adj. Referring to the class of all words deemed unrhymeable, such as orange and purple and, perhaps, bulb, and others still waiting to be uncovered.
“Haxtrial maneuvers are cut short in such languages as Chinese or Vietnamese since it is almost impossible to imagine a deadening of such musical connection.” Words without Sound, Haxtrial Maneuvers in the Mid-17th Century Inverted Ballads of Summerset and Their Influence on the Rise of Particulate Meaning and the Decay of Language Occasioned by the Poetry of the So-Called Enlightenment. Roger Dodger and Tour More de More. 1951.
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Red Dragonfly Press, 2009; 448 pages; $23
Postings of words and definitions imagined by Sid Gershgoren and published in The Extended Words: An Imaginary Dictionary (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009)
Now Available—The Extended Words (the book)
Red Dragonfly Press, 2009; 448 pages; $23
Biography
Sid Gershgoren grew up in Los Angeles and first started to write what he calls "real" poetry his last year of high school, when he met Thomas McGrath, "who got me on the right path to language", he says. He's published five books, including Past Rentals, The Wandering Heron, and Symphony (all through Red Dragonfly Press) and has published widely in various magazines and anthologies. He is currently writing villanelles, a complex poetic form introduced into England in the Renaissance. Up to this time, he has written more than 190 of them and will probably continue "in this madness" for "a little while longer. At last count he had approximately twenty unpublished manuscripts, including several volumes of haiku, a novel for juveniles, a book of curses, and a few more volumes of poetry. He intends to continue in this same vein of verbal madness.
Sid Gershgoren
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