Archive for July, 2009
The Architecture of Persona: Steven Price Writes Houdini
“I didn’t want to just hit the peaks of his life, I wanted to hit a number of the troughs too, small moments that aren’t necessarily talked about or discussed or described in the biographies but that he, of course, experienced. They tend to be incredibly important to us as individuals. Just that flicker of sunlight on the grass that you remember from your childhood, which means nothing to you except it’s such an extraordinarily warm, protective moment. Houdini would have had these too.”
Brick Books’ Kitty Lewis
“Our mandate is to foster interesting and ambitious work by Canadian poets, both new and established; to produce beautifully designed, attractive books worthy of the excellence of their contents; and to distribute and promote these books and their authors.”
— Kitty Lewis
Twitter: A New Literary Form?
When William Wordsworth described, in his introduction to Lyrical Ballads, his intention to publish poems composed “in a selection of language really used by men” because “such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived” he could have been writing a defense of Twitter. The social networking site, lately lauded for its real-time broadcasts sketching the shape of political protest in Iran, and critiqued for facilitating the degradation of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and, some would argue, language itself, is social media’s fastest-growing publication platform. That Twitter is HOT is not news …
