—Which, pugnacious drunkard, of course. And happened to write a fable of—First, let’s recall the plot: man catches fish sharks eat. Second—I’m already bored of—The endeavour for its own sake—a touchstone—rebuking critics as he the writer the sun of whose legend was also setting already.
And then of course there is the matter of style.
To dishabituate the language and therefore the reader and therefore the fruits of the reader, the world; and against the use of language to induce the extraction of capital [a practice euphemistically called the public relations industry, which gave us one of the two American artforms (the television commercial, the other being the Blues, together the parents of social media)]; and tutored by William James’s insight into neuroplasticity [the source of both Joyce and Woolf (short talk on Modernism)], Gertrude Stein wrote French in English; and Hemingway, her copycat forever distraught he couldn’t be as butch as she, wrote Spanish in English so that the book’s speaker renders in distillate and obliquity [together the parents of poetry, of which The Old Man and the Sea is full (except for one fabulous compound adjectival phrase: “the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat”)].
It’s dishabituation I’m only ever at least right now interested in, stopping and looking and listening but in that order really stopping there is no the same river twice. Habitable revelation the colour of skinned copper if copper could be skinned. There are many books that do this but more often there are books that don’t because writing speaking of Anne Carson is a product of thinking and thinking loves repetition its efficiency it’s efficiency consumption thrives on stop listen look in a world in which stop accordance to convention stop any convention syntax what have you stop is unsustainable stop disruptive disobedience is a virtue neologization a moral imperative so thank you forever poets for your labour.
— Kevin Andrew Heslop’s practice is sustained by The Land sustaining the People sustaining Amphora, Baseline Press, the Canadian Repair Convention, Centre[3], Centred Magazine, Connect Interpreting Services, Earthwise, FCFF, Gordon Hill Press, Guernica Editions, Kaaysá, The Miramichi Reader, Ørslev Kloster, Parrot Art, Poetry Weekend, Rose Garden Press, SaikoNeon, Teatro Oficina, TIFF, and VibraFusionLab.
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