Thursday, October 6, 2022

 In my absence: exercises in line breaks and spacing



2 comments:

  1. can imagine this as a longer weaving, of great-grandfather's text and various of your own. the armature his, your ingredients a chorus. or vice versa.
    wonder if there are allusions to events, e.g., at shipworks or elsewhere, in his journals. even one or two, even if faint. yet another thread to work in.

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  2. remembering there's a passage about the typewriter as a tool of poetry (precise "scoring" of poetic expression, breathing, pauses etc) in Kyle Schlesinger his dissertation “Letterpress Printing in the Postmodern Era: Poetry, Media and Typography” (light blue, thick, somewhere center/upper at
    http://studio.montserrat.edu/gd/library/index.htm#05
    though I don't see it in this old photo)

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