Commercial Poetry

     So far, we've learned that poetry is memorably speech.  It uses a lot of memory aids ("mnemonic techniques"), including c...

     At this point we understand what poetry is:  memorable speech.  We know where it is:  primarily, in song lyrics.  We know that lines fi...

      So far, we've established that poetry is the speech we preserve verbatim and that it is currently found almost exclusively in song...

     When we last left our hero, Juan Vidal amused us with the notion that virtually nothing written before the death of poetry in the 19...

Female Sciurus Carolinensis      It has come to my attention that humans, including scientists (who should know better), are spreading t...

"Make it new." - Ezra Pound Before the age of skyscrapers, settlements grew into cities by expanding outwards until they ran...

This mystery survived for almost a century after the crime. Forensics determined that the fatal blow was struck in the 1920s, the patient l...