Read an amazing fragment from Julian Talamantez-Brolaski's forthcoming "Phonosemantics & The Real" and two poems from Advice for Lovers, on Jerome Rothenberg's blog:
From “Phonosemantics and the Real”
Shakespeare was almost
certainly homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual.
The sonnets provide no evidence on the matter. - Stephen
Booth, ed. Shakespeare's Sonnets.
If you look closely enough at
word, you'll find it contains its opposite.
George, porridge, Norwich,
porch and goy ridge all rhyme with orange. Why this antithesis between
decoration and use? Is a tiger less
efficient because of its stripes?
Plato's cloak was so magnificent that Diogenes leapt on it ...
Lucus a non lucendo – an
absurd conclusion, explanation or non sequitur.
Literally 'grove from not giving light,' i.e. a dark grove (lucus) is so called because it does not shine (lucere)—an illustration of the etymological procedure (see
Quintilian) of deriving a noun from another having a contrary sense
(Webster).
That art is thievery is a commonplace--lyre is homophonous w/ liar. This only coincidentally says something about poets... MORE HERE!!!!!!
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