This posting celebrates a new poetry collection --
Ringing the Changes by Stephanie Strickland
(Counterpath, 2020).
(Counterpath, 2020).
This new collection starts with an idea from bell-ringing. Some city towers have marvelous-sounding bells -- and sometimes these bells ring wonderful concerts for nearby inhabitants. One of the traditional bell-ringing activities is called "ringing the changes" in which a collection of n bells are rung, in sequence, in all of the possible n-factorial bell-orders. (Here, at Strickland's website, are some links to information about the art of bell-ringing.)
BUT, what if the goal were not to ring bells in sequence
but to generate (for a reader) sequences of words (thoughtful poetic phrases)?
This sort of art is what Strickland brings to us in Ringing the Changes.