"Every Typewriter is a Character." Clifford Duffy's "as a construct"

 

by Corry Shores

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“as a construct”

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Clifford Duffy wrote another incredible poem recently on his Recall to Poetry site. Here is a screenshot of an especially striking part of it.

 

(From Duffy)

 

As always, Duffy’s use of electronic typography and html coding give the poem sonic variations impossible with print, especially considering how the browser window sizing and scrolling affects the layout in his particular well-crafted way. The timing of each word, the speed, tone, and pacing of its delivery, all under high variation. Note for instance when we transition through the crossed out ‘she’, the sudden dips in tone and volume, or the gliding carriage return effect of the blank underlines in the ‘rising’ section, giving silence an affective sound. Duffy created a new artform many years ago and continues innovating it to this day, and he stands as one of the best and most original poets I have ever read.

 

 

 

 

Duffy, Clifford. “as a construct”. Recall to Poetry:

https://recalltopoetry.blogspot.com/2021/11/as-construct.html#more

 

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