I blurbed a book

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1. Churchill says

   January 25, 2012 at 12:58 am

   Travis is inviting mockery, but there is no Travis, and the photo is supposed to look like a Munch painting.

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   • Cubeland Mystic says

     January 25, 2012 at 3:57 am

     Hi JP

     That is cool. I cannot find the book on Amazon. Can you post a closeup of the blurb or the text. I cannot read it–too small.

     Thanks

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     • Jonathan Potter says

       January 25, 2012 at 9:05 am

       The book is due to be released on March 6. Should be available from Amazon and elsewhere then.

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   • lickona says

     January 25, 2012 at 7:36 am

     Churchill, I can understand your skepticism, given that tricky last name. Cubeland, try clicking on the photo. Jonathan, you have arrived.

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     • Cubeland Mystic says

       January 25, 2012 at 7:52 am

       I think Churchill’s comments suggest a deeper question: Don’t all poets invite mockery?

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       • Matthew Lickona says

         January 25, 2012 at 8:09 am

         Well, sure. That’s why rappers are forever striking hyper-aggro postures and going on about their guns and money and such. So we don’t notice that they’re all a bunch of soppy poets.

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         • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

           January 25, 2012 at 4:34 pm

           As distinct from Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, et al., soppy poets who struck hyper-agro postures.

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         • JOB says

           January 27, 2012 at 11:12 am

           Yeah, Remington Lever Action 30/30s, Navy Colt Cap-n-Ball revolvers and Springfield 30-aught 6’s aside, I’ve got to work on that “money and such” for sure.

           Sopping,

           JOB

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     • Churchill says

       January 25, 2012 at 8:29 am

       Nothing tricky about it. To me a word was just a word until recently, and now I see you can make it do almost anything you want it to.

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       • Cubeland Mystic says

         January 25, 2012 at 9:00 am

         That is the beauty of words Churchill. That is what inspired Jonathan to build his house on a foundation of words. You just delidificate the word, pour in the meaning, and relidificate it. Shakes vigorously to mix the meaning into other meanings already resident within the word. You want it to emulsify.

         Matthew
         I hope you all noticed that I try to keep my guns and money on the down low.

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         • Matthew Lickona says

           January 25, 2012 at 9:39 am

           House of Word, Mystic.

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         • JOB says

           January 27, 2012 at 11:05 am

           CM,

           Ezra Pound called what you just described (and performed) as “logopoeia.”

           Logopoeia is that which “employs words not only for their direct meaning, but…takes count in a special way of habits of usage, of the context we expect to find with the word”.

           JOB

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     • Jonathan Potter says

       January 25, 2012 at 9:03 am

       Sometimes I feel like a Naught ….

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   • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

     January 25, 2012 at 4:28 pm

     Churchill, YouTube has some videos that purport to show Mr Naught — maybe not as conclusively as a telescope will show Jupiter’s moons, but I’m convinced:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cit4Y8ljm0

     Though I guess you might dismiss this as part of an elaborate Korrektiv-sponsored ‘alternate reality game’ — maybe a promotional stunt for House of Words, or some other book yet unpublished?

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2. Jonathan Webb says

   January 27, 2012 at 8:46 pm

   There is a lot of pressure on the blurb people as Lickona and Updike will tell you.

   The guy in the wheel chair owes me money on the Patriot game.

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