interesting recurring themes so far: houses (architecture, house as body, house as memory palace, all of the above; especially ruined houses); ecopo, esp. birds (esp. false or broken ones, like the emperor’s nightengale or the cover of Kristy’s Feign); politics (war, burning, less explosive than smouldering, slow death); experimental film (a kind of ekphrasis?); bodies (anatomical detail, how the body works).
The classics: Love, Nature, Death.
Place– but not always a place– more sitings– the site of the body in space, the engineering of the body and memory, of sound and sense– the way the body moves in coded spaces (war-torn houses, family houses, city landscapes).
Interesting– what if you look at a cross-section of literature, hundreds of poems by authors of a certain age, what do you get. An Age.
Jessica Smith
two notes on your blog this morning, but I’m sending you an article by Mary Carruthers you may not have read about using remembered space as a mnemonic device. It’s pretty awesome. we’re discussing it today in EFowler’s poetry class.