Greetings, earth people, from the (pain) planet failure. Here, the atmosphere is different. The stars are different. The entire sense of the project-to-be, an examination by NYC writer (and my collaborator) Alexandra Chasin, requires more preliminary work into the nature of the question: and what of it, when the question is pain? Here, the question [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Emily Dickinson’
Joy to the Reader When Reading Gass’s The Tunnel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bookworm, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Guilt and Innocence in The Tunnel, Habitations of the Word, Henry James, Hitler, Holocaust, Into The Tunnel, John Hawkes, Lannan Foundation, Marus Klein, Michael Silverblatt, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Rainer Maria Rilke, Samuel Beckett, Sonnets to Orpheus, The Lime Twig, The Tunnel, Tropes of the Text, William H. Gass on June 15, 2011 | 9 Comments »
How can I contain myself? (But perhaps the question is: how could Gass both contain and not contain himself to have done what he did?) Having had The Tunnel to go back to every morning was like having the one you love next to you, to be transfixed and freshened, to be, as that worthy [...]
Emily Dickinson’s Guide to the Act of Self-Promotion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Emily Dickinson, John Madera on January 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, Emily Dickinson, John Madera, Wallace Stevens on December 10, 2010 | 7 Comments »
John Domini has reminded me that 180 years ago today Dickinson was born. Recently, I was told by someone that he or she had read somewhere something about overrated writers and writing, and that someone at that somewhere said something like, “Anything by Emily Dickinson is overrated,” which brought to mind somebody saying something to [...]
See Emily Play
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler on November 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Studying botany from an early age, some believe she was better known as a gardener than a poet during her lifetime. When our friends at HTML Giant recently asked what people thought was the all-time overrated piece of literature the first comment was, “Anything by Emily Dickinson,” and I think I felt a cleaving in [...]
Loving Lowell
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christine Schutt, Emily Dickinson, In Defense of the Book, Robert Lowell, William Gass on October 7, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Having just finished reading Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell’s second book of poetry, a collection consisting mainly of revisions of his first book (apparently Lowell, like Walt Whitman, constantly whittled away at all of his work all of the time), I came across these lines from “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket”: The bones cry for [...]
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