It seems silence might have been more troubling than overblown emotions–David wrote me hoping I would clarify. So, donning my scholar’s robes, I will proceed to an explication of silence… My initial objection was to a line in the review of Gary Sullivan’s “How to Proceed in the Arts” that David posted on Monday. In his remarks on the section…
Author: Timothy Yu
Still observing Buddha-like silence.
In the great tradition of Asian restraint and inscrutability, I will allow observations like the following– “The more quiet, modest modes of Asian poetry appeal as an alternative to our overblown emotions” –to pass in Buddha-like silence.
Uh-oh: Stephanie says (in a very kind post) that she’s relying on me to keep up with the Poetics list. And I was just toying with unsubscribing myself…oh well. I guess I can take a hit for the team.
Finally finished laboriously reconstructing my template and links (and adding a few things), which I wiped out in a fit of stupidity this morning. This tedious task taught me a couple of things: 1. My links list (with, I think, one exception) is a wholly contained subset of Stephanie’s. I know because I used Stephanie’s list to rebuild mine. Either…
The site for that April 11 Critical Inquiry forum, The Future of Criticism, has an agenda for the event along with written statements from some of the participants, which may be more helpful than relying on the Times account.
Links partially restored, Captain.
Oops. I seem to have wiped out all my links…
The Poetics list is all aflutter this weekend about an article in Saturday’s New York Times, “The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn’t Matter.” The article describes an April 11 forum sponsored by the academic journal Critical Inquiry featuring high-profile critics like Stanley Fish, Homi Bhabha, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The article suggests that these thinkers themselves deny the…
Ron Silliman has posted a long and interesting email from Tibetan American poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa in response to his post on Wednesday on her work. He also writes in response to my post on the subject: “I worry about these things, too, Tim, though I think it always makes sense to discuss context, which I know from experience leaves…