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I haven't blogged in a while. So sorry. I don't even have any off-hand cheap-o poems or writing to toss up. Sorry again.
Here is the rough table of contents to Arras 5, a double issue, to gnaw on for a while. Each is roughly 96 pages; both should be done in about a week!
arras 5 part i
Featuring poetry and plays by Darren Wershler-Henry, Tim Atkins, Edwin Torres, a. rawlings, Gregory Whitehead, Kevin Killian, Brian Kim Stefans, Jordan Davis, Kent Johnson, Reptilian Neolettrist Graphics, Mara Galvez-Breton; essay by Katherine Parrish
arras 5 part ii
Featuring poetry by Kevin Davies, Katie Dagentesh, Ira Lightman, Carol Mirakove, Christian Bök, Gary Sullivan, Dagmar's Chili Pitas, derek beulieu, Jessica Grim, Kenneth Goldsmith, Robert Fitterman and essays by Alice Becker-Ho and Darren Wershler-Henry
Other news: Fashionable Noise is finally almost off to the printer -- just a few typos on the cover to fix; I'll be on the insulin pump probably by the end of next week; I'm going to San Francisco in April with Rachel to visit my sister (and mother who is visiting my sister long-term) and the wee niece Natalia; working on .pdfs of Bruce Andrews' political writings which I'd also like to get up by the beginning of summer; what else; I'm being interviewed by the Iowa Review Web for their May issue which will feature "me" a bit too prominently for my taste (a review of FN will be in the issue); I've also been given the green light to write an essay on John Wieners for the Boston Review, but it won't appear for nearly 8 months; the Circulars hit count has been peaking at 3,000+ a day (roughly) and the site is due for some upgrades (search engine just added); I'm still broke. Thanks for asking...
(For those of you who like to be amazed, I'm listening to Radiohead in the office right now...)
Posted by Brian Stefans at March 11, 2003 02:09 PMthe arrival of the beeBox
with its funny
collision of personalities
trembling contours of the
swarm
in harmony with
electric - urban
sixty cycle hum
this is a collection of the moments gone by
that is a pile of future
each moment shows a different face
a pause is a vertice
jump kick groove
until i'm
sick in the stomach
climbing the volume
stretch fingertips
my ten antennae
dancing
on a black tile floor
in the center of three white
brickwalls
waiting for the thin veil of sweat
to protect me from loneliness
sharpen one mind
against another
introduce a new velocity
happy cataclysm
This will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of
Posted by: Petronella at January 18, 2004 06:59 PMWe can see an example of this in our code we've written so far. In each function's block, we declare variables that hold our data. When each function ends, the variables within are disposed of, and the space they were using is given back to the computer to use. The variables live in the blocks of conditionals and loops we write, but they don't cascade into functions we call, because those aren't sub-blocks, but different sections of code entirely. Every variable we've written has a well-defined lifetime of one function.
Posted by: Sybil at January 18, 2004 06:59 PMBeing able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.
Posted by: Pierce at January 18, 2004 07:01 PMBeing able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.
Posted by: Ebotte at January 18, 2004 07:01 PMWhen compared to the Stack, the Heap is a simple thing to understand. All the memory that's left over is "in the Heap" (excepting some special cases and some reserve). There is little structure, but in return for this freedom of movement you must create and destroy any boundaries you need. And it is always possible that the heap might simply not have enough space for you.
Posted by: Effemia at January 18, 2004 07:02 PM