A Town Like Parataxis (10)

Perdrix Press
6a Hastings Rd
Mairangi Bay
Auckland 1310
Phone: (+64-9) 479-2870
Fax: (+64-9) 478-5828
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© Jack Ross & Gabriel White, 2000
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ISBN 0-473-07104-5

WHAT WOULD YOU PAY
FOR THIS VIEW?

You are cordially invited to a Garden Party
at 23 Maxwell Ave, Westmere,
on Sunday, October 1st, from 2 pm onwards
to celebrate the publication of

A TOWN LIKE PARATAXIS
A COLOURING-IN BOOK

Text by Jack RossPhotos by Gabriel White

A Town Like Parataxis
Poems by Jack Ross
Photos by Gabriel White

păratăx’ĭs, n. (gram.). Placing of clauses
etc. one after another, without words to
indicate co-ordination or subordination.
So păratăc’tIC a., păratăc’tICALLY adv.
[f.Gk PARA (taxis arrangement f. tassō)]

Took a walk around the old neighbourhood
- Margaret Urlich

Maybe you too live in a town like Parataxis - it's just around the corner, in the texture of a brick wall, a goal post against the sky. No coordination, no subordination: the sacred sites in your memory theatre.

is
rememberas
nothingnothing
does

A Town Like Parataxis combines image and poetry to articulate this sense of places somehow exempt from "our monotonous sublime."

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