Comments on: We Wrote a Letter to Jesus and He Told Us To Buy a New Car

By: tammy

tammy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:55:07 +0000

From the title I could already tell Arlene is involved in this piece – marvellous titles the pair come up with (and also “In retrospect, 1984 made a fine sausage–”).

By: Valerie Fox

Valerie Fox — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:09:24 +0000

Thanks for these lovely comments–they’re inspirational, really, will give us ideas…
I think sometimes not having full stops can create a fairly pleasant kind of floating feeling…you sort of have it both ways, connected yet unconnected (meaning-wise) if you know what I mean!
Valerie

By: Dethe Elza

Dethe Elza — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:22:21 +0000

I love this style, it reminds me of the work of Jenny Holzer (example: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~field/holzer/living.txt), who I’ve admired for many years now. So many evocative lines, I just keep re-reading it.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:54:01 +0000

this is a very rich and wonderful reading, a real object.
i wondered what an accompanying video might look like.

By: daniela elza

daniela elza — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:37:50 +0000

I find the fragmentary nature of this piece quite attractive. there is something exciting about leaving it to the reader to put the mortar around the bricks.
:-) and oh, my, i love the title.
and the lines”The more I learned about my driving from rude strangers, the more I understood extinction”…
“Since that day at the beach my digestive tract began to exist outside of my body”

i am curious as to why there are no full stops in the poem. did you do that on purpose?