Delighted, as ever, to work with Nick Dormand again, and to have our collaboration printed in a glossy book. I do recommend these, cheap enough if grabbing as an offer (there are always offers) but would be too expensive to get in larger numbers, I guess. But the production value really does enhance the presentation – these done through Printerpix.

There is a pdf version of the whole collection to download for free here: Undulations as Rhythm.

(for Chris)

With beauty seen as a
unity in multiplicity, Samuel would have
approved its mass production,

warmed to the Germanic
influence of design – a Kantian love
for this aesthetics of simplicity in

the sublime – and the
Englishness of tradition with innovation:
like verse with rhymes

before a run of
mimesis along an assembly line.
A ‘53 phase II could

have a top to put
down, composing in the passing air as if
on a long poet’s stride.

Independence would be in the
suspension of disbelief – because it simply was –
and rack and pinion

steering like a flight of
poetic feathers on the thrust of wings:
STC’s journey to the divine.

How finding one word gives you an anchor…

~

#4

found in the fervour for

My poem here today at International Times, with thanks to Rupert and IT.

There’s going to be more in this than American Cookery. I looked for lighter, but…

Further to my previous post on this erasure attempt, it was, as I suspected, not oven-ready for transformation, the ingredients lacking the potential hoped for. I could persevere for ‘light entertainment’ – and there’s no harm in that – but I don’t think it can ultimately rise to this. I rest my case:

I’m actually making a real pie for lunch, and that is much more interesting!

My next writing project, another self-indulgence, is an erasure of the 1796 American Cookery book – the ‘first’ American cookbook, certainly as a national idea and production.

My initial thought is it would be a rich source, but I am not sure, and will only know definitely as I progress through. I think when I get to the actual recipes I may find the repetitiveness rather limiting. Here is one from yesterday,

I’ve hit a section currently where the threads tend to the peurile [not the ‘muddy bottoms’ of above…] and this may be an impass.

My previous erasures, for interest, and to read/download for free, are:

Muellerasure – an erasure of The Mueller Report – here

The Yell – and earsure of The Yellow Book – here

The Aran Islands Parts I and II here