from my notebook: receipts
“Money is the external common medium and faculty for transforming appearing into reality and reality into appearance” —Marx
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Section 511.15 applies.
Please note attached
status report. Thanks!
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The goal of psychoanalysis is to become comfortable wasting money.
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$10,261.10
$15,083.94
$17,106.72
$12,130.77
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Ache Tea Emily
Make the head seductive, more approachable, like at a party talking to a undergrad and pause that thought. I sort of, well, Alaska. Accidentally commented on her Facebook state. Wasn’t at work, softly if accidentally, only more so. Not facework but the opposite still of profile. What happened by analogy was this, or rather like [...]
Listening to Braille
In her recent article in the New York Times Magazine, “Listening to Braille,” Rachel Aviv quotes a writing excerpt from a sixteen-year-old blind student whose literacy has developed through aural/oral means, without the benefit of braille. This single excerpt is meant to stand as damning evidence of the failure of oral-based literacy:
He looked in the [...]
from my notebook: class
Class is to sublime longing into thread for future clothes.
Class is twenty minds in pursuit of a genius loci.
Class is disciplines self to group.
Class is individuates self from group.
Class is the black pupil dragged across the white board.
Class is poetry by other means.
Class is poetry by mean.
Class is this being graded?
Holy Fucking Moley
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The “Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, H-O” by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994, has this entry: “moley n. (pop. As a characteristic exclamation of ‘Captain Marvel,’ hero of a series of comic books begun 1940, first written by C.C. Beck; perh. reflecting ‘moly’ [...]
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.
from my notebook
the architecture of landfill
and promise of attribution
delight retribution
indolent of scarlet
mad effervescence
weakness untouched.
stirring vowels for everything
that follows
My review of Marjorie Welish's Isle of the Signatories
A scorchingly dry and arid review of Marjorie Welish’s latest book of poetry, The Isle of the Signatories (Coffee House Press) in the September/October issue of the Boston Review. For better or worse, the intellectual gravity of Welish’s book drew me in.
Review here.
Excerpts from Welish’s poems to come soon, my dears . . .
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 [...]
Pansy Poetics reviews The Next in Line
Steve Fellner at Pansy Poetics reviewed The Next in Line in March 2009, comparing the book to Harryette Mullen’s work. Steve writes:
I would make the claim that The Next in Line is one of the best queer books of the year. And deserved to be one of the Publishing Triangle or Lambda finalists. I do [...]
