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on nouns in poetry, from Gertrude Stein’s Poetry and Grammar
26 JulPoetry is I say essentially a vocabulary just as prose is essentially not.
And what is the vocabulary of which poetry absolutely is. It is a vocabulary entirely based on the noun as prose is essentially and determinately and vigorously not based on the noun.
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is.
“a heart bleeds/ red light/ imperfect pulses”: Dunya Mikhail’s “O”
2 Jul
You need to read this book: 
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on the limits of have a good day: Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea
1 Jul
(from Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea, which you really must read and re-read)
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