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The World Before the World Wide Web
http://markerstetter.blogspot.com/
Cultural history from a poet's perspective.
- Added on: May 10th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Mark Kerstetter
- Listed in: Mixed Media Cultural
- Tags: poetry folk art fiction book reviews memoir modern art
Recent Posts
Freaks
1First they held her back a year. Then they put her in home room with her brother. That was two strikes right off the bat. And school hadn’t even started. The Christian school had drummed into Maura’s head that the world was an evil place. Now,...
Escape through Poetry into Life
The poem is not the world.It isn't even the first page of the world.But the poem wants to flower, like a flower.It knows that much.It wants to open itself,like the door of a little temple,so that you might step inside and be cooled and refreshed,and ...
This is Not a Review of John Ashbery\'s Planisphere
Ashbery's reading chair. For more views of the poet's home, click here.I wouldn’t presume. There are plenty of people out there smarter than me who’ve already done it—just look at Helen Vendler, for one.Nor do I wish to enumerate, for the nth t...
Whoop de Doo
If I’m over the moon, it’s because that’s what I am —Mark KnopflerJohn trudged up the front steps of the bungalow and across the worn porch. It had rained ea...
William Chiden
I’m in! His apartment in the Old City. As a favor from Franz. I should have done old Franz in, but he owes me a few, and this time the little lap dog has really come through. Even a criminal such as myself can’t resist getting close to the famous...
The Buffing Wheel
Everything becomes in time a barrier. Everything becomes in time an opportunity. —Isamu Noguchi1The time has passed to make things rough.Girding canvas, mask and gloves,he takes up goggles and rouge and begins.It will take a year...
