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mpass rose ruminations on literature art politics music photography design architecture and landscape wine and spirits c wednesday may 21 2025 kit robinson s quarantina viruses are older than poetry older than language older than humankind they have the edge having endured the preceding millennia to emerge protean anew efficient reborn they predate us and may in the end outlive us whatever we might by now have thought or said about them which perhaps accounts for the futility we feel in trying to explain their purpose in the grand scheme things we cannot see such as microscopic contagion may seem somehow less important or perhaps more insidious and frightening for being invisible we go about our business what else can we do except side step precarious chance and live to see another day or write another poem pre modern man discovered that avoidance is the first law of medicine that separation sequestration removal seclusion confinement segregation insulation actually works quarantine early practitioners without the means to defeat certain curses infections attacks understood that the only sure way to escape illness and death from contagion was to put distance between oneself and the source or the procession of transmission it was intuitive and empirical and it worked against an enemy of superior strength the only response short of capitulation may be escape and escape is exactly what quarantine means kit robinson s new book quarantina exists provisionally within the interregnum of covid during a time of general fear confusion disruption and inconvenience in short a period of negative capability when a man is capable of being in uncertainties mysteries doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason keats except that reason equips us with the tools to do just that in philosophy literature science or cosmology you take your life in your hands every time you go to the store we think about things like supply chain disruption while watching the market crater the sky is still beautiful fluffy white clouds in endless air with no events to look forward to we have to reinvent each day 1 then might we learn the lesson the virus is trying to teach us 2 self consciousness flows like a river navigating through space and language words and phrases are thrown up on the screen of attention in a continuous thread floating there momentarily only to disappear leaving faint after images of intention robinson s poems are free wheeling open ended meditative snapshots of the daily grind what is it like to be kit robinson to be inside his mind that s what good poetry can do tell us intimately how a singular consciousness feels chooses feints dodges waits acts in these poems each line is cross examined by each succeeding line a continuous dialectic commenting agreeing disagreeing expanding dismissing reacting shit happens just like in this poem which is like an elixir or vaccine 3 a poem may be a temporary stay against chaos or it may be a place to hide is aesthetic isolation a kind of quarantine is the garret an escape sufficient unto itself did we mistake cabin fever for infernal inspiration or is fate like a narrative in an apocalyptic dystopia complete with universal war environmental catastrophe and rampant contagion you and i have shared more than time more than space we share the will to live in all its manifold stratagems 4 are we the authors of our own unfortunate fate responsible for all the things that hurt us and our sweet engendering planet robinson s superior intelligence and flexible zeal will see him through any scrape but each instance leaves its mark when humankind is long since gone will there against all odds pop up an accidental conglomeration of protein molecules rehearsing once more the birth of animate inspiration and inevitable extinction are there stays against this execution delays before entropic endgame why is this happening now had to happen sooner or later human agency run amok how long can this go on chains of event locked into cause and effect 5 ultimately the anxieties and cautions that erupt during a pandemic have their roots in our mortality which has always been among the standard subject matter and preoccupations of poetry so as uninhibited and open ended as these poems feel they are haunted by the very obsessions the delights and predilections that govern us during so called good times what did whalen want mcclure made a monad of a mollusk kyger questioned a quail spicer listed to starboard kaufman captured fractals just for fun rexroth rode roughshod over america 6 in the literary descent of time each writer imagines a world where our descendants will judge what we have done or left undone a legacy in which our words will be found placed and preserved or lost who will know us this could be the last time takes on a whole new meaning every day an exercise in weightlifting the weight of the world a world we no longer know 7 robinson is such a reasonable decent fair minded fellow that it s hard not to be convinced by everything he says and his poems reflect just such a resilient point of view it s that equanimity which allows him to sustain his even keel through adversity and threat after a slow start in the 1970 s he s become a prolific writer with over twenty separately published collections though initially pegged as a card carrying member of the language school he s evolved beyond that into a space uniquely his own with a relaxed and approachable style that accommodates all kinds of quotidian matter along with the most abstruse of post modern meditations and yet it all looks so fluid so unlabored there s really nothing to it you get the power of speech by speaking a feedback loop that produces energy even as it uses it up 8 these poems are reflexive interrogations self soul of a writer who gets along with doubt and jeopardy during a difficult time in the world the progression of each poem suggests that he doesn t know from the first line where he ll end in grudging certainty or ironic amusement this is what allows him the freedom to live inside the poem stretching and bending it to suit the movements of his mind and heart these are made poems but craft isn t their justification they are instead about exploration and discovery they perch on a fulcrum of wit flippancy curiosity wisdom surprise conviction it s mature confident work worthy of timely attention the main thing is to be patient cognizant of the fact that anything can happen in a poem and probably will 9 1 from quarantina p 50 crowds are history 2 ibid pp 52 3 distance learning 3 ibid p 74 this poem 4 ibid p 124 inoculate conception 5 ibid p 94 weather report 6 ibid p 90 early times 7 ibid p 88 the last time 8 ibid p 79 phantom power 9 ibid p 118 in a station posted by curtis faville at 1 07 pm no comments sunday october 3 2021 amazoom announces new pre order program amazoom announces new pre order program in the continuing crusade to provide our customers with constantly improving service options we re announcing today a new program designed to deliver goods to you at unprecedented speed whereas before customers might hope to receive their orders within 72 hours or even the next day we re now offering them delivery of items before they order them that s right customers who choose the pre order option will begin to receive goods pre selected for them based on their consolidated internet profile and the best part they don t even need to place an order since the orders will be shipped automatically at pre set intervals here s how to sign up go to our amazoom homepage and click on the red pre order hot button all you need to do to activate your account is to sign the privileges and obligations page and push send your credit card account will be automatically migrated from your updated account profile there ll be a few simple additional questions regarding the median price range and frequency request then once we ve approved your application you ll begin receiving parcels immediately and your credit card will be automatically charged without your having to take any additional actions in the past online customers had to go through the laborious and time consuming process of scrolling through endless lists and irritating advertisements to actually locate the things they want now all that is in the past now your pre selected items will be automatically selected for you based on your digital profile and we guarantee satisfaction if for any reason you decide you don t want the item simply go online and fill out the special pre set declination form posted by curtis faville at 5 42 pm no comments saturday march 20 2021 memory the past is a map we are flying over we can see the countryside the towns where we lived the houses the roads the unfolding contours of surface we can see everything with perfect perspective and controlled regard but we can t land posted by curtis faville at 10 26 am no comments sunday february 28 2021 welcome to gonnawannaland much of the verbiage we hear emanates from the media radio television the movies the press the internet public address the media in turn reflects the linguistic habits of the general population you would think that media outlets such as television and radio would be self conscious about what they project and that might once have been true as standard bearers of a level of speech and grammar performance you might think media would take some responsibility for its mandates but you d be wrong once upon a time purveyors of news and information in america would have understood that talking down to its audience was cheap pandering that audiences might see that as a form of condescension but in today s media world the news and information media have dropped all pretense of standards and are happy to share the slack jawed complacence of commonplace exchange the passivity of the vulgate at any given time people are likely to employ short handles of language which propagate like viruses in everyday talk here is a sampling of such phrases words and slang which have become habitual in the media have to say this is a phrase which is inserted whenever the speaker wants to signal a sense of reluctance in insisting that their sentiment is somehow necessary or feels a mandate in expressing it as if the speaker had no choice or was slightly embarrassed to have to say it it s an expedient caution or flag of presumption that i find offensive and tiresome just sayin this phrase is also an apologetic shield to protect the speaker from being perceived as too declarative or wants to be forgiven for expressing their position its slanginess i find objectionable and should never be used that said a short hand for having said that i don t know when this slick little handle entered the vulgate but it s become nearly universal in its use people use it as a transition phrase to lend a sense of authority or justification to what they re going to say next they think it sounds sensible and authoritative but it just sounds naive and pretentious feel like this phrase appeared a few years back and it s become universal people of every persuasion and degree of sophistication use it freely most often in place of i feel or i think or i sense it seems to constitute a form of evasion or fake modesty that the speaker is unwilling to take full responsibility for an assertion or reaction and instead distance themselves from that responsibility by claiming to have a feeling that is like a feeling one could have or may have or is simply too vague or uncertain to say directly whenever you feel yourself about to use this phrase ask yourself whether just saying i think or i feel wouldn t be more direct and explicit than introducing the simile like to the statement do you really not quite feel or think what you are saying or is this merely a bad habit you ve picked up and are using for convenience that s a great question not just celebrities or experts but everyone in the media is now using this stupid phrase the point of asking and answering questions in public is not to enable the responder to judge the efficacy or relevance of the question but to answer the question saying that s a great question tells us nothing it may be a way of complimenting the questioner for their relevance or of admitting that the responder can t answer it it s too hard or too big a question the simplest solution is not to use this response at all since it accomplishes nothing just answer the question and drop the dumb rejoinder gonna the use of going to may be marginally acceptable in accurate speech as in a promissory or predictive sense but it s much over used and in this elided slang form gonna it s offensively familiar and should be avoided if something will happen or is likely to happen then say that it will happen not that it s gonna happen gonna wanna you can always tell when a speaker is a casual dunderhead when they use gonna wanna going to want to is awkward and even if the speaker wants to sound casual or politely condescending it tends to undercut the message it s designed to impart gonna is bad enough gonna wanna is three times worse actually i suppose in our computer age actual may be a foil for virtual as in virtual reality as opposed to reality itself but people now have become habituated to its insertion in nearly every instance in which emphasis is intended if you want to emphasize a fact or a phenomenon ask yourself if what you mean to say is actual or merely definite or definitive the actualization of something is not its importance or emphasis but its being as a physical or specific fact if you say i m actually going to do that you re not adding anything whatever to the doing except showing your inappropriate use of the word actually in addition many people mispronounce the word saying ack sha ly ignoring the t and u sounds entirely ignorance incarnate any time soon this is an entirely inaccurate and useless phrase in the language any time or soon may be used separately with some accurate comprehension but any time soon means essentially nothing any time soon might mean in an hour a day a week a month a year a decade or a century in fact it may mean all of these durations or none of them it s a stupid phrase and anyone who uses it should be flogged it is what it is cute little meaningless tautology whose inventiveness is diverting the first time you hear it but irritating whenever it reappears people think it s so charming so obvious so clever it isn t it s just dumb which i said that this is a pronoun now commonly misunderstood used in a sentence to refer to a previously mentioned thing or things it forms the subject of a subsidiary clause of which it is the subject therefore following which with that is ungrammatical since which is the subject i e it s redundant even people who have been to college seem to misunderstand this it s breathtaking going forward this is another transition phrase that people use to indicate the future it s usually un...
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