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-rw-r--r-- | src/apollo11.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/makefile | 24 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/words-irritable-reaching.txt | 16 |
3 files changed, 37 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/apollo11.txt b/src/apollo11.txt index 78e150b..8e4b522 100644 --- a/src/apollo11.txt +++ b/src/apollo11.txt | |||
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ | |||
2 | title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site | 2 | title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site |
3 | genre: verse | 3 | genre: verse |
4 | 4 | ||
5 | ekphrastic: | ||
6 | image: "img/panorama-apollo11.jpg" | ||
7 | title: "Big deal." | ||
8 | link: "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141220.html" | ||
9 | |||
5 | project: | 10 | project: |
6 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | 11 | title: Elegies for alternate selves |
7 | css: elegies | 12 | css: elegies |
diff --git a/src/makefile b/src/makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eefa4a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/makefile | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ | |||
1 | # Produce HTML & RIVER outputs with pandoc | ||
2 | # Case Duckworth | autocento.me | ||
3 | # inspired by Lincoln Mullen | lincolnmullen.com | ||
4 | |||
5 | # Define directories, file lists, and options | ||
6 | HTMLdir = .. | ||
7 | RIVdir = ../river | ||
8 | LUAdir = ../lua | ||
9 | HTMLs := $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(wildcard *.txt)) | ||
10 | HTMopts = --template=$(HTMLdir)/.template.html | ||
11 | HTMopts+= --smart --mathml --section-divs | ||
12 | RIVERs := $(patsubst %.txt,%.river,$(wildcard *.txt)) | ||
13 | RIVopts = | ||
14 | |||
15 | # Do everything | ||
16 | all : $(HTMLs) $(RIVERs) | ||
17 | |||
18 | # Generic rule for HTML targets and Markdown sources | ||
19 | %.html : %.txt | ||
20 | pandoc $< -f markdown -t html5 $(HTMLopts) -o $(HTMLdir)/$@ | ||
21 | |||
22 | # Generic rule for RIVER targets and Markdown sources | ||
23 | %.river : %.txt | ||
24 | pandoc $< -f markdown -t $(LUAdir)/river.lua $(RIVopts) -o $(RIVdir)/$@ | ||
diff --git a/src/words-irritable-reaching.txt b/src/words-irritable-reaching.txt index c616c95..97d3e8c 100644 --- a/src/words-irritable-reaching.txt +++ b/src/words-irritable-reaching.txt | |||
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ Gilbert furthers Keats in asserting that no matter what we write, "the words / G | |||
29 | In Gilbert's poem, though, he does reach after something. | 29 | In Gilbert's poem, though, he does reach after something. |
30 | In the second half of the poem he begins to imagine what the "mysterious Sumerian tablets" could be as poetry, instead of just "business records:" | 30 | In the second half of the poem he begins to imagine what the "mysterious Sumerian tablets" could be as poetry, instead of just "business records:" |
31 | 31 | ||
32 | > [...] My joy is the same as twelve | 32 | > [...] My joy is the same as twelve \ |
33 | > Ethiopian goats standing in the morning light. | 33 | > Ethiopian goats standing in the morning light. \ |
34 | > O Lord, thou art slabs of salt and ingots of copper, | 34 | > O Lord, thou art slabs of salt and ingots of copper, \ |
35 | > as grand as ripe barley under the wind's labor. | 35 | > as grand as ripe barley under the wind's labor. \ |
36 | > Her breasts are six white oxen loaded with bolts | 36 | > Her breasts are six white oxen loaded with bolts \ |
37 | > of long-fibered Egyptian cotton. My love is a hundred | 37 | > of long-fibered Egyptian cotton. My love is a hundred \ |
38 | > pitchers of honey. Shiploads of thuya are what | 38 | > pitchers of honey. Shiploads of thuya are what \ |
39 | > my body wants to say to your body. Giraffes are this | 39 | > my body wants to say to your body. Giraffes are this \ |
40 | > desire in the dark. | 40 | > desire in the dark. |
41 | 41 | ||
42 | This is my favorite part of the poem, and I think it's because Gilbert, like Hass, reaches for the specific in the general; he brings huge ideas like the Lord or Love or Joy into the specific images of salt, copper, or honey, or like he says at the end of his poem: "What we feel most has / no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds." | 42 | This is my favorite part of the poem, and I think it's because Gilbert, like Hass, reaches for the specific in the general; he brings huge ideas like the Lord or Love or Joy into the specific images of salt, copper, or honey, or like he says at the end of his poem: "What we feel most has / no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds." |