It’s not that I’m such a Jonathan Safran Foer fan, but I did feel a little bad for the guy after reading the NYT review of his new book. Think poetry critics are conservative and intolerant? They’ve got nothing on your average fiction reviewer, who still holds up Psychological Realism as the holy grail of all writing. And it’s not…
Author: Timothy Yu
Whistle while you work
Ever since I was in high school I’ve found that there’s certain music I can have on in the background while I’m working, and certain music that, no matter how much I love it normally, completely shuts my brain down to any kind of rational thought. I’m thinking about this in the upstairs room in my Toronto apartment, in part…
"I am following silence"
Hello again, Cassie: from blog to manuscript.
A list of our own?
A comment on a previous post got me to thinking: What if someone created a listserv for Asian American poetry and poetics? Would anyone join such a list? What would be its function? Would it help nuture a community, or would it be isolating and exclusive? Is there already such a thing and I don’t know about it? Even a…
Listless (II)
Okay, I’ll confess: I’ve been following some of the responses on the Poetics list to my sign-off. Yes, I did unsubscribe; but since a few folks have been cc-ing me with their posts to the list, my curiosity’s gotten the better of me. Actually, I find looking at the list via the web archive much less unpleasant than having things…
Listless
My first days in exile from the Poetics list. Are those the pangs of the outcast that I feel? Maybe I just skipped breakfast. But my inbox is thanking me. I’ve received quite a few cheering, supportive backchannels and comments. Stephen Vincent was kind enough to cc me a message he sent to the list, noting Zukofsky’s openness to a…
SHAMPOO 23
SHAMPOO issue 23 is eagerly awaiting your lovely locks.Please conspicuously catwalk over to: www.ShampooPoetry.com and lather up with poetry by Tim Yu, Muesser Yeniay, J. Marcus Weekley, Alli Warren, Mike Topp, Shannon Tharp, Andrew Slattery, Barry Schwabsky, Cassandra Schiemann, C. Allen Rearick, Stephen Ratcliffe, James Penha, Ronald Palmer, Wanda O’Connor, William Moot, rob mclennan, Eric Low, Jon Leon, David Koehn,…
Why I (Finally) Quit the Poetics List
I was stunned last week to find an apparently serious discussion going on over the Poetics list over whether the term “Jap” should be used in polite company–a discussion that has been accompanied by all of the ignorance, “eye-rolling,” juvenile humor, and outright racism that I have come to expect when such topics appear on the Poetics list. “Jap” is,…
Road Movie II
It appears that TJ Desc has returned.
O SHAMPOO!
You are just too jockey and sudsy and full of bliss!