Category Archives: Form and Theory

These are a series of short papers I wrote for Kathleen Peirce’s Form and Theory class in Spring 2006.

Jack Spicer Talk / Reading in Boston

Posted on April 28, 2014 by dhadbawnik

What a wonderful, stimulating, exhausting weekend. Lots of great talk about Jack Spicer with Dan Remein, getting to see Robert Stanton and Dianne Berg and John Wagner, meeting and hanging out with Boyd Nielson, seeing Rich Owens again, driving out … Continue reading →

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CALL FOR PAPERS: KADAR KOLI—THE VIOLENCE ISSUE

Posted on December 2, 2011 by dhadbawnik

The idea for this special issue of kadar koli emerged from a question posted by British poet Keston Sutherland to the UK poetry listserv and to the Sous Les Pavés online discussion group in response to “calls for violence” during … Continue reading →

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To Hell With Glandolinia!

Posted on July 30, 2008 by dhadbawnik

A response to readings on Henry Darger I have a friend in San Francisco. Call him Jim. He lives – but really one must find a verb that expresses every possible tense – he had lived, lived, lives, will live, … Continue reading →

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Hi, Digger!

Posted on July 20, 2008 by dhadbawnik

A response to Martin Heidegger‘s “The Thing” (Poetry, Language, Thought) As someone recently pointed out, no one has yet satisfactorily explained Zeno’s Paradox – that of the arrow, because of the distance it has to travel being infinitely divisible, never … Continue reading →

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The End of Duende

Posted on July 17, 2008 by dhadbawnik

A response to Lorca’s speech on Duende I want to start out with this concept that Lorca tosses out, almost off-handedly, towards the end of the main part of the Duende speech, of the “interpreter’s duende” making up for a … Continue reading →

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The Ear of the Behearer, p. II

Posted on July 14, 2008 by dhadbawnik

Consider how a poem is made. First there has to be attention, which can either be receptive (a softening) or penetrative (a keenness). That has to happen first, because in truth, the stuff that makes poetry is floating around us … Continue reading →

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The Ear of the Behearer

Posted on June 22, 2008 by dhadbawnik

A Reaction to Eugenio Montale’s “The Poet in Our Time” There is a tension between subject and object and that makes poetry. Tension between what I saw, heard, felt, remembered, imagined, and how that moves through me and filters onto … Continue reading →

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