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 . . .
Semiotics of Cinema: What if C…
Semiotics of Cinema: What if Capitalism: A Love Story and The September Issue traded names?
Google Maps old school
A charming and delightfully perverse take on the google maps tutorial (reminiscent of Michael Gondry’s The Science of Sleep). The object of satire here is not so much google maps as the now ubiquitous screencast tutorial:
I think of Edward Tufte’s The Cognitive Power of Powerpoint, in which he argues that each medium has its own [...]
Primer on copyright. Creative …
Primer on copyright. Creative Commons license for poetry unnecessary? Steal this book! if only to gain readers… http://icio.us/bep2wq
Abbie Cornish great but best p…
Abbie Cornish great but best part of *Bright Star*: the all-male choral version of Mozart’s Grand Partita for winds. Keats as the bassoon!
Ach, can tweets not be edited …
Ach, can tweets not be edited for typos? What fresh hell is this?
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 [...]
Madonna using plastic surgery …
Madonna using plastic surgery to become asian Marlene Dietrich?
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