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Settling in for an evening of Chin here articulates his now-famous argument that Chinese American culture and sensibility is entirely distinct, utterly different from either Chinese or white American culture, and grounded in the historical experience of Chinese in America. But his rage is as much aesthetic as ideological: his major complaint is simply that Bridge is full of bad…
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Joseph Duemer has posted an interesting link to an article about how blog discussions develop, complete with diagrams. I’m sympathetic to Duemer’s desire to have some kind of blog-hand that would pull together and sort all the threads of a discussion–being a big sorter and sum-upper myself–but admit that I sort of like the decentralized model of blogging, in part…
I edged Nick by about 20 minutes in the late-night posting game on Saturday night, if you don’t factor in the time difference, but he gave me a real pasting last night: my last post was at 7:01 pm, his at 3:48 am. But I’ve got that presentation tomorrow, so I may give him a run for his money tonight.…
Josh says he is going to an “Ammons-themed” dinner tomorrow night! I love it. Everyone will have to wear buttons that say “I Am Ezra” and the garbage can will be wrapped in a big loop of adding-machine tape. Not to mention the masks.
John Erhardt wrote me with his defense of Ammons, which Jonathan Mayhew‘s interested in as well: I can only provide you with a subjective defense of why I like Ammons: 1. His enjambed lines aren’t simply governed by a pause 2. He introduced (or helped to introduce) the vocabulary of science to poetry 3. He was never part of a…
The New York Times has blog fever–there’s an article today on photo blogs, which is not quite as dumb as the one last week–the author seems to have actually spent a little time looking at a few.
Question for The Skeptic (and anyone else who would care to chime in): What is the deal with Ammons? I’ve never really been able to figure out why he’s been awarded the status of great poet; his work’s always struck me as kind of dull–short lines but without a real metrical charge, a kind of self-deflating metaphysics. But I’d be…
Looking for some academic discourse to spice up your Tuesday evening? The Asian Americas Workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center cordially invites you to the following presentation and discussion: “Asian American Poetry in the 1970s” Timothy Yu Ph.D. Candidate Department of English Tuesday, May 27, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Terrace Room, Margaret Jacks Hall (bldg 460) Poetry played a surprisingly…