selections from Jasmeen Patheja’s ongoing Blank Noise Project
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selections from Jasmeen Patheja’s ongoing Blank Noise Project
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Okla Elliott: Since we’ve hit economics and corrective missions, it might be appropriate to talk about the place of politics in literature. It strikes me that American authors are so often unwilling to engage with anything political, whereas European, Latin American, and African authors do so almost constantly. I’ve even gotten the sense from many writers […]
Chocolate Cake Ingredients ▢ 1½ cups all-purpose flour ▢ ¼ cup unsweetened childhood memories, thoroughly sifted ▢ ⅓ cup vegetable oil (an oldest daughter) ▢ 1 cup water (her mother) ▢ 1 teaspoon white vinegar (her father) ▢ 1 cup sugar or artificial sweetener (see also: the way the parents act differently in public) ▢ […]
By the white tile of tub, water becomes the smell of ceanothus morning. Cow bellow mist slinks the soft hand of hill. Wood collects moisture, swells against steam. Drag your finger across glass. Below, a trellis of jasmine. A library, an owl beneath bell jar. A brick oven, built in burst of cala lily. A […]