Culture Industry

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Now available for pre-order...

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The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry , edited by the estimable Corkonians Alex Davis & Lee M. Jenkins, with dandy entries by folk...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Refinding Neverland

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I think it’s fair to say that JM Barrie & the whole Peter Pan/Neverland mythos had precisely zero influence on my childhood. I didn’t ev...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Shakespeare?

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My favorite local used & rare book dealer is working his way thru at least 3 vast collections he’s recently acquired, & I’ve been ge...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

More

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Last night’s bout of tongue-biting insomnia sent me back to another FSG freebie I’d forgotten I had until it slipped off the shelf into my h...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

FSG freebies

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One of the more trifling and fatuous manifestations of Ron Silliman’s manic desire to divide the poetry world down the middle (sheep : right...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Rosmarie Waldrop II

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[This one from earlier this evening, when RW read before a standing-room-only crowd at the "Board of Trustees Room" of Our Univers...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Rosmarie Waldrop I

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[A new feature: the texts of introductions to visiting speakers/poets. Rosmarie Waldrop is spending the week at Our University as a visiting...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

A Retrospective Arrangement

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Culture Industry is now two years old. I had only a vague idea of what I wanted to do with a weblog when I started this one back in 2005. I...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

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So I guess I'm using the new Blogger – this by way of a test post, nothing more. They twisted my arm. Wouldn't take no for an answer...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Black Panthers

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My MO when teaching Joyce is to do all the reading for the seminar before the seminar begins; then to read along with the students as the sy...
Monday, February 26, 2007

How Was Louisville?

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Very nice, thank you. I spent a good deal of time over the weekend with some old friends and acquaintances, talking, eating & drinking, ...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Packing my books

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After a pretty hellaciously busy half-week, I’m packing to leave for Louisville tomorrow afternoon. The paper I’ll be delivering is as done ...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Three new poems

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by yer 'umble blogger on the latest issue of Tony Tost's excellent Fascicle : "Captain Modernism," "John Milton Blues...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

Cold!

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This is one of those weekends – one of those “J’s away at a family event in New York & I’ve got solo charge of the girls, even as I’m ei...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

Burgess channels Joyce

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There was a period in my life – roughly from 14 to 17 – when I read everything by the English novelist Anthony Burgess I could lay my hands ...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Dither

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My blogging has been so spotty of late that I feel I owe my 7 real readers – the readers, that is, aside from the hundreds who surf by to s...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007)

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I was saddened to learn of the death last weekend of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and interested to find Bob Archambeau remembering him today o...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Circular Annotation

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In the first chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , we meet the Dedalus family friend Mr Casey, whose hand is cramped from a s...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Catering to toddlers

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I’m still alive, tho last week came close to killing me. (NB: If you send in a manuscript with either calculus equations or Greek quotations...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

AWOL

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Culture Industry has been more or less dark for a while now, & may remain that way for a bit longer. A lot on our plate here in the spac...
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