Thursday, June 30, 2005

For the Fourth, Blas de Otero

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When, in the early nineties, I translated this poem by the mid-century Spanish poet Blas de Otero , it seemed to come from another world. N...
Saturday, June 25, 2005

What Good's a Goat?

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Eric Selinger and Mark Scroggins have started knocking another ping-pong ball back and forth across their blogs: this time it is a questio...
Friday, June 24, 2005

&NOW...William Gass

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Good news, everyone: William Gass will be headlining the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing/Lake Forest Literary Festival next year. ...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

Further Contingencies: Names, Adverbs, and a Discarded Dichotomy

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1. Names Mark Scroggins has named names : the luminaries of contingent poetry include: Ammiel Alcalay, Geoffrey Hill, Geraldine Monk, Peter...
Monday, June 20, 2005

A Flight Through Space That is Inhabited: Addendum to the Contingent Manifesto

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There's been some interesting feedback on the 1.0 version of the Contingent Manifesto, both by email and on the blogs. Patrick Durgin w...
Sunday, June 19, 2005

&NOW/Lake Forest Literary Festival Call for Proposals

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This isn't the promised follow-up to the Contingent Manifesto -- but my colleagues on the organizing committee tell me it is time to get...
Saturday, June 18, 2005

Contingent Manifesto 1.0

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After all the speculation about the death, or at any rate the decadence, of indeterminacy in American poetry that came out of this week’s (f...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Bleed-Over and Decadence, or: No Bones About It, They're Talking About Language Poetry

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“Let’s make no bones about it, what both Bob & Josh are talking about is Language poetry,” writes Mark Scroggins in Culture Industry . ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2005

The Age of Indeterminacy in American Poetry: 1962-2005

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"What!?" you say, "an age is over? Did I miss something?" No, nothing is over, and you didn't miss anything. I...
Sunday, June 12, 2005

Four Fascinations of What's Difficult

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Interesting weather fronts have been moving through some of my favorite layers of the blogosphere. Specifically, there's been an exchan...
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Some New Publications and a Reading in July

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Three new publications from yours truly are now available: "Rhymes with History: Joe Francis Doerr and Kevin Ducey" an article on ...
Friday, June 03, 2005

Red Strawberry Leaf

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John Peck's Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems 1994-2001 arrived in the mail a couple of days ago, and while I've yet to give it t...