Friday, May 25, 2012

T.S. Eliot Graduates from Aestheticism

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I’ve been doing some research on T.S. Eliot’s brief journey through aestheticism on his way to becoming a religious poet and a moral...
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Monday, May 07, 2012

UC-Davis Wants Joshua Clover & its Own Students In Jail For Protesting: Help Do Something About It

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The University of California-Davis, an institution you may remember for how its campus police pepper sprayed seated, peaceful student pr...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

And the Best Poet is...: Poetry Prizes and Normative Criteria

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How does one decide which poet, or which manuscript, should win any of the ever-growing number of poetry prizes?  Peter Riley, in an...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

BlazeVOX vs. the NEA, or: Ezra Pound's Shilling

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Those of you residing in the little teacup that is the contemporary American poetry scene may have noticed something of a tempest a while ...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Lives of the Philosophers

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“People always talk about Nietzsche’s childhood, about how ideas like the death of God can be explained away by the fact that his fat...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Aesthetics as Ethics: One and a Half Theses on the New Criticism

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Great news!  You can now pre-order  ReReading the New Criticism , a book edited by Miranda Hickman and John D. McIntyre, to which I contri...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Blood, Guts, and the Eternal Ideal: Notes on Yeats and Blake

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[This is a draft of a section of the Yeats chapter of a book I've been working on that has the working title Power and Poetics: A Soci...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Swimming in 1937: Notes on the Metapoetic

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A while ago Alfred Corn told me I was fundamentally an ekphrastic poet—a poet who wrote about works of art, including other poems.  For be...
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