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Friday, November 08, 2013
The German Self, The German Soul: Notes on Ambiguity and Translation
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One of the things I like about teaching at a liberal arts college is the way the small scale of the place throws me together with people...
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Saturday, November 02, 2013
They Call it "Grunge": Mid-90s Time Capsule
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Rooting around for some documents, I ran across a journal I kept from 1993-1996, when I was in my twenties, living in Chicag...
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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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