wurm issue 3! the pwoermd special
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p(wurm)d
hi! Welcome to wurm (the March issue) ,
the periodical
for those who like poetry that is
alive and moving forwards, rather
hermetically sealing itself from
development, like a conservative.
The minimalist look and the single
word cover are present because, this
is the first special edition of
wurm, dedicated to that rare and
beautiful form of poetry known as
the pwoermd-
A poem composed of one word, with no
title other then what the poem
provides.
Normally I put poet’s bios after the
works, but as this issue is
deliberately stripped down in the
text department, I didn’t.
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pwoermds by:
andrew topel
geof Huth
mIEKAL aND
gustave morin
troylloyd
Andrew topel:
mIEKAL aND (pwoermds chosen from the
book, texistence) :
lauglph
fossilitate
A review of “texistence” by Geof
Huth and mIEKAL aND (2008, Xerox
sutra editions)
This is a momentous and very interesting book. It is possibly
the first book of pwoermds.
What first struck me about this book was the thickness.
This is slightly ironic considering the shortness of the
poems (though I certainly think pwoermds are not short per
se, because there is so much there, squeezed into a small
space).
Also, the beauty of the cover design was immediately
attention grabbing, from the verdant lushness of the front,
to the arid desert environment of the posterior.
The arrangement of the interior, with the pwoermds
arranged in a zig-zagging fashion. You can almost play the
tome like a flick book.
Of course, this book also has a set of fascinating pwoermds.
As an enthusiastic pwoermdist (amongst other things), i
found the construction of these subtle nuggets of wordage
fascinating
These words are like strange insects,
waiting to be pinned down, and yet resisting any attempt to
do so.
They crawl up and down the pages like linguistic
silverfish, or the typewriter in the film version of
Burroughs’s “naked lunch”.
There is also a lucidity and convincing air to these works.
This book is almost like a book of obscure words, or an
alchemical recipe (homunculus burgers, anyone?).
Perhaps they are magic (or magick?) words. incantations?
incrantratrions? i/n/cr/antr/atr/io/ns? Who knows? All I
know Is, I’m having fun finding out.
Geof Huth (two
pwoermds also chosen from
texistence):
fleurgenital
navaginate
gustave morin:
CONPLY
CHROMATOAST
Debth
vomittens
rapscaldion
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