Full-length-down-coat cold. And snowing.
Dr. Mao
Oh, so that’s why my advisers called my dissertation a “great leap forward” in scholarship.
C/F
I still haven’t figured out this stupid Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion thing, except maybe to berate myself for the backwardness of my benighted, unmetricized homeland. Not that it matters much, since the only relevant weather calculation is: Is it overcoat-and-scarf cold or full-length-down-coat cold?
In pulling up the blog again, I discovered that I had a draft of a post that I never finished from July 30. I figured I could either leave it hanging forever, sadly, in cyberspace; delete it (a tempting prospect, based on the painful content); or just put it out there as a nostalgia trip. Remember those days of midsummer…
Top 3 Theories of What Happened to Tim
1. Swallowed by the academic beast. 2. Wandering the frozen Great Lakes. 3. Bound and gagged in front of his computer monitor. The truth, though, is far less exotic. As some of you probably know, Robin has been struggling with a serious, chronic illness, and went through a particularly rough patch starting in July. I had to postpone going to…
And now I have forgiven the Poetics list for all of its previous transgressions because it has brought us Kevin Killian’s wonderful reports from Orono, parts 1, 2, 3, and 4.
From the mailbag: the new special issue of MELUS on Filipino American literature, masterfully edited by Rocio Davis and including an essay of mine on Jose Garcia Villa and modernist orientalism (a companion piece to my essay in PinoyPoetics). The issue is impressively door-stop thick, a testament not just to the wealth of Filipino American writing but to the need…
One of the Poetics listers who dismissed my discussion of racism is now crying “racism” himself because someone called him “limey.”
Howdy folks. Long time no blog. Those of you unfortunate enough to still subscribe to the Poetics list have seen me involved in a little dust-up over there recently. I’ve been meaning to post a little reflection on that argument here, but keep not doing so for the same reason I eventually stopped participating in the thread on the list:…
PinoyPoetics, which includes an essay of mine on Jose Garcia Villa, is now set for a fall release. Well done, Eileen and Nick! Details below… PinoyPoetics: A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino American Poetics Editor Nick Carbo No. of Pages: 416 Price: $28.00 ISBN: 0970917937 Publisher: Meritage Press (St. Helena and San Francisco) Meritage Press…