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.
Posted on January 23, 2010
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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?
Posted on January 19, 2010
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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
Posted on January 16, 2010
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from my notebook (Marjorie Welish review)
The reporter says, "That's journalism, not
a cultural event."
Definition is extinction.
trademark
Epistrophy
"entitlement and its rhetoric"
"categorical start"
"template for affidavit"
such delicacies of wit that only
the poet can hear, owner of
"alternative subjectivities,"
"that will have been published this April"
Posted on January 16, 2010
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Meta-commentary: “Twitter is…
Meta-commentary: “Twitter is looking more & more like plumbing & plumbing is eternal.” —stevenbjohnson.
Posted on January 8, 2010
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Spot-on parody of HuffPost. Ho…
Spot-on parody of HuffPost. How pandering to sex and search algorithms undermine journalism: http://comedy.com/files/2010/01/HuffPoFinal.jpg
Posted on January 8, 2010
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“What Nabokov said about art i…
“What Nabokov said about art is true of stamp collecting, fans, and every other compulsion: ‘It’s a relief from the itch of being.’”
Posted on January 8, 2010
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Saw Moonstruck recently. Best …
Saw Moonstruck recently. Best thing about it the echoing (retweeting). Cher: “She’s too young for him.” Olympia: “She’s too young for you.”
Posted on January 6, 2010
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Michigan not colder than New Y…
Michigan not colder than New York, just snowier and whiter (in many senses).
Posted on January 5, 2010
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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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Posted on December 16, 2009
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