I have placed two poems from Roger Moore's 2007 Obsidian 22 [ISBN 978-1-895306-63-7] at
http://poets.aule-browser.com/obsidian22.htm
The poems are
Old Man from Arrazola
and
Puppet on Sundry Pieces of String
Both are in Curl markup and require the Curl RTE plugin from the www.curl.com site.
Both are copyright text and neither the text nor the images are selectable — regardless of the use or not of CSS or JavaScript by the user's browser.
Obsidian 22 treats of 10 photographs by Tina Modotti and is volume 3 of The Oaxacan Trilogy.
Each poem on that Moore page is prefaced by the respective stanza from the opening "Raison d'être".
Friday, April 29, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Frye Festival
Here is a link for the 2011 Frye Festival in Moncton, NB.
Maybe next year there can be a session on security for online chapbooks?
I have a post elsewhere on collaborative viewers for commenting on scripts under consideration.
Maybe next year there can be a session on security for online chapbooks?
I have a post elsewhere on collaborative viewers for commenting on scripts under consideration.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Amber Tamblyn's poetry
Poems by Amber Tamblyn can be seen at her http://www.amtam.com/about-me/selected-poems but also at Google Books.
Her books of poetry are Free Stallion and Bang Ditto.
The poems at her site have a printed copyright but are not otherwise protected — although they could have been secured using Curl web markup.
Here is an example of a partially-secured copyright poem of Franz Baermann Steiner (the link will require the safe and secure Curl browser plugin in order to view the poem.)
On the web, the Curl 7.0.3 browser plugin is often referred to as the Surge RTE (runtime engine) and it is somewhat similar to plugins for Flash or Java but with a more mature security model. The plugin is used in mission critical software by companies such as the Paisley division of Thomson Reuters with their impressive global clients. Curl's own customers include Nissan and Hitachi.
Her books of poetry are Free Stallion and Bang Ditto.
The poems at her site have a printed copyright but are not otherwise protected — although they could have been secured using Curl web markup.
Here is an example of a partially-secured copyright poem of Franz Baermann Steiner (the link will require the safe and secure Curl browser plugin in order to view the poem.)
On the web, the Curl 7.0.3 browser plugin is often referred to as the Surge RTE (runtime engine) and it is somewhat similar to plugins for Flash or Java but with a more mature security model. The plugin is used in mission critical software by companies such as the Paisley division of Thomson Reuters with their impressive global clients. Curl's own customers include Nissan and Hitachi.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
UNICODE text for poetry pages
This is a useful page if you do any work on web pages with literary text: Joel on Software.
Especially if you have any text prepared with Microsoft Windows Notepad, you need to know about their use of the initial BOM bytes in your "text" file.
UNICODE "UTF-8" and the topic of character-encoding is essential for working with translation text prepared in ascii, ansi or in some 16-bit encoding.
Especially if you have any text prepared with Microsoft Windows Notepad, you need to know about their use of the initial BOM bytes in your "text" file.
UNICODE "UTF-8" and the topic of character-encoding is essential for working with translation text prepared in ascii, ansi or in some 16-bit encoding.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
letter spacing
I put a note up at curl.com today as I hope to see more options in Curl 8.0 for text formatting.
This arose when I was looking at the old University of California Press reprint of Mary Barnard's translation of fragments of Sappho. That book has many nice features, such as the suppression of page numbers on poetry pages (the fragments themselves are numbered) and the Greek key pattern preceding each fragment number.
That book got me to thinking about stanza spacing and the advent of both line-spacing and word-spacing.
A large part of what distinguishes poetry from prose is the line - and spacing can be as essential as the choice of font.
One Canadian poetry e-journal rejects submissions with spacing not to the editor's taste (this may reflect his frustration with HTML+CSS as much as anything aesthetic.)
I can only hope that Curl 8.0 will offer the spacing features that we are currently denied by HTML, CSS, IE and Microsoft. Curl does allow control of line-spacing at this time (negative values compress, positive expand, the default.)
This arose when I was looking at the old University of California Press reprint of Mary Barnard's translation of fragments of Sappho. That book has many nice features, such as the suppression of page numbers on poetry pages (the fragments themselves are numbered) and the Greek key pattern preceding each fragment number.
That book got me to thinking about stanza spacing and the advent of both line-spacing and word-spacing.
A large part of what distinguishes poetry from prose is the line - and spacing can be as essential as the choice of font.
One Canadian poetry e-journal rejects submissions with spacing not to the editor's taste (this may reflect his frustration with HTML+CSS as much as anything aesthetic.)
I can only hope that Curl 8.0 will offer the spacing features that we are currently denied by HTML, CSS, IE and Microsoft. Curl does allow control of line-spacing at this time (negative values compress, positive expand, the default.)
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Sternbild Reiterlein and Rilke's Sonnet to Orpheus on Mizar and Alcor
In the eleventh of the first Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke teases us as to whether there is an asterism "Rider" - and of course there is; Mizar and Alcor [Alkor], the "Reiterlein".
This has been ignored by translators, who can then make no sense of
Neue Weite. Und die zwei sind eins.
In pursuit of a partial rhyme, Willis Barnstone veers off into 'galaxy'.
Mizar and Alcor are not just two stars. Rilke has chosen "the little rider".
These two are bound as a binary, known now to be a sextet, part of the U. Ma. Moving Group drifting past us through our arm of the galaxy: not of this world of ours and not always to be with those on earth as a 'Sternbild'.
The U. Ma. Moving Group has been known since 1869.
This has been ignored by translators, who can then make no sense of
Neue Weite. Und die zwei sind eins.
In pursuit of a partial rhyme, Willis Barnstone veers off into 'galaxy'.
Mizar and Alcor are not just two stars. Rilke has chosen "the little rider".
These two are bound as a binary, known now to be a sextet, part of the U. Ma. Moving Group drifting past us through our arm of the galaxy: not of this world of ours and not always to be with those on earth as a 'Sternbild'.
The U. Ma. Moving Group has been known since 1869.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)