Lance Phillips

2005-10-12T20:14:00.000-04:00

I also have a text up at the new Kulture Vulture, here.

2005-10-11T20:05:00.000-04:00

I have a text up over at Shampoo 25, if anyone would like to have a look.

2005-08-31T20:43:00.000-04:00

--Is SPACE the monster of volition?
--if so it's the TRANSFORMATION of what?
--thinking?
--FREE-WILL?

--How is SPACE tied to the notion of individuality
--as a locator?
--a re-enforcer

--SPACE is local to the extent that it is INCORPORATIVE?

--SPACE among a group holds the aggregate?

--What are the choices involved with SPACE?

2005-08-13T20:39:00.000-04:00

If anyone is interested in my dabblings in fictions have a look here. Also, I have a text forthcoming from Kulture Vulture, Shampoo and Jacket 28 (this one a short essay/review of Deborah Meadows' Growing Still (Tinfish Press, 2005))to which I'll post links when they are avaiable.

2005-07-20T21:00:00.000-04:00

6-20-05

--How does SPACE transform the BODY
--that is the body via its CONTEXT
--including transformation

--do the Nymphs hold within them a part of their own TRANSFORMATION that isn’t simply FEAR
--Do they partake of the gods’ intervention
--that is do they BELIEVE
--In that case SPACE confers likeness or KIND onto the nymph’s body?

--i.e. local flora and fauna

--How does SPACE transform SYNTAX

6-21-05

--the syntactical unit called thinking
--what is syntax’s effect on TIME
--on SPACE

--is a transformation of syntax a transformation of the BODY or of TIME or of SPACE?

7-10-05

--One is transfixed by the gaze of Medusa
--for a stone the sense of SPACE is non-sense because its ownmost integrity is its extent of SPACE

--Medusa is of the OLD monsters, i.e. of the Goddess

--What are the differences between being over to SPACE, that is encompassing it with integrity, and withdrawing from SPACE
--the part of SPACE which is SELF-CONTAINED is not only due to IMMOBILITY but also to lack of CONFLICT
--can SPACE be SELF-CONTAINED discretely

--The notion of SPACE is something against something else
--The notion of FRICTION is simply ELSE

--Can one become SELF-CONTAINED
--is this the method of TRANSFORMATION employed throughout Ovid
--/the Greek world
--the BODY TRANSFORMS by exception thru the process of the consolidation of SPACE?
--is this SINGULARITY in reverse

--Is lack of consciousness sufficient grounds for SELF-CONTAINMENT
--a stone vs. a stone in the shape of a Person

--one assumes the position of complimenting a human aspect (i.e. stone)
--one suffers speculation (i.e. shape)

2005-07-12T09:48:00.000-04:00

4-11-05

--One thinks the motion thru SPACE into SPECTACLE?
--Motion itself generates SPACE?
--Prime Mover?

--So the notion “God”=that fundamental separation, that fundamental SPACE?

--The names are assumptions of a WHOLENESS which doesn’t exist, which lays down what?
--Myth

--Can WHOLENESS be Motion contained within SPACE?

5-2-05

--if TIME and SPACE occur as a result of MOTION is it PLACE which occurs via memory?
--is PLACE stasis?
--Can PLACE change via a context
--no, in this way it resembles TRUTH i.e. monolithic and steadfast (over against HONESTY which being modular requires community)

--Can a notion of PLACE expand or contract

--Is the singularity FROM WHENCE a PLACE

--Is my divine notion a mythic PLACE

--Is a person a PLACE
--without infinitesimal vision

5-8-05

--Can description be anything other than INFORMATION

--What is the DISTANCE separating DESCRIPTION and that described
--Does it require SPACE
--PLACE
--Again back to IMAGE vs. DESCRIPTION

--Does one traverse this SPACE, if it exists:
1) upon the ACT of describing
2) upon the ACT of recognition
3) upon the ACT of understanding
--Does INFORMATION require a locomotion between termini
--SPACE requires DISTANCE
--but does it require a system of traversing that DISTANCE

--Is immersion an attempt to reenact Singularity

5-16-05

--Is TOTALITY TIME
--but TIME is a function of SPACE
--Is TOTALITY SPACE
--Is TOTALITY a context broad enough to span the situative
--Is TOTALITY personal
--mythology

5-23-05

--Can development occur in the text
--this is building a STRUCTURE of REASONS or FACTS which is able to be mimicked
--How would DEVELOPEMENT jibe with SPACE
--under the auspices of the creator/creature binary?

--DESCRIPTION requires SPACE??
--is any method of DEVELOPEMENT descriptive
--Can one describe thought
--thinking

--Is a jarring, honest, syntax an organic fracture

--The idea of SPACE is recognized via a series of neural switches
--physically, yes
--SPACE is the entirety, though that isn’t INFORMATION
--is it?

--so LIFE is the points at which TIME subsumes SPACE and DEATH is the opposite

--What does it mean to say one is DEVELOPING a text
--that one is occupied
--engaging TIME
--What is the effect of this on one’s Body

5-25-50

--Is the BODY an ATTRIBUTE of the TEXT
--is it an accoutrement
--What’s the difference

--BODY occurs while it happens
--as does the TEXT(?)

--If the BODY is an ATTRIBUTE how is it articulated
--DESCRIPTION???
--no, that would be DRAMA

2005-03-02T11:16:00.000-05:00

For those interested there's part of a text from my new book, Cur aliquid vidi, up at (of all places) The Academy of American Poets site: here.

2005-01-20T11:26:00.000-05:00

My new book, Cur aliquid vidi, is out and there is information about it at the Ahsahta Press site, here. I think it looks great, Janet Holmes did a wonderful job. I was wondering how the cover image would go over when it first occured to me to use the Duchamp and, aside from the first binder refusing to bind it, I'm very pleased.

2005-01-16T18:58:00.000-05:00

I'll be reading at an Ahsahta Press book launch along with Noah Eli Gordon, Charles O. Hartman, Aaron McCollough and Dan Beachy-Quick from 2pm-4pm at The Bowery Poetry Club on Saturday January 22; also the same night I'll be the featured reader in The Dactyl Foundation's Emerging Poets series that's from 6pm-8pm. I hope to see you there.

2005-01-09T20:08:00.000-05:00

If anyone is interested I have a text from the manuscript These incidium tales up at nth position.

2004-11-16T18:11:00.000-05:00

There's a short profile of me (bio, picture and some work) here. It's an Italian site run by Anny Ballardini.

2004-10-24T13:45:00.000-04:00

There's a text from the same Manuscript mentioned above at the new Tarpaulin Sky. I hope you'll have a look.

2004-10-15T11:20:00.000-04:00

There's a text from a manuscript subsequent to Cur aliquid vidi (due out in December from Ahsahta Press)called These incidium tales at Muse Apprentice Guild, though it's been altered slightly spacially.

2004-10-05T20:52:00.000-04:00

If anyone's interested there an interview with me up at at www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com. Here's a link.

2004-09-20T06:00:00.000-04:00

I know I said some time back that I would veer away from making this blog diaristic and I'm not, vocally, so very political, but I thought I'd say a couple of things about the mudraking disguising itself as our current presidential race. First off, I'm a fierce independent; I don't believe in party affiliation. Second, as much as it pains me to say so, I think Bush's chances of losing this thing are very small, although I think he's a fool and a puppet of the "vulcans" among others, Kerry's done little to separate himself, that is to present real change in his proposed policies. It seems to me that Americans like either the status quo or a substantial, palpable change in their leaders, these two seem like different flavors of milktoast. In case anyone's forgotten that this country does still have a future, hopefully a prosperous and peaceful one, here are some pictures of my kids.

2004-09-17T20:12:00.000-04:00

Here's a link which I think turns the admittedly boring world of copyright law into something

rather exciting: creative commons.

Another Duchamp:

2004-09-12T13:45:00.000-04:00

Which is a better capture of the thinking in text, the text performed or the text on the page?

For the Duchampians:

2004-09-09T20:46:00.000-04:00

The shape one's voyeurism(s) could take on

What is NEUTRAL writing as Barthes puts forth?

Where the stake of the writing is simple Honesty?

Can writing itself subsume thinking?

The text become SELF-PERPETUATING?

2004-09-08T20:35:00.000-04:00

Rebirth of the page and the word on that page:

2004-08-16T20:40:00.000-04:00

I'm a little late with this but, there's a new interview up at Here Comes Everybody. It's Laura Solomon. Please have a look.

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--is density in a text a shield?
and
--can a text honestly reduce the distance between an "I" and a "you"?

2004-08-10T20:28:00.000-04:00

There's a a new interview up at Here Comes Everybody (it's Ron Silliman). I hope you all will have a look. Thanks.

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Is there anyone out there who knows something about copyright laws and the using of previously published material, that is published by someone else, in a new creative work? If so and you don't mind answering some questions please send me an email, thanks.

2004-08-07T20:26:00.000-04:00

There's a new interview up at Here Comes Everybody, it's Ray Bianchi. I hope you all will have a look.

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--is one different than what one describes?
1)--what is the effect of DESCRIPTION on one's BODY?
2)--what is DESCRIPTION?

--which parts of the TEXT are not DESCRIPTION?

Aligning words is a matter of/for DESCRIPTION.

2004-08-03T20:58:00.000-04:00

There's a new interview up at Here Comes Everybody (it's Betsy Andrews). Please have a look.

2004-07-31T20:53:00.000-04:00

There's a new interview up at Here Comes Everybody (it's Joshua Corey). Please have a look.

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--if the syntax of a text is an expansion of the BODY ought it to have a "poetic" sheen?

2004-07-27T20:57:00.000-04:00

--so can one forego the tyranny of Self
1)--by extending the Body?
1)--one has this sense that language can do ANYTHING
1)--is that so?
1)--can it EXTEND the BODY?
1)--but thru writing one's "life"?

--does this come down to STYLE or maybe (again) SYNTAX?

--does extedning the body necessarily include the subsuming of an OTHER?
1)--is it aggression
1)--in that it is thinking, yes

--can the text extend the body
1)--if so doesn't that attribute some special status to the text, wouldn't it?

--is the text an object or a subject?

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There's a new interview up at Here Comes Everybody (it's Lee Ann Brown). I hope you'll have a look.