When democracy fails, there's always the Euro...

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

Nine Blue Castles - the cento poetry movement

Jaquemart Waltz - the computer poetry movement

Brass Zyxomma - the artificial language movement

"The author of 'The Philosophy of Composition' is rather another of Poe's manic narrators..." --Richard Ruland

Poetry has power the way intimacy has power.

'Night is a moth in the night of lamps.' --Jabès

gnat shadows - a movie based on a comic book

Whigs - the Retro Avantgarde

glimflash - one genre superimposed on another e.g. Dread Zeppelin = a reggae Zep cover band fronted by an Elvis impersonator; Big Daddy = Beatles songs redone in Fifties styles; the bluegrass cover of "Whiter Shade of Pale"; Pat Boone's album of heavy metal songs...the Name of the Rose

"Pope, who was never known to laugh, was a great wit..." --John Dennis, The Age of Pope (1896)