National Book Critics Circle Finalists
So happy that D.A. Powell and Rachel Zucker are getting attention for their wonderful, nervy, daring books of poetry, Chronic and Museum of Accidents, respectively. Have been reading them recently and marveling.
National Book Critics Circle Finalists announced in the New York Times.
Meeting of the minds: Barbara Kruger and Bea Arthur
I don’t think this can be a real Barbara Kruger can it? She certainly defined an idiom, didn’t she?
Amy Goodman Talking Really Fast
Clipped this methed-up roll call from the end of Amy Goodman’s recent Democracy Now interview with Michael Pollan. Here’s the Mp3:
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Stevens's Mind of Winter
In The Nation, James Longenbach divides Stevens’s poetry into “the plain, the fancy, the philosophical.” I generally agree with Longenbach that Stevens is at his best when at his most austere, though I do also love the “fancy” Stevens of “The Emperor of Ice Cream.” (Divide between the “fancy” and the “austere” is pretty much [...]
The map is not the territory
Fredric Jameson concludes that the fragmentation of urban space and the social body creates the need for maps that would “enable a situational representation on the part of the individual subject to that vaster and properly unrepresentable totality which is the ensemble of the city’s structure as a whole.” These maps would allow their users [...]
Something's comin'
View My move in a larger map
Second-hand Rose / She's wearing second-hand clothes
Bebe Sahara Benet, a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Some of us here at The Next in Line, wrestling with dissertation deadlines and mid-winter blues, have found relief in an unlikely source: the Logo show RuPaul’s Drag Race. Some people have described it as a parody of the typical reality-TV show competition. But there’s actually little [...]
Notes on The Dark Knight
Of course The Dark Knight is disappointing. With an Everest of hype and B.O. you can smell from 30,000 feet, how could it not disappoint?
There’s a lot to complain about on the technical level: sloppy editing, drab lighting, the illegibility of the action sequences. This review of the movie by Ron Silliman illuminates for me [...]
