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My Funny Valentaine: Words For(e) Play
by AMY EVANS
Thursday, February 14, 2008
[The Lizard editors freely confess they have no idea what this means.]
Amy Evans has published poetry in anthologies (Spring Verse and Rhyme and
Reason, Dogma Press 2004 and 2005) and various poetry and web magazines. She
has given readings in Scotland and London and her poem printed here is being
performed as part of a film in the openned series at The Foundry pub, EC1, 6th
March. (See www.openned.com). Amy is a Teaching Fellow in the King's College
London Department of American Studies when she is feeling grown up. Her poetry
usually makes a hell of a lot more sense.
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- (A poem of epigraphs)
by AMY EVANS
Thursday, February 14, 2008
- Place name: “the name by which a geographical place is known - toponym -
name: a language unit by which a person or thing is known; ‘his name really
is George Washington’; ‘those are two names for the same thing.’”
- Online Dictionary
Playce; target: “while ‘pure’ vowels, or monophthongs, are said to have one
target tongue position, diphthongs have two target tongue positions.”
- Wickedpedia
Dipthong:
1. The emission of two sounds by the same breath.
2. Their amalgamation or more accurately their coalescing, for each…is
distinctly heard. Two simple vocal sounds uttered by one and the same
emission of breath, and joined…
- The Maori Language of Dipthongs
‘What you’d thought was a place, you’d determined by talk.’
- Robert Creeley
- . . .
[The Lizard editors freely confess they have no idea what this means.]
Amy Evans has published poetry in anthologies (Spring Verse and Rhyme and
Reason, Dogma Press 2004 and 2005) and various poetry and web magazines. She
has given readings in Scotland and London and her poem printed here is being
performed as part of a film in the openned series at The Foundry pub, EC1, 6th
March. (See www.openned.com). Amy is a Teaching Fellow in the King's College
London Department of American Studies when she is feeling grown up. Her poetry
usually makes a hell of a lot more sense.
© lizardmagazine.com, 2008
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