brilliant analysis!

From “The Captain Poetry Poems,” by bpNichol, a mimeograph published the same year as Ondaatje’s documentary on Nichol, The Sons of Captain Poetry (1970). It’s more or less what it sounds like, a series of poems infused with the tone of comic books (and also some actual cartoons). This comes in a sub-sequence of poems titled Captain Poetry in Love.

I love the poem for first immediately appealing to the sensitivities of a writer–Captain Poetry coming to our rescue; the saviour. But on reinspection (and in context) it’s hard not to see that there is also a satirical bite to the poem: Captain Poetry’s poem echoes of lines by Shakespeare and Marlowe, and of course there is the absurdity that the super-powered Captain Poetry is so indignantly upset by the criticism. Writing later, Nichol said that the book was written in response to “the macho male bullshit tradition where if you were male & wrote poems you had to make damn sure you could piss longer, shout harder” he experienced in the Canadian poetry scene, but you can’t help but expand it further and bearing in mind techniques like the blazon which are so integral to the construction of sonnets and love poetry as a whole.

Cameron Awkward-Rich, 'Meditations in an Emergency', from Dispatch: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich

you are in everything in waking minutes, a haunt, but nowhere in my deepest dreams, no nightmares where vengeance gets its assembly and judgement -- I can't even give my rage, the numbness of it all stuns me to sleep. Finally.

'Some Peace' by Rain Ella- poet (ig rainellawrote) Draft of a short interlude in an upcoming book of poems.

the longing is killing me

lucille clifton the book of light: “climbing” \ pia brambley

buy me a turmeric latte

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Christian Dior - Spring 1990 RTW

musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

buy me a coffee

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

Oil paintinng by Roberto Ferri

Beyond the Frame. Lorna Foran photographed by Betina du Toit for Harper’s Bazaar UK, November 2019.

“I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm far more interested in symmetry.”

Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

a it girl problem

alexander mcqueen broken glass torso

ss1996 “the hunger collection”

clear acrylic bodice made by emily ticehurst