#bill carty

[oldshowbiz]

Forgotten comedian Bill Carty

[theburningflash]

The Desired Change Will Occur by Bill Carty

[jeffalessandrelli]

Season 2–Episode 11–Bill Carty

Joshua and Jeff talk to Seattle-based poet Bill Carty. Topics discussed include: writing under the joy/pressure of having two young children, the mastery of Gang Starr, growing up in Maine, and his…

Joshua and Jeff talk to Seattle-based poet Bill Carty. Topics discussed include: writing under the joy/pressure of having two young children, the mastery of Gang Starr, growing up in Maine, and...

[oldshowbiz]

“The Well Known Comedian”

[rabbit-light]

The Desired Change Will Occur

I release a magenta tetragonal lattice kite into the storm: soon only the black string remains.

In the snow, cattle kneel, rafters mewl. No color, no playground. There are times it seems we

only know each other by a thread— but we love that thread.

Bill Carty

[fluttering-slips]

The Desired Change Will Occur

I release a magenta tetragonal lattice kite into the storm: soon only the black string remains.

In the snow, cattle kneel, rafter mewl. No color, no playground. There are times it seems we

only know each other by a thread— but we love that thread. Bill Carty 

[bagleywrightlectures]

Bill Carty Interviews Timothy Donnelly

So far I've given only a couple of talks, one called "Meaningfulness and Homesickness" and this new one, "The Lip of the Flamingo: Poetry and the Misuse of Language." The first one took me quite a long time to write and I actually still don't think of it as done. Last fall I gave the talk at at least six places, or maybe exactly six. I'll give it again next week if anyone asks me to—each time I give it I add to it, or trim it, or make it closer to what it will one day be, which is finished. I'm happy with the way it turned out. I think of it as pretty strange—as not exactly a lecture in the usual sense, but as more of a thing to read aloud in front of people. At some point I came to think of it as an "entertainment" instead of a lecture, and that's true of my new one as well, "The Lip of the Flamingo." I still have quite a bit of work to do on that one too. I'm flying out to Seattle early to get it into complete shape. The first time I read it, at Harvard no less, I think it was still embryonic, but people were pretty enthusiastic about it. Before anything else I just want to stimulate people's thinking rather than present them with straightforward, logical argument about some big idea I have about poetry. I'm either not the best person for that or now's not the best time for me to do that. I think I hate the sound of the voice that's doing that kind of a thing. It bores and embarrasses me.

Read the full interview here.

[bibliomancyoracle]

To call a beetle boneless

is to be technically correct

but annoying. It is not

first date behavior. Outside

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from "All Twelve Acres of the Rockefeller Center are Dark Tonight" by Bill Carty