arginalia

Negation

Refusal, erasure, restraint, and the possibilities opened by leaving something out.

  • Six poems using the Lineate and Redact plugins for complex layouts

    Six poems using the Lineate and Redact plugins for complex layouts

    Trying WordPress’s Lineate and Redact blocks for shaped verse, unusual spacing, and blackout poetry—with examples ranging from Ezra Pound to an erasure poem made from a Portland weather report.

  • Do not, in order to do.

    Do not, in order to do.

    Only when a person will not do some things are they capable of doing great things.

  • Get things done by not doing them.

    Get things done by not doing them.

    Gerald Weinberg’s paradoxes of software systems, a Vermeer with a bare wall behind it, and Tomas Tranströmer revising his way toward an ending. What joins them is the work intentionally withdrawn or left undone, and the space that decision opens.