In the cluttered hush of my studioa sheet of canvas breathes like folded skin.Turpentine fogs the window; a plaster handleans against a crate stamped LAST SUMMER. One painting is a bruise of ultramarine—another, a grin of ochre stuck on burlap.I price them in small currencies: time, regret, glue.Sell one and the throat hollows; keep all … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry. – Art is Everywhere, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (with a bonus at the end: Cyrano’s “A Nose…” monologue)
Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is at once a theatrical confection and a sharply worked tragedy of language. Written for the theatre — and written to be heard — the play glories in the sound of words: the quick thrusts of wit, the rolled cadence of heroic verse, the extravagant pyrotechnics of rhetoric. Yet beneath … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (with a bonus at the end: Cyrano’s “A Nose…” monologue)
Revisionist Poetry – Two of Us (a.k.a. Angered Conversants, v.3)
We are the things the sea forgot —salt-sanded, hollow where a heart once ran.They come with voices like fast knives,bragging the bright heat of being heard. We remember other storms: slow presses,the river’s grammar of rubbing and giving.Barnacles hang like old punctuation;sun has written its absent names along our ribs. You pound the air with … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Two of Us (a.k.a. Angered Conversants, v.3)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross
Clifford Ross’s The World of Edward Gorey is less a conventional monograph than an act of tasteful conjuration: a careful, lovingly lit cabinet that sets an uncanny miniature theatre at the center of view. Ross treats Gorey not simply as an illustrator who doodled at the margins of Victorian melodrama, but as a singular authorial … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The World of Edward Gorey by Clifford Ross
Revisionist Poetry – Angered Conversants, v.2
Wind knifes the shore and keeps its rude counsel;two salt-bleached lengths lie like old bones—one half-buried, the other split and cuppedas if to hold what the tide forgot. They bear the maps of storms: dark rings, sun-bleached grain,a barnacled thumb where some net once caught.Around them voices spool — hot, bright, and short —the human … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Angered Conversants, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Irma S. Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking is an unlikely classic: at once a pragmatic manual, a conversational memoir, and — when read closely — a vernacular text that helped shape twentieth-century American domestic culture. First self-published in 1931 as a modest compilation of tested recipes and “casual culinary chat,” the book rapidly left the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Revisionist Poetry – Almost Invisible, v.2
Notice the hare— a seam in the field:fur threaded from river silt to sky-smoke,a mottled map that answers no one. It folds into the green, spine a taut wire,breath stitched thin along a blade of grass.Eyes half-open like coins tilted to light,a small percussion beating behind the ribs. Ears pivot—radar for footstep and wing-shadow—listening to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Almost Invisible, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins’s Roomanitarian is a compact blast of the author’s characteristic electricity: part essay collection, part personal manifesto, and entirely tuned to the register of a voice that has been honed on stages, bus trips, and the small, unforgiving hours of hotel rooms. First published by Rollins’s own 2.13.61 press in 2005, the book runs … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Roomanitarian by Henry Rollins
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v7. (scratchy jukebox edition – Tom Waits style)
i don’t know love by the book —i know it by the smell of your coat after rain,by the neon bruise that hums outside our window,by a coffee cup that rings like a bell when you set it down. i love a smile that’s crooked like a bad harmonica,it sneaks up on me from the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v7. (scratchy jukebox edition – Tom Waits style)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Dull Roar by Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins has long worn many faces — punk provocateur, spoken-word performer, travel diarist, cultural gadfly — and A Dull Roar reads like the distilled audio of those public selves turned inward. The book insists on being heard: its sentences are kinetic, its cadence muscular, and its moral energy rarely sits idle. As a work … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Dull Roar by Henry Rollins
The New Renaissance Mindset 