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The Manual series, when complete, will tell you everything you need to know that you didn't learn in kindergarten. Belgian video-artist and soundcreator Swoon is making videos for some of its sections. Guest-author Luisa A. Igloria has been writing a poem a day since November 2010 in response to Dave's posts at The Morning Porch. Yet another on-going collaboration is the dialogue in poems and photos prompted by late-night conversations between Dave and British blogger Rachel Rawlins, a project we call Conversari. Finally, the Words on the Street cartoon, featuring Dave's urban doppelganger Diogenes, returned at the beginning of 2012 as a weekly feature after a several-year hiatus.Categories
Series
- Bestiary
- Blogging the Appalachians
- Breakdown: The Banjo Poems
- Cibola
- Conversari
- Highgate Cemetery Poems
- Honduran poetry
- Manual
- Morning Porch Poems: Winter 2010-11
- Morning Porch Poems: Spring 2011
- Morning Porch Poems: Summer 2011
- Morning Porch Poems: Autumn 2011
- Morning Porch Poems: Winter 2011-12
- Odes to Tools
- Poetics and technology
- Postcards from a Conquistador
- Public Poems
- Ridge and Valley
- Self Portraits
- The Temptations of Solitude
- Wildflower poems
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Recent Posts
- Manual: How to make videopoems, courtesy of Swoon
- Landscape, with Geese; and Later, Falling Snow
- How to find things
- Lumen
- Words on the Street
- The Jewel in the Fruit
- How to breathe
- Preparing the Balikbayan Box
- How to wait
- Diorama, with Mountain City and Fog
- How to listen
- Legacy
- How to walk
- Maquette
- How to eat
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Recent Comments
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What is this “poem-like thing” really up to? I’m so intrigued, I can’t stop reading it. It’s a hybrid of prose e-survey, poetic pondering, philosophical speculation, and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” If I had to choose just one answer (can’t I check all of the choices?), I would choose “evidence to be used against us.”
Actually, you can check all the boxes. I always make my survey poems multiple-choice, but for some reason don’t advertise the fact.
I’m glad you liked the hybrid form. I forgot to tag this poem when I first posted it, but I’ve remedied that now, and you can see all my survey poems here.
Other:
Checking their hypothesis that the genetic disco they played on us can actually make us smarter than they are.
Ha! O.K.
Great one, Dave! I really enjoyed it. Definitely gathering evidence – you nailed that one. Remembering an Ammons short poem about crows. “They’d take over if they had hands” was his conclusion. Not sure if he ever published that one – he read it from a sheet of yellow tablet paper at a reading one day at Cornell.
Hi Matt! Good tip – I have Ammons’ Collected Poems, but haven’t spent enough time with it. When I get a chance I’ll go through and look for crow poems. A cursory web search turned up one on somebody’s blog: Abandon.