Although used for 2,000 years by the Vietnamese as a carrier of their culture — medical texts, poetry, stories, recipes, histories — Nom was abandoned with Western influence and with the introduction of the Latin alphabet.
After our free-wheeling interview on the Disrupt NY about the startup that offers crowdsourced annotations and explanations of song lyrics, religious texts, poetry, and now News Genius for current news, Rap Genius co-founder Ilan Zechory explained to me the genesis of its future business model.
The list may include works of fiction, non-fiction, religious texts, poetry and more.
For each in-text poetry citation, you need to state the line or line numbers that your quotation came from within the poem.
The length constraint in text-poetry fosters economy of expression in much the same way as other tightly constrained forms of poetry do, such as the haiku or the Welsh englyn.
"The difference between dialogue and text is poetry," he said.
This week's show marries text and poetry with music, often composed by Galás herself.
"We need a flourishing range of diverse voices to inspire imagination and to create the fabulous material, from literature to text books, poetry to films, for which Britain is so justly famed and which underpins and supports our creative industries".
Woolfson fills her text with poetry quotations, though her Catullus inexplicably comes out in prose and her disquisition on the passenger pigeon misses a trick in not referring to Mark Ford's fine elegy for that unfortunate bird.
On a third level of text, contemporary poetry reflects the biblical narration.
