Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Abject Sublime, or: Jean Genet's Vaseline

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Like many people of my generation (I am, God help me, 46) I came to admire French theory in my grad school years.  One thi...
Friday, September 19, 2014

The Futures of Poetry!

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Perloff, Kirsch, Nikolayev, and a full house at the Grolier How many different timelines can we spin out for the future of poetry? The...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Poetry and Masculinity

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Poetry and masculinity have a complicated relationship.   In most times and places, the poetic canon, and the institutions support...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

"Imagine What It Does to Americans!": Kenneth Goldsmith and Advertising

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Often - mostly unconsciously - I'll model my identity of myself on some image that I've been pitched to by an advertisement. Wh...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Excess, Pastiche, and Queerness in the Comics: Reading The Black Dossier

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One of the things to love about comic books is the sheer excessiveness of the things.   Part of this stems from the genre of...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

John Ashbery's "Snowball in Hell": A Note on the Renovation of Poetic Language

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I've been tapping away on the laptop at a ferocious pace lately, drafting the John Ashbery chapter of Making Nothing Happen: Poetry ...
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Sunday, August 03, 2014

Israel Has Already Lost: American Public Opinion and the Conflict in Gaza

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A few years ago, I was at my local Democratic Party ward captain's house, listening to a congressional hopeful give a speech to rall...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

John Ashbery and the Lonely Crowd

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When I first started teaching at Brooklyn College, I had to teach a genre course for students who presumably had never read a poem bef...
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