The “New Aroused Panters”?
Author: Timothy Yu
Here’s to a “poetry of instinctive animal sounds, mournful keening and elated whoops, grumpy mumbles and aroused panting.”
Today’s best referrals: “molly ringwald” barefoot working at walgreens is hard
Yikes! I look away for a three-day weekend and a minor intergenerational skirmish has broken out. I guess Ron Silliman was a bit miffed by the Which New Brutalist Are You? quiz’s description of Language poetry as “more concerned with theory than emotion.” Ron responds: langpo has just as much emotion as any other poetry…All tendencies of poetry have exactly…
Cleaning out my inbox and realizing I had not done this since before I started blogging. Was there really such a time? I found my first out-of-the-blue welcoming email from John Erhardt (thanks, John–I’m eternally grateful) and tons of encouragement/questions/affectionate mother-henning from Stephanie, and even Ron confirming that he had not, in fact, written all of his blog posts in…
Blogging one last time from my now bare-walled office. A couple of nails and some crumbs in a drawer are the only sign I was ever here. I will now go and remove my nameplate so I remember who I am.
Last week on NBC Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon defended the security “fence” being constructed around Palestinian areas by remarking that “a good fence will bring I believe good friendship”: The remark led “Today” co-host Katie Couric to cite Robert Frost’s line that “good fences make good neighbors.” “Yes, I quoted it … when I met with the president,” Sharon…
Don’t be like me and miss Stephanie’s reading tonight. Sigh.
Whereas my postcard exchange with Del happened during the dog-day month of July. Del’s postcards were going to my house, so I didn’t get them until the evenings, but I was usually writing my postcards to him during the day on campus; my trip to Chicago, while allowing the postcards to travel a more respectable distance, meant I didn’t read…
“Tim goes Down Under”: coming to an adult video store near you.