When I was a young rebellious man (as opposed to now being an old rebellious man) I thought it crafty to take two opposing ideas and juxtapose them by melding them into one phrase that on the surface appeared to be a contradiction, an oxymoron. Examples might be
Contemporary antiquities
Elevated valley
Stupid genius
Utopian nihilist
That last one is [...]
I’d never get a tattoo, but I like looking at them. Click here to see a Poet knuckle tattoo.
Before being deployed as a National Guard officer in July 2004, I was a newspaper editor. As such, I spent a lot of time conducting interviews. I had worked in other writing assignments prior to that and had developed a sort of “open-ended” style of interviewing my subjects. I liked to start out with open-ended [...]
Well, after my last post I discovered this video of the poet who explains his intentions in putting poetry into a video archive. I must say, it’s a worthy pursuit: