Thursday, October 31, 2013

W.H. Auden and Ecopoetry

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A little article I wrote on W.H. Auden and ecopoetics for the good people at Boston Review  can now be found on their web site.  It beg...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Lou Reed, R.I.P./Glam Rock, the Poem

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Lou Reed has died.  He always meant a lot to me, and not just because I met my wife when she was singing backup in a Lou Reed/Velvet Und...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

That Mona Lisa Snarl: Jehnny Beth as the Gioconda of Rock

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Jehnny Beth, who fronts the post-punk band Savages, is the Mona Lisa of rock.   I don't mean that she's got an eni...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

The World and the Open Sea: Poetry and the Aspect of Infinity

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The crowd, as I remember it, consisted of about 200 young women—students of St. Mary's College—along with the poet John ...
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Sunday, October 06, 2013

The Birth of the Death of the Author: Uncreative Writing circa 1968

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We live in a great age of literary unoriginality.  It comes in many forms, from the mildly sordid and deceptive kind we've seen in p...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Hierarchy: A Night

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The Piquerary twins remain, for the English-speaking world, among the undiscovered gems of Belgian surrealist writing, despite the prese...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Belgian Surrealism Conquers the Airwaves! I Become Janet Malcom!

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What could possibly be better than midcentury Belgian surrealist prose poetry?  Belgian surrealist prose poetry re...
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