“Is there an art that is dangerous? Yes. It is that art which upsets the conditions of life.”–Charles Baudelaire. What are the conditions of life? Simply put: that which sustains it. Does art sustain life? Does literature? Does poetry? No. None of those practices are required to sustain life. And we are better off for [...]
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Is Anyone Else SHOCKED by Ben Marcus’s Traditional Short Story in The New Yorker???
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, The New Yorker on August 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I always think of him as the King of experimental form—and from some interviews in the past, thought he had a serious attitude about it. This short story brings to mind people finding Jesus later in life or something—that’s how radically different it is from what I know of his oeuvre. Here’s a link to [...]
Rain, I don’t mind.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After seeing today’s cloudburst in New York City tear down a huge tree, snap it into splinters, this definition of “rain”, found in Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String (I’m rereading it, now), strikes me as apt: “Hard, shiny silver object, divided into knives and used for cutting procedures. Most rain dissolves within [...]
Guest Post, by Christopher Higgs: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, Christopher Higgs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Age of Wire & String on May 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Every word was once an animal.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guest Post, by Lance Olsen: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Marcus, Lance Olsen, The Age of Wire and String on May 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. –From Ben Marcus’s The Age of Wire and String.
The Dominant and the Longue Durée
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annales School, Ben Marcus, Bob Perelman, Brian McHale, Brom, Dick Tracy, fantasy, Fernand Braudel, Frank Frazetta, Jen Bervin, Ken Edwards, Language poetry, longue durée, Modernism, opera, parataxis, postmodernism, Roman Jakobson, Romanticism, Ron Silliman, Shakespeare, Shrek, sonnet, Stephen Moore, the dominant, The Lord of the Rings, The New Sentence, Ulysses, Wordsworth, Yury Tynyanov, Yvor Winters on March 6, 2010 | 23 Comments »
It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although maybe it wasn’t replaced until 1901; it must have taken a while back then, in those days before cellular phones and email, to “get the memo,” as we say today. How long did it really [...]
Ben Marcus (and others) Reading in NYC, November 11, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Atmospheric Disturbances, Ben Marcus, David Samuels, Notable American Women, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Rivka Galchen, The Age of Wire and String, The Father Costume on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Harper’s Magazine Presents: The Family Table with Rivka Galchen, Ben Marcus, and David Samuels To coincide with Thanksgiving, Harper’s Magazine presents a reading with its contributors on the theme of “the Family Table”—eating, fighting, anguish, and the American form of gratitude. Featuring selections from the magazine and new work by the writers Rivka Galchen, author [...]
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