing collective … Continue reading →

Triptych (Poland/1931, Khurbn, The Burning Babe) 2007 There is much to celebrate in this recent collage-compendium of Jerome Rothenberg’s multi-various ‘Jewish’/’Poland’ poems. Triptych brings together perhaps his finest two works: the radically irreverent Poland/1931 and the brilliant holocaust memorial Khurbn. … Continue reading →

from ‘ACROSS THE VAPOUR GULF’ “Nothing dessicates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.” – E.M. Cioran “…something subversive, something perilous…about the aphorism…” – Richard Howard * Perfection. And by perfection I think of the Argentinean … Continue reading →

from Circumference this ornate certainty Encompass Fractions faith multiple identities. Of earth of soil’s relevance: solidified struggle growth among death cyclic invention s circling achromatic hours’ elongated factions of designed attributions— Felino A. Soriano is a case manager and advocate … Continue reading →

Premonition of this Philosophy, this Poetics… Staffs 1996 We must have been studying Descartes’ Meditations… and I was still in the first full-blown emanations of ‘finding philosophy’ so I probably adhered to what Descartes’ thesis was attempting to teach us, … Continue reading →

A few abstract theodolites. The Mad Salon. A Chronicle of favourite pastimes. Art among the mad, or the mad in art. The opinions of two great French Psychiatrists. Thoughts written in the margin of insane pictures. The fatal breakdown of … Continue reading →

RAT CODE There are new seasons by courtesy of neglect And the holes in our skin do not tell the time. I visited a site of recent failure. The only thing I saw were people that were dead. I came … Continue reading →

The Fecundating Query Rotational Cluster querying in pulsative trunk emperors did it puissantly forumlative ://: disintegrative avenging ://: senescent          prior to the maturation of repudiation when zoning was honest & the councils were aboveboard the galleys wet unkempt grunge latrining … Continue reading →