Tandeta: Woolf, DFW, bookless libraries, Smith, little magazines, Schulz
The London walks of Virginia Woolf / The ethics of David Foster Wallace [via @maudnewton] / A bookless library [via @CriticalCookie] / Zadie Smith in defense of libraries / In praise of little magazines / The beauty of Bruno Schulz‘s prose.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The language of poetry is, and always has been, a protean creature that has developed over millennia. It is a slippery, untamed, chameleon-like creature which grows and bifurcates, shedding skins of language as it goes. Ex Nihilo embodies this evolutionary process and teems with imagery of this kind… (it is) a wild behemoth that does not play by staid, conventional rules of versifying. As is befitting for his subject-matter Stubbs invents new undisciplined forms for his language to writhe and prowl in. The ‘self’ is constantly dividing into another ‘self’ and its attendant doppelganger. One is reminded of Rimbaud’s ‘I is another’. As in a Cubist painting we are never quite sure who or which part of the poem is speaking to us… (it is) open-ended and in a constant state of ‘becoming’. And as the poem will never arrive at a moment of closure the language remains dynamic and supple rather than static or stagnant…
Mark Wilson reviews Paul Stubbs‘ Ex Nihilo.
ampere’s and
This week’s visuals: Daniel Mróz, Herbert Huncke, Chip Kidd, posters of the Japanese avant-garde, comic books as cheap paperbacks, Karel Teissig, Bear Alley Books on Spillane.