We didn’t even bother stopping home first but went straight to our local public library. I tend to go there almost immediately upon arriving in town to accumulate a huge stack of books as a bulwark against projected home-induced boredom. Something I’ve come to appreciate over the years is that our library has an absolutely amazing poetry collection for a…
Author: Timothy Yu
I’ve arrived in Chicago more or less in one piece–the last few minutes of my flight were actually a bit harrowing, a number of stomach-dropping lurches and ominous waggles. I’m pretty sure that the pilot had to abort his first attempt at landing and come around for a second pass, because the ground was very close and then it wasn’t…
Heading back to Chicago in the morning for round two of apartment-hunting. See you on Central Time.
I know Henry says that his proposals have nothing to do with a return to “some standard stereotypical model of conservative poetics.” I’d like to believe him. But one reason I guess I’ve gotten so exercised over some of his comments is that it’s hard for me to distinguish, at times, what makes his “new” poetics that different from some…
I wish Henry Gould wouldn’t dismiss the issues Kasey and I raise as “side issues.” Because once you sweep away all of these “side issues” you are left with what seems to me like a great void that Henry calls the “poetic process,” but that seems to me to have been emptied of most of the things that are interesting–in…
If I were going to be in New York, I’d volunteer for the Elvis Costello show. I do a pretty mean rendition of “Alison.” Well, it sounds good in the car.
Yeah, Aimee, I was packing up my CDs and came across Whip-Smart and it made me depressed because now Liz Phair wants to be Avril Lavigne. Plus I think she went to my high school. (Liz, not Avril.) And I’m a total sucker for the new Fountains of Wayne album.
It’s weird that Henry Gould is claiming that the contemporary avant-garde is grounded in the “lack or displacement of any lineage,” when it seemed to me like the whole recent Ron Silliman/Brian Kim Stefans debate was in part about which lineage the avant-garde could claim, not whether it had one at all. If Silliman is, for Gould, the face of…
Strap on your oxygen masks… Postcard Poems Book Launch Sunday, August 3, 7:00 pm @ 2202 Oxygen Bar 795 Valencia (@ 19th St.) San Francisco featuring readings by: Cassie Lewis Del Ray Cross Jennifer Dannenberg Stephanie Young Tim Yu and (we hope) Catherine Meng and Nick Piombino [click on names for poems!] Come celebrate as Postcard Poems publishes its sixth…
Catherine’s got the right idea: Let’s all take Kasey’s zombie class. In fact, let’s show up the first day ashen-faced, wrapped in sheets, shambling inexorably forward toward the podium, with Kasey saying “Okay guys, knock it off,” until our hands are around his throat.