A.D. 576

And Especially the Monumental

A STONE ADRIFT UPON THE RIVER

AD 576 ( the same rock)
Dwelt here, round and stone like
Hopped, draped and rounded out
Long adored and clanging
Shining
Adrift upon the river,venerable on a hill
Brilliant with new snow
Haunted, monumental
Everything

Bob Ostertag

Antinomianism


 

Languge Streams The chain of influences Acoustic Social Poetical Astral Ecologies of language sounds The drift of phonemes The game of dialects The dialectics of class The music versus the meaning The anger and obtuseness of poets and philosophers who mystify us with their wisdom and music consider the incompetent, the mad, fools, the speakers of truth? What assures us that a poem is the fact? That they bind the truth other than consistency and consensus. It is the product of madness or wisdom. Do we value less the delimited truth of the poet, bound as it is in an unique arrangement of the usual signs? We assure ourselves that certain common languages, mathematical, scientific, moral, speak the truth. What assures us that a poem is is the fact that they blind the truth other than consistency and consensus. It is the product of madness or wisdom. Do we value less the de-limited truth of the usual signs? We assure ourselves that certain common languages, mathematical, scientific, moral, speak the truth. What assures us that they blind the truth other than consistency and consensus. It is the fact that they bind the truth other than consistency and consensus. Is it the product of madness or wisdom. Do we value less the de-limited truth of the usual signs? We assure ourselves that certain common languages, mathematical, scientific, moral, speak the truth. What assures us that a poem is the fact that they ÔworkÕ. What works for poetry and fools? We extend this trust, by aesthetic extension, to poets painter and composers.