Samizdat Blog

When I was down in Tulsa last fall at the Modernist Studies Association convention, I ran into Barrett Watten in the corridor between the co...

It was very sad to discover, over on Pierre Joris ' blog, that Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe died on January 27th. A philosopher and a criti...

Last night, in a break from my usual wild-ass Wednesday night of ordering Chinese food and seeing what kind of Netflix residue has washed up...

So, while Sunday morning isn't exactly a matter of Wallace Stevens' "complacencies of the peignoir" chez Archambeau, I do ...

Last summer I posted a longish entry about poetry readings , the gist of which was "I, too, dislike them," at least much of the ti...

Live in Chicago! Minneapolis' very own Zach Barocas! Z. will be reading tonight at Powell's in Chicago, 2850 N. Lincoln Ave, starti...

Sometimes — not always, but sometimes — rebutting Ron Silliman's more extreme versions of his characteristic us-vs.-them poetic manichae...

Forgive me, gentle reader, for the hyper-academic title of this post, utterly, irredeemably formulaic as it is. A punchy little phrase, a co...

This is kind of a belated response to some email I got about an Adorno post many weeks ago, in which I was accused semi-accurately of defili...

So there I was, going over my notebook of annotations to Maurice Scully's two new books, Sonata and Tig for the review I was writing,...

So we now live in a country where this happens. One could say something about the irony of an administration that says it fights against t...

Josh Corey , Eric Selinger and Mark Scroggins have been blogging up a storm about difficulty and pleasure in poetry (and, as always seems ...