Monday, September 29, 2014

Chinese Democracy: A Report from Hong Kong's Occupy Central

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This just in from my pal Lucas Klein, who is on the scene in Hong Kong where people are in the streets in vast numbers protesting for de...
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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