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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Joanne Kyger: Not Veracruz

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Not Veracruz , Joanne Kyger (Libellum, 2007) [41/100] Three months' worth (January–March 2006) of journal poems in this slim, generously...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

glumness

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I have courses to teach; I have essays & reviews to write; I have poems that cry "neglect"; I have dozens of emails & lett...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

quote of the day (Orwellian version)

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From a story in today's Washington Post , "As Campaign Heats Up, Untruths Can Become Facts Before They're Undone": John F...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

Peter Gizzi: The Outernationale

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The Outernationale , Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan UP, 2007) [40/100] Still rife with image & sound, but sparer, more tentative than Gizzi's...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

republican demographics

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Last week I watched Michelle Obama's, Hillary Clinton's, and Barack Obama's speeches at the Democratic Convention. Life is too s...
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Peter Gizzi: Some Values of Landscape and Weather

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Some Values of Landscape and Weather , Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan UP, 2003) [39/100] A splendid extravagance of language, a brilliant eye for col...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Swedish style, Swedish design

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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 ...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

product placement

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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,...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Moody's Pound

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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...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Back!

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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...
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Monday, July 28, 2008

Lyn Hejinian: Slowly

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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...
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Graham Foust: Necessary Stranger

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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...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

not dead yet...

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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...
Friday, July 11, 2008

technical difficulties...

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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 ...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Graham Foust: As in Every Deafness

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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...
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Sunday, July 06, 2008

Turner; Bacchae + Rocky Horror

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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 ...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

ripostes & fiddles

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L'affaire Kleinzahler slowly fades. Bradley at The Ethical Exhibitionist has a very nice, longish post on The Poem of a Life , & wh...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

K. Lorraine Graham: Terminal Humming

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Hey, it's hot here in New York! Really hot. Everybody sweats. (Nobody sweats in South Florida, because the walk from the air-conditioned...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

In the city

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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 (...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Hurrah for Euphony!

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