Showing posts with label eat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eat. Show all posts

4.18.2025

poem eater

An image can eat a whole poem.

9.15.2022

eat it or read it

From the book review of SUPER-INFINITE: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell:

Rundell’s own style can dazzle, though at times the wit feels a bit strained, as when she describes Donne’s unreadable tract “Pseudo-Martyr” as “so dense it would be swifter to eat it than to read it."

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I can think of a poem or two that one might say was "so dense it would be swifter to eat it than to read it."

1.21.2022

feeding the web's maw

There is no poem so lacking in intellectual nourishment that the internet will not eat it.

12.07.2021

still hungry

A manifesto is a menu with nothing to eat.

1.02.2018

gourmand

A language like English will always try to eat the choicest parts of foreign languages.

12.17.2015

genre hunger

Poet, be a genre eater.