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White·out: n. a surface condition . . . in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible . . . Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless; when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose; when the sickly sweet pop of life underfoot contrasts the televised image, shrinking to a pinprick. Whiteout: calques and towers, twin...
2) Diversion
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Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth's "emotion recollected in tranquility," Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if one stops trying to block the incoming cacophony and instead embraces the multiple streams of data that bombard the contemporary thought process? What poetry comes from the multitude of channels - ambient office radio, TVs at the gym, rampant social media alerts, eavesdropped conversations within crowds, 24-hour-news...
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The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular GlimpseQuick is George Murray's second collection of aphorisms - a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He describes these pieces as "poetic essences" - sometimes even as "poems, without all the poetry getting in the way." Some are deep, some clever, some funny, some all three. The best, he says, should read like common-sense statements that have never actually...
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