Archive for January, 2008

Not to use a drug metaphor, but yeah–it’s like THAT.

January 30, 2008

Collecting is an art form.
Oh yes, and a vocation…that I envy.
(dear open-air markets of London, The Continent and China, I miss you. xo -me)
Check out this little stream of posts about COLLECTORS on poppytalk.blogspot.com.
mmmhmmm…

(copyright Lisa Congdon)

(copyright Lisa Congdon, http://www.lisacongdon.com/)

wish I was an old-school cartographer…

January 29, 2008

A London painting/collage… (the only shot of the whole painting is a composite, alas, because of technical difficulties.)

paint & collage.

January 28, 2008

final poems from “Poetics by Praxis: Creative Writing Seminar”

January 21, 2008

Naucrate at the Death-Scene of Icarus

“In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.” (Matthew 2:1
Hand-spun, now crumpled, wings hanging, gentle
Sails, harnessed with leather to his genteel
Back. Hair, deep as night, lies in folds, [...]

“tatted lace” draft (literally just wrote this one. very unclear where it’s going.)

January 21, 2008

“tatted lace”
 
frivolité: the gentle inculcation
of knots and loops, hitched thread
to tear-round holes of pure light.
white and gentle nothingness,
spreading tied tatted lace into petal shapes
on a hot, sunny Hungarian afternoon.
a stall near the summit of Buda’s royal hill;
flanking churches, stone cobbled steps,
the view of draped vines and the brilliant
setting sun over the Neogothic parliament house,
an elaborate, [...]

Narrating “Black” British Feminism

January 17, 2008

This is the sub-topic of one of my classes this semester, with the formal dated title of “ENGL 362: Women of Color.” In fact, we are micro-focusing on women who identify themselves, or are identified as “black” in Britain, which is far more inclusive than the American definition of “Black” because it has much [...]

“Form Constants” (another kind of Synaesthesia)

January 12, 2008

 
If you haven’t caught on yet, I am totally obsessed by the idea of form.  (And anyone else out there who is, should give Lia Purpura’s On Looking a read.)  Not just because I’m a poet with footing in free-verse, and…like my peers…only now have begun a longing, dangling dive into FORMAL poetry.  But, ALSO, [...]

Social Currency: Dialectology and Fashion.

January 12, 2008

(Image thanks to another nifty little wordpress blog: http://fashionfinds.wordpress.com) 
I come from a family that says Chahlston, like Gawd intended.  But, if you know me in person, you know that I…err…don’t “talk like that.”  Or at least, not around you, peers.  I do speak Southern American English, more specifically a Lowcountry dialect, in its appropriate context: any gas [...]

some inspirational webspaces…

January 11, 2008

A new (to me) website full to the brim with street fashion!  (If I can’t LIVE in Europe, at least I can ogle their creative couture frequently!!) And a flickr photographer with whom I am totally captivated.  Her colors are incredible, and all of her photos make me so jealous….talent, talent, talent!!!  

namaste from an open field…

January 8, 2008

 
my soul salutes your soul.
I feel like blogging a big open field…but I can’t really convey that kind of spiritual and mental and physical openness here…  I’m annoyed with the format of my blog as is, right now.  I want it wider, and I want my custom image header too.  And, it would be nice [...]