Another diastic poem today, using my father’s name to go through Paterson, from the beginning of Book I through the end of Part I of “The Delineaments of the Giants.” I know I keep switching techniques here and jumping around, but I was curious to see what I would get going through the text in a different way, and wanted to see how this poem would compare to the one from yesterday and the day before, which cover the same source. Once again, the logic of luck has uncovered an interesting correspondence between my father’s name and the word Paterson. I’m surprised it didn’t appear in this more often.
reply to sober same
ignorant thrust
his back persists
butterflies automatons
language concern lightning
regained to rebound after
nevertheless tumult him
Park’s her cactus dreams
February substances
Paterson receives
communications albums
Paterson ordered Directory
human face part
part enormous
constantly foreign summoning
recover not cabins lime
General deserters
had had Barbadoes century
remember Geographic African
careworn rekindling
not sublime time
order sensations
he was borders
distraction chasm constables
frequently expecting