My response a few days ago on the Poetics list to posts by Kirby Olson and others on divisions or “separatism” within the left was not meant to suggest that Kirby or anyone else was actively advocating the expulsion of all minorities from the U.S. But it was meant to suggest that much of this discussion seems grounded in a…
Author: Timothy Yu
Now the Poetics list doesn’t even seem to be publishing my posts. I think it’s a conspiracy: keep those separatists down.
Sigh. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the Poetics list hasn’t exactly risen in defense of my post from Thursday, where I was just trying to express my frustration with the tendency, even in the most ostensibly liberal circles, to regard the political voices of minorities and women as “separatist,” demands for special treatment that distract from more important…
Isn’t it disappointing, as Kirby Olson suggested yesterday on the Poetics list, that the United States is not more like Finland–98.7% white–or that the rest of us “others” have not yet been driven out by the harsh climate or repeated beatings. And it’s also convenient that the American left is able to continue to blame its failings (as it has…
Heading off for San Diego tomorrow…er, today, for the MLA convention and job interviews, through Tuesday. Wish me luck. And if you happen to be there, and don’t have anything better to do between, say, 1:45 and 3:00 p.m. on Dec. 29, you can come hear my paper on Allen Ginsberg–it’s part of a panel called “Recorded Sound, Experimental Text.”…
Hurrah! Mary Margaret Sloan speaks up for poor Chicago over on Silliman’s blog.
Today’s nugget of wisdom from the Poetics list: We have gay people who come to our tiny rural church, and they’re totally accepted. They’re no different from masturbators, my pastor has told me privately, and who doesn’t masturbate? Um, thanks, I guess.
Jonathan Mayhew on fetishizing Silliman.
That L.N.P.B. is getting around.
blogs are shops, while the list is the public square. Oh, come now. I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on with the current Ron Silliman/Leslie Scalapino fight that’s going on over at ye olde Poetics list, but I get a bit frustrated when a disagreement with a blog posting that pops up on the list inevitably turns into an…