The new-and-improved lime tree wonders: It’s so easy to sit down and close-read or deconstruct a Lowell poem. It practically writes itself. It’s a critical cliche on wheels. So what kind of reading, if we can even talk about a discrete “reading” as an approach to analysis in such cases, is appropriate for a poem by Barrett Watten or Stephanie…
Author: Timothy Yu
And if elected, I promise a White House blog…
I’m glad that Chris has chosen to render her affirmations as the contemporary teen-movie “YaY” rather than than the legalistic old-worldy “Yea.” It also bugs me when people write “Yeah” as “Yea.” Don’t leave us hanging.
Ron Silliman‘s nephew, Daniel Silliman, drove 32 hours round trip to hear his uncle read. That’s family.
I’d read Brian Kim Stefans’s most recent post on his debates with Ron Silliman but hadn’t noticed this bit until just now: Worse (I’ve just thought of this), these concepts [School of Quietude, etc.] don’t really give us tools to look at literatures that are not primarily white, and not primarily American. For example, these lines in the sand don’t…
I’m still thinking about the “new ordinary” and how it might differ from the old ordinary, either in its confessional or New York School (“I do this, I do that”) versions. I guess the list of characteristics Stephanie gives–“a repeated combination of pop culture references and the voice of ‘personal’ experience, familial relationships, epiphanies experienced in the rush of daily…
From MoveOn.org: The President took the nation to war based on his assertion that Iraq posed an imminent threat to our country. Now the evidence that backed that assertion is falling apart. If the Bush administration distorted intelligence or knowingly used false data to support the call to war, it would be an unprecedented deception. Even if weapons are now…
Plus Chris Murray has a report on the Burger/Silliman reading from Stephen Vincent, who I think I did actually meet but totally did not register who he was until he’d already left, which is a shame. He suspects re Burger that “the work will become more engaging as she relaxes the semiotic critical hinges.” Silliman he sees as a member…
I think maybe James and I should switch positions. He’s a slugging first baseman and I’m more the speedy middle infielder type. I am sweet, though.
Eileen and Catherine think my hair is American Idol-worthy, which is making me turn about the same color as Stephanie’s arms. Well, Nick and Jim, if you’re looking for the secret, here you go. Ask for Nicola–she’ll take care of you. She’s even from Manchester.