The Wily Filipino

Two Possible Poem Epigraphs.

From E.E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (1937):

Thus when six or seven of the sons of Prince Rikita were entrapped in a ring of fire and burnt to death when hunting cane-rats their death was undoubtedly due to witchcraft.

And from Ron Silliman:

"Turk Street News" was the name [of] a porn theater where I once watched Kathy Acker on the big screen having sex with several men, one of whom was flogging her with a head of iceberg lettuce.

Speaking of poetry, we "blew" most of my Thursday class spending almost an hour discussing just two of Eileen Tabios's poems "After 2 A.M" and "The Wire Sculpture" -- and identity and colonialism and resonance (not meaning) and what made poems "difficult." (Eileen: "difficult" in quotation marks, mind you -- please don't hurt me! At least... don't flog me with iceberg lettuce.) Posted by the wily filipino at October 29, 2004 10:14 PM