World of Words • Mary Folliet

What is language
but marks & remarks?
 
Still they say it all
 
or almost
 
or as close as
 
we ever dare to hope.
 
So mark on, Twain & co.
 
Together we’ll work to get it right
 
& express all we can ever know
 
before that dying of the light.
 

 
Mary Folliet
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Paris Notes • Mary Folliet

PLUS ÇA CHANGE PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE: HOWEVER…
“Je t’aime, ô capitale infâme!” —Charles Baudelaire (“Le Spleen de Paris”)
Place St- Sulpice—
Café de la Mairie
2 September 1999

Paris is the same & dramatically changed. As in E. B. White’s wonderful essay, “Once More to the Lake,” the changes à Paris are consequences of man-made […]

Civilization & Its Contents - Mary Folliet

CIVILIZATION & ITS CONTENTS
“…incidents arousing pity and fear…”
Aristotle (POETICS)
I
“To understand, your whole life would have to change.”
Wallace Shawn (FEVER)
where roach & rat thrive
human art & love confound
hope & jive survive
II
“Expect poison from the standing water.”
William Blake (THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL)
global war-ming tree
of knowledge inflames discord
drowns clean air despair
III
“You must change your […]

When The Reverse Is (Also) True - Mary Folliet

“We are becoming a culture of ants, we need a new avant garde”
—John Calder, 21.8.2006
On 21 August 2006 in Edinburgh, Martin Belk interviewed two esteemed men of letters and culture, Jim Haynes and John Calder.

On 21 August 2007, excerpts from that spry conversation opened an international web event entitled When the Reverse Is True, […]