Friday, December 05, 2008
The library as a form of porn
The libraries vs. Google
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John Ashbery fights back!
Kessler’s offending letter
Ashbery the flaneur
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Kathy Lou Schultz’ Biting Midge
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Anne Waldman / Akilah Oliver / Ambrose Bye CD
is the Sexiest Poem of the Year 2008
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Silence in Kenny Goldsmith’s Sports
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The bailout for poets
(seriously)
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Tackling the poetry patriarchy
Gender pay gap in the arts
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Meshwork Videos –
some of the best in British poetry
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There are several good videos
of readings of late
on Geof Huth’s blog,
include Geof, Anne Gorrick,
Truong Tran & Cassie Smith
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Defending Jacob Scheier
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Are poetry backlists “dead”?
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Scantily Clad Press
is building a list of
first-rate e-books,
including
Andrew Lundwall, Tomaz Salamun,
Brian Henry, Adam Fieled,
Juliet Cook, Ken Rumble,
Chris McCreary & more
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Two poems by
Thanh Tam Tuyen
translated by Linh Dinh
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Tim Davis’
“Original Ideas in Magic”
“The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld”
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Translating Milton into English
Translating Stein into English
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Reading The Making of Americans
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The 21st
Indie & Small Press Bookfair
is this weekend in NYC
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Dear Sir or Madam,
Your work sucks
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Coldest reading of the year?
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Poet’s Picturebook,
the e-zine of the Filipino Diaspora,
celebrates an anniversary
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Not “R.S. Gwynn, or the Absence of Genius”
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Frank O’Hara
(and Fairfield Porter)
makes it to the NY Times
art books gift guide
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Marathon,
a film on the life of William Meredith
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Rodney Koeneke on poetry & the future
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Books on language
in time for the holidays
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Two deaths at Robin’s Bookstore
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Gray Friday for bookstores
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Talking with Tim Gaze
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Remembering Dave Church
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How to win
all of Robert Bolaño’s works in English
11 articles on Bolaño & his work
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This Sunday, a slam in Mumbai
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Houghton Mifflin publisher ousted
Randomness at Random House
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Gina Myers on
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Reading aloud makes the difficult “easy”
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“Public poetry is almost always very bad.”
A séance for poetry?
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Lally’s library
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The Work (capital W) of William Gaddis
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One Yellow Rabbit’s homages to poetry
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Talking with the Eminem of Irish poetry
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Poetry, ethics & Kent Johnson
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In which “I”
finally get a poem
in The Nation
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Talking with Josh Bell
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A new look at Samuel Johnson
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Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract
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Lowell Jaeger’s Suddenly, Out of a Long Sleep
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Sarojini Sahoo’s Dark Abode
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Kenneth Sherwood’s
notes for a class on Jack Kerouac
Kerouac, Freddie Redd & Frank O’Hara
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Remembering William Wharton
(or Albert du Aime)
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David Hinton’s Classical Chinese Poetry
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Lyn Hejinian’s Saga / Circus
Andy Gricevich on Hejinian’s “The Distance”
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Make-a-Wish supports a teen poet
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Charles Bukowski’s The Post Office
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Robert Venturi’s masterpiece
just down the road
from my house
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Leckey gets lucky,
wins Turner Prize
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The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton
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Talking with The Fireman
“Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight”
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Singing Emily D
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Globalization’s front lines:
a world tour of rap
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Outliers & class advantage
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So you wants to be a hipster
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Which book of philosophy was most transformative?
“What would Adorno say?”
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“& if my thought dreams could be seen
they’d probably put my head in a guillotine,
but it’s alright, Ma, it’s life & life only”
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Tom Sutpen’s mostly hardboiled photo site:
”If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats”
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How many post-avant poets are there?
Shampoo has published
888 poets in its first 34 issues
& only three of the ten Grand Piano
authors
(Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, myself)
are included
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Washington Post obit
LA Times obit
It's certainly satisfying to see JA stand up for his reputation in print!
The story I always heard was that Auden had asked JA to submit a manuscript.
Mr. Kessler's name was vaguely familiar to me, having been a reader of poetry journals for over 50 years, but I never suspected anyone this obscure could consider himself the equal of a competitor (of the magnitude of Ashbery) who had been chosen in his stead as the Yale Prize winner in 1956.
Browsing Mr. Kessler's profile online, I am struck by a quality not unlike that of Norman Podhoretz (and his spouse Marge Decter), once and still of the conservative quasi-Jewish journal Commentary.
Perhaps it is not surprising that Mr. Kessler references Ashbery's Gayness, in an attempt to imply -- nay, declare outright -- that JA was chosen because of his belonging to a group and exhibiting a style which Kessler now deems to be unacceptable. How sad for Mr. Kessler that he has not received the respect and honors he is due. At 52 years on, it seems a mighty big grudge to carry for all that time.
I'm in a class of his now. He's pretty tremendous.
Chris McC
i got a boner
i gotta go
sometimes you're just too much
where's that washcloth
j
Maybe I should join Bibliophiliacs Anonymous?
Those needing a quick antidote, or who are curious to see the sad, every sad, modern equivalent to those grand book places, need only click here.
http://www.tangdynastytimes.com/
has some interesting material
on Mi Fu right now that is really
interesting.
Pine and Hinton have really done a great service in bringing so much of this great material out.
well... this Peony Tang site tang dynesty times I just marked so's to return... AND
(can't find the reference to a kimono from you? from that site BUT
I just finished a sumi drawing of "her" dancing wearing a kimono!
will look you up see if you got an email and 'blip' it over to you...
hey Peony Tang? her real name!
thanks, EB
may she ever rest
ah sweet sweet odetta
may she ever rest
but may her soul
continue to sound
let her soul sound here
ah sweet odetta
It was not self-evident (not very accessible in internet standards terms, that is).
I cant help pointing out that the photo they have as "British Library" is the former Reading Room at the British Museum, not the current British Library in St. Pancras.
"A revived Federal Writers Project could subsidize existing blogs and Web sites, including those featuring creative writing. The National Endowments for Arts and Humanities could select participants based on merit."
Whenever I see that--"could select participants based on merit"--I reach for my gun.
No governmental agency has ever been able to make decisions that are either aesthetically convincing, or politically neutral.
Government out of the arts!
well
just do what 99 and 44/ 100 % of Amerikans do:
shoot first and then aim...
Merit Scholarships. Merit Prize for an haiku or haiku book...
Merit Badges...
gawd, easy to get credentials, these days, eh?
just LuLu me my magnum opums! open up another free (with ads) blog
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