Saturday, November 11, 2006

Is There a There There? The Idea of Chicago Poetry

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So I'm back from Iceland, which I'm defining as "the country with the landscape that tries too hard" — as you drive around...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

Reykjavik!

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I'm in Iceland. Long story. But I'll be back soon. In the meantime, why not amuse yourself by translating Jónas Hallgrímsson, the...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

Blogging the MSA Part Two: The Two Cultures

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Hey y'all (I'm trying to blend in with the good people of Oklahoma, so I hope you'll bear with my affected "y'all,...
Friday, October 20, 2006

The Word From Tulsa: Blogging the MSA 8, Part One

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You know, the last time I attached the phrase "part one" to a post, I never quite got around to creating a "part two," s...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

At Last, Adorno

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Right then. Here at last is my first contribution to the ongoing project of blogging about Adorno's Aesthetic Theory with Mark Scroggi...
Saturday, October 14, 2006

Beyond Close Reading and the G.I. Bill: A Secret History of the New Criticism

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What's that you say? You can't make it down to Tulsa, Oklamoma next week to hear me talk about the New Criticism and read my poems ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Avant-Post Arrives!

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That's Avant-Post people, not to be confused with the post-avant. The latter is either a school of poetry or a hopelessly vague abstra...
Monday, October 02, 2006

The Figure Five in Gold: William Carlos Williams Between the Visionary and the Utilitarian

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So there I was, circa 1991, sitting with my fellow grad students around a certain self-styled radical feminist professor's dining room t...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

Mohammad vs. Silliman (No, Not That Mohammad)

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K. Silem Mohammad is onto something over at his blog, with his Sept. 1 post, Notes on (Dis)quietude and the "Post-Avant" . So ont...