my newest longpoem "Ashgabat":
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(by carla gannis via bruce sterling on ello)
"I had come to believe that a poet had something in common with the Japanese violin maker who worked for fifty years to create his delicate wooden instrument. When a buyer came into his store, fell in love with the instrument, and offered the violin maker more money than he had ever been offered, the violin maker smiled and said, 'This violin is for my great-grandchild; it can't be played for fifty years.' Perhaps the past had to settle for awhile before music could be made of it." --Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate (1997)
"There is only one directive: that the lost are found; that the thick leaves encasing the dead are parted and they are lifted into the arms of light." --Patti Smith, M Train (2016)
(Uruk, via)
"Every so often i returned to my BolaƱo poem, still languishing between 96 and 104 lines. It became something of a hobby, a deeply wrenching one that produced no finished result. How much easier if i had simply assembled small airplane models, applying minute decals and touches of enamel paint." --M Train
(Aleppo today, via newsweek dot com)
Our two teams. One is playing with a real football, the other an imaginary.
XANRI NAJO FATCI BOLCI KELGRI REMEI