February 4, 2010

Stephanie Strickland


Stephanie Strickland’s recent book, Zone : Zero (book + CD), includes two interactive digital poems. Her prize-winning volumes include V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una, True North, and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. Her latest collaborative hypermedia poem, slippingglimpse, was introduced in Paris and shown at the 2009 e-Poetry festival in Barcelona. She teaches at many colleges and universities, most recently the University of Utah, and is a director of the Electronic Literature Organization.






Beatrix Potter
long before Peter proffered “exquisite
drawings” and her discovery
symbiotic mycology
in her paper
(1897)
“Germination of the spores of Agaricineae


a voice unseen
unseeable at Kew requisitely
male
eschewed “unnatural union
between a captive Algal damsel and a tyrant
Fungal master”


Beatrix Potter
“It is extraordinary how botanists have . . . not in the least
seen the broad bearing of it.”


Beatrix Potter
“I was not shy, not at all. I had it up and down
with him. His line was on the outside
of civil . . . . I informed


him that it would all be in the books in ten years, whether or
no, and departed
giggling. I ought to wear
blue spectacles on these occasions.”





"Beatrix" first appeared in 2009 in 1913 a journal of forms, issue 3

1 comment:

Sarah Sarai said...

i know that giggle

the idiots (i am here to tell you)

will keep being idiots

blue glasses -- not a solution but they could make it all tolerable