from Something Solid: Aughts Philly: Undulant

I'd made plans to meet you in Bar Noir
on 18th, you were there; we drank. What
happened after that, in the Logan Square
flat, is that in defrocking you knocked over
an antique lamp bequeathed to me by my
aunt in Mahopac. Serendipity, I thought,
stunned then into silence by your bedroom
elan. Outside, a sultry night simmered; this
night of all nights, scattered green glass littered
my bedroom floor, & I finally got taken, past
liquor, to what eternity was only in your mouth—
as though you'd jumped from a forest scene
(ferns, redwoods), a world of pagan magic,
into a scene still undulant with possibilities—

P.S. Not to forget...

To follow up on yesterday's piece, these two Apps/Sonnets Argotist Online reproduction pages, here and here, which feature British Library Wayback pages as captured by archive.is, bring to (it would seem) an apogee or crowning peak the ideals I have set out here for solidity/durability in poetry/literature web pages in general. Many thanks to all the operating systems, including The Argotist Online, behind them.

Another twist in the wall...

Over the summer, I laid down what for me are some general guidelines as regards the ranking of web pages: looking for solidity, durability, potential permanence. The page I ranked highest is the British Library Wayback version of my Argotist Online Apps/Sonnets page. Here's an interesting twist: when a British Library Wayback page is captured by archive.is, with the British Library insignia stitched into it, as is the case here with two Disturb the Universe essays, On the Necessity of Bad Reviews and Century XX after Four Quartets, it adds up to another potential "fortress" configuration, prestige and solidity both accounted for.

Another Interview Retrieved: Goss 183

Another interview retrieved, this one rather "henna'd," or "henna-dyed," done for Goss 183 in 2009. Peace.

Opera Bufa Hothouse

Some upgrades and improvements to the appearance of Opera Bufa, and all its ancillary channels/expressions, online: here, in refined form, is Laura Goldstein's summer '08 Loyola University syllabus (English 271), which features two days on Opera Bufa and a third with me reading/lecturing to the class, which included Stacy Blair. Here, also, is Ms. Blair's term paper for the class on Opera Bufa. Lastly, a piece I wrote for a later (2013) edition of Opera Bufa, which relates the story of the book's genesis in Aughts Philadelphia and Chicago.

P.S. Another syllabus of interest from the late Aughts.