Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Russian avant-garde books digitized
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Bob Holman & Pappa Susso on the Griot Trail
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Translating procedural poetry
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Erik Davis on the new Jack Spicer collected
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Close reading aloud
Ezra Pound
Ezuversity
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Downloadable archives of the
Joe Milford Poetry Show
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Minnie Bruce Pratt
in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry
(PDF)
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Didi Menendez’ new blog
shows a better way
to present PDF online
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Jonathan Lethem’s “Lostronaut”
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A film of John Giorno reading
that runs 10 hours & 6 minutes
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Jonathan Lethem on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Close reading Aaron Belz
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Peter Cole:
”Things on Which I’ve Stumbled”
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“Political poetry is back”
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Is anyone blogging
the Modernist Studies Association conference
in
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1956 recording of Gary Snyder found
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Two dozen full-length readings,
talks & discussions by
John Ashbery
Reading “The System,”
Ashbery’s most important poem
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Poetry & the “long haul”
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Michael Dirda on Paul Auster
Talking with Auster
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Farid Adil Mansuri,
Gujurati poet exiled in
has died
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James Merrill, poet of excess
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Reading Rae Armantrout
in Joe Brainard’s pyjamas
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A report of Rae Armantrout at the Folger
by someone who wasn’t there
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Philadelphia,
where the free library was invented
by Ben Franklin,
threatens to shut 11
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used bookstores fare better
A used bookshop in the mall
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I never metadata I didn’t like
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Welsh poet sets off
a tiff with the wing nuts
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Michiko Kakutani on Burroghs & Kerouac
The book Kerouac co-wrote
13 years before On the Road
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Talking with Emma Trelles
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David Orr on the letters of Ted Hughes
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Zadie Smith: realism or not?
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Translating Creeley into Spanish
(with a seriously out-of-date bio note)
(PDF)
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Jordan Davis on
Yusef Komunyakaa’s Warhorses
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War poetry by Isaac Rosenberg
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Jake Adam York’s A Murmuration of Starlings
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Talking with Renee Burton
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn & Edward Said
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Mary Karr on Bly’s Kabir
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The function of place
in teaching English
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A bookstore organized by geography
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Whitman & his brothers at war
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Jeanette Winterson on T.S. Eliot
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Slam narratives
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English-language work at the festival
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T.C. Boyle: advice to young writers
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Do book prizes discriminate against women?
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Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
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Atiq Rahimi wins the Goncourt
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Man Booker Prize or not,
The White Tiger is a dud
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More on Mortimer’s folly
& more still
(Are we anxious yet?)
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Maurya Simon has a poem read
by Garrison Keillor
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Chaucer for dummies
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Carol Muske-Dukes
is California’s new poet laureate
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James Cushing is named
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Marilyn Taylor appointed to the post
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Living with Roald Dahl
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Kafka on the day job
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NPR coverage of the Miami Book Fair
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Neil Gaiman:
the “most famous” unknown author
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Camilla Paglia
on how she produced
Break, Blow, Burn
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Robert Kenney overcomes his introduction
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Rosetta Reitz has passed away
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George Lewis on new music & the academy
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Lost Beatles epic
or Paul wanking off
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A director is fired
for supporting the Calif. Hate Amendment
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Vispo in the Mad Hatters Review
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Graphic Novel Reporter starts now
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A.S. Maulucci on the eidetic
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Gehry’s new spin
on his hometown museum
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Schwabsky: the art world explained
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What is art for?
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Why a downturn in the art market matters
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A gallery tour by Charles Bernstein
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Talking with Vivienne Westwood
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When is advertising sexist?
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Editing the New York Times
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The Chicago Tribune lays off John Crewdson,
whom I’ve known since elementary school
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Outsourcing TV news anchors
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A 15th-century scroll
with a serious vispo sensibility
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Hitler’s library
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A do-it-yourself library
for women in
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Barack Obama on libraries
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Talking with Joan Halifax
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I, Susan Pollack, to
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Do public intellectuals still exist?
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Remembering John Leonard
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Why you suck as a teacher
(or maybe don’t)
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Žižek’s Obama
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The wild wordsmith of Wasilla
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A love letter to Fox News
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I appreciate it Ron.
Didi
It helped me understand where post-colonialism came from.
Is it really that easy?
Did these books really have THAT much effect?
It's amazing, if true.
The small California town of Tehachapi -- perhaps best known to most for being paired with Tonopah in the great Lowell George song, "Willin'," and also known for its big state prison -- has an almost new library in a small strip mall. It's a bit odd, next to the Walgreens and all, but once you get in among the reference books, current periodicals, and assorted oddities, there's no place finer....
Ron -- have you linked to the articles recently published about library use booming in the lousy economy?
Then they built a very large beautiful library in Beaverton that stands on its own, but it's in an out of the way place and I preferred the library in the mall.
The malls are the new town centers.
Strangely, you are not permitted to proselytize in malls. Every inch of a mall is private space, according to Washington State law. You can't pass out political leaflets.
In Seattle, an activist named John Runnings was passing out blank sheets of paper at a mall in Seattle and was arrested for it by mall authorities.
He argued that it was freedom of speech, but he was apparently not exonerated.
The case is murky in my memory at present. It's been twenty years since someone told me about the case, and I only heard it second or third hand.
America used to be a collection of Main Streets, democratic arrangements of competing businesses and offices which defined the limits and potentials of a community. An open civic space run by and for its inhabitants. With religion and the law and business all sharing a common grid.
Malls are capitalism on a grand scale, dedicated single-mindedly to the exploitation of the customer, with no thought to the other needs or expressions of community. They've destroyed Main Street. Malls are a blight. In hard times, they empty out and become graveyards. Reno has these huge old abandoned shopping centers surrounded by immense empty parking lots, extinct behemoths of the 1950's. With any luck, that will happen to a lot of these ugly malls over the next 10 years, as our economy settles back down to a reasonable level of trade.
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