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  • Of Discourse
    Giles Goodland
    OF DISCOURSE is a novel-length hybrid of prose and verse, structured along a trajectory determined by syntax, as if function-words could have their own thesaurus, each word generating meaning while remaining in itself opaque.Giles Goodland comments: 'What is BE? If we start to break the word open, make a list of its uses, constituents, inflections, what do we find? For years, w...
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  • Civil Twilight
    Giles Goodland
    Civil Twilight occurs when the center of the Sun is six degrees below the horizon. It is also a phrase in which the vowels are all ’i’s. The first pair of ’i’s is pronounced soft, the second hard. Two pairs of ’i’s stare at each other across a gap. Civilization (with four ’i’s) gives place to night-time, and then replaces it, in a daily cycle. The sounds of words are not always...
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  • The Masses
    Giles Goodland
    “In The Masses the creepy-crawlies visibly teem. Adapting the sound-mutating technique Goodland perfected in Gloss, where well-known phrases are minutely changed to sly and comic effect, here the creatures which are usually only glimpsed, only imagined with a flinch, are foregrounded in phonic mutation. Amid the rich density of these playful and sometimes frightening poems are ...
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  • What the Things Sang
    Giles Goodland
    If Johnson believed that objects held primacy over language, why did he compose his dictionary following the arbitrary rule of alphabetical order? If (to contradict Wiitgenstein) poems are engaged in the language-game of giving information, how should that information be arranged? If Blake had, when he heard ringing in the trees, picked up the phone, what information would the ...
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