tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968831.post-1134708188522699302005-12-15T20:19:00.000-08:002005-12-15T20:47:22.023-08:00hello . . . ?<br /><br />Dusty in here. Sheets over the furniture. Blogroll yellowing at the edges, absent-mindedly tacked to the wall.<br /><br />The semester's over. Quite an intense race to the finish. And work got busy again.<br /><br />Here's a diagram I made a few weeks ago, intended to incorporate certain aspects of Jack Spicer's Textbook of Poetry &amp; the his Vancouver Lecture, in which he uses Christ as a metaphor for poetry (and poetry and the poet and the signified/signifier split, etc). His metaphorical series strike me more like conceptual puns than they do metaphors, though -- each item in the series overlaps the other on the surface (seems very much alike) but has its own set of implications that can't be reduced to any other item. And this slippage is constantly taking place, nothing stands still. Thus a diagram is probably the most wrong-headed thing one could do in repsonse to Spicer's poetics and this diagram certainly focuses on certain aspects of the "theories" from the Textbook while completely ignoring others. If I have time, I'll post some notes that attempt a more detailed explanation of the diagram. But right now the notes sound like something I handed in for class (which I did).<br /><br />If anyone has sent me a message that I haven't responded to, please, please accept my apologies. I plan on performing a thorough audit on my inbox over the holiday.<br /><br />In the meantime, I'll tape the diagram up here next to the blogroll . . .<br /><br /><a href="spicer2_smaller.jpg"><img src="spicer_thumb.jpg"></a>Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584826647352155190noreply@blogger.com