A Letter from T. S. Eliot on the Language of Poetry
In what language does a poet truly write when his voice belongs to more than one?
Bouquiphiles
Language
Essays
Abstract Language in the Painting of Andrew Arocho
An artwork that articulates a hybrid abstraction as a gestural, semiotic, and prelinguistic language, charged with memory.
Essays
Kabbalah and Combinatorics
A quartz marked with aleph reveals Kabbalah as creative language, infinite combinatorics, and interpretive experience.
Essays
Irony, or the Birth of the Literary
The irony arises when language and thought become separated, establishing the literary realm as a space of masks, deception, and fundamental dissonance.
Book Reviews
Perverting Reality
‘Malincuor’ confirms a fragmentary poetics where memory, imagination, and language pervert reality to make it more true.
Loose Pages
Words of the Year
We produce more language than ever, but meaning is quietly slipping away in the age of AI.
Bouquiphiles
Collisions
A melancholic song to the absence of Spanish books in the United States, secondhand bookstores, and the loss of words in bilingual collisions.
Essays
A Brief Stroll (with RB) Along the Edges of Language
Irony in Barthes, that method of destabilizing the certainties of language, criticism, and discourse.