Culture Industry

Not Veracruz , Joanne Kyger (Libellum, 2007) [41/100] Three months' worth (January–March 2006) of journal poems in this slim, generously...

I have courses to teach; I have essays & reviews to write; I have poems that cry "neglect"; I have dozens of emails & lett...

From a story in today's Washington Post , "As Campaign Heats Up, Untruths Can Become Facts Before They're Undone": John F...

The Outernationale , Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan UP, 2007) [40/100] Still rife with image & sound, but sparer, more tentative than Gizzi's...

Last week I watched Michelle Obama's, Hillary Clinton's, and Barack Obama's speeches at the Democratic Convention. Life is too s...

Some Values of Landscape and Weather , Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan UP, 2003) [39/100] A splendid extravagance of language, a brilliant eye for col...

I guess I mentioned we spent a couple of weeks in Stockholm at the tail end of the summer (now officially over, due to the start of classes ...

Try as I might, I can't entirely seem to move myself into the digital age – even, for that matter, into the keyboard age. Now and again,...

So we're about 65% unpacked; I'm still waiting for a couple of cartons of books to arrive from New York – acquisitions from The Stra...

So we're back in Boca, & have just ridden out messy Tropical Storm Fay (a fine welcome home, I should say). Weary from too long away...

Slowly , Lyn Hejinian (Tuumba Press, 2002) [38/100] I’m always trying to catch up on my Hejinian-reading. Slowly is a short long poem, pub...

Necessary Stranger , Graham Foust (Flood Editions, 2007) [37/100] My last Foust post got pilloried in ways that I didn’t really have the ene...

Well, I'd had no intention of prolonging that blip of a hiatus into a regular furlough, but these things happen; as Zukofsky says somewh...

Well, I'd like to jump right into this comment-thread discussion, but we're headed out to Fire Island this weekend (keeping my eyes ...

As in Every Deafness , Graham Foust (Flood Editions, 2003) [36/100] The short-lined free verse lyric, as pioneered in the 20th century by su...

Finally yesterday, a full week into the visit, a bit of kulchur. At the Metropolitan Museum, a large JMW Turner exhibit. I'd never seen ...

L'affaire Kleinzahler slowly fades. Bradley at The Ethical Exhibitionist has a very nice, longish post on The Poem of a Life , & wh...

Hey, it's hot here in New York! Really hot. Everybody sweats. (Nobody sweats in South Florida, because the walk from the air-conditioned...

We arrived yesterday afternoon, & have more or less settled in. It's grand to be back in New York, where it's not yet too hot (...

Among the busyness of getting ready to leave, & the inevitable quandariness of deciding what books to carry & which to leave, a love...