Thursday, June 18, 2015

Camping Modernism: Timothy Yu's "Chinese Silence #92"

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"Hot damn!" I thought, when I finally cleared some time to pick up my June issue of Poetry , "It's Tim Yu!"  Tim...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Tragedy and the Gift of Death: How Game of Thrones Ended Season Five

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Spectacles both violent and sexual; a world as fully imagined as Tolkien's; plot-lines as richly interwoven as a Celtic knot; a de...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Charles Simic’s Stones: Three Speculations

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I remember lying in a ditch and staring at some pebbles while German bombers were flying over our heads. That was long ago. I don’t re...
Friday, June 05, 2015

The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar

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I think it's because he dresses like some kind of heavy metal Lord Byron, and because he's known to read his poems at a New Yor...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

My Martian's Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun: Ray Bradbury's Sonnet 130

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If there's one poem, other than "The Red Wheelbarrow," that you can bet on most Americans having read in school it'...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Bullshit and Interest: David Kaufmann on Me on Conceptualism

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"A year and a half after Archambeau’s article," writes David Kaufmann, referring to "Charmless and Interesting," a p...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

Litscapes 2015!

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Not long ago a poet I know sent me a note asking if I ever blogged about anything other than publications in which my work appears.  L...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

If I Were A Freudian this Post Would Be Called "The Mother's Penis": A Note On Daisy Fried

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"Hot damn!" I thought, "it's Daisy Fried!"  I was paging through the May issue of Poetry , and there, on page 13...
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