Where the poem hides The binding cradles the pages—waiting to be filled. A postage stamp of Plutoglares from the corner, cancelled in an impossible year. Like a sculptor, I believethe medium can hold the art; the paper opens consulatesfor things that have no lobby. Study the lines and textures;the surface negotiates treaties with ink and … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v6. – an Absurd version – Italo Calvino style
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell reads like a small, incandescent apocalypse: a compact, fiercely personal document in which a young poet brutalizes his own mythology and attempts — in the same breath — to transfigure failure into art. It is not a comfortable book. It is stubborn, querulous, visionary, and often unbearably intimate: part … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v5. – a Comical, with a pencil nick version
Where the poem hides The binding cradles the pages—waiting to be filled. A pencil nickpricks the margin like a ridiculous wart. Like a sculptor, I believethe medium can hold the art;I tap, I shave, I whistle at my mistakes. Study the lines and textures;the surface is coy. The nick keeps secrets:a stub of an idea, … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v5. – a Comical, with a pencil nick version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters is a lucid, humane intervention in a long-running scientific and philosophical conversation about what it means to be “intelligent.” Framed as reporting and cultural history rather than polemic, the book stitches vivid field scenes, archival excavation, and interviews into an argument: plants exhibit a range of sensing, signalling, and adaptive … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Reviews – The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v4. – a Darker, with a coffee ring version
Where the poem hides The binding cradles the pages—waiting to be filled. A coffee ringblooms at the margin, brown and patient. Like a sculptor, I believethe medium can hold the art;but stains are maps of small betrayals,old weather pressed into paper. Study the lines and textures;the surface keeps its secrets. The ring knowsthe lateness of … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v4. – a Darker, with a coffee ring version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet reads like a distilled apprenticeship in attention. What began as a sequence of private replies (written between 1903–1908) to an earnest novice, Franz Xaver Kappus, has become a canonical pocket-manual for anyone who considers making their inner life the material of art. The book’s power lies not … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v3. – a more sensory and meditative version
Where the poem hides The binding cradles leaves of paper—a small, patient architecture.They wait for ink like ponds wait for rain. Like a sculptor I work by touch:press, subtract, fold—believing the mediumwill keep the shape I make. Study the lines — the grain, the seam, the thumbprint;the surface has its private weather. Only an impulse … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v3. – a more sensory and meditative version
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire presents itself as a confessional document — a long, elegiac first-person recollection — and through that frame Anne Rice re-animates the Gothic tradition for the late twentieth century. The novel is less a catalogue of monstrous deeds than an extended meditation on consciousness, loss, and moral solitude. Its vampires are not … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Revisionist Poetry – Where the poem hides, v2.
The binding cradles the pages—waiting to be filled. Like a sculptor, I believethe medium can hold the art. Study the lines and textures;the surface keeps its secrets. Only impulse freesthe poem from the page.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy is a curious hybrid: part travelogue, part parable, part self-help tract. It reads like a modern myth packaged as a quest narrative — a protagonist (an everyman narrator) follows a trail of clues to an ancient manuscript in Peru and, in the process, encounters a sequence of “insights” promising a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The New Renaissance Mindset 