Serious Zen

Daggers of moonlight
Murder the sheets
in the stink of a four dollar room
And Daddy’s gone a-hunting
for a dimebag of schoolboy
Tied up with a yellow balloon
So hush little baby
daddy must go
I’ll cover you up with a blanket of snow
By the time I make Jersey
you’ll be in heaven
In a pretty blue shoe box, I know
So sing a song […]

I should be engaged in much more important matters right now, but I can’t stop thinking about the final episode of The Sopranos, “Made in America.”

I finally managed to get together some photos from a March trip to New York. Most of the photos were taken in Midtown, the West Village, and Central Park. As you will see, I found New York to be a very difficult place to take pictures; the constant sense of enclosure makes it […]

Here’s a small section from Steve McCaffery’s 1970-1975 “multi-panel language environment” entitled Carnival:

You can check out the fully assembled version of this panel, as well as the 1967-1970 panel, here.
Attempting to transcend the boundaries of concrete poetry, McCaffery claims that the panel approaches the sacred by virtue of its mandala-like qualities. Of course, in […]