by Craig Epplin Books begin and end; their physical architecture makes this clear. Hardcovers have wall-like exteriors, and even the covers of paperback volumes tend to be of a color and texture different from the pages within. Like a fence around a pasture or the applause that delineates a performance, the binding tells us when to start and when to stop. Everyone knows the internet isn’t like that.... 

by Craig Epplin I’ve read books, or parts of books at least, by Kenneth Goldsmith, but I don’t own any. This is the opposite of the way it’s supposed to be. In a new interview with The Believer, he says as much: My books are better thought about than read. They’re insanely dull and unreadable; I mean, do you really want to sit down and read a year’s worth of weather reports or... 

In the Middle Ages they’d say the world was structured like a book. Life was the unfolding of a story whose final chapters were yet to come but had already been written. The idea is less convincing today. Now we say the world is structured like a network. by Craig Epplin In the Middle Ages they’d say the world was structured like a book. Life was the unfolding of a story whose final chapters were... 

The media of poetry animate the poetic impulse, and they remind us of an ancient word: poiesis, or making. Poetry happens only in its making, in its becoming. This blog is about that becoming. Medium Posts by Craig Epplin Poetry has never been poetry for the same reason that we have never been modern: because it was always something else. Never immediate, never an essence, never the raw being that... 

We, lots of us, like the idea of mutation. Sign of the times, symptom of the allures of narcissism, mutations fascinate and govern us. What does Gilles Deleuze say? That the coils of a serpent are more complex than the burrows of a molehill. Mutations by Craig Epplin We, lots of us, like the idea of mutation. Sign of the times, symptom of the allures of narcissism, mutations fascinate and govern us....