WAVES

“At the same time the combination of low viscosity and high density gives rise to the principal hazard of the sea, the giant wind-waves caused by storms that crush small ships and fiercely attack coastal structures. If the water were much more viscous, the wind could not build up high, steep waves, and if it were much lighter, the wave force would be insignificant.”

Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 63. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.

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“When can I forget this buzzing life?
Night now still, wind quiet, waves calm and smooth,
A little boat to drift from here.
On the river, on the sea, my remaining years.”

Yip, Wai-lim. Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. p. 216. McClure, Michael. Scratching at the Beat Surface. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1982. pp. 102-3.

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Michael McClure

“listen for cries of birds lifting off for somewhere above the magical
pulse of sea waves swirling language immense with the winds
sound”

Troupe, Quincy. “Errançities.” Errançities. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2012.

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Poets.org

“I.
the mind wanders as a line of poetry taking flight meanders
in the way birds spreading wings lift into space knowing
skies are full of surprises like errançities encountering restless
journeys as in the edgy solos of miles davis or jimi Hendrix”

Troupe, Quincy. “Errançities.” Errançities. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2012.

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“ ‘Ripples on the surface of the water—
were silver salmon passing under—different
from ripples caused by breezes’

A scudding plume on the wave:
a humpback whale is
breaking out in air up
gulping herring”

Snyder, Gary. "Ecology, Literature and the New World Disorder." Irish Pages 2, no. 2 (2004): 19-31. Accessed May 31, 2021. p. 30.

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“ALTHOUGH

Although we are looking at each other
and I am trying to tell you something,
all I can hear is my voice
which is either too high or too low
and which is falling
and rising
as if it were caught in the onslaught
or the wake of ripples and waves.

The advancing dark wave that
crosses your face means
that you believe me, or you disagree, or
agree with me.”

Scalapino, Leslie. “Although.” O, and Other Poems. Berkeley: Sand Dollar, 1976.

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University of Pennsylvania

“A spell is believed to be a primeval text which somehow came into being side by side with animals and plants, with winds and waves, with human disease, human courage and human frailty. Why should such words be as the words of common speech?”

Malinowski, Bronislaw. From Coral Gardens and Their Magic, Volume 2, The Language of Magic and Gardening. In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 110. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.

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University of California Press

“II
Brief History
Glaciers pushing so far and surely
thaw and withdraw;
even the deep,
while the explosion of its waves
dynamites the cliffs,
leaves new lands,
new groves and habitations
beside the glittering currents flowing quickly
into the silver waters of the sun.”

Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “New Nation.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 166.

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WorldCat

“You are obliged
By the invention of
Iron to trudge in sunken
Ramps, snailish, calm,
An art in itself.

Waves are from stars, good
And bad. The ends
Determine the colors.
Deluxe generations of mental
Dependents, stooges, senators,
Slaves of the El Condor theme,
Grasp a few simple positions.”

Perelman, Bob. “Socialist Realism.” Primer. Oakland, CA: This Press, 1981. p. 63.

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“How do you tune in or out?

Center through what is sounding.

If you could ride the waves of your favorite sound, where would it take you?”

Oliveros, Pauline. “Deep Listening Meditations—Egypt (1999).” Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice. New York: iUniverse, 2005. p. 40.

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iUniverse

“The neighbouring sea is bounded with a sandy shore; but there is no going ashore for the violence of the waves. The land within it is low all along and woody for about two leagues from the east side; at the end of the woods there is a deep river runs out into the sea, but it has such a great bar, or sandy shoal, that when we were here no boat or canoe could possibly enter, the sea running so high upon the bar: otherwise, I judge, we should have made some farther discovery into this pleasant valley.”

Dampier, William, and Nicholas Thomas. New Voyage Round the World. Hereford, United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 2020.

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Project Gutenberg Australia

“One eye sees the cat; the other eye a reflection in the mirror of a white wall or background. The viewer then waves the hand that corresponds to the eye looking at the mirror so that the hand passes the area in which the image of the cat appears in the other eye (b).”

Crick, Francis, and Christof Koch. "The Problem of Consciousness." Scientific American 267, no. 3 (1992): 152-59. Accessed May 31, 2021. p. 157.

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