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December 9, 2014March 22, 2019 - Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Shark Porn

  Stephen Burt has a recent review, “Poems about Poems,” from the Nov/Dec issue of the Boston Review that begins, If…

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December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 - Uncategorized

Mr Turner

I had a theory about Joseph Mallord William Turner. At an exhibition of his work at the Tate some years…

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November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 - Uncategorized

from Slavoj Žižek’s Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (Verso, 2014)

…the big Other is not some kind of substantial Master who secretly pulls the strings but a stumbling malfunctioning machinery.

November 9, 2014November 9, 2014 - Uncategorized

Jim Goar’s The Dustbowl (Shearsman, 2014)

The Dustbowl Jim Goar Shearsman 2014, 86 pp., $16, ISBN: 978-1-84861-321-8 Jim Goar’s third full-length collection The Dustbowl is compelling…

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October 15, 2014February 24, 2019 - Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

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You know who sells a lot of soap? Procter & Gamble. Do you think P&G soap is “the best”? or…

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October 9, 2014February 24, 2019 - Quotes, Uncategorized

“The reason why poetry once lost favor with the more judicious”

“Now, commendation and its opposite being analogous as regards effects, we cannot easily deny the fact that although the law…

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September 15, 2014February 5, 2019 - Uncategorized

Poetry, E-Books, and John Ashbery

There’s an article in today’s New York Times called “Line by Line, E-Books Turn Poet-Friendly.”  In it, Alexandra Alter reports…

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September 10, 2014 - Uncategorized

Ich bin ein Junge • Issue 2

The September 2014 edition of the very interesting Ich bin ein Junge is up. Click on the image above to…

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August 24, 2014 - Uncategorized

Intro and Outro

There are writers who seem to fall through the net, who somehow miss out on the audience they deserve. They…

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August 7, 2014February 25, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Tolerance and Accessibility II

Let’s try a slightly different tack this time. Here are the first two paragraphs of a review written by Clifton…

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