Monthly Archives: March 2011

Advice to Writers: Rule 212

Posted on March 31, 2011 by David McLendon

“Approach thought through the slant of your thinking, the word through your go-between words, life through the channel of your life, death through the detour of your death. Thus you will appreciate them from the inside and become familiar with their mechanisms. In the same … Continue reading →

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Devine Thoughts and Rules for Prepositions for Fiction Writers – Andy Devine (from Unsaid Four)

Posted on March 30, 2011 by David McLendon

1 – Prepositions are often little words, but they do much of the work in sentences. They create most of the turns in sentences and they hold most of the pressure in them. 2 – Sentences should end with prepositions. … Continue reading →

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Deleuze and Booze: Alcoholism as the Elsewhere of the Here and Now

Posted on March 30, 2011 by David McLendon

Alcoholism does not seem to be a search for pleasure, but a search for an effect which consists mainly in an extraordinary hardening of the present. One lives in two times, in two moments at once, but not at all … Continue reading →

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The Logic of The Trace: Borings, Etchings and Tracks; Coprolites and Regurgitaliths

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Some very brief thoughts on incisive” or “indexical” sound compositions, which do not attempt to articulate meaning within semantic structures so much as use marks and sounds to carve into reality. This sort of expression involves not a poetics but … Continue reading →

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Twisting the Story into Its Original Twisted Form – David McLendon

Posted on March 28, 2011 by David McLendon

I took a drive to the coast with a girl who had some secrets. Something rootless had fallen across her life. Some people had died. There were signs of it all over. Curled brown remnants of potted flowers in ditches. … Continue reading →

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Purchase Unsaid 5 Today!

Posted on March 27, 2011 by David McLendon

To purchase U5 via PayPal, go to the Unsaid website and press the PURCHASE UNSAID button that appears at the left side of the screen. U5 Contributors: ANNE CARSON – BRIAN KUBARYCZ – ALLISON TITUS – DAWN RAFFEL – ROBERT LOPEZ … Continue reading →

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Boustrophedonics II

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Jean Fautrier (1898 – 1964) The Open Man, 1929

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Scouts – Kate Wyer (from Unsaid Five)

Posted on March 23, 2011 by David McLendon

There are boys with mops. They are on stage in a school cafeteria of the suburban sort. The families sit in chairs that face the stage. The boys are in dark navy uniforms with red shoulder braids. They wear caps and knee … Continue reading →

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From the Unsaid Archives: Untitled (Flannery) By Anne Carson (from Unsaid Four)

Posted on March 23, 2011 by David McLendon

  Confusion. How much can you take. Love turns to hate. Should you play with it. The night is a mess. Winds toss the window aside. Dark comes in at an angle. Everything tilts. What if matter jumped its tracks. … Continue reading →

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The Moon a Low Dish – Russell Persson (from Unsaid Two)

Posted on March 23, 2011 by David McLendon

The moon a low dish and a ship hauls them through the night. Karl Axel and Axel Herman his son and Georg his brother among the quiet fled. They stare out at the gapless sea to allow the world its … Continue reading →

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