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The Inkblot Record

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Dan Farrell's second volume of poetry is an examination of a discourse that everyone knows about but few people have examined in detail: the response of people to Rorschach inkblot patterns. By turns profound and hilarious, this book is an insightful statement about the relentless drive to make meaning out of nothing.The online version features a dynamic inkblot, designed by Brian Kim Stefans, to test your own poetic/psychological state of being.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 1994

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Den (tror jag) kanadensiske författaren har samlat tusentals svar av personer eller patienter som tittat på Rorschach-bläckfläckar. Katalogiserat och alfabetiserat - et voilà; experimentell poesi! Och det fungerar faktiskt, även om det krävs en del tålamod för att orka läsa alla 109 sidor. Sida upp och sida ner, tätskrivet: "a bat", "a butterfly" etc. etc.

Bland de mer originella svaren finns "Chagall" eller "a map", "a meadow" , "a bunch of clouds moving along" eller det möjligen något avslöjande "someone very mean" .

Svårt att inte tänka på Charlie Gordon i Flowers for Algernon (av moi högt älskad roman) vid svaret "Here it's black, then white, then black, then the white space, then more black." Ja, ja, VI SER det.
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