Saturday, April 16, 2011

Ballet Méchanique and The Great Debate

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So hey.  If you're in Chicago on April 21, you might want to check out Ballet M é chanique: A Spread-Spectrum Ecstasy.   It's a ...
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Saturday, April 09, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmith, or The Art of Being Talked About

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I've been thinking a bit about Kenneth Goldsmith lately, in part because he seems to have become ubiquitous in some poetry circles, an...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

T.S. Eliot on the Metra: Urban Alienation and the Urge for Community

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Maybe it's appropriate that I've been doing all my thinking about T.S. Eliot on the train, from the windows of which I catch fleet...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Project for a History of Poetics at Buffalo

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Literary history is dead , or so says one of the crowd of villains with whom I hung out at the recent Louisville literary conference. Me...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

“If This Happened in Germany, Cars Would Be Burning”: American Passivity in the Class War

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Assaults on collective bargaining, a proposal to eliminate child labor laws, a tax structure that favors the wealthiest of the wealthy,...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ambiguous Pronouns Are Hot: Notes on Rae Armantrout's Money Shot

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They're sexy because they're needy, which degrades them. So begins "Soft Money," one of the best poems in Rae Arma...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

The Equine Sublime: Edwin Muir's "Horses"

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Imagine my surprise when, a week or so ago, I found myself in an unlikely argument about just who was the most under-appreciated ...
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