Tag: names

• Rebranding

  On a matter of names.

  

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  September 1, 2024

  names, nomenclature, Poetry, Prose, re-entry, reflection

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• Homecoming (II)

  On ‘home’ and its many attachments. With thanks to dVerse for the prompt, and to the many, many friends who made my life abroad so rewarding.

  

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  July 9, 2024

  America, attachment, Belgium, dVerse, home, homecoming, memory, names, nostalgia, Poetry

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• Notes for a Poet of Many Names

  Abstractions of the self (best read on desktop). After Wallace Stevens, Robert Hayden, and others. For all who call me by my names.

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  June 16, 2024

  abstract, character, Chinese, concrete poetry, identity, language, names, poet, poetics, Poetry, self

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• The Imperial City

  

  The imperial city, believing itself to be the center of a flat world, has no need for compasses or regular street grids.

  Born at the crossroads of national myth and natural earth, it lurches in all directions like a lethargic lion, answering only to the orders of the sun (from which it derives its sense of time) and the promise of fresh prey from afar (from which it derives its sense of space).

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  May 13, 2024

  city, empire, Hong Kong, imperialism, Madrid, memory, names, New York, Paris, urban landscape, Vienna

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