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This thread is for comments on The Equinox, by Yoon Ha Lee.
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Anonymous
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"The Equinox" makes me think of the best of Jay Lake's story words: a tangent running from a single word, taking that word and showing us different facets of it. It is a gem.
I just wish that it too were in paragraph form, because this breakup into lines seemed to contrast with, and distract from, the beauty of the piece. At least for me.
--José
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MorningStar
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I liked it too, but I've never read Jay Lake. Are there are any free links to his works?
It's like a poem form of all that postmodern stuff I keep hearing about...
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PickyBastard
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MorningStar,
You can find Lake's stories anywhere; he's extremely prolific. Pick up any specfic magazine and you'll find ten or twenty of his stories (ok, I exaggerate slightly).
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bthogg
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Quote:
I liked it too, but I've never read Jay Lake. Are there are any free links to his works?
As a matter of fact, there are ...
Jay Lake in the SH archive
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Anonymous
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You can find his website easily by googling "Jay Lake." I mentioned his story words:
http://storyword.blogspot.com/
this is where he takes a word that someone sends him and writes a very short "story" about it. The quality and the approach seems to vary from day to day. Sometimes it's "use this word in a sentence" or he defines it in an interesting way.
I suppose it's more of an exercise, but a few of his story words stand out as brilliant little prose poems.
Which brings me to my earlier comment. I'd rather see "The Equinox" as a prose poem; I think it might read more cohesively that way, because I found the breakup into verse arbitrary and distracting.
After I posted, however, I remembered reading somewhere about Mallarme and his short verse; someone (the translator, MacIntyre?) was saying that the poet wanted to take the language in a different direction, he wanted to write up and down rather than side to side. I wonder sometimes if this is the ultimate appeal of free verse, since all of the pacing can be handled with puncuation and in the paragraph form. No rational explanation, but an asthetic -- and so, subjective -- one.
The fragmentary appearance of "The Equinox" didn't add to my enjoyment of this piece, but it didn't keep me from enjoying it either and others may find this element... charming. Still, I'd like to ask the poetry editors this question: Would you have accepted this poem if it had been sent in in paragraph form?
--José
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